This week’s episode features Paul guest-hosting, joining Jonah and Scott. The only real drama comes when Paul defends Nintendo’s shady policy of deleting levels without any warning.
This week’s news items include:
- Nintendo is deleting people’s Mario Maker stages without telling them why
- Vivendi’s takeover of Ubisoft looms
- Square Enix announces upcoming Hitman game will be going fully episodic
- Former game developer accused of being a spy released from Iranian prison
Question of the Week: “What is your favorite mobile/social game?”

Microsoft’s fast to push out their press release, probably hoping to overshadow any reports Sony may be releasing for sales numbers. At this point, we’ll have to believe their press release as fact until someone proves it otherwise; Microsoft would hate to be caught in a lie. Unfortunately, NPD figures aren’t collected in Europe so we have to wait for all the other metric gathering companies to release final December 2007 figures.