Jonah’s desktop PC finally died completely from irretrievable hardware failure, and this episode was recorded clumsily on his cellphone. Meanwhile, TJ has been enjoying Apex Legends enormously, and gives it a rave review.
Otherwise, this week’s news includes:
- Activision-Blizzard lays off 800 employees
- World War Z gets an April release date
- Dragon Quest Builders 2 comes to Switch, PS4 this summer
- Chucklefish boss says Sony is responsible for lack of PS4 crossplay
The Question of the Week is “Which game would you love to see remade?”

The TD Gaming Podcast and Videogame Roundtable merge, as Jonah Falcon introduces VGRT regular Jordan Lund to his new listeners, as the VGRT Gaming Podcast is born.
Reportedly we’re going to see smaller 45 nanometer cell processors in 2009 which leads to similar cost savings as we saw in the Xbox 360 hardware. Cost savings appear on the manufacturing side, of course, along with less power consumed by the processor leading to less heat generated by the console.