Author: Jonah Falcon

Episode 767: The Big 6-0-0Episode 767: The Big 6-0-0

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025| Jonah FalconJonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

The news includes: Firaxis announces, “Today, we confirmed we’re testing dramatic changes to Legacy Paths, and continuous play as one Civ through all the Ages”, Baldur’s Gate 3 is about to become an Xbox Play Anywhere game. Jonah and T.J. have a long discussion of the games they’re playing.

This week features a Gaming Flashback: Master of Orion II

The rest of the news includes:

  • Nintendo’s Palworld lawsuit suffers a big blow
  • Another Battle Royale game is shutting down for good

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Episode 766: Madden Gets 2030Episode 766: Madden Gets 2030

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025| Jonah FalconJonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

The news items include: EA and NFL extend Madden license til 2030 – NFLPA still far apart, former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024, Ubisoft has come up with a new way to avoid saying the word ‘layoffs,’ with a ‘voluntary career transition program’ offer that some employees won’t be able to refuse, ‘Pacifist Battlefield completed’, Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won’t handle games that use generative AI: ‘We don’t believe in it’, Two Point Museum gets Vampire Survivors content in free update.

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Episode 765: Indy New GameEpisode 765: Indy New Game

October 10, 2025October 10, 2025| Jonah FalconJonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 6:36 pm

The guys talk about Skate Story is finally releasing in December, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is getting a New Game+ mode and some new duds in a free update, Might and Magic: Olden Era is delayed to 2026, a Minecraft Movie sequel is coming in July 23, 2027, and Cities: Skylines 2‘s big Bridges and Ports expansion is finally almost here.

News includes:

  • Helldivers 2 developers blame HDDs for the PC version’s file size & delayed updates

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Episode 764: EA Goes PrivateEpisode 764: EA Goes Private

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025| Jonah FalconJonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

This week, there’s a lot of discussion about the Tokyo Game Show, Epic pulling controversial Peacemaker dance emote, and Minecraft entering The Copper Age.

News:

  • EA to be acquired by Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $55bn
  • Halo Studios revealing more on next projects at next month’s World Championship event

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Episode 762: Silksong SilksongEpisode 762: Silksong Silksong

September 6, 2025September 6, 2025| Jonah FalconJonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

There’s a Silksong in the air, with lots of SIlksong. But despite the Silksong, we have other non-Silksong stuff, including Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage closed beta kicking off on September 11.

The news includes:

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo as platforms grind to a halt
  • 42,000 Pokémon TCG Phantasmal Flames products have been swiped by a scalper group
  • Former PS5 console exclusive, Helldivers 2, now tops Xbox sales chart as Sony continues to dabble with its multi-platform strategy

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Episode 761: Gamescom ReportEpisode 761: Gamescom Report

August 30, 2025August 30, 2025| Jonah FalconJonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

This week’s episode the trio discussed Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot summoned to court in former employee harassment case, Paradox ‘making adjustments’ to Bloodlines 2‘s Toreador and Lasombra DLC, Sean Murray says the Earth-sized planet in Light No Fire will have ‘real oceans’, Crusader Kings 3‘s new DLC has a release date, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says “I think they could charge $200” for Borderlands 4, and Triangle Strategy released on XSX/PS5.

The news includes:

  • Gamescom announcements
  • No Man’s Sky adds fully customisable multi-crew spaceships you can build and fly with your friends
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is ‘not the end’ of the franchise, director confirms

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Episode 757: Just a Half HourEpisode 757: Just a Half Hour

July 6, 2025July 6, 2025| Jonah FalconJonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

Just a half-hour episode this time.

  • Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI Deepseek app from their stores
  • European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims the proposal ‘would curtail developer choice’

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Episode 756: Sequel This, Sequel ThatEpisode 756: Sequel This, Sequel That

June 26, 2025June 26, 2025| Jonah FalconJonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 4:47 pm

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  • System Shock 2 delayed for console – PC version still on target for June 26
  • You will soon be able to open non-Xbox games from the Xbox app
  • Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has laid off employees, but Paradox says the game is still coming in October
  • Jurassic World Evolution 3 is ditching its AI-generated art after “some initial feedback”
  • Sony remembers PSVR2 exists, announces four new games coming soon

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