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Episode 785: Digital AbuseEpisode 785: Digital Abuse

July 29, 2026| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 5:12 pm

This week’s Gaming Flashback is Halo 3.

Monster Hunter Wilds’ latest patch makes online-only missions playable offline
Bethesda yet again reassures fans that The Elder Scrolls 6’s roadmap is unaffected by recent Xbox layoffs
Atari signs deal with Universal Pictures to develop movies – Asteroids, Adventure, Berzerk, Breakout, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong, Yars’ Revenge
PlayStation ‘blackout’ week is coming to protest Sony’s disc-Less future
Dev: “Sony had the strictest social media guidelines they’ve ever seen issued”
Xbox grants PC versions of select Ubisoft games to digital copy owners

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Episode 784: MouthwashEpisode 784: Mouthwash

July 8, 2026| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 5:35 pm

Researchers studying ChatGPT conversations surprised to find one power user churning out thousands of Doki Doki Literature Club pregnancy fics
Microsoft announces 3200 layoffs and four studio departures
Sony kills physical PS5 games
PlayStation is deleting 551 movies from customers’ accounts
Nintendo has detailed rollout plans for Switch 2 product revisions

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Episode 783: Steam and AIEpisode 783: Steam and AI

June 24, 2026| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 5:14 pm

Steam Machine price revealed
Sony deletes mention of PC from annual strategy report
Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign
Halo: Campaign Evolved PS5 players will require an Xbox account and gamertag to play
Rockstar quietly gives us probably our best look at GTA 6’s Vice City yet
Ultima’s creator Richard Garriott is planning to win back the rights to his legendary RPG from EA with an 50-year-old copyright quirk

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Episode 781: No PC For SonyEpisode 781: No PC For Sony

May 22, 2026| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

News:

Tom Kane dies aged 64
Steam Controller reservations are coming through
Sony reportedly confirms it’s ditching PC versions of its single-player PS5 games
Forza Horizon 6 has already tripled the series’ peak player count on Steam
Sony announces price increase for new PlayStation Plus subscribers

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Episode 780: Mix UpEpisode 780: Mix Up

May 12, 2026| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comments| 12:37 pm

The guys discuss Path of Exile 2’s ‘biggest expansion ever’, Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 coming this summer, and Sony recording a $766 million impairment loss against Bungie for the 2025 financial year. The Gaming Flashback is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

News includes:

Nintendo announces Switch 2 price increase
PlayStation is partnering with Bandai Namco for a “collaborative initiative” focused on generative AI
Atari announces it has acquired rights to the first five Wizardry games
New Slay the Spire 2 update deletes its most controversial boss fight

Next podcast in two weeks.

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Episode 776: Minecraft HistoryEpisode 776: Minecraft History

March 29, 2026| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 3:02 pm

Reupload.

Microsoft Developer Direct
Square Enix was Metacritic’s No. 1 ranked publisher last year, thanks to 9 ‘good’ games
EA Is Ending Support for Its Most Controversial Battlefield Game
Slay the Spire 2 has already earned more than Hollow Knight: Silksong and Hades 2 on Steam, apparently
Sony announces major price hikes for PS5, PS5 Pro, and Portal

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Episode 775: Shovel ‘Em In the HeadEpisode 775: Shovel ‘Em In the Head

March 6, 2026| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

This week’s podcast covers Nioh 3 crossing 1 million units sold to become the series’ fastest-selling game, Resident Evil Requiem has surpassing 5m copies sold in less than a week, and Discord delaying its global age verification rollout and cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification vendor. This week’s Gaming Flashback is Shovel Knight.

The news includes:

Sony was ready to approve a Bloodborne remake, but FromSoftware turned it down
PlayStation reportedly plans to stop releasing major PS5 games on PC
Steam Deck faces US stock issues as AI-driven RAM shortage hits gaming hardware
Slay the Spire 2 confirms online co-op
Stop Killing Games is launching NGOs in the European Union and the US

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Episode 774: Rampant AIEpisode 774: Rampant AI

February 17, 2026| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 2:38 pm

In this episode, Nioh 3 gets its first big post-launch patch on Steam and PlayStation 5, and XCOM 2 is the Gaming Flashback.

News items:

Every big announcement from PlayStation’s February State of Play
Bloomberg claims ‘rampant AI demand for memory’ is forcing Sony to consider pushing back the launch of its next-gen PlayStation as far back as 2029
More evidence of that Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake surfaces

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Episode 769: Our UndertalesEpisode 769: Our Undertales

November 22, 2025| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

The guys talk about Dave the Diver finally arriving on Xbox Series X/S, Krafton CEO allegedly asking AI to “brainstorm ways to avoid paying” earnout bonus to Subnautica 2 devs and the Xbox Partner Preview.

The Gaming Flashback is the indie megahit Undertale.

More news:

Cities: Skylines development moves to Iceflake Studios (from Shacknews)
Marathon playtest is coming in December

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Episode 768: GrandiaEpisode 768: Grandia

November 15, 2025| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

This week the guys discuss Rockstar is now under pressure from UK Parliament as protests grow and 220 employees demand fired workers be reinstated, new Red Dead Redemption rating suggests remaster on the way to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch 2, PS6 launch “later than expected” and region-locked, LEGO The Legend of Zelda set coming in 2026 (the actual LEGO, not a videogame).

The Gaming History is all about the classic JRPG Grandia.

The news includes:

Xbox boss responds to Valve’s new hardware, fellow Microsoft employee jokes it looks like those “rumoured” Series S leaks
Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading
Sony says Marathon will still release by March 2026

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