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This week the gang reacts to Ubisoft’s pseudo-E3 presentation showing off their upcoming games, including Watch Dogs Legion, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World: The Game: The Remaster, and Riders Republic, and Yves Guillemot’s strange pre-show video.

Other news items include:

• Bungie emphatically denies Microsoft buyout rumor
• Former Witcher 3 devs are launching a sci-fi novel-inspired game

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Depressingly, sexual harassment in a development studio is once again the lead news item this week, and from a studio most gamers would never think it could happen. That, and major seismic shifting in the power structure of the digital storefront landscape.

The news includes:

• Multiple employees resign over Skullgirls studio head’s behavior
• Microsoft sides with Epic in legal battle with Apple
• Another intimidating obelisk has been found in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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The latest sexual harassment scandal rocks, and things are not steady with the developer. Bad puns aside, the industry continues to have to grow up from dude-bro heaven to actual places of business.

All that, as well as the following news items:

• Batman: Arkham studio accused of failing to prevent sexual harassment
• Spelunky 2 is now on Steam with an updated release window
• Nintendo’s next Switch indie presentation tomorrow
• 7.5 million players claimed a free copy of Total War Saga: Troy

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Well, yes, it is real, just unannounced. The Xbox Series S is probably the worst kept secret at this point. In addition to the rumors, there’s some other interesting stuff going on pre-Gamescom.

The news includes:

• EA Access page is now live on Steam
• Injustice 3, featuring the Watchmen, has been seemingly teased
• Xbox Series S name pops up on Microsoft’s next-gen controller packaging

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This week’s episode is almost two hours long thanks to the ID@Xbox Showcase and the Microsoft Xbox Series X stream.

There was also news, which includes:

• Hideo Kojima in talks with Junji Ito bbout a new project
• Mysterious white next-gen Xbox controller appears online
• Fall Guys was the top game on Twitch during its beta weekend

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Publishers are doing their virtual E3 announcements, such as Ubisoft Forward and ID@Xbox’s Indie Showcase. There’s other wild news going on, and some not even in the official news items below.

Said news items include:

• Ubisoft executives quit over misconduct allegations
• Microsoft has stopped making the Xbox One X
• Blasphemous gets free Stir of Dawn DLC on August 4

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There really wasn’t all that much going on this week in terms of hard news, but there was a bunch of mini-items that got discussed, as well as a Gaming Flashback of the terrifying game Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

What little news this week had included:

• Microsoft shutting down Mixer streaming platform
• Street Fighter 5 pros forfeit Capcom Pro Tour matches over lag

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This 90 minute episode is all about the PC Gaming Show and the PlayStation 5 Showcase — plus a rumor about the Xbox Series X. You might say that the entire podcast is next generation.

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This week’s episode features a Gaming Flashback about… nothing. The week before the PC Gaming Show and PlayStation 5 show is kinda slow, but there was some chatter in the industry.

The news topics feature:

• Resident Evil 3 will not receive any DLCs or significant updates in the future
• Elite Dangerous: Odyssey will let players walk around
• The Rock of Ages 3 open beta starts on June 9th
• Persona 4 Golden reportedly heading to PC this week

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Gaming Podcast’s Jonah Falcon and Shack News’ T.J. Denzer do a totally-not-ripping-off-Zero-Punctuation’s-Let’s-Drown-Out video of the former playing Battle Chief Brigade Deluxe as they discuss some of the news of the day.