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Jonah considers Elden Ring too grind-y, and talks about the name of an infamous handheld console.

News items include:

• PlayStation 5 owners report online issues following system update
• Mass Effect Trilogy co-creator returning to science fiction
• Bungie says last week’s Destiny 2 video takedowns were ‘fraudulent‘
• Nintendo takes down scans of 1996 Super Mario 64 Strategy Guide

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The previous two podcasts got corrupted on upload, and now I have to reedit them completely. Be patient.

This week’s there’s a bunch of minor news items, covering things like Sony’s lawsuit, S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 and the Ukraine invasion, Minecraft frogs, various remasters, and the gang talk briefly about the newly released Tunic.

The main news items include:

• The Gold Box D&D games are coming to Steam
• Elden Ring described as start of a “new franchise“

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This week has a lot of followup to the entire situation with Activision/Blizzard, and also a lot of news items that weren’t a part of the official news feed. In addition, this week’s Gaming Flashback is recognized as the first computer game, Spacewar!

The news feed includes:

• Microsoft is watching Activision/Blizzard to ensure ‘the right people’ are in charge when it takes over
• Witcher 3 director and Cyberpunk 2077 veterans announce new studio and ‘AAA dark fantasy‘ RPG
• Nintendo Switch Sports online play test registration now open
• 3DS and Wii U eShop purchases end in March 2023
• Focus Home Interactive to acquire Metal Slug Tactics dev Leikir Studio

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The crew gets excited about the announcement of The Wolf Among Us 2, although it won’t be out for a while, and bemoan the infestation of live service games everywhere these days in videogames.

The news includes:

• PlatinumGames pivoting to live service games
• Rockstar announces Grand Theft Auto 6 in a tweet
• Tim Schafer doesn’t want Psychonauts or any other Double Fine game turned into a movie

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This week, Sony responds to Microsoft’s nearly $69B purchase of Activision/Blizzard by buying Bungie for $4B. The guys cover Sony’s State of Play 2022, which turned out to be entirely about Gran Turismo 6.

Well, we hinted at it in the last few podcasts, and now it is live: TD Gaming Podcast is now looking for listener support through Kickstarter.

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The other news this week includes:

• Sony wants to help Bungie turn its franchises into movies
• Sony’s State of Play 2022
• MLB: The Show 22 is coming to Switch
• EA’s boss went from calling NFTs “the future” to running away from them

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This week, the crew discusses all of the news surrounding Activision/Blizzard after its purchase by Microsoft, and the consensus is that Bobby Kotick is still a slime.

Other news includes:

• Kotick meeting leaves staffers worried
• Blizzard is making a survival game
• EA making 3 new Star Wars games
• Crysis 4 announced

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The title about says it all.

Microsoft has straight up purchased Activision/Blizzard — in cash, no less — and while it’ll take til September 2023 to get everything sorted, probably, it’s one of the biggest shakeups in the history of videogames.

Meanwhile, T.J. is still salty over Vicarious Visions developing Diablo II: Resurrected, while the trio discusses the plans for Sony’s Game Pass.

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This week’s news includes:

• Microsoft spends almost $70B in buying Activision/Blizzard
• City-building RTS The Settlers launches in March, closed beta next week
• Split Pad Pro getting the Attachment Set
• PS3 games reportedly appear on PS5 Store

2021 is finally over. And for the first time in years, a proper Games of the Year Awards has been done by GameStooge/TD Gaming Podcast. While the Worst Game of the Year was a no doubter, the Best Game of the Year was not, with the nominees being Deathloop, Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Metroid Dread and Psychonauts 2.

But there are a whopping 26 award categories, technical and artistic, so listen in on this fat 2 1/2 hour episode to find out who the winners are.

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Technical issue in that the episode was uploaded but for some reason was not downloading on podcast apps, so re-uploading and hopefully this time you guys can download it.

This week’s episode deals with the unbelievable bullcrap going on in the industry, from NFTs to sexual harrassment to the ESA’s incompetence.

The news items:

• Lego suspends release of Overwatch 2 set amid ongoing Activision Blizzard controversy
• Sega stalls NFT plans
• E3 2022 cancels in-person event
• Elden Ring character creation leaks
• Hitman 3 year 2 reveal coming later this week (from PC Gamer)

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For those of you who didn’t listen to the Game of the Year Awards postcast, or heard it and just wanted a visual recap of the nominees and winners, here is the complete ballot.

Best Game of the Year
Deathloop
Forza Horizon 5
Halo Infinite
Metroid Dread
Psychonauts 2

Worst Game of the Year
Balan Wonderworld
Battlefield 2042
eFootball 2022
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition
Madden NFL 22

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2021 is finally over. And for the first time in years, a proper Games of the Year Awards has been done by GameStooge/TD Gaming Podcast. While the Worst Game of the Year was a no doubter, the Best Game of the Year was not, with the nominees being Deathloop, Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Metroid Dread and Psychonauts 2.

But there are a whopping 26 award categories, technical and artistic, so listen in on this fat 2 1/2 hour episode to find out who the winners are.

Let us know what you think on the podcast’s Facebook page here.

Original music by Liborio Conti.