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This week’s podcast includes the following news items:

• Cities: Skylines 2 community is getting more toxic
• Twitter ends NFT profile picture support
• Naoki Yoshida thinks Final Fantasy 17 should be directed by someone new
• Rocksteady reportedly worked on a non-DC game before Suicide Squad

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This week’s episode has the entire podcast crew reacting to Palworld. It’s priceless. They also discuss Alan Wake is coming to Dead by Daylight later this month and a Tetris prodigy triggering a “true killscreen” in record-setting run.

The news includes:

• Bethesda will finally show off Indiana Jones gameplay at the Developer Direct showcase
• Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2
• Palworld‘s Pokémon-with-guns adventure enters early access next week

Let us know what you think.

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The first episode of 2024 is a short one, though the guys discuss the original Mickey Mouse hitting the public domain, Square Enix declaring it will be “aggressive in applying AI”, CD Projekt RED staying independent, and Valve ending all support for CSGO in favor of Counter-Strike 2.

The news includes:

• Activision Blizzard workers speak out after Bobby Kotick’s CEO exit
• Star Wars Outlaws releasing “late” 2024
• Studio behind PlayStation Firewall games shuts down due to “lack of support” for VR within industry

Let us know how your 2023 went.

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This is the last podcast of 2023, as the gang just talks about the year that was and the upcoming 2024 in a long, unscripted episode.

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E3 is no more, but was it inevitable?

Other news includes:

• E3, the video game expo, officially shuts down forever
• Report: Insomniac suffers ransomware attack
• Zelda producer doesn’t get why some fans want to go back to the “limited” and “restricted” games
• The Last of Us Online finally canceled

Let us know what you think.

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The first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer dropped, and it has been viewed well over 110M times since. There is much more news post-Game Awards, including Vampire Survivors, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, and a ton of demos dropping on Xbox.

The news includes:

• Stormgate launches Kickstarter campaign
• Final Fantasy 16 director teases two-episode DLC will expand Clive’s story
• GTA 6 will release on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 in 2025
• Report: Embattled Bungie management insist fans ‘still like us’

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This week, we discuss the Videogame Awards and Destiny 2‘s final DLC The Final Shape being delayed, as well as the following news items:

• Mario Kart X out in 2025 claims leaker
• Pony-inspired fighting game Them’s Fightin’ Herds abandons its unfinished story mode
• Nier: Automata sequel is coming – but not just yet
• Former Xbox employee reveals game EA made them cancel

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This week, TJ finally decides to play Middle Earth: Shadow of War, and there is a debate on whether he should play Shadow of Mordor or just watch a Let’s Play of the game first.

The news includes:

• Cities: Skylines 2 DLC has been delayed and weekly patches have come to an end
• Warner Bros says Wonder Woman won’t be a live-service game
• Knights of the Old Republic remake reportedly not in active development
• Insomniac’s Wolverine reportedly due 2025

Let us know what you think.

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This week is all about Starfield, Grand Theft Auto 6 and Chucky.

The news includes:

• Rockstar officially announces GTA 6 reveal in December
• PlayStation and X break up
• Nintendo says Switch releases won’t be bound by “traditional” platform lifecycle
• The enormous new Stellaris DLC finally has a release date

All this and listener feedback!

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The guys continue from #700 by discussing, among other things, the upcoming Dark Forces remaster.

The news includes:

• Xbox Partner preview
• Cities: Skylines 2 studio promises performance issues can and will be fixed
• PlayStation 5 Slim disc drive seems to require internet connection to install
• Xbox sees record-breaking Q1 gaming revenue
• Hogwarts Legacy Switch Day One update is larger than game’s cartridge size

Let us know what you think.