Clownfish TV Podcasts

Steam is being called "political" and "abhorrent" by Epic CEO Tim Sweeney. Why? Because Valve makes game devs mark games using GenAI as such. And the whole AI vs. anti-AI thing has gotten weirdly political all the way around. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podca...

Sony just fired a bunch of people from Ghost of Yotei studio Sucker Punch. Weren't we told this game was a massive hit for them? Or is something else going on, here? Is Sony using the opportunity to throw activist employees overboard? Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that cov...

Skydance is offering voluntary buyouts to employees ahead of major layoffs -- but who? CNN? Warner Bros? And they're also mandating a return to office five days a week, and somehow this has become a "right wing" thing. Yes, working a 9 to 5 job in the office is now "right wing." And math is racist. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spot...

What's going on at Microsoft? Xbox has fired its first COO after only a couple months on the job, and there's already speculation as to why. But the bigger story is that Microsoft is offering buyout to 60% of their global workforce... 25% of their staff! That's a crazy high amount of layoffs, and Wall Street seems to LOVE it. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts includ...

Clayface performed WORSE than Supergirl, despite opening at #1 this weekend. However, there's a catch -- this movie was made on the cheap. So let's talk about THAT. This is Hollywood's new reality. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that covers Entertainment and Tech from a con...

Gears of war: E-Day reportedly cost over $500 MILLION to make before marketing. And it only sold 230,000 copies at launch. This game could because the poster child for AAA excess, and it's a given that heads are gonna roll at The Coalition for this one. More Xbox layoffs incoming... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent,...

The BBC is imploding, laying off staff, cutting channels and, of course, looking to levy a "YouTube Tax" on anyone who tries to circumvent the TV license. Oh, this will NOT go well for them... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that covers Entertainment and Tech from...

BioWare was on the edge of collapse BEFORE the EA buyout, according to game industry analysts. And a big part of the reason for their collapse? Games that didn't sell. And yes, Dragon Age: The Veilguard was singled out as being a MASSIVE failure that made the decision to shutter the studio a no brainer. OOF. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWN...

Ethan Klein is quitting the H3 Podcast after his wife accused him of having an affair with an H3 intern / crewmember. He said he's letting Hila have everything and just walking away from it. Wow, so this guy just completely destroyed his life in a couple of days. Insane... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionat...

A Canadian politician is lobbying for BioWare to get a bailout from the government. Because I'm sure that's what taxpayers want instead of, you know, healthcare. More failing AAA video games. Let's talk about this. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that covers Entertainment an...

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said over 20 years ago that game studios that don't perform deserve to go under. And now after the closure of BioWare, his harsh (but true) email is being circulated once again. What is really behind it? Sweeney said Epic is going all-in on AI, and journo are big mad. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an indepe...

The H3 Podcast is going on "indefinite hiatus" after Hila Klein claimed husband Ethan Klein was cheating on her on Instagram. And then their entire crew quit. And somehow, this YouTuber situation spilled over to the mainstream. Variety picked it up. VARIETY. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated ne...

Another BioWare bombshell! Chris Avellone (KOTOR 2, Fallout: New Vegas) claimed that End Stage BioWare wouldn't hire you if you got busted liking the "wrong" posts from the "wrong" people. And now that BioWare is cooked, he's letting it all out. OUCH. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated...

The UK is proposing a "YouTube tax" to help bankroll the failing BBC. Even if you don't watch television, if you stream anywhere -- YouTube, Netflix, Disney Plus, etc. -- you'll still have to pay. Thanks for reminding us why we dumped the tea... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commen...

It's official -- Elon Musk is dumping at least $1 billion into Skydance to help out his buddies The Ellisons, and leftwing social media is reacting just as you would expect. Yes, Musk could theoretically own part of DC, Star Trek and Cartoon Network soon. Let THAT sink in... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinion...

EA has closed BioWare, and the meltdowns are wild to see. BlueSky, in particular, has been very salty about it. They're blaming the Saudis, the chuds, Donald Trump and even GamerGate (what year is it) but they refuse to blame the LOW SALES of games NOBODY wanted. This was inevitable. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent...

Did Greta Gerwig get Netflix's head of film Dan Lin ousted from Netflix because he was checks notes critical of her Narnia movie? That's what's being reported. We talk about Netflix's stock taking a dive and the drastic move by Ted Sarandos to basically fire anyone and everyone who greenlit a flop. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is...

Disney seems to know Hexed is going to bomb like Wish before it (same director too). They're not putting much into marketing compared to past animated features, and they're already offering $10 off coupons on tickets. Throw another animated flop on the pile. Maybe they shouldn't have fired John Lasseter? Just saying... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spo...

PHP2Shell is wrecking havoc on the internet today, and many sites are going into lockdown mode like 4chan, Something Awful, Fur Affinity and DeviantArt. Oh, yeah, and it could take out like 75% of the rest of the internet or something. Well, it's been fun, guys. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and...

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse supposedly has "hot dads" and the characters were designed to make gamers thirsty. While their hotness is... debatable... it does ask a question: Are game companies DONE with ugly characters? They don't exactly sell games. Generally, it's the opposite. Are we over the uggos, then? Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spo...

An Xbox marketing exec named Brandon Stirrup said that everybody is using AI in games development now, and if they say otherwise -- they're lying. And that the future is AI, and you WILL use those tools and get left behind. This causes activists to go into full meltdown mode, and the guy winds up deleting his account. But is he wrong? Probably not... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all m...

GAME OVER. BioWare is shutting down after 30 years, and it's last game will be Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The next Mass Effect is CANCELLED. Good golly, who could've seen this coming? Except ANYONE paying attention. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that covers Entertainment a...

Star Trek actor Robert Picardo is blaming just about everything and everyone for the failure of Starfleet Academy... except the showrunners and the writers and the actors. Yes, now it's because people's politics have changed. Before that it was David Ellison. Donald Trump. Elon Musk. The weather. Whatever. Why can't they just own it? Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast host...

Star Wars is dead party. Taika Waititi's Star Wars movie has officially been "iced" according to him. And Kathleen Kennedy reportedly got legendary comics artist Frank Cho blacklisted from Marvel over his racy Slave Leia sketch covers. Why does Kathleen Kennedy have any say in what Marvel Comics does, again? Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spot...

Double Fine's latest game didn't even crack 100 concurrent players on Steam, their games are being delisted from Game Pass, and even Kotaku is turning on them because they're not progressive ENOUGH because they didn't recognize their employee's attempts to unionize. They got kicked to the curb by Microsoft and they're DONE. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts includin...