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This week's XBox Showcase had a LOT of good news, especially if you wanted Skull and Bones to be a GOOD pirate game. Also, news about layoffs at Riot, the release of a (and I'm not joking here...) GTA-Shakespeare crossover movie, and Green Day demasters their seminal album "Dookie" for a very unlikely platform.

Edie is down with the sickness (but not insane in the brain) but we're still here to bring you news, including Beyond Good and Evil is NOT DEAD!!!

So many announcements! Edie and Nick give their overview of all the announcements so far, including Dragon Age, Kingdom Come 2, and GEARS!!!!!!!!!!!

Edie and Nick are back to catch up on TWO weeks' worth of news! We talk the impending close of Private Division (Kerbal, OlliOlli World, Hades), news about the Tomb Raider anime, and the final end of CP2077 development (only took 'em 12 years...).

Take Two had big news this week. We have a release date for GTA6 and, at least according to their studio heads, everything is fine... nobody's closing down... nothing to see here!

Streamed live on May 12, 2024 — Microsoft steps in a very large flaming pile of PR poop — of its own making, we might add — and shutters a studio that produced on of its more successful releases of 2023. Then they say they want to focus on more small, critically acclaimed games. Also, Ghost of Tsushima PC release cancelled for 170 countries, and Marvel Entertainment offers beta keys... but with a...

Edie and Nick in the same room! A rare sighting! Only a few casualties... all minor.

Streamed live on Nov 5, 2023 — Edie's back and whole, and now we can get back to talking about news.

Streamed live on Oct 1, 2023 — Last Week for Edie!!! Next week: Nick gets spooky.

Sep 24, 2023 - Oh man. That leak of Microsoft documents! So many interesting revelations -- and contradictions of what Phil et al have said in public! Let's talk about it!

Good lord, can't anyone make a decent f#%king game, lately? I know the pandemic was bad, y'all, but seriously... what the frick? Anyway... Redfall reveals more bad news, Suicide Squad delayed a emeffin' YEAR... and in shocking, North Dakota is apprently the the tech hub of the United States. Who knew?! Edie and Nick wrap the week's news.

So much bad news coming this week. First, we have Studio Wildcard doing everything it can to completely piss off fans, and then we have Monster Energy drink suing indy devs because they think they own the word "Monster."

  The title is a little misleading... we won't be talking about fart jokes the WHOLE time. We also have the roundup of news, including Naughty Dog's apology for the Last of Us Part 1's PC port, the return of an OG Dragon Age dev to the team, and the unofficial final curtain for E3.

Yaaaaa... that happened.

If you didn't know any better, you might think there's trouble at Square Enix. In one week they close.... uh, make that "absorb"... the Forspoken studio and boot their CEO. Strange things are afoot at the Circle S.

This week, do you say "It's a live service game" without saying "live service"? Well Rocksteady Games showed us how, and the gaming world HATES it. Microsoft attempts to blunt the whole "CoD monopoly" holding up their Activision buyout in the most cynical way possible. And E3 is not dead; it just smells that way.

Nick and Edie are in person and reviewing this week's news.

We are late!

The epic saga of Wizards of the Coast's complete bumbling of their brand was like an epic screenplay, with the little guy winning. But is this win really the end of the battle? No. Absolutely not.

Nearly every day last week we've had new developments in the DND OGL firestorm. The latest moves put Wizards of the Coast on the back foot, but the damage is done. We discuss whether it can be repaired as well as why this probably isn't a win for a community but a tactical retreat for WotC.

Lots of news: First and foremost, Wizards of the Coast learned very quickly that games can be made (and broken) by consumers, Chinese government will soon have a controlling interest in many game studios, and Skull & Bones once again fails to make it's scheduled landing, leaving us to wonder if this boat will ever get to shore.

It's slow days for news, but that's when all the crazy stuff bubbles to the surface. Another studio gets bought up by another international conglomerate, January's free Amazon Prime games, Steam Awards 2022, and the strange tale of Microsoft losing its ever-lovin' mind in a court filing.

Yes, we're hungover... Well... Edie is. But we have two weeks of news to catch up on. Epic hit with a massive judgement, gamers sue over the Microsoft-Activision acquisition, and C-suite departures from Activision. Yes, there's more than Activision in the news, but when there's a shitshow, lean in.

It's been a really, REALLY weird week. Elon Musk loses his mind, launches a new Twitter service, and it (predictably) goes off the freakin' rails. Then we find out this Control title is not a spin-off but a sequel. Then Ubisoft says Prince of Persia isn't cancelled, but they refund all the preorders. We're livin' in CRAZY TOWN!

There's rumors afoot and they all come down to The Game Awards in December. Also, check your Destiny 2 version; you may be playing "the wrong one."