GameHounds

It's been yet another crazy week, with yet another major studio acquisition. Embracer Groups buys Square Enix studios and IPs, and with all the latest sales, it's no surprise the feds are starting to look hard at them. Also, Nvidia gets slammed with a multi-million fine for hiding how much cryptomining has been a part of their GPU sales. Edie & Nick cover it all.

When is a 30-day pass not a pass for 30 days? When Sony converts your pre-paid PS Plus voucher to its new PSPlus system. Edie and Nick cover that and the rest of the news of the week.

Edie and Nick cover this week's news, including a sordid story of impersonators shutting down dozens of Destiny 2 streamers by exploiting YouTube's appallingly lax DMCA takedown process, causing Bungie to file suit. A can of whoop-ass has just been opened.

It's Easter for Edie and Nick, but fortunately for you, we workship at the altar of video game news. We discuss the latest developments in the Activision Blizzard shitshow.

If you ever needed any proof that NFTs and gaming don't mix, Ubisoft just proved the point as it pulls future updates for Breakpoint. And Unreal Engine 5 scores another big title.

Andrew is back this week, so we have three chairs and lots to talk about. We discuss Chivalry 2's free weekend, the skeevy cash-grab that is Grand Tourismo 7, buckets of donations raised for Ukranian relief efforts (and more coming), and Andrew's pro-gaming childhood (whatup...).

Edie and Nick today, and we're talking news, including how the ESA says it's still doing E3 despite cancellation reports and a new freebie for PS4 users from Apple TV.

Edie, Nick, and (maybe) Andrew cover this week's events, including a new Activision lawsuit that provides more details about events leading to the DFEH charges, gaming journos strike and nobody covers it, and more companies boycott Russia (while others inside Ukraine scramble).

Or, as we like to call it, the Holiday DrunkCast.

We have a show. This is a thing. Holidays suck.

GameHounds 621: NO SHOW

Edie's back in the USA and Nick is... well, he's just Nick. We talk Battlefield 2042's bad Santa, free games, and what at shitty, shhhhiittty company Take Two has proven itself to be.

It's Edie's last show from Iceland, and between the darkness, the cold, and the lack of sleep, she's gone just a tad nuts.

It's GameHounds' first international show. Edie is in Iceland, Nick is in California, and Andrew is off. We go over the Activision Shitshow that has (somehow, incredibly so) gotten even shittier, Blizzards' ill-conceived Warlock set, and nominees for the Games Awards.

It seems like this week was all about game releases, and exactly NONE of them went well. Battlefield 2042, Grand Theft Auto Trilogy, and Call of Duty Vanguard all had various degrees of mess. We talk about them.

We're all back together and ready to go!

Back 4 Blood early access goes live, Twitch gets hacked, and Activision's Dumpster fire still burns like a sewage-tainted lava flow.

Oh lord. I mean, we hate Konami as much as anybody, but eFootball is so bad makes even us feel a little sorry for the company. Actually... nahhh! Eff Konami.

Edie is back with 100% more internet, though we have 100% less Andrew. We talk the continuing saga of Activision Blizzard as yet ANOTHER investigation is launched, this time from the feds.

Edie now better understand how, a decade later, Skyrim is still so popular. We have a two-man show this week (and for the next several), so Nick and Edie talk breaking games on console (and why that's good), first-party PS upgrades will now cost you, and other news from around the joint.

Warning: Nick will spoil Twelve Minutes, but for a good reason. And we've got the latest shenanigans with Activision Blizzard (involving paper shredders and name changes), and all the other news and reviews fit to know.

Edie is sick, but that doesn't mean she and the rest of the team won't be talking about news. Activision removes its logo from CoD trailer, Square Enix hasn't paid Overwatch devs, and no... Soulja Boy does NOT own Atari.

The Back 4 Blood beta is now open to all, and Nick chimes in on his opinion. Also more awful developments for Activision Blizzard and other news from around the gaming world.

We have a full house today, and we have our review of the Back 4 Blood beta, the gaming being the spiritual successor of the Left 4 Dead franchise. We also have news updates including what's going on with Activision Blizzard this week (it got even worse).

Full house today, and the Activision Blizzard sex- and racial-harassment revelations keep getting worse. Blizzard employees walk out as Bobby Kotick issues a statement that doesn't go over any better than others. It's all bad, and getting worse. Also, other news, because yah, there's some.