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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."

Yes, V Rising is free to play this weekend and we have another chapter in the Bayonetta 3 Shitshow... do we need a new banner? Also, Games with Gold and PSPlus free games for November, and Modern Warfare 2 proves why disks are dead.

We knew there seemed to be more to the story of Bayonetta 3 and VO actress Hellena Taylor, and there very much was.  

We're back and ready to rumble. We dish the dirt over Bayonetta's voice actress calling for a boycott of the title, Brazil approving the ActiBlizz buyout, and how some of the shittiest people on consoles actually HELPED People Can Fly.

It's one thing to shut down your service; it's a whole other to say it's not shutting down, signing contracts with developers, and then shutting it down and not letting people working for you know until they read it in the news. That's just evil. On the plus side, one of the more evil people in games just lost her job. Sayonara, a&*hole. And Twitch launches a new feature that is THE STUPIDEST THIN...

We talk an arrest in the GTA 6 leak and how it had a surprisingly good side-effect, how a big content creator destroyed his career with one tweet, and all the other big news of the week. We also review Pillars of Eternity 2 and Hellpoint.

If this is real, this is a heeeeelll of a big leak for GTA. Like Half Life 2-big. But we also recap what happened at this week's Call of Duty Next and Nintendo. Oh, and Shaaaaaawwwwn!

This week we see if Nick has softened at all about Stardew Valley and Edie revisits The Forgotten City for a more complete ending. We also cover news, including Ubisoft Forward announcements, Sony's displeasure at the CoD contract XBox offered, and all the mobile cashgrabs... er, I mean, games... announced this week. Our Discord: Our Patreon: Our Website:

APOLOGIES: AFTER THIS SHOW MY HARD DRIVE MELTED DOWN. FIVE SHOWS COMING THIS WEEK. STORY IN A FUTURE EPISODE. This week, Edie and Nick discuss the news, including Edie's review of The Forgotten City, Ubisoft confirms "Assassin's Creed Mirage" leak is real, what's staying and leaving from PS Plus and Game Pass, and how some Diablo Immortal whales were put in tens of thousands in debt by Blizzard.

We've got two weeks of news stored up, and it's ready to blow! Price hikes everywhere on hardware AND software, Amazon may -- or may not -- be purchasing EA, Gamescom reveals some (but not many) surprises, Nintendo's squeeky-clean image may be just that... an image, and WHAT THE FUCK IS MARK ZUCKERBERG DOING, FFS??!!?!?

Kojima takes a shot at Konami on PT's eight-year anniversary, and the fight between Sony and Microsoft over the Activision sale is getting juuuucy. Get your popcorn!

So many things that aren't dead yet this week. And some that are. Beyond Good and Evil is apparently, not dead. Playstation accolades is. And the Guilmot family being part of Ubisoft... that's a bit up in the air. Edie and Nick chat the news.

We're back! Yes, it's been a couple weeks off, but that means we have sooooo much to talk about. Faceboo... uh, Meta loses and IMMENSE amount of money on its effort to make VR relevant, Crusader Kings isn't the only game to allow incest anymore, and an ignominious death to Anthem. And in possibly the greatest bit of fan theories... we now know where Gizmo comes from. 

It's a massively news-filled week. We have release dates for God of War Ragnarok and Skull and Bones, we have new gameplay videos for both, and we have a cautionary tale about checking your damn facts before you tweet (Sorry, Hideo Kojima. This just sucks.)

Sometimes you just gotta call out the idiots. Electronic Arts puts it foot firmly in its mouth by insulting fans (and by extension, developers) of single-player games. And we have a special guest host, Mr. Maynard, who offers up a extensive and detailed review of the Steam Deck. 

News: Skull and Bones re-reveal coming soon, Bungie files suit against DMCA takedown fraudster, and the Diablo Immortal five-star-gem struggle is so much more real than you could ever imagine.

It's a month of "days." Steam Summer Sale, XBox Summer Game Fest, Amazon Prime Day. So much dealzzz! Also.. ahem... DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 IS REAL! We apologize for being so behind schedule on uploading. We will be dumping the last three shows all at once. Sorry to do this to you. Last time; we promise.

The summer E3-legacy season is here, and sooo many games to cover. Plus huge announcements in tech for Game Pass and Switch. We apologize for being so behind schedule on uploading. We will be dumping the last three shows all at once. Sorry to do this to you. Last time; we promise.

It's a holiday weekend, and honestly, we are elsewhere. We apologize for being so behind schedule on uploading. We will be dumping the last three shows all at once. Sorry to do this to you. Last time; we promise.  

It shouldn't come as any surprise that with tall the cash being flung about like a stripper's cleavage, EA would be thinking of taking a turn on the pole. Who are they talking to? And could this really happen? Edie and Nick debates the likelihood of somebody makin' it rain for EA.

We got some bad (but arguably good) news that Starfield is now delayed until 2023. Why this doesn't make us angry at all. But with its departure, things on XBox are now... really weird.