The Big 30!! By Gawd, this podcast has now as many number of episodes as I have been on this earth in terms of years. Feels like it has learned a lot. Proud very proud. Anyway here are the topics we discussed in this episode:

[01:37] The end is in sight'—Fallout: London, a DLC-sized mod plagued by delays, will arrive soon with its own installer to help slim the chances of Bethesda breaking it a 2nd time

[08:47] PS5 Dev Kit sold as 'PizzaStation 5 Development Kit' which sold for $6500, includes spatula

[11:52] Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new ‘Standard’ tier

[20:05] Suicide Squad Season 2 Delayed Just Two Days Before Release

[24:59] Palworld Dev Signs Deal With Sony to Form Palworld Entertainment and Expand the IP

[32:42] Piranha Bytes closed. The end of the studio behind Gothic, Risen and Elex

[37:15] The Esports World Cup Has An Insane List of Sponsors - IOC announces Olympic Esports Games to be hosted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

[45:32] Disney reportedly victim to a 1TB data breach

[51:04] Stellar Blade dev generates over $300m in IPO, South Korea’s second-largest this year

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Our week continues with Episode 29. We talked about the following video game news. Here are the links:

[04:18] GTA Online adds a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for years then upsets everyone by paywalling it

[13:09] Netflix's Horizon Zero Dawn Series Has Been Canned, Report Claims

[21:37] Co-op games on Steam is on the rise

[27:26] Why are Japanese developers not undergoing mass layoffs?

[34:10] Epic Games refers Apple to the European Commission, after dispute over button design

[38:46] Nintendo war against Switch piracy ramps up with two fresh cases

[49:17] "Atreus is a terrible character…": God of War Creator David Jaffe Likes Only 1 Part of Atreus, and Thinks Ragnarok Failed Him Terribly

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On this mellow 28th episode of our podcast, we discussed the following subjects:

• [11:03] Microsoft has begun sending out refunds for both the Xbox and Steam versions of the Redfall 'Bite Back' Edition
• [16:50] Sony's New Tech Lets You Create Mini-Games Out Of Your Gameplay
• [23:30] Sega sees net loss of 6.6 billion yen due to business restructuring in Europe and cancelled games
• [27:18] FromSoftware Owner Hit By Massive Ransomware Attack
• [31:19] Escape From Tarkov Adding New Incentive for Reporting Cheaters
• [37:10] SAG-AFTRA announces fourth tier to new indie dev contract
• [43:51] Multiple Assassin’s Creed remakes are on the way, Ubisoft CEO confirms
• [51:56] PlayStation May Go Fully Digital After PS6, Analyst Predicts
• [59:27] Dragon Age developer discusses why big games take so long, and why they're announced so early
• [1:08:06] Xbox Exec On Why Microsoft Closed Hi-Fi Rush Studio Despite The Game Doing Well

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