It's an interesting week with the WoW dev team has unionizing, SAG-AFTRA starting their video game strike, and the Fallout London mod finally releasing.

Here are the timestamps:

Intro
News Highlight
- 00:19 WoW Team Unionizes
- 13:45 SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike
- 23:41 Fallout London Releases
- 29:42 Valorant Out In Open Beta
What We're Playing
- 32:20 Alan Wake 2
- 41:42 No Man's Sky, Shadow Of The Erdtree, Baldur's Gate 3
- 01:08:55 Elgato Stream Deck+ Upgrade Modules
- 01:11:18 Toilet Bowl Cleaners

While light on news we did have the announcement that Bethesda has officially unionized, though they need to work out the details with Microsoft. It'll be interesting to see what kind of waves this sends through the industry at large.

Then, after the short news section, Isli finally starts Alan Wake 2 and I finally get into Shadow of the Erdtree.

Here are the timestamps:

Intro
News Highlight
- 00:15 Bethesda Unionizes
- 03:40 Nintendo Releases Official Joy-Con Charging Stand
- 05:40 Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 Details
- 08:40 Baldur's Gate 3 Hidden Miniquest
What We're Playing
- 13:50 Alan Wake 2
- 29:57 FFXIV Dawntrail / Shadow Of The Erdtree
- 34:00 No Man's Sky
- 46:00 Elden Ring / Shadow Of The Erdtree
Misc.
- 59:38 Air Fryer
- 01:05:48 Legendary Protein Pop Tarts
- 01:10:58 Elgato Wave 3 Mic
- 01:12:47 Rants

This week we get into the Xbox Game Pass changes, how the publisher of Manor Lords pushed back on an outrageous post launch content claim, and in the back end I talk about my experience with Once Human.

Here are the timestamps:

Intro
News Highlight
- 00:10 Manor Lords Publisher Pushes Back
- 12:15 Xbox Game Pass Changes
- 15:28 PS Plus July Games
- 19:14 PlayStation Stars Coming Back Online
- 21:50 VR Headsets
What We're Playing
- 28:53 Shadow Of The Erdtree
- 31:47 Signalis Issues
- 33:15 Once Human
- 40:10 Helping People Through Lies Of P

It's a quiet news week but luckily we've got Xya to talk about FFXIV Dawntrail. Then in the backend I talk about my journey to getting the Lies of P platinum trophy.

Here are the timestamps:

Intro
News Highlight
- 00:17 Capcom
- 00:43 The Watch Dogs Movie Has Begun Filming
- 08:28 FFXIV Dawntrail Has Huge Player Count
- 22:08 Surgent Studios Hit With Layoffs
What We're Playing
- 30:00 FFXIV Dawntrail
- 48:37 Signalis
- 53:12 Lies Of P Platinum Trophy

In our first episode back from a busy schedule we cover the Frostpunk 2 delay, the announced Assassin's Creed remakes, Isli completed Signalis, and I have a lot of hotel annoyances to talk about.

Here are the timestamps:

Intro
News Highlight
- 02:00 Minecraft Getting Native PS5 Version
- 02:46 Frostpunk 2 Delayed
- 05:20 PS+ July Games
- 09:21 Assassin's Creed Remakes
What We're Playing
- 18:14 Signalis
- 24:55 Airplane Mode For Mobile Games
- 41:56 Hotel Annoyances

This week we cover a few bits of news before recapping the phenomenal Xbox Games Showcase and then talking about the prep we needed to do for the Elden Ring DLC.

Here are the timestamps:

Intro
News Highlight
- 00:33 Jackbox Megapicker
- 01:44 Discord To Improve On PlayStation
- 03:54 PS+ June Additions
- 05:39 Xbox Game Showcase Recap
What We're Playing
- 54:12 Needing To Prep For Shadow Of The Erdtree
- 01:06:17 Lies Of P Platinum Cleanup
- 01:14:07 Valorant Beta
- 01:20:51 Fortnite

This episode we recap the Summer Game Fest opening showcase, but before getting into that we discuss the potential 3rd and 4th seasons of TLoU.

Here are the timestamps:

Intro
News Highlight
- 00:23 The Last Of Us Season 2, 3, And 4?
- 14:37 Concord To Be $40 USD
- 15:30 Summer Game Fest Recap
What We're Playing
- 46:22 Animal Well
- 01:03:24 Lies Of P Ruined Elden Ring Combat For Me
- 01:12:48 Butterflies All Over Sekiro
- 01:17:52 Last Train Home
Misc.
- 01:27:05 Batteries Not Included
- 01:27:40 Meal Prep Recipe
- 01:31:20 Wanting A Bigger UPS
- 01:34:20 Sony Inzone Earbuds

The main topic this episode is recapping Sony's State of Play, but before jumping into that we cover some news we missed while being out last week, news from this week, and speculate AI in game development.

Here are the timestamps:

Intro
News Highlight
- 00:48 Sony Pulls Neil Druckmann Interview
- 05:30 AI In Game Development
- 24:39 The Hunt Showdown Going Next-Gen
- 27:43 Jeffrey Wright Cast In Last Of Us Season 2
- 28:10 No Man's Sky Adrift Update
- 33:39 Tomb Raider Anime Release Date
- 34:06 Sony State Of Play Recap
What We're Playing
- 59:17 Farm Together / Fe
- 1:04:24 Alan Wake DLC
- 1:08:20 Lies Of P / Hardspace: Shipbreaker / XDefiant