Around the Monitor's back bringing you the week's hottest gaming news! Topics include: PlayStation is buying game studios, Xbox and Kojima are making a game together, and a man is sued into the ground by Nintendo for selling ROMs.

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Time Codes:

00:00 - Intro

2:27 - Trivia: What is Bidoof’s Pokedex Number?

4:42 - Topics

7:00 - Ex-Blizzard devs partner with Tencent to make a RTS game studio

https://www.ign.com/articles/ex-blizzard-developers-tencent-new-studio-rts-uncapped-games

11:36 - Man sued by Nintendo for hosting ROM site can’t even pay them $50 a month (of $2.1M)

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-can-t-even-get-50-a-month-from-sued-rom-site-1847210881 

18:13 - PlayStation acquires Housemarque, Nixxes, and possibly Bluepoint?

https://twinfinite.net/2021/06/playstation-sony-housemarque-bluepoint-acquisition/

26:26 - Indie devs say it sucks to put your game on PlayStation consoles

https://kotaku.com/playstation-is-hard-to-work-with-devs-say-1847210060

34:57 - Magic: Legends isn’t going to make it out of Beta

https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/06/29/magic-legends-is-shutting-down

39:12 - CDPR says they are satisfied with Cyberpunk’s stability

https://www.ign.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-stability-satisfactory-performance-bugs-glitches-fixes

42:39 - Xcloud is now available to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers on iphones and PC

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-cloud-gaming-game-pass-ultimate-release

46:16 - Xbox and Kojima are officially working together

https://venturebeat.com/2021/07/01/hideo-kojimas-deal-with-xbox-reaches-key-milestone/ 

49:01 - The Winner is...

50:07 - Closing and Plugs

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