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Whatever the exact opposite of joy and creativity is, it can be found in the WalMetaverse.

I don't normally report on leaks, but this GTA 6 one is arguably one of the biggest leaks to come from any game ever. One of my favorite things to come from the leak was the outpouring of support from other developers showing early forms of their games as early as Gray Box. Gray Box is when there aren't any art assets to apply to the level geometry, so you're literally playing through a bunch of gray boxes. Getting little peaks behind the curtain of game development, when the developer actually means to, is always a pleasure.

The first time I heard of Tokyo Game Show, I thought it was like an actual game show, where various developers would compete to see who had the best game. That was how the show's Game of the Year was decided - by having various developers compete in game show competitions and antics to see who was the best. I was only slightly disappointed to find out it was just a trade show.

This episode was delayed from its usual Friday upload to get the biggest updates from D23 and Ubisoft! Hopefully the extra news gets you through the extra two days of waiting!

When you think of a video game alcohol, what comes to mind? Is it something like shot of gin poured into a can of Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel? Perhaps an alcoholic version of the old Final Fantasy energy drink? Whatever you thought a video game alcohol might be, the official The Last of Us whisky is definitely not it.

Real friends are going to be decided by who gets let on to Game Pass Friends and Family subscription.

I'll be at PAX West 2022 checking out all sorts of neat indie games and whatever cool stuff happens to be there. I'll see if I can record a special to post to the channel in two weeks once all is said and done!

Dang, maybe the real treasure was the stuff we enjoyed along the way before it was bought up by another mega corporation.

Or maybe it was news, like the news in this show!

That's it. I'm gonna go pro in the one fighting game I'm good at: the 1992 Street Fighter 2 Tiger Electronics handheld. Watch out for me at EVO next year!

So cloud gaming is pretty great. I frequently turn to Xbox Game Streaming when I'm avoiding my responsibilities at work or killing time between meetings, but mostly the former. There's some genres of games that the services work very nicely with, like card-based games or turn-based strategy. Heck, even games like Halo work significantly better than I could have ever imagined. However, when I'm at work, I'm connected to an absolutely god-tier gigabit network with an enterprise-grade Wifi 6e router above me. None of these games, even the card-based ones, work particularly well on my bus commute to and from the office. The internet may be great around the world, which is where I think Logitech is likely targeting with their Streaming Console, but the thing is not going to take off in the US. And if I'm wrong, I will record an episode dressed as public domain Winnie the Pooh.