8 Bits

It's hard to imagine that once the newest generation of Pokemon launches, there will officially be over 1000 Pokemon in existence. How could one possibly catch them all now?

It feels weird reporting on video games in a time of global crisis. Being yet another voice talking about video games feels so inconsequential in the vast digital ether of the internet when there are real things happening. Yet, seeing the responses from local Ukrainian game developers in the face of danger changed my tune a bit. Games matter, but the people that make them matter more. The responses from the wider gaming community supporting relief efforts shows how games can bring people together to support a cause in even the darkest of times.

This week, we welcome special guest host from VideoGameUtopia and The Player's Club Podcast Emmett Watkins Jr. while Frankie is away doing things in the far off land of his namesake San Francisco. 

I'm not sure if it's just because no one bought anyone this week, but there really wasn't a whole lot of news in the past seven days. Because of this, I present you with a truncated episode with less than 8 bits of news. Sorry to disappoint with the lack of bits. I'll add more bits next week. 

So many acquisitions, so little time. The Great Consolidation is upon us and who will be next? Whoever it is, I'll be here to cover it.

Seeing footage from Star Wars 1313 nearly a decade after it was cancelled was not on my bingo card for the year, and neither was the game industry finally unionizing. Good to see good things happening!

Lo behold, the Activision Blizzard acquisition was still the biggest story of the week even after doing a whole show about it earlier in the week. Go check that episode out if you haven't yet. I broke down some of the finer points of the purchase day of, and this episode goes into more of the news that's come from the announcement since. If you missed anything else big happening this week, it's here too!

Remember when last week had the biggest video game in acquisition in history? Microsoft really said "Hold my beer."

12.2 billion is a huge number, like unfathomable. Also, what's your record for Wordle so far? I missed the word the day before new years, but I've been killing it ever since. 

Happy new year everyone and welcome to a whole new year of gaming news. This year is already starting on pretty wild note, so let's dive right into things on this episode!