We're back after taking a week off for Independence Day, and everyone is talking about ArenaNet for some reason? Well, the GamesBeat Decides podcast is not going to miss out on a mess like this. That studios decision to fire two of its Guild Wars II writers for being mildly of abrasive on Twitter takes up a good portion of this week's news section. 

In addition to overreactions from ArenaNet management, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti also talk about the first 10 hours of Octopath Traveler, Frostpunk, and the Nintendo Virtual Boy. The Decides crew also weighs in on Steam sales, Todd Howard, and Crash Bandicoot. 

You can hear all that and more by clicking play below. Join us, won't you?

Here's what we talked about:

Octopath Traveler
Frostpunk
Red Faction Guerrilla: Re-Mars-Tered Edtion
The Sexy Brutale
Virtual Boy
ArenaNet has messed up
Steam's best-selling PC games
Todd Howard says things
Monster Hunter: World comes to PC August 9
Super Mario 64 in 60 frames per second
Ratchet & Clank is Insomniac's best-selling game
Crash Bandicoot is the fastest-selling Switch game in 2018
Nintendo is going to announce more games later this year
A lot of third-party games are coming to Switch
Hearthstone expansion
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