This week on Breakout we discuss our thoughts on Elden Ring, the next game from From Software which takes the "Souls" formula into a new open world setting. We've spent dozens of hours playing the game over the past week and are ready to share our thoughts on it.

This week on Breakout we discuss our thoughts about the upcoming The Rings of Power TV series and just how rough it's gotten in the media space to cover adaptions that bank on nostalgia while also going in new directions.

This week on Breakout we candidly discuss our thoughts on difficulty in video games and how it relates to Sifu.

This week on Breakout we candidly discuss our impressions on Dying Light 2, Pokémon Legends: Arceus and take a look at Sony's acquisition of Bungie.

This week on Breakout we candidly discuss what we like, don't like and what we'd like to see change in games media, as people in games media.

This week on Breakout we discuss the massive $70B acquisition of Activision by Microsoft.

This week on Breakout we discuss the current landscape of media where a lot of companies are relying on nostalgia-baiting to capture audiences attention...some people like this, and others don't.

This week on Breakout we discuss the current controversy surrounding Ghost Story Games and Ken Levine following the recent Bloomberg article which has the industry talking a lot about auteurs in games.

This week on Breakout we discuss the past year of The Escapist, our favorite moments from 2021, and what we’ve got coming up in 2022.

This week's episode of Breakout is sponsored by MTN DEW. This week we discuss our favorite games of 2021.