It's a tabletop episode this week, as Matt and Ben discuss the newly unveiled "One D&D," the updated ruleset for Dungeons & Dragons that definitely isn't a new edition--we promise. Who else can't wait to pay your monthly subscription fee for a "constantly evolving" ruleset?

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Did you hear the terrible news? The video game industry only made $12 billion instead of $13 billion. Even Diablo Immortal making all the money couldn't help Activision's quarterly earnings--it's in right bloody shambles mate. However, all the hedge fund sickos are still bullish on blockchain gaming as the sector sees more investments than ever.

Solidarity with GWA Albany as they start their bid for recognition of their new Union!

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The Comrades are reunited once more! Mike is back in the cut after conquering the dreaded Bar Exam--massive W's in the chat for our beautiful boy.

In this week's episode, we bookend our thoughts on the shakeups in the VR tech business with more bad vibes from Ubisoft and potentially questionable updates to Minecraft's user policy (when have moderation tools ever gone wrong and been used to target marginalized people?)

We also have some news on significant game delays (RIP KOTOR) as well as the new hit platform-fighter game, WB's cynical IP soup, Multiversus. We ask the serious questions here: when will leftist icon Tony Soprano be added to the mix?

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It was a whirlwind week for the Comrades, almost as if every major story we've covered so far on the pod has coalesced into one giant shitstorm of content. Major news on industry consolidation, microtransactions and predatory monetization are back in the zeitgeist (more like they never left), various studios make their stands both for and against NFTs, more unions are sprouting up after the success of Raven studios, and finally, Ubisoft continues to circle the drain on its descent into irrelevancy. Phew...that was a lot, but it was well worth it. A good episode all around, especially since Andrew's brain was mush from flying back to the east coast. Enjoy!

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Ragnarok is finally upon us Comrades! The mad lads have done it and GoW: Ragnarok is releasing Novermber 9th (suck it Starfield). But it's not all good news--Ben get's heated about the baffling trend in Sony collector's editions. Also quick little PSA: buy physical games because publishers just love taking your digital license away. All that and more!

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The Comrades wrap up their coverage of not-E3 with their thoughts on the Nintendo mini direct. Then the usual suspects are at it again, the enemies of the pod unite to give us all a little bit of brain damage. Also, did you hear that if you don't exclusively play microtransaction laden multiplayer games, you're not a real gamer?

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The Comrade's brains turn to absolute slush as they sift through what seems like a million new games announced in the second half of not E3. Sorry in advance, this is a long one. Also Starfield looks boring as fuck.

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The gaming singularity is here, it's monopolistic, hegemonic, and weirdly covered in dripping space alien goop. The comrades breakdown the first full week of Summer Games Fest and ask ourselves: "why does everything look the same except maybe a little more boring?" Short answer--it's the BLOB folks, and it's here to shape all video games in its unholy image.

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Not E3 has begun! The Comrades breakdown the first official showcase of the season with Sony's State of Play, before speculating about what else we're going to see announced this upcoming month (spoiler--nothing from Ubisoft lol). Ben is riding high on all the Warhammer announcements. Then we do a collectivism by universally shitting on the Sonic Frontiers trailers. All that and more--we're just getting started folks!

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The Comrades are back in the studio talking about all the "discourse" from the past couple weeks, kicking things off with a dissection of Game Pass and its proposed value to gamers. We take a quick break from shitting on Activision to celebrate the successful Union vote at Raven Software. Finally, there is a mountain of Sony news to get through including PS Plus updates and the baffling Gran Turismo tv show.

Quick housekeeping: we will be moving episode releases to every Friday for the time being to support our editor in his new full-time job.

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