This week is mostly about new stuff. Blizzard’s trying the survival genre, Crysis is ready for a sequel, Respawn is working on 2 more Star Wars games than we knew, Nagoshi launched his new studio, and Meta has something scary in VR called Horizon.

00:00:56 - Corrections

00:03:05 - Who-Gamed-It?

00:04:22 - Blizzard’s Survival Game

00:15:40 - A New Crysis

00:25:43 - Respawn’s 3 Star Wars Games

00:36:38 - A Word From Our Sponsors

00:41:03 - Nagoshi Studio

00:47:46 - Meta’s Horizon Worlds

01:00:59 - December 2021 NPDs

01:10:16 - Also This Week

01:15:06 - Game: Canadian or NO-WAYdian

01:18:00 - L&R - Microsoft acquisition fates

01:21:56 - L&R - Sony or Microsoft handheld?

01:24:56 - L&R - Favorite snow levels?

01:27:00 - Time for Bets

01:31:36 - Closing

01:32:26 - January 2022 Producer Thanks

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