This week's episode of Gaming Podcast features the first news of 2019 for the podcast, and there's some juicy items to discuss. There's no Gaming Flashback, but there is more discussion of the latest Civilization VI: Gathering Storm civs to be discussed.

The news includes:

"Exciting Halo: The Master Chief Collection news" teased for SXSW 2019

EA cancels open-world Star Wars game

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is getting turn-based combat later this week

Let us know what you think.