Tori's out this week, so Nathaniel and Noah are catching up on news about unions, the media hellscape and more. Oh yeah, and Star Wars, as per usual.

THINGS MENTIONED:

From Polygon: Microsoft hits another snag in the Activision Blizzard acquisition.

Polygon's follow-up on why it's interesting that cloud gaming, specifically, is the hang up.

SEGA of America workers are unionizing (hell yeah).

The New Yorker's profile of WGA writers and why they're striking.

Kotaku's post-mortem of Waypoint, a good website.

Here's where you can buy Waypoint merch before it goes under. 15 percent off with the coupon code: FCGH.

Kotaku covering the Tears of the Kingdom leaks.

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