This episode aired on 26 April 2025Agenda:**FIRST HALF**- Oblivion Remastered shadow drop - Regional pricing**PEACHY'S INDIE SHOWCASE THING**- Old timer transport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2HGvfdtOgI- Desert Race Adventure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-f_dR495VE- Astrumis: Survive together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Mmfzx88Gs- Revenge of the savage planet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOmRqeMtY4A**SECOND HALF**- Peachy has been playing Euro Truck Simulator - Pulp has been playing Armored Core 6- Bryan has been playing Last Epoch Season 2 and Marvel Rivals**SMALLER TOPICS**- Marathon reveal / closed test- Expedition 33 GOTY contender?Socials:Twitter/X:https://twitter.com/fullyrenderedhttps://twitter.com/bryanthepiratehttps://twitter.com/peachpixel8https://twitter.com/plopfictionally#podcast #gaming #clairobscurexpedition33 #oblivion #elderscrolls

**FIRST HALF**

- Switch 2 showcase

- $80 games

- Trump's tariffs have impacted pre-orders in the USA & Canada

- Much more impressive hardware than it's predecessor

- Strong line-up of third party games, including a FromSoft exclusive

**PEACHY'S INDIE SHOWCASE THING**

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy has been playing The Bazaar (1.0)

- Pulp has been playing Death Stranding

- Bryan has been playing Path of Exile 2 (0.2.0)

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt has had a rocky start

- Review bombed

- GGG have made swift efforts to turn things around

- Tekken 8 also review bombed for their latest patch

- Minecraft movie already second best movie of the year during opening weekend

This episode aired on 29th March 2025Agenda:**FIRST HALF**

- Game Informer is back!

- Bought out by Gunzilla Games

- The entire original team is back and seem to have editorial freedom

- Website is back, the magazine will eventually be back too

- Gunzilla is a nft/blockchain game developer however soooo...

**PEACHY'S INDIE SHOWCASE THING**

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuyOmAkmtw Ambidextro

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKCmQyN9Idk Dark Quest 4

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KejbLobUMo4 I hate this place

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK2MtbRgPlw Rogue Genesia

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy has been playing Half Life 2 RTX

- Pulp has returned to Black Myth: Wukong and started Death Stranding

- Bryan has been playing Midnight Murder Club and REPO

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Reminder: April 4th is the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct

- There was one last 'Switch 1' Nintendo Direct which included a digital game sharing service

- Path of Exile 2 showcased 0.2.0

- Ubisoft forms a subsidiary for major IPs

- Peachy also gushes over Assassin's Creed: Shadows

- $1.25 billion Tencent Investment (25% stake)Patreon link:https://www.patreon.com/FullyRenderedSocials:Twitter/X:https://twitter.com/fullyrenderedhttps://twitter.com/bryanthepiratehttps://twitter.com/peachpixel8https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 15th March 2025Agenda:**FIRST HALF**

- Kitchen appliances. Yes. Really.- The Bazaar

**SECOND HALF**- Silent Hill f- Pulp has been playing Split Fiction

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Rumour: Xbox Handheld coming this year

- Last Epoch season 2 and PoE2's first league 2 days apart

- Blizzcon is coming back in 2026

- Moonstudios have gone indiependant

- No Rest for the Wicked content drop on 30th April

- Space Marine III 'announced'Patreon link:https://www.patreon.com/FullyRenderedSocials:Twitter/X:https://twitter.com/fullyrenderedhttps://twitter.com/bryanthepiratehttps://twitter.com/peachpixel8https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 8th February 2025Agenda:FIRST HALF: - EA CEO Andrew Wilson thinks Dragon Age: Veilguard would have sold better if it had shared worlds and was a live service (despite the fact it started off as a live service and the devs pivoted away from that since it was obviously a bad idea)- Our opinions oh why Veilguard didn't do that well - Nintendo Switch 2 patents show/confirm more details about the hardwareSECOND HALF:- Peachy played Marvel Rivals- Pulp has been playing Cyberpunk 20277 and The Last Berserker: Khazan demo- Bryan also played the demoPatreon link:https://www.patreon.com/FullyRenderedSocials:Twitter/X:https://twitter.com/fullyrenderedhttps://twitter.com/bryanthepiratehttps://twitter.com/peachpixel8https://twitter.com/plopfictionally#podcast #gamingnews

- Introducing YebbaDebba

- What got them into content creation

- What content do they do

- Yebba's played a lot of indies this year!

- Standouts

**SECOND HALF**

- Capcom are looking at 're-activating more dormant IPs' off the back of the TGA announcements (Okami, Onimusha)

- DINO CRISIS????

- Pulp's played Legacy of Kain: Soulreaver Remaster

- Bryan's still playing POE2

- Yebba's played Horizon Zero Dawn

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Oblivion (Elder Scrolls) remake possibly announced next month

- Previously leaked during the massive Xbox leak a while ago but there was no confirmation of how far along it had been

- if it's bad there's the "Skyblivion" mod (Oblivion in the Skyrim engine)

- Stalker 2 drops 117gb PATCH

- Addresses a lot of bugs

- Gamestop closed 300 stores last year and is looking at closing more soon

- Sony now a to acquire a larger stake in Kadakowa and no longer buying them out

- This makes them the largest shareholder (10%)

- Part of the deal involves collaborating on more trans media things with Sony

Yebba's socials:

BlueSky: @yebbadebba.com

Threads: @yebbadebba

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/YebbaDebba

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/yebbadebba

This episode aired on 14th December 2024

- The Game Awards Summary

- Astro Bot wins Game of the Year

- Our favourite announcements

**PEACHY'S UNNAMED INDIE GAMING SHOWCASE THING**

- Flint Treasure of Oblivion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQQ8ZNe5G5Q

- Wild Woods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9B68fl4vvo

- Xenopurge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHDbiUXtaA

- Clone Drone in the Danger Zone: (this is my friend's game) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIw5flTvlkA

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy's played Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

- Bryan has played Path of Exile 2 Early Access

- Pulp played Path of Exile 2 too!

This episode aired on 30th November 2024

- The Shadow of the Erdtree is up for GOTY and it's controversial

- We pick our nominations

- Peachy's played Vampire the Masqurade - Bloodlines

- Bryan preps for Path of Exile 2 and watched Pantheon, Blue Eye Samurai, Silo and started Dune: Prophecy

- Pulp played Mass Effect Legendary Edition

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Sony is talks to buy Kadokawa

- Kadokawa is the majority owner of FromSoftware, with around 70% of the company. Sony already owns around 14% of the developer, with Tencent owning around 16%

- Sony is only interested in the assets of Kadokawa that involves games, anime, films and TV shows, but Kadokawa are only interested in selling everything or nothing

- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and STALKER 2 both launch with a LOT of bugs

- Microsoft working on a new handheld and Sony likewise doing the same (although not just a remote streaming device this time)

**FIRST HALF**

- Palworld vs Nintendo update: Palworld released a statement confirming the 3 patents

- Suing for damages: roughly $33,000 to each company (Nintendo and Pokemon Company)

- An injunction to stop Palworld continuing to sell/make their game

- Patents include riding creatures you've caught and catching creatures within an object

- Netease found 9 employees were money laundering/accepting bribes, so fired them and passed on the details onto the police who have since arrested them for corruption

- Two of the employees were Senior Executives

- Netease have blacklisted 27 companies that were involved

- Reportedly the second internal anti-corruption investigation launched by NetEase since September 2023

**PEACHY'S INDIE SHOWCASE**

- Tricky Madness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwYoeS-Pno

- Rue Valley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRFT2ffGF94

- Pizza Slice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAdN446w10

- Into the Grid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uyftbKqvp8

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy's played I am Future and Star Trucker

- Bryan watched Arcane season 2 (first 3 episodes) and is watching Dandadan (anime)

- Bryan is nearly done with God of War Ragnarok

- Pulp played the Last of Us and is playing The Last of Us Part II

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Ubisoft's NFT game has been decimated by one single player that has found an exploit that auto-wins matches. He's won 56,000 matches so far rendering the game unplayable in 'ranked'.

- Two Gamers seek Class Action Suit against Ubisoft for delisting and taking down servers for The Crew

- It largely relies on the packaging of the physical copies the two bought, they allege the packaging implies the offline version of the game would always be available.

- Indie Showcase:

Into the MAW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7hQs8zU70

Ascending Inferno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcuFi0E8kqw

Coldridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYTgZaV4av4

Vampire Therapist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJK_ZU9mWho

Virballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyuMCnCCC3U

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy's played many horror games

- Bryan watched Interview with a Vampire series and is watching The Penguin

- Pulp played more horror games

- Pulp played Monster Hunter Wilds beta

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Firewalk Studios is shutting down (Concord)

- Fntastic abandons Kickstarter and Escape Factory with it. Now they're developing a new game, ITEMS (basically Prop Night 2.0) and once again openly relying on free labour; they're doing a 'level design competition' where the prize is a copy of the game.

- They're also going to fund the project by developing... *checks notes* other games, mobile games specifically

- Nintendo now have a (paid) dedicated music app that plays Nintento owned music

- as a result of this Nintendo have been going after content that allows you to listen to OSTs

- Creators that have Let's Plays should probably be careful!

- In 2024, the year of our lord, Beyonce, Ubisoft released an NFT game, some of the NFT characters are $63k LOL