Edie is sleep-and-sun hungover after a week with COVID! Yay! Nick will carry this show. Join our Discord and chat with us all the time: / discord Help support us on Patreon! A buck a month is all we ask to help keep us going into year 19: / gamehounds Come watch us live every Sunday at noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern. You'll hear the pre- and post-show hijinks!

We're back. After a short summer break for some East Coast travel, we're back with what we missed in the last two weeks. Join our Discord and chat with us all the time: / discord Help support us on Patreon! A buck a month is all we ask to help keep us going into year 15: / gamehounds Come watch us live every Sunday at noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern. You'll hear the pre- and post-show hijinks!

SPECIAL STEAM MACHINE REVIEW IN PREVIOUS PODCAST! CHECK IT OUT! Edie and Nick talk about the subsequent fallout of the XBox layoffs, plus how Double Fine and Obsidian have soft landings from the XBox job cuts, id Software less so. Fun fact: id Software is unionized. Cue raised eyebrows. Ubisoft rewards the Black Flag Resyched team's successful launch with mass firings. And Asha Sharma? She's doing fiiiiine! In fact, hours after axing 3,200 jobs from XBox studios, she gets a new gig on the Fed's Board of Governors to help *improve operations efficiency*. You read that right! Great stuff, guys! Join our Discord and chat with us all the time: / discord Help support us on Patreon! A buck a month is all we ask to help keep us going into year 15: / gamehounds Come watch us live every Sunday at noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern. You'll hear the pre- and post-show hijinks! #podcast #videogames #steammachine #valve #xbox #ubisoft #live

Nick and Edie finally got their Steam Machines, and they tested independently. Didn't breathe a word to each other what they thought. Their opinions matched: This is the console they both had hoped for. Was it worth the money? They explain in detail the ups, downs, plusses, minuses, and the quirks they've found with 48 hours of use. This was recorded as part of the live podcast, but we wanted to separate this out for you audio listeners. Since this was from a video stream, there's some show-and-tell that doesn't translate well to audio, but you should be able to visualize, and certainly their review is universal.

The backlash over Sony's announcement to end physical copies of games in 2027 isn't going over well. Really not well. Nick and Edie talk about how, in light of the fact that companies can now reach into your libraries and remove your "owned" content (because they also did just that recently), what that will mean for us as gamers. If buying isn't owning, is piracy theft? Join our Discord and chat with us all the time: / discord Help support us on Patreon! A buck a month is all we ask to help keep us going into year 15: / gamehounds Come watch us live every Sunday at noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern. You'll hear the pre- and post-show hijinks!

I mean, we KNEW it was going to be expensive, but woooowww... I don't think we were prepared for this. Do we blame Valve? No, according to GamersNexux (Yeah, we'll talk about that interview). Bookend that with GTA6's price tag and, hoo-boy, are we going to have an expensive year. Join our Discord and chat with us all the time: / discord Help support us on Patreon! A buck a month is all we ask to help keep us going into year 15: / gamehounds Come watch us live every Sunday at noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern. You'll hear the pre- and post-show hijinks

It's "E3 Week," and the announcements and pressers are hot and heavy. Xbox and Playstation both offered up some fantastic press conferences, and we go over the big news, the games, the surprises, and the disappointments. Join our Discord and chat with us all the time: https://discord.gg/JB5R4DD3e6 Help support us on Patreon! A buck a month is all we ask to help keep us going into year 15: https://www.patreon.com/gamehounds Come watch us live every Sunday at noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern. You'll hear the pre- and post-show hijinks!

Jesus jiminy cricket! When will the AI madness end?! Component shortages, fueled by AI and data centers, lead to a whopping increase in SteamDeck prices. Upside: You can get one, now. And if you needed proof that AI is going to trigger an extinction event, just check out the recent 15-day test of AI platforms running their own societies. Let's just say, it didn't go well, and you should ABSOLUTELY not trust Grok to do your laundry, much less run your company. Also, Fable delayed. Join our Discord and chat with us all the time: https://discord.gg/JB5R4DD3e6 Help support us on Patreon! A buck a month is all we ask to help keep us going into year 15: https://www.patreon.com/gamehounds

Nick is a writer. He literally writes stories for competitions. You'd think he'd be creative. But if I ask for him to give me a title, he looks at me like he's a dog being shown a card trick. Why does this shit always land on my shoulders. Goalie was right: Nick is a bad cohost. Also Embracer saddles board games with their debt, GTA 6 is absolutely coming out on November 19, and State of Play on the way. Join our Discord and chat with us all the time: https://discord.gg/JB5R4DD3e6 Help support us on Patreon! A buck a month is all we ask to help keep us going into year 15: https://www.patreon.com/gamehounds Come watch us live every Sunday at noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern. You'll hear the pre- and post-show hijinks!