Halloween may be over, but Matt's got plenty of spooky things to talk about, such as more unnecessary video game industry layoffs, Inscryption, and identity theft!

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Podcast art by Natascha Murray

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Our break song this episode was Track 08 from the video game Sydney 2000. Sydney 2000 was composed by