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On this week's show we discuss the ever chaotic pre order adventure in trying to get your hands on a next gen system, I was lucky enough to get a PS5 and a Series X!  And the Microsoft acquisition of Bethesda and their continuing push to become the Netflix of gaming!

This week with the big Sony announcement on the horizon we go through my Top 5 predictions ahead of the Sony announcement and how I see them positioning themselves against the Microsoft launch strategy.

On today's episode we welcome back Quincy Roach to discuss the launch details for the Microsoft next gen consoles including some great consumer choices and pricing strategies that could tilt the war in their favour!

This week on Insert Coins we discuss the troubling release of Madden 21 and the football community pushing back asking the NFL to drop EA from the license due to poor quality.  And I head in from a week with PGA2K21 and give my review on this new licensed golf offering from 2K and HB Studios!

It is time for the world to change and get the world to understand that racial injustice is a problem we need to fix, I did not see it fit to talk gaming this week but offer my voice towards this cause.  I want to express my support to the actions and messages made by the athletes tonight and hope that people start listening so we can create some much needed change.  There is no place for racial injustice in our world.

This week we touch on a really interesting documentary called "The Fall of EA Sports" which has surfaced just a week ahead of Madden 21's release!  We then look at the balanced approach of 2K Sports with entries in both the SIM and ARCADE sports genre filling out their release schedule.  Is the sports genre about to get a second life and more competition and quality?

In this episode we sit down with Joel Deyoung founder and former Director of Technology of Hothead Games and discuss the infamous Soccergeddon days we shared developing and launching Big Win Soccer.  Join us on this look back at our first ride running a game as a service, enduring the challenges and growing from the failures we ultimately experienced in this success!

On the first episode of season 2 we take a look at the Intellivision Amico as the new kid on the block in the gaming world.  The company held an event today and viewers got a deeper look at some of the games coming for the system as well as the new release date and we go in-depth on impressions of both the potential for this new hardware and the games & licenses that are confirmed for this new kid on the block.

In today's episode straight from the listener mailbox we dive into the differences between developing and publishing before venturing into some of the differences between working in console versus the mobile games market.