Today on Final Encounter Cast the crew plays catch up on the news since they took last week off for the holiday. Interesting stories this week including Blizzard apologizing for another Overwatch thing, Brianna Wu plans to run for Congress in 2017 and Hironobu Sakaguchi announces plans for a new game. Plus, Nate rants about Tumblr genders, celebrity deaths and girls who shake their ass on streams.

Limit Break Radio covers the 2016 Japanese Fan Festival held in Tokyo! Square-Enix announces Red Mage as a DPS as well as the new 24 man raid Return to Ivalice. Limit Break Radio goes into full blown speculation mode on what the next job we’ll see announced at the Fan Fest coming up in Frankfurt, Germany in February as well as just how Ivalice will end up fitting into the lore of Final Fantasy XIV. The crew also gives you the need to know on Producer Live Letter 34 and the changes in store for Diadem! Plus, we get reactions from YOU the FFXIV community with your calls! This was a skeleton crew with no support staff and just Aniero, Kallo and Eskalia behind the mics and the rest of the crew spending Christmas day with their families.

On Limit Break Radio the crew hangs out with friend of the show Lore Master Ethys Asher to discuss Patch 3.4 story and lore but we start today with the hot topic that’s burning through the Final Fantasy XIV community: Yoshi-P took to the FFXIV Official Forum to make a case for implementing Jump Potions into Final Fantasy XIV. The LBR crew gives listeners a chance to sound off on topic and spend time taking calls on the subject.

The crew tackles the ethical questions behind murder in Virtual Reality. The more life-like games become, the more visceral it becomes. Other headlines include; Nintendo Switch possible VR, Wonder Woman fired as the UNs honorary ambassador and Riot signing major $300M deal over 6 years.

Today on Limit Break Radio, inclement weather prevents Juxta from being in studio, leaving Aniero all by himself to operate the gear. The crew soldiers on anyway and discusses statements made by Yoshi-P to the Korean publication Game Focus as well as an article published on MMORPG.com telling healers that DPS is an expected part of their job. We read selections from the comments section and talk your live calls today on Limit Break Radio.

Kali's absent and Robbie takes over the news desk, much to Nate's dismay. Headlines include hacking, banning, porn and the Switch -- tune in for the specifics. But the meat of the topic consists of the downfall of the JRPG genre. The early to mid 90s were littered with golden games...but where have they all gone now?

This week on Limit Break Radio Eskalia gets a taste of Kallo’s own medicine in...another FanFic. Plus, Dramatic Shitpost Reading done via a special guest host (hint: It’s someones mother). Lastly, Limit Breaking Radio makes a triumphant return!

This past week PlayStation Experience dropped a few juicy bits, including Marvel v Capcom Infinite and the Last of Us 2. Plus the VGA’s made a splash with an industry icon award for Kojima, but wasn’t without it’s shading dealings in relation to fan made games. But the real meat and potatoes comes with the release of Final Fantasy XV and the question burning in everyone’s minds: was it worth the wait?

On this episode of Limit Break Radio: the team takes a look at the recent Producer Liver Letter 33 and what we can expect with the upcoming Patch 3.5. Yoshi-P talks about the new dungeons we'll be facing: Baelsar's Wall and Sohm Al (Hard), plus the final leg of the Void Ark raid series and we get out first peek into Diadem changes slated for 3.5x. As always the crew takes your calls and finally get around to reading some of your emails.

WWE Raw Tag Team Champ and one third of The New Day Austin Creed joins the Final Encounter Cast crew for an amazing interview. He's here to discuss his YouTube channel UpUpDownDown which recently hit 800k subs. Other headlines include the Final Fantasy XV Day 1 Patch, Video Game Award Drama and a discussion on games being released before the end of the year.