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This week, we discuss false reports of cancelled Mass Effect: Andromeda DLC (from a company that doesn't exist), Scott Cawthon cancelling Five Nights at Freddy's 6, and the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn to the canon Star Wars universe.

There are a ton of AAA, open-world games on the horizon...but is there such thing as too much of a good thing? Ash and Syb discuss nine big titles that are likely to be released in the 2018-2019 cycle including Bethesda's Starfield, Bioware's Anthem, CD Projekt RED's Cyberpunk 2077, and Visceral's upcoming Star Wars game.

This week, we discuss our top picks for games showcased at E3 2017 that are releasing this year, which are (in no particular order) South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Fortnite, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, The Evil Within 2, Vampyr, Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar (DLC), Matterfall (not so much a "top pick" as a "what the hell?" topic), Super Mario Odyssey, and Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider (DLC).

Twitch streamers Bad Option and Kattie Kat join us to discuss the latest news, leaks and info about E3 2017 including updates on God of War, Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, a new Need for Speed, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, Titanfall 2, State of Decay 2, Crackdown 3, and a possible Star Wars open world game.

With E3 2017 just over a week away, we delve into Bethesda's invite graphic and discuss what their two major reveals might be (and what they WON'T be...namely, Fallout 5 and The Elder Scrolls 6). We also discuss the controversy surrounding recently released Far Cry 5 trailers, the timeframe of the Final Fantasy 7 remake, and other E3 tidbits covfefe

This week, we give our predictions for what to expect from the press conferences for EA, Bethesda, Nintendo, Ubisoft and Sony at E3 2017. Sybsidian talks in depth about State of Decay 2. Other topics include an interesting weapon that was cut from Prey, an AI learning to drive in GTA5 streaming live on Twitch, Divinity: Original Sin 2, VR horror game Wilson's Heart, and the Netflix Castlevania series. | Skyrim: The Dragonborn Comes epic music video: https://youtu.be/DavA4W_Qj-8 | AI neural network plays GTA5 on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sentdex

After a brief talk about South Park: The Fractured But Whole, we take a special in-depth look at the future of the long-anticipated Firefly Online game. Official information on the game is scarce, but we've managed to dig up some information that sheds some light on what's happening with the game. | CORRECTION NOTE: At 6:12, Syb misspoke and said that Nathan Fillion recorded the voice of the male player captain. Actually, the male PC lines were voiced by Wil Wheaton; Nathan Fillion voiced lines for his own character.

There have been major shake-ups at BioWare Montreal, the development studio behind Mass Effect: Andromeda. On this week's podcast, we discuss what's happened, the future of Mass Effect, and BioWare's new IP (codename: "Dylan"), an MMO-style game that promises to be a competitor to Destiny and The Division. Other topics include Prey reactions, an Outlast 2 update, Smug Wendy's Girl cosplay and arcades. | Cassadilla's Commonwealth Cocktails: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12-7q8BBy_xrILjSeY7R_IpljUqKdK-IjpQUvYulav0E/edit | Fallout Fanatics Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FalloutFanatics/

Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you. We delve into dark side territory today with a discussion on free speech, Google censorship, ridiculous offence taken over a Star Trek license plate, and how the 'adpocalypse' is starting to affect gaming channels. On the lighter side, we delve into Bad Option's debilitating solitaire addiction, cats with assault rifles, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC details, hacker The Dark Overlord attempting to extort money from Netflix, and World of Warcraft's "running of the gnomes."

We cover a potpourri of topics this week, including the 10th anniversary of Lord of the Rings Online; the importance of choice in an RPG or MMO class system; whether or not we live in a computer simulation; the future of open world game AI; pro Overwatch player Stefano "Verbo" Desalvo; Outlast 2; and a few upcoming 2017 indie games (Cuphead in Don't Deal with the Devil, Vampyr, Kingdom Come: Deliverance).