The bear is back in Australia so it's time for some gaming news - new Sega hardware, Xbox 25, the insane journey of Amsterdam 1666, more Cuphead games are coming to terrorise game journos, Crazy Taxi World, the God of War is now a girl, Rayman Legends, Steam Deck pricing plus some Steam Machine rumours, and what the hell is going on with the Pragmata and Mixtape controversies. 

Join Jason and Crinji broadcasting from Japan as they bring you all the latestish gaming news - is Microsoft still a trainwreck, NVidia adds Instagram filters to every game, more layoffs in the gaming industry, social media algorithms, and who is actually buying a PS5 Pro.

Dermie and Jason are back with a deep dive into the recent upper management changes at Xbox, Bobby Kotick's poor choice of friends, how PC gaming is being destroyed, Discord's ID plans, Clair Obscure devs got knighthoods, and why Dermie still reckons the supposed AI RAM shortage was always about Valve.

Dermie and Jason dig into the Ubisoft restructure, Gamepass getting a free version with ads, Meta closing VR studios, Sonic's 35th anniversary plans, PS5's lack of exclusives is not hurting its sales, and the wild new Microsoft CoPilot hack.

This week on News Game Plus Dermie and Jason dive into the console that pushed Xbox to fourth place on Black Friday, Gamestop stores shutting down, Steam machine pricing, and Discord quietly files for an IPO.

In this episode Dermie and Jason dig some more into the Ubisoft hack, what the leak of PlayStation 5's root keys means, why Minecraft's new Head of Vanilla Minecraft is a bad sign, Deus Ex is run by psychos, the latest way NVidia hates the gamers who made them successful, and why Dermie thinks there is a conspiracy to bring down Steam.

Dermie and Jason discuss the massive Ubisoft hack, Clare Obscure losing awards due to AI, GoG now owned by the richest man in Poland, and Dermie loses it over Naughty Dog making their devs do "Mandatory Crunch".

This week we need to talk about the Halo MMO that got cancelled by everybody's favourite Microsoft exec, Arrowhead Studios goes against the grain, Dan Houser thinks AI is like Mad Cow Disease, Tim Sweeney and Gabe are fighting, and Roblox's latest insane plan to harm your kids.

Did Valve just end the XBox family line, that Halo ICE ad, GTA6 vs unions, Mojang says they would not make a creeper any more, and what animals do Jason think he could take in a fight?

We need to talk about the on-going disaster that is Microsoft, the identity of the new Bobby Kotick, why all those websites and games went offline when AWS had a glitch, how Australia's social media laws will usher in a new golden age of 4chan, and why does Dermie wish he was Chinese?