Back to the drawing board.

Games we played this week include:

Vampire Survivors (18:35)

Grand Theft Auto V (26:40)

Thirsty Suitors (33:55)

Persona 5 Tactica (39:25)

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News things talked about in this episode:

E3 officially pronounced dead after years on life support (41:15)

https://kotaku.com/is-e3-dead-2023-canceled-esa-1851092261

Zelda producer thinks older style Zelda games are worthless garbage now (49:10)

https://www.ign.com/articles/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-interview-nintendo-eiji-aonuma-hidemaro-fujibayashi

The Day Before imploded a few days after (53:05)

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-day-before-publisher-apologises-for-game-as-steam-refunds-open

Union workers at Zenimax get historic win over use of AI (1:02:30)

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/zenimax-union-strike-tentative-agreement-over-ai-usage-in-workplace

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