Podquisition 455: Calm Collected Critique

Everyone is being very reasonable about differences of opinion.

Games we played this week include:

Starfield (13:35)

Stardew Valley (20:15)

Lies of P (24:40)

Pokémon Scarlet/Violet (56:50)

Night at the Gates of Hell (58:15)

The Booty Creek Cheek Freak (1:04:55)

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News things talked about in this episode:

Unity to introduce ‘Runtime Fees’, charging devs for every install of a game (1:13:05)

https://www.eurogamer.net/unity-reveals-plans-to-charge-per-game-install-drawing-criticism-from-development-community

An Xbox credit card is coming (1:36:10)

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/09/11/xbox-mastercard/

ReedPop officially pulls out of E3 after putting on zero events (1:37:30)

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/reedpop-and-esa-part-ways-over-e3

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