Podquisition 446: Don’t Listen Up My Skirt

Show some respect.

Games we played this week include:

The Last Hope (11:20)

NieR:Automata (29:00)

Pokémon Sleep (31:30)

Bitzee (42.55)

Common’hood (48:40)

Aliens: Dark Descent (53:45)

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News things talked about in this episode:

Judge rules FTC cannot delay Microsoft acquisition of ABK, CMA still hanging on (1:01:05)

https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-wins-crucial-ftc-case-on-activision-blizzard-acquisition

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-11/ftc-leaning-toward-appealing-microsoft-activision-loss

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792245/uk-cma-microsoft-activision-blizzard-deal-negotiations

The number of legally unobtainable games is staggering (1:12:10)

https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Nintendo hasn’t made much headway in terms of gender gap (1:21:55)

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/06/nintendo-pay-gap-women

Yuji Naka sentenced for his financial crimes (1:23:35)

https://gonintendo.com/contents/22870-yuji-naka-sentenced-to-2-5-years-in-prison-for-insider-trading

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