Podquisition 441: Rik Merlin

A film out of time.

Games we played this week include:

Amnesia: The Bunker (19:00)

Infernax (28:50)

Street Fighter 6 (33:10)

Outriders (40:50)

Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (44:05)

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News things talked about in this episode:

Bobby Kotick allowed to make wild claims about abuse allegations and unions in Variety interview (49:34)

https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizzard-ceo-audaciously-claims-that-sexism-and-harassment-problems-were-made-up-by-an-aggressive-labor-movement-trying-to-destabilize-the-company/

Microsoft seems willing to pull out of UK over CMA refusal to allow merger with Activision (1:00:15)

https://www.vg247.com/microsoft-withdraw-activision-uk

Yuji Naka likely to do time for financial crime (1:01:35)

https://kotaku.com/yuji-naka-prison-square-enix-sonic-final-fantasy-1850501221

Nintendo set to launch game reported to have performed very poorly in focus testing (1:03:15)

https://www.polygon.com/23746686/1-2-switch-sequel-release-date-nintendo-party-game

Report from Bloomberg sheds light on issues at Arkane which resulted in Redfall (1:07:30)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/arcane-s-redfall-misfire-for-xbox-panned-after-7-5-billion-microsoft-deal

Niantic swears low shiny rate for remote raids in Pokémon Go event was totally an accident (1:11:35)

https://www.eurogamer.net/pokemon-go-developer-sorry-for-technical-issue-which-saw-recently-nerfed-remote-raids-offer-worse-shiny-odds

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