Podquisition 466: Rubber Baby Tuggy Bumps

Such pain.

Games we played this week include:

In Stars and Time (16:00)

Loop Hero (27:25)

Dave the Diver (31:00)

Knuckle Sandwich (42:00)

Lonovo Legion Go (49:50)

Yakuza 0 (53:05)

Deadly Premonition (54:50)

Laika Aged Through Blood (1:07:50)

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News things talked about in this episode:

Layoffs at Unity, Free Radical and Fishlabs (1:12:40)

https://www.polygon.com/23980876/unity-layoffs-weta-digital

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/embracer-ceo-confirms-timesplitters-studio-faces-closure-before-christmas/

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/embracer-lay-off-around-50-people-at-chorus-and-galaxy-on-fire-developer-fishlabs

Full-screen ads interrupt gameplay in Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft claims technical error (1:15:15)

https://www.pcgamer.com/assassins-creed-players-started-having-their-games-interrupted-by-full-screen-pop-up-ads-but-ubisoft-says-it-was-a-technical-error-and-quickly-patched-it/

Court docs reveal Google wanted to acquire Epic with the help of Tencent (1:18:45)

https://www.pcgamer.com/google-considered-buying-epic-games-according-to-updated-court-documents/

EA filed patent for using player’s voice for generated character speech in games (1:20:55)

https://www.veryaligaming.com/ea-player-voiced-characters-games/

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