Podquisition 469: Suddenly Seasonal

Oh, yeah, that thing is about to happen isn’t it?

Games we played this week include:

Vampire Survivors (18:35)

Midnight Suns (19:40)

Grand Theft Auto V (25:24)

Pokémon Scarlet/Violet (33:25)

Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising (41:15)

Diceheart (53:20)

Slay the Princess (1:00:00)

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News things talked about in this episode:

Ransomware group releases trove of material stolen from Insomniac Games (1:07:15)

https://www.cyberdaily.au/culture/9959-snikt-rhysida-dumps-more-than-a-terabyte-of-insomniac-games-internal-data

Internal Sony documents give candid view of concerns over ABK acquisition (1:19:15)

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/microsoft-could-disrupt-and-threaten-playstation-business-sonys-alleged-xbox-fears-laid-bare-in-massive-hack

ABK studios are ending hybrid work (1:21:50)

https://www.eurogamer.net/abk-workers-alliance-responds-to-activision-blizzard-ending-hybrid-working

ABK settles California worker discrimination suit (1:24:20)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/activision-blizzard-to-pay-around-50-million-to-settle-lawsuit-that-spurred-microsofts-takeover-4dc1178b

Valve delivers festive DOTA 2 bans (1:26:00)

https://www.polygon.com/24002666/dota-2-frostivus-2023-bans-valve-toxic-lump-coal

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