Podquisition 425: The Duke Lives

A very special friend returns.

Games we played this week include:

Redtape (15:45)

Wanted: Dead (21:00)

Spellcorked (35:00)

Inventory Hero (40:00)

Satisfactory (44:30)

Metroid Prime Remastered (49:00)

Commodore 64 Games (59:10)

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News things talked about in this episode:

Saudi Arabia believed to have increased investment stake in Nintendo (1:19:00)

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/saudi-arabia-has-reportedly-increased-its-stake-in-nintendo-again/

Metroid Prime Remaster doesn’t credit original Metroid Prime team (1:20:15)

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/02/metroid-prime-engineer-let-down-by-exclusion-of-original-credits-in-remaster

Bobby Kotick expected to stay in CEO role at Activision Blizzard if Microsoft merger fails (1:20:15)

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/activision-ceo-kotick-will-stay-in-unlikely-event-microsoft-merger-fails

Sony claims Microsoft demands for documents in FTC case are harassment (1:24:55)

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-gaming-5a973220-9675-4245-964a-3476a3e9c4ec.html

Square Enix delivers one obvious detail about their first blockchain game and little else (1:26:30)

https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/02/15/gaming-company-square-enix-partners-with-polygon-for-nft-art-project/

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