It has not been a great week for Playstation. After the insight from Shuhei Yoshida about the state of Playstation, we immediately got news that 2 Playstation live service games got cancelled. One of them was a God of War live service game being developed by Bluepoint. This has caused a huge stir with Playstation fans, showing just how lost Sony is with its live service pivot. Nintendo also revealed the much-awaited Switch successor.

Shuhei Yoshida no longer works at Playstation and now is able to talk freely about the gaming giant. In a remarkably candid interview with Kinda Funny, he discusses the failures of Playstation amongst other things. I go live solo to talk about all this and some of the incredible attempts at damage controlling from Playstation zealots.

Finally gaming news is starting to churn again! Not only did we have CES which had Nvidia reveal the next generation of graphics cards including the beastly Nvidia RTX 5090 that make the PS5 Pro look like a a measly toy, we got a whole range of GPU's that got a lot of people talking. Xbox then announced its Developer Direct which is supposed to include a suprise reveal of an unannounced game. Then we got rumours from insider Nate The Hate that not only is The Master Chief Collection and Flight Sim coming to Playstation but Final Fantasy 7 Remake and FF7 Rebirth will be coming to Xbox! Nintendo also suffered even more leaks! Things are getting crazy now!

We just had the best ever Game Awards show ever. A bevy of incredible reveals, announcements and surpises. Playstation won big with several awards including the coveted Game of the Year award and Xbox was there to fondle everyone. There were also some oddities in the awards winners and some controversies including Naughty Dog's new game.

Xbox finally gets a win with Indiana Jones from Machine Games as reviewers sing its praises. Marvels Rivals gets a huge dose of players as the game breaks the live service mould of late by delivering a promising free to play title with potentially long legs and Path of Exile 2 might just be a sleeper hit and take over the space Diablo enjoys.

Oh and Valve is thinking of entering the console space that could change the face of the industry. Safe.

Are videogames too woke now? This topic keeps rearing its head but the art director at Obsidian did nothing to swell the debate but add fuel to it with his controversial statements that even got Elon Musk involved. You see it all the time. Pronouns in games, switched gender roles, or issues regarding race. Is their merit in the arguments of those detractors that bemoan developers seeking inclusivity? Is the drive for inclusivity coming at the cost of the cogency and integrity of the stories told in games? Or is the discontent being amplified by bad actors who are just grifting?

After confirming that there is no red line on any Xbox games coming to Playstation and other platforms, Microsoft officially launched its new marketing campaign that doubled down on its open platform strategy. But will this strategy, at the cost of the Xbox console gamer, work? Is Xbox actually forward facing in this strategy?