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At this point it feels like we are silly to hold out hope in Playstation delivering a good show. Another Sony State of Play that fails to appease the starving Sony fanbase that has been gagging for a good showcase or State of Play since 2023? Maybe even before that. Who knows. Either way, welcome to the Apple of Gaming.

Take Two just reconfirmed that Grant Theft Auto 6 will be coming out in 2025. I still struggle to believe it! But if its true, that means 2025 is the year of GTA 6 and everyone else needs to stay clear from its path! Not only that, we got a reveal of the new Battlefield game and sign ups for its playtest. This is it! If you wanted a good Battlefield game, how can you go wrong with none other than industry legend behind the COD Modern Warfare series and TItanfall, Vince Zampella at the helm? More Xbox games are going to Playstation and apparently Rocksteady is going back to doing what it does best; making Batman games. Sony is reported to have more layoffs but its fanbase were celebrating how many consoles Sony sold so there's that. Oh and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is a good game apparently. Not that I care. But you might.

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.