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While hoping the SAG-AFTRA strike resolves soon, David Radd finished Dragon Age: Inquisition with the Trespasser DLC and kept resetting over and over to get the right mithril weapons in Shining Force II.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played a  Roguelite starting with BAL that isn't Balatro, it's Ballionaire and put some time into Burnout Paradise, the thematic opposite of My First Gran Turismo.  In the news, Monster Hunter Wilds led U.S. sales in February 2025 according to Circana, Tencent invests $1.25 Billion in a Ubisoft subsidiary based around Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six.  United Game Workers Union is formed by CWA while The Game Business Launched by Christopher Dring, and Game Informer is resurrected.  In the topic, David and Tuesday go over the Nintendo Direct of March 2025, found out about Virtual Game Cards, agreed it was more of a Tuesday event than a David event and discuss games like Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Marvel Cosmic Invasion.

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While fully realizing that Trip Hawkins was an early tech bro, David Radd took at journey to the Deep Roads in Dragon Age: Inquisition - The Descent and played the heavily Dreamcast coded Penny's Big Breakaway.  Meanwhile, Tuesday drove like Gwupter Twiblorf in My First Gran Turismo and fought as a  chef and soccer referee in Warriors: Abyss.  In the news, Hideki Kamiya muses on Scalebound and says Clovers won't just be about sequels, the subject of tariffs affecting physical games is discussed, Disco Elysium successors Project C4, Disco Elysium  and Hopetown are announced while Scopely buys Niantic's games division, inlcuding Pokemon Go, for $3.5 billion.  In the hype corner, Silent Hill f and Terminator 2D: No Fate are discussed.  For the topic, David and Tuesday reflect on the GTA "Hot Coffe scandal, how it impacted U.S. politics, how the ESRB and Take-Two handled the scandal and what the changes were as a result.

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While celebrating Mouthwashing coming to PS5 and Switch, David Radd played the first Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC in Jaws of Hakkon and played one of the greatest Indy games of all time in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played the oddly titled Bloons TD 6 and a chance encounter in an arcade game led them to playing Gauntlet Slayers Edition.  In news, Microsoft talks up gen AI for game development, while NetEase pulls support for Western studios as the company achieves new levels of profits.  Meanwhille, Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at the DICE Awards, while Sam Lake and Lucas Pope are honored at GDC and labor unions criticize Bobby Kotick's remarks.  For the topic, David and Tuesday talk about the origins of MultiVersus, it's up and down development, and what might have caused its downfall.

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While hoping we get more Capcom Fighting Collections, David Radd tried out the charity DLC Ida's Dream for Monument Valley and fought loads of monsters for his irradiated frog in Blaster Master.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night for the third time instead of tackling their backlog and enjoyed the "brain turns off, Nazi heads go pop" gameplay of Sniper Elite V2.  In the news, BioWare reportedly halves in size as questions linger about the studio's future, while Sony Interactive Entertainment sees its most successful holiday ever as the PS5 crosses 75 million shipped.  Meanwhile, Hideki Kamiya showed off a picture of several ex-Platinum game directors as Project GG is removed from the website of Platinum Games.  Nintendo reports a 31 percent drop in sales without the launch of the Switch 2, as the company says it has plans for resellers.  In the topic, David and Tuesday talked about the Sony State of Play for February 2025, with exciting new game announcements like Warriors: Abyss, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance and Housemarque's new Saros.

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While hoping the Nintendo Switch 2 will have some sort of achievement system, David Radd continues his journey through impossible geometry in Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores and spends several minutes trying to eject a Spartan from a vehicle they've commandeered in Halo Wars 2.  Meanwhile, Tuesday maybe gets into a Souls-lite in Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Nights and inflicts the Dark Souls of electronic board games on themselves in Dokapon Kingdom against the dreaded CPU Kathy.  In news, Sony live service games are cancelled at Blupoint, Bend Studio and NCsoft among other PlayStation corporate announcements, Circana revealed Call of Duty is the best selling game of the year for the sixteenth year in a row in the U.S. while physical game sales continue to drop off and the PS5 continues to outpace the Xbox Series.  Dragon Age: The Veilgard and EA Sports FC underperform for EA while BioWare restructures and Summer Game Fest 2025 is announced for a Friday, June 6 5 PM ET.  For the topic, David and Tuesday discuss the diminishing sales of the Xbox Series, how Phil Spencer confirms there are no red lines for Microsoft games on other platforms (just before Forza Horizon 5 was announced for PS5) and all the news from the Xbox Developer Showcase 2025, including Ninja Gaiden 4 and Ninja Gaiden 2 Black.

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While bummed about the editors who have left GameIndustry.biz, David Radd constantly thinking of echochrome while in Monument Valley and played the "time-until-double-jump" game in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.  Meanwhile,  Tuesday had to resist being a chaos goblin at all times in Kuukiyomi Consider it! and dealt with cats and dogs living together in Cat Quest and Cat Quest 2.  In the news, Jar of Sparks runs out of funding and Splash Damage confirms layoffs as it cancels Transformers: Reactivate.  Platinum Games issues a statement about the New Year while a director moves over to Housemarque, Microsoft continues its series of layoffs including in the gaming division, while Sony and L.A. based PlayStation Studios contribute to California wildfire relief.  In the topic, David and Tuesday discuss the official reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2, go over the form factor and the apparent first game, and talk about the large amount of details we still don't know about Nintendo's next system.

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While thankful that  the President of Square Enix had no New Year's letter this year, David Radd got started in Shining Force II and was flabbergasted you can't easily see enemy movement squares and spent all of December playing Dragon Age: Inquisition to completion.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played Wolfenstein: The New Order, giving them another chance to swoon over Mick Gordon and for the second game did not play Hades II much and instead had Deeprock Galactic Survivors as their holiday game.  In news, Tango Gameworks rebrands as a Krafton studio while SNK formalizes their fighting game developer in KoF Studio.  The PlayStation Blog shares their annual, fan-voted awards while Hermen Hulst indicates SIE is open for reviving older franchises.  Sega indicates they're looking at a subscription service and indicates that more mini-retro consoles are not on the way, while GI Biz lays out the year in numbers.  For the topic, David and Tuesday lists their least favorite game they played, their favorite SNGP topic and their top five games of 2024.

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While wondering if the Killzone franchise maybe has a future, David Radd spent some time in Magic: The Gathering Arena and drafted some Foundations and Pioneer Masters and was a literal killing machine in Ghostrunner: Project_Hel.  Meanwhile, Tuesday continued the adventures of Gwupter Twibblorf in Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club and restarted Gunfire Reborn after all their save data was deleted.  In news, Sony's stock sees highs it hasn't seen in decades while the corporation makes a strategic investment in Kadokawa, Capcom confirms they are exploring old IP, as Hideki Kamiya founds Clovers to work on the next Okami and, in an ominous sign, key Platinum staff no longer list the company on their social media.  Meanwhile, Ciricana reports that the Nintendo Switch has surpassed the PS2 as the second best selling game console of all time and that EA Sports College Football is the best selling sports game in the U.S. of all time.  In labor news, Zenimax Online Studios unionizes and Activision confirms they replaced actors in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.  For the topic, David and Tuesday go in deep with The Game Awards 2024, detailing their (mostly incorrect) predictions, how entertaining it was to watch, the bits of news that came out as well as all of the huge announcements, including Onimusha Way of the Sword, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and Turok Origins.

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While still not willing to step back into MultiVersus, David Radd dealt with a lot of fish puns in Disney's Illusion Island: Mystery in Monoth and played the game that Unicorn Overlord was based on, Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen.  Meanwhile, Tuesday fought past their fear enough to beat Silent Hill 2 and played the Hades-like that they like better than Hades in [REDACTED].  In news, Circana reports that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 raised U.S. game spending year-over-year by 10 percent in October, Ubisoft announces they will close Xdefiant and Square Enix confirms that Foamstars content is concluding while studios founded by BioWare and Mass Effect veterans Humanoid Origin and World's Untold effectively shut down and Shuhei Yoshida retires from Sony Interactive Entertainment after 31 years.  For the topic David and Tuesday go in depth with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, how it controls, the amount of ungodly padding and reflect on what came after for The Legend of Zelda.

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While enjoying the plugs for the original PlayStation in Hackers, David Radd fooled around with the  November Google Doodle: a card game dealing with the Rise of the Half Moon instead of doing something productive and engaged in tedious driving sequences in Deadly Premonition The Director's Cut.  Meanwhile, Tuesday dealt with the Resident Evil puzzles in Crow Country and experienced first hand how faithful Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven was as a remake.  In the news, Sony reports records profits in their PlayStation division while the PS5 sells 65 million units and Kadokawa confirms that Sony Corp. has expressed interest in purchasing the media company.  Xbox CEO Phil Spencer says more Xbox hardware is coming while confirming there are no "red lines" on future games for Sony or Nintendo systems and the nominees for the 2024 Game Awards are announced.  For the topic, David and Tuesday talk about the history of the console wars, from it's marketing driven start, crystallization into the Big Three and settling on where it is today, which is significantly less heated than it once was.

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