You thought our coverage of Xbox would dial back? THINK AGAIN. The deadline for the Xbox/Activision merger has been delayed, Xbox Live has been rebranded to Game Pass, Call of Duty is guaranteed to be on Playstation (at the expense of other franchises), old Call of Duty servers are up, and we may have uncovered a super secret plot by Microsoft to get their deal past the FTC... We also cover Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 and their sweet PS5 wing-things, talk about Tekken 8's network test, Ninja gets Quote Tweeted by Harada, we talk about our time with Final Fantasy 16, Exoprimal, Pikmin 4 and more! Be sure to follow us on Twitch and Kick for when we stream, and likes and subs here and elsewhere help us immensely

The footage of Baldur's Gate 3 showing off sex with a (druid) bear went across the gaming internet, and resulted in an amazing number of pre-orders! Also, Xbox's fight with the FTC is finally over, and the Xbox/Activision deal is a go! We talk about Xbox's hopes for success with Starfield and Indiana Jones exclusive to Xbox and PC, Call of Duty being guaranteed to continuing being sold on Playstation, Major Nelson leaving Xbox after 20 years, the one and only Gex returning with a remastered trilogy to modern consoles, and rumors of a new Persona fighting game??

Have you ever wished for sweet consensual sex with a bear? Baldur's Gate 3 has you covered! The gang also talks about the juicy leaked Sega PDF from the mid 90s, Street Fighter 6 making bank, and Capcom setting their sights on the next franchises to continue their scorching hot run, namely Onimusha and Mega Man!

After a lot of technical issues over a number of weeks, the podcast archive is BACK! This week we talk a lot of Xbox related news regarding how they're feeling post-Redfall and post-Keigh-3, Cyberpunk becoming the new Crysis benchmark game, the Twitch/Kick drama, and much more!

Waypoint got smoked last week, so we had a good chance to talk about the state of games journalism, if there's much left at this point. On a related point, we talk about Kotaku's approach in these times, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and the status of their PC release, the Microsoft and Activision/Blizzard deal getting shut down over cloud gaming of all things, and much more!