Welcome back, this week Aidan give us a quick impression of Stray. Mojang says no to NFT's and Discord chat is coming to Xbox and is currently being tested within the Insiders program. Forspoken Delayed from Oct to Jan, Monster Hunter Paradise reportedly In development For PlayStation and Xbox.

Congrats to Dark Zero for winning the Apex Legends Global Series Championships. Bungie and Haven Studios are officially part of the Sony PlayStation family. We hope they can make some amazing games. It seems that the final documentations have been submitted for the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard acquisition. The government has 30ish days to request further documents or they will have to approve the acquisition. 

Easy peasy episode this week, most important thing to know this week is that God of War Ragnarok got a release date. Get hyped!

We took a month off for various life reasons. We discuss the Starfield gameplay trailer and some minor things during the Xbox Showcase.We go over all the different games we've been playing during that time. Halo Infinite is getting a Co-op Beta test soon. Blizzard Entertainment is set to acquire Proletariat, the studio behind the fantasy battle royale Spellbreak. In more Blizzard news, Overwatch 2 will render Overwatch 1 unplayable and force all users to play 2.

Howdy all, We are trying a new recording and editing software thingy and the audio is not up to snuff. Many apologies for that and thank you for dealing with it. Raven Software QA union is a go and Phil Spencer said “We absolutely support employees’ right to organize and form unions.” Sony PC games are doing very well based on a earnings call. Sniper Elite 5 is out day 1 on GamePass and you should give it a shot. Very initial impressions of the new hot thing V Rising is good and only $20 on Steam. Lastly, Modern Warfare 2 got a release date of 10.28.22. Big fingers crossed that it is good.

Firstly, Halo TV show is an objectively bad Halo show and an acceptable  ish sci-fi show if you remove the Halo IP from it. Playstation + showed  off its list of games and it is a good start. EA dropped the FIFA  relationship after 30 years mostly due to money reasons.

We are back from a one week break to do things away from home. We discuss the start of Apex Legends season 13, Rogue Legacy 2, and a couple of other indie titles. Dylan got a Steam deck and has some very very initial impressions. Square Enix decided to sell off a bunch of IPs to help fuel its foray into NFTs.

One of us got a Steam deck and has mildly been using it. Couple of the boys have returned to Fortnite after a couple years away and was very late to recording this episode due to it. New early access Indie FPS Roguelite to put on your radar is Mythforce (think if He-man 80's cartoon). It is currently an Epic exclusive but it has lots of potential.

343 put out the roadmap for Halo Infinite and we are not happy with it, they are not happy with it, but it is what it is. Activision Blizzard stockholders approve proposed Microsoft transaction, the deal is still subject to regulatory review. It should all be said and done before July 2023. Ubisoft shutdown a bunch of online services for mostly 360/ps3/Wii/U era games. To be honest, we were surprised this many were still up. Twitch is considering cutting streamer rev share for more monies. This could have massive impact on the platform. If they do so will they remove the exclusivity clause to balance the scales.

Elden Ring update, it's still good game. As for news, Certain Affinity was tapped by 343 to be more involved with content development for Halo Infinite. What does that mean? likely more maps but also a rumored major game mode (BR). They need all the help they can get but in good Halo news. MCC pushed a major update that add Flood Firefight. Vicarious Visions has officially been absorbed by Blizzard Entertainment and is dedicated to Blizzard Titles (RIP Guitar Hero). Sony invested $1 billion into Epic Games and CD Project Red has delayed the next gen update for Witcher 3.