I finished Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name on Game Pass and I really enjoyed the bite-sized nature of it compared to the mainline games. It also acted as a good entryway into the brawler side of the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series.

I also played a little bit of Persona 5 Tactica on Game Pass, and I'm not sure it will get me to really appreciate that style of game the way Strikers let me appreciate Musou games.

Embracer Group will be laying off many employees and closing down projects after Saudi Arabia backed out of a deal.

The Game Awards nominees have been announced, and obviously some people believe their favorite game was snubbed.

Then we talk to Rob about The Game Awards.

I'm going to be hosting again at Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 in Pittsburgh from January 14-21st!

Unity told shareholders that there would be more layoffs at the company, as the fallout for their new revenue pricing policies continue.

I got some new additions to my home arcade - a custom built 4-player generic arcade cabinet, and a custom built virtual pinball machine, both from Monster Arcades.

Then we talk to Rob about possible nominees for The Game Awards' Game Of The Year.

Microsoft is going to ban unlicensed controllers from accessing the Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles - and there are multiple communities worried about the impacts of this, from members of the Fighting Game Community as well as disabled gamers who can't get an Xbox Adaptive Controller.

We use OverClocked Remix on our live stream, and their founder DJPretzel is stepping down from running OCRemix after 24 years at the helm.

Then we talk to Rob about Xbox controllers and Super Mario Bros Wonder.

We are back from Las Vegas and TwitchCon! We start by talking all about Vegas and then TwitchCon, and then why the two shouldn't be together. (We were not alone in this thinking!)

I also talk about my time with Games Done Quick Express, and raising over $35k for AbleGamers.

I briefly visited the Pinball Hall of Fame, and my reaction might surprise you.

The PS5 Slim's external Blu-Ray drive will require an internet connection to set up, meaning that once the servers go down, you won't be able to use it in the future to play PS5 games on actual hardware.

Then we talk to Rob about Vegas and where TwitchCon might go next.

I'm going to be at TwitchCon 2023 as one of the hosts of Games Done Quick Express!

Best Buy is going to discontinue selling physical copies of movies in 2024, and games might be next.

CD Projekt has used AI to replace a deceased voice actor in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty with the family's consent.

We play some clips of the 1992 ad campaign from AT&T "You Will", where Tom Selleck talks about future technologies that we all use today.

Then we talk to Rob about TwitchCon and the difference between being "on" and "off" in the sense of stage presence.

I'm going to be hosting at Games Done Quick Express at TwitchCon on October 20-22nd!

Pac-Man 99 shut down its online servers on the night this episode was aired live.

Nintendo is shutting down 3DS and Wii U online services in April of 2024.

Microsoft is reportedly close to finalizing it's merger with Activision Blizzard. (It actually closed on October 13th.)

Netflix is shutting down their app - on the PlayStation Vita. The Vita was supported by Netflix longer than it was supported by Sony.

ChatGPT was allegedly used to write the apology for Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

Then we talk to Rob about how my view of Animal Crossing has changed due to the circumstances of when I played New Horizons.

I'm going to be a host at Games Done Quick Express at TwitchCon! Tune in on Friday and Sunday at 1PM ET/10AM PT to hear me and possibly see me?

Unity backtracked...kind of. They changed some of the policies about charging developers per install of their game, rather than on the sales of their game.

Epic Games laid off 16% of its workforce because they need to pay its lawyers for all of their lawsuits. This includes selling Bandcamp and shuttering entire studios they recently purchased.

The Meta Quest 3 is almost out, hoping to take on some of what the Apple Vision Pro is claiming it can do.

Then we talk with Rob about the other things that happened in the week when I was out on the ocean.

I'm going to be at Twitchcon as one of the seven hosts for Games Done Quick Express! My hosting shifts will be announced on the October 1st show.

The TUNIC soundtrack had been taken offline by a fraudulent DMCA claim - and initially the distributor sided with the fraudster.

Unity announced a new fee for game developers that charged per install, and just about the entire game industry unified against them. (Since this recording, Unity has walked back some of the changes, but the damage may already be done.)

Then we talk to Rob about F-Zero 99.

We're back after some time off and talking all about Dragon Con 2023, including panels about Digital Media content creation, gaming, and even the current state of AI...As well as talking about what video gaming was like there.

The current iteration of Atari has announced the Atari 2600+ - an emulator system that plays old Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges!

Sony has announced that all tiers of PlayStation Plus will see a price hike, some as much as 30%.

Then we talk to Rob about Dragon Con and getting me into Pikmin Bloom.

I'm going to be at Dragon Con 2023! I'm moderating and appearing on panels in the Digital Media, Video Game, and Independent Film tracks.

There was no live show on August 26th, so you haven't missed anything...

Microsoft is shutting down the Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29, 2024, so get your final purchases in now.

In another edition of "game developers being sneaky" - there's a real technical reason for the Blood Moon in Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and it has everything to do with the capabilities of the Nintendo Switch.

Then we talk about the Tetris movie on Apple TV+ and what other video game stories we'd like to see made into dramatic movies.