It's the Return of the King, the Return of the Jedi, the Return of the Mack.... That's right Connor is Back - Connor

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Tencent may be furthering it's stake in Ubisoft (31:40), Call of Duty is reportedly performing "poorly" (42:09), Twitch has a Crypto Gambling Problem (49:58), and Richard shows us how to have fun with Tidbits (59:46) on this Episode of the Gaming Discourse.

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"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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18:52 - Rockstar’s Changing Culture & GTA VI

29:34 - How Roblox Self-Censored for China

40:08 - A Better Ubisoft Says No Demands Have Been Met

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22:09 - Sweeney Says NFTs Won’t Be Banned On Epic Store

33:59 - Eidos Montreal Founder: Square’s Western Studios Were a “Train Wreck”

46:30 - More Workers At Blizzard Looking to Unionize

50:55 - Tidbits

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23:01 - John Riccitiello said a silly thing

34:52 - Embracer Group has spent $2m on its archive

47:08 - UK says it wants game companies to do more about loot boxes

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Don't tell Connor but Tyler really misses them.

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34:56 - New Meta Headset

44:03 - EA's Dumb Single Player Tweet made Employees Angry

49:37 - Diablo Immortal & Microtransactions

1:00:25 - Tidbits

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Squadcast™ Coming "Soon" - The Voice inside Tyler's Head

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Monkey Island and God of War devs subject to harassment from fan toxicity(27:29), Xbox Head Matt Booty defends Crunch at Bethesda(36:32), and the Netherlands looking to possibly Ban the use of Lootboxes in video games sold within their borders(43:55)

Finally we wrap up the show with some Tidbits (51:13)

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Atlus, I swear it was just for a bit - Connor

Also, Squad-Cast coming soon? - Also Connor

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Diablo Immortal hits a delay in China for "reasons" (32:16), Activision-Blizzard Shareholders vote for a Misconduct Report (42:15), and EPIC is exploring a new Review System (47:36)

Finally we wrap up the show with Tidbits (58:22)

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28:15 - Diablo Immortal makes $24 million in two weeks

36:40 - Activision Blizzard says Activision Blizzard has done nothing wrong

46:07 - Tidbits & NPDs

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It's all fun and games until we have to bring out the censor. - Connor

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On the Gaming Discourse we cover a Kotaku story about Crunch and mismanagement at Bethesda over Fallout 76 (10:25), the economy crash of Axie Infinity (23:28), and Bobby "the Ick" Kotick announces Activision-Blizzard is open to "Good faith talks" (a concept foreign to the man) with the Raven Software QA Union (35:32). Finally we end the show once again with a fun round of Tidbitds (37:50).

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"tHeY aRe OpTiOnAl!" - Lootbox Stans

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On tonights episode of the Gaming Discourse we talk a GameSpot story covering Abandoned by BlueBox Games (25:20), Loot boxes return to the news (37:16), and Keywords Unionizes (45:00), and we wrap up with a nice round of Tidbits (46:25)

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