Welcome to The Nerd Chat Episode #93: ChatGPT Says Activision-Blizzard Deal is Bad For Gaming. This week on #thenerdchat: If Activision-Blizzard was acquired by Microsoft, would it really "harm" gamers? Is there anything over on the Nintendo side of games that we should be excited for? Will you be jumping into the new forge playlist in Halo Infinite? We talk about all of this and more on this week's episode of #TNC. Thank you so much for listening, and as always, #seeyouonline.

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0:00 Hello and welcome to the show

3:05 Shoutouts

8:00 XBOX NEWS - News #1: Could the ABK acquisition harm gamers?

19:00 News #2: Our reactions to Nintendo Direct and Switch Sales

33:55 News #3: Will ChatGPT make you switch to Bing as your search engine?

44:50 News #4: The Nobel Intention event is live now in Halo Infinite

49:55 News #5: The Stellar Shift Xbox Controller is a banger/slanger

51:00 News #6: Xbox Gear shop has a mystery package bundle

53:55 News #7: Coming to Game Pass February 2023

57:20 What have we been playing and watching?

1:08:45 Our reactions to The Last of Us on HBO

1:19:25  Ranking our Top 5 Pop Tart flavors 

1:27:20 The best food we had this week

1:31:00 Closing and end of show

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