This one starts off a little different. Amazon had a massive layoff in their gaming division, some games are shutting down, or ceasing development. Halo: Campaign Evolved was revealed and is coming to Sony in 2026, Vampire Survivor's last 2 updates were revealed, and a Japan patent office rejected Pokemon's patent application.

This episode was not made with AI, but it seems as though a lot more games in the future will be. Counter-Strike 2's skin trading market got a shake up recently, Vampire Survivors and No Man's Sky are getting new updates, and there's some rumors of a new Halo game reveal. Remedy's CEO also stepped down recently and we get some news on the Assassin's Creed series.

We go from 3 to 4 (people) this episode! The United Videogame Works Union is asking for more scrutiny on the EA buyout, Saints Row's design director says GTA 6 "deserves to be $100," and Sony's pushing back on Tencent's "Light of Motiram." We also discuss photo mode in games, the RoG Ally and some of its abilities, and Nintendo's response to hackers.

It's a new podcast: a solo episode! Adam gives a quick run down of some news from the last week, including leaks from the Pokemon teraleak, Battlefield 6's launch over the weekend, and a look at Borderlands 4's roadmap. Destiny also continues its slow bleed of players and a long time Halo vet leaves the studio.

Round 2: Electric Boogaloo! We lost a recording, so had to re-record, so we re-cover Sony's State of Play, Ghosts of Yotei reviews, Payday devs cancelling a co-op D&D game, and Hades II is doing great. We also look at the Saudi Arabi & EA deal and what is going on with Xbox.

We're back at full strength this week! Team Cherry is working on smoothing out some wrinkles from Silksong's release, Valve possibly adjusting their post-launch DLC guidelines, and is this the year of 2D side-scrollers?

We also talk about Battlefield 6's development, Marvel 1943 leaks, the Pokemon Patent and what it could mean going forward, and why some people might prefer inverted or non-inverted controls.

Happy Silksong release! The game even brought down some eshops for a bit. Kojima Productions turns 10 this year and are celebrating, Borderlands 4 gives a look at their post-launch roadmap, Sony possibly making a portable console, and Stardew dev assisted with Silksong's production?

We have some more book talk to start this one off (this is a video game podcast.) Kev Levine shares some insights on their approach to their "villain" for Judas, Adam does a mini review of Gears of War's remaster, and No Man's Sky has yet another game update! We also dive a little in Bungie changing planned updates based on community feedback, and discuss devs not getting Switch 2 dev kits.

We're a video game podcast, so we talk about books for a while! Sean reviews the Switch 2, Adam covers Bungie's updates to Destiny, game console prices going up, Pete Parson's leaves Bungie, and GamesCom news!

It's a two-man show this week! We talk about Itch.io looking for new payment processors after the previous week's delisting of games. We also cover the games shown off at the Nintendo Direct, as well as touch on some data Xbox put out from their Q4 earnings.