Paul is deep into Marvel Rivals' beta this week while Sean wraps up The Great Ace Attorney.

In news we discuss Activision's skill-based matching making study, Bungie goes through another massive round of layoffs, and The Behemoth details its roadmap.

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Jon joins us near the end to chat about Chained Together. Paul's playing through Kunitsu-Gami and Flintlock. Sean dives into the Marvel Rivals beta.

News is a mixed bag of new video game unions, more layoffs, and EVO 2024!

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The Concord Beta is out this week and Paul and Sean are checking that out. Sean also tries out Magical Delicacy and Dungeons of Hinterberg. Jon continues with Dead Rising.

In news we discuss the FTC coming back for Microsoft, the Halo TV series has been cancelled, and Nintendo releasing a joy-con charger at a very odd time.

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Games this week include Space Marine and Suicide Squad, played by Paul. Metroid Prime 3 is being played by Jon. Sean plays through Case of the Golden Idol as well as Skate Story and Neva's demos.

We start news off with the recent Game Pass price increase/tier stuff, followed by PlayStation announcing it will be at TGS, and Nintendo teasing a weird horror game.

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It's free to play week around here as Sean and Paul are playing Zenless Zone Zero and The Last Descendant. Paul also finally dives into Erdtree.

As for news, we're chatting about Nintendo's use of AI in the future, the Horizon Zero Dawn shown seemingly canceled, and Capcom is officially working on the next mainline Resident Evil.

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This week Paul is nearing the end of Nine Souls while trying to get his computer ready for Elden Ring. Sean is nearing the end of Shadow of the Erdtree.

In news we chat about a new Street Fighter movie possibly happening, the Xbox Keystone patent gets revealed, and Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Amazon Fire TV devices.

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It's time to run down everything we saw during Summer Game Fest. Sean also gives us a look at what it's like to be there on the show floor and everything he got up to (including some fun swag). We also deep dive into Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.

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This week, the guys are biding their time. Paul checks out an early look at 33 Immortals, the previously known "Bloodborne Kart" and continues Nine Sols while Sean is pushing people around in Humanity and loads up Octopath Traveller II with no real intentions on ever finishing it. Maybe most importantly, he's begun Stellar Blade again and is getting good at parrying.

Not much in news this week as Summer Game Fest begins soon and we are just preparing for the onslaught with some early info on the proceedings and the possible future of The Last of Us TV show.

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The boys have wrapped up Hellblade 2 this week and are also discussing Little Kitty Big City. Paul has also been playing Nine Sols and XDefiant.

We start news off with a rundown of Sony's State of Play, then we chat about Redfall's final update, and Call of Duty coming to Game Pass.

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Sean is back from his Magical European Extravaganza™ and has played basically all the games you want to hear about... from Animal Well to Hades II with some Lorelai and the Laser Eyes and even some Senua's Saga: Hellblade II. Actually, Paul also has been playing Hellblade II now that he finished Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and ran through Crow Country.

Not much news, so we get Sean's thoughts on the big stuff from last week quickly for the most part. 

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