This week a member of Jared's family had a medical emergency, and so he had to go help deal with that. So, we bring you Franken content from the most recent recording. We will see you for Belatro next week!

This week detectives Shrink and Rage are on the case with Tex Murphy for a late, but present, gameclub episode. Enjoy!

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For Show Date: 04/15/2025 

58% Of PC Gaming Revenue In 2024 Came From Microtransactions

https://tech4gamers.com/microtransactions-half-pc-gaming-revenue/

Switch 2?

https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/features/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/14/nintendo-switch-2-delay-due-to-trump-tariffs-see-release-day-in-nj/83083565007/

There once was a time when we questioned podcasts taking long hiatus periods or doing old re-releases on this show. How nieve we were! Life once again stands in the way. Rage's new job and work schedule combined with my own major career changes again makes it hard to record. We believe next week's schedule hold solid promise for recording, and we can finally get past Tex Murphy onto the next gameclub and some regular shenanigans. We love and appreciate you so much. 

This week, Rage is busy with work, and Jared is busy at a marriage and family therapy conference getting to learn and talk all about sex! Due to those pesky adult scheduling conflicts, we were not able to get together again. A few weeks ago a re-release and old episode where the RSS feed from how we used to upload the show has broken. So we have another blast from the past. We have put together our gameclub list, and we will be updating you soon on what games we've put up so you can start playing as well if you'd like. 

Greetings all! We have a short little franken episode this week, as continued work and personal issues prevented us from recording. We have talked shop and adjusted/updated the gameclub list and have made plans for late but truncated VGL awards to discuss some gameclub games. We hope you all are having a good week, and hope to be back soon. 

This week, continued work tumolt for Rage ensured no recording was possible. So, we bring you a story about fixing houses, and some other stuff. We wish you all well this week, and hope to see you again very soon!

Topics list:

For Show Date: 03/13/2025 

Time Stamps will be in the show notes following their respective topics when remembered

Rage:

Jared:

Halo Infinite

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240440/Halo_Infinite/

Monster Hunter Wilds locks character editing behind microtransactions

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/monster-hunter-wilds-locks-character-editing-behind-microtransactions/

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remake reportedly set for imminent reveal

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remake-reportedly-set-for-imminent-reveal

Disco Elysium is being "reimagined" for mobile devices to "captivate the TikTok user"

https://www.eurogamer.net/disco-elysium-is-being-reimagined-for-mobile-devices-to-captivate-the-tiktok-user

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/disco-elysium-mobile-version-tiktok-user

Discord Enshitification

https://kotaku.com/discord-reddit-ipo-gaming-server-gta-6-enshitification-1851768033

This week, Rage is busy with work, and Jared is busy repairing his roof after a massive storm blew part of it off. Looking at old Archives, there are a lot of old episodes that have never been viewed, as PodBean seems to have broken their RSS import Support. So an episode appears with no Audio. I've taken the time to find as many of these as I can, and will re-release them on weeks where we don't have Franken Content Prepared. So, enjoy a blast from the past of 2016.....or maybe 2017. We were so young. 

Finally, if you wish to throw us some cash to help improve the show you can do so by supporting our Patreon campaign.

Show Highlights and Timestampes

Shrink:

VGL Game Club Poll!

News

Gamnesia Article

Archived Reddit Thread

PC Gamer Article

Keen Gamer Article 

Lets Play Video Games Article

Weekly Steam Deals

Shrink:

Jared is very sick this week, a lot of people in his orbit have had both the Flu and Covid. Hopefully it isn't that, but we aren't sure yet. Enjoy! We hope to see you next week. 

This week responsibility got in the way again, but we have new Franken Content since we were able to record a few weeks in a row. Enjoy the show, and we should be back next wee to talk Tex Murphy!