A podcast for gamers and nerds, Bronson Fiori and Aaron Reynolds are here to keep you up to date on the video game industry and the community built around it! From Top Ten lists, to showing off games you should check out, to battling over the latest topics and drama, we have you covered every week!
2023 is a great year for video games and an awful year for game developers, and this episode doesn't change that. Unity's likely laying people off, the Epic Games Store remains unprofitable, Sony has delayed 6 of its 12 live service games, but hey! You can hide your porn games on Steam now. You can hide Overwatch 2 as well
BlizzCon happened, and we got a bunch of news about the newest games coming from Xbox's latest and biggest acquisition, including lots of World of Warcraft news. We also get into the dirty laundry coming out of Bungie regarding Destiny 2 and Marathon woes, and finally we get into IGN's latest list for best the 25 best PS2 games.
It's finally official: Xbox has acquired Activision, Blizzard and King. It's time to review the long journey of this acquisition and where Xbox's studios are at now with the many games they're working on. We also cover Halo Infinite's big incoming season 5 update, the last Marvel's Spider-Man 2 trailer, Best Buy and Walmart stopping physical sales of DVDs and Blu-Rays, and more!
Jim Ryan has finally left PlayStation, so we go over his tenure and PlayStation's recent history. We also saw a lot of game developers lose their jobs at Naughty Dog, Telltale, and Epic Games. Bungie has fallen hard, and its not just because of Destiny, and Cyberpunk is pushing to finally come out positive after the entire drama of its release and recovery. We talk about all that, plenty of games, and plenty of Halo!
Soooo Microsoft accidentally leaked a bunch of documents in their case with the FTC, and everyone got a hold of their supposed plans. We take a look at all that, the news that Xbox is set to be clear to acquire Activision/Blizzard (finally), and we get Phil Spencer's remarks about the whole leak. In case you thought our news stopped revolving around Xbox, man did this week prove otherwise!