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Rod, Karen, Charles and Sterling discuss listener feedback, entertainment, ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series Casts Audiobook Star Jeff Hays as Princess Donut’s Voice, EA Removes College Football 27 Microtransactions After Player Boycott, Apple sues OpenAI, two former employees alleging theft of trade secrets, GDQ Quickly Cancels Metal Slug Anniversary Stream After Fan Outcry, Criterion Is Now Officially A Battlefield Studio, Robert Pattinson’s Return in The Batman: Part 2 Delayed Again, Now Arriving 2028, the Blade movie isn’t happening, ‘Wonder Man’ Not Returning for Season 2 at Disney+, ‘Booster Gold’ Series to Be Revamped at DC With New Creative Team, Marvel Comics to Leave New York and Move Staffers to L.A. as Part of Major Overhaul, Nintendo says it has no legal duty to pass its U.S. tariff refunds on to consumers, Xbox Console Sales Rose In June, Despite Price Increases, New Numbers Present Sony’s Case For Abandoning PlayStation Discs, Xbox is FINALLY boosting download speeds on console and PC, Xbox finally reveals its free Xbox Cloud Gaming tier — ad-powered streams, Samwise Gamgee Actor Sean Astin Says He Had to Sell His House Because He Had Negotiated Such a Small Salary, Xbox and PlayStation have outages, Tom Holland Confirms Sony Planned to Bring Venom and Morbius Into the MCU, After laying off Battlefield 6 developers, EA pays its CEO $38 million because Battlefield 6 did so well, Nintendo Reportedly Considering Switch 2 OLED Model, GTA 6 has ‘the strongest pre-order campaign on record’, is on track to sell 37-51 million in week one, ‘God Of War’ To Recast Lead Kratos After Ryan Hurst Injury, Xbox Studio Leaders Reportedly Detest Game Pass, Arguing it Destroyed the Value of Their $40+ Games Now Available for Pennies, Valve Promises There Will Be No Steam Machine Exclusives, The Xbox Series X/S version of Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game has been delayed just hours before release, Saudi Arabia’s divisive EA buyout approved under EU merger rules and Still Waiting for Your Steam Machine Reservation? Valve Says You Can Order by the End of the Year.

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Rod, Karen, Aaron and Shanna discuss listener feedback, entertainment, lay-offs in the gaming industry, MIO developer closes, EA Lays Off Unknown Number Of Individuals In Fan Care And Recruitment, Xbox To Lay Off 3,200 In ‘Most Significant Restructure’ In Its History, Xbox Spins Off Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Undead Labs, And Ninja Theory While Blade Maker Arkane Reviews ‘Potential Strategic Options’, Microsoft Expected Game Pass Would Have 77 Million Subscribers, The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Suffer Because of Xbox Layoffs, Bethesda Staff Say, Id Software co-founder John Carmack has responded to the news that the Doom and Quake studio has been struck with significant layoffs as part of Xbox’s big business ‘reset’, Sony Confirms ‘Significant’ Bungie Layoffs, Xbox Hikes X and S Consoles Price by More Than $100, Discontinues 2 TB Model, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma named as adviser to US Federal Reserve on ‘Jobs and Productivity’, Xbox Has Frozen 3rd-Party Game Pass, Xbox Has Frozen 3rd-Party Game Pass, PlayStation Will Continue To Push Live Service Games Despite Evident Challenges, There Are ‘No Plans’ To Ever Print GTA 6 Discs, PlayStation PC Retreat Is A Mistake, As 18+ Months Late Ports Made Money Without Costing a Single Console Sale, PlayStation ‘No Disc, No Buy’ Boycott Breaks Down For Black Ops, Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads as memory costs skyrocket, Assassin’s Creed Devs Celebrate Black Flag Remake Launch With Layoffs, Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection, Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection, The Steam Machine Costs $1049, Obsidian sued in class action lawsuit over alleged “systematic pattern of wage and hour violations”, OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping Articles, Sony Settles With Fired Marathon Game Director Who Sued PlayStation and Bungie for More Than $200 Million, Adds Name to Credits, Ubisoft’s co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash, RAM manufacturers have been sued for allegedly fixing prices and supply, Capcom Keeps Winning as Onimusha: Way of the Sword, EA Sports College Football 27 Locks Single-Player Content Behind Microtransactions, Card Shop Suspends Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments Over Smelly Players and Fighting Game Player-Turned-Sumo Wrestler Bodyslams Knife-Wielding Apex Legends Fan.

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Rod, Karen, Charles and Louie discuss listener feedback, entertainment, ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series Based on Books Ordered by Peacock, Xbox chaos, Microsoft Announces Fable Delay, Now Launches February 2027, new Xbox handheld coming soon, Amazon studios taking 007, Luna Abyss developer closed, Valve’s Massive Steam Deck OLED Price Hike Pushes the Handheld Into High-End Territory, Raising Concerns for the Upcoming Steam Machine, Subnautica 2 Has Sold So Well That Krafton Has to Pay That $250 Million Earnout to the Devs, Jeff Bezos’ Space Rocket Just Exploded In The Biggest Fireball I’ve Ever Seen, Sega’s ‘Streets of Rage’ Movie Sets ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Writers, Stop Killing Games movement, Playstation sales struggles, Hideo Kojima Says He’s No Longer Interested In AI, Ubisoft Closes Belgrade Studio, 100 Employees Let Go, IGN Lays Off Tech Workers Following Summer Game Fest, Where Pro-Union Messages Were Erased, Nintendo wanted to block Palworld — now it faces a 0% chance and a measly $30K payout, Life is Strange Creator Don’t Nod Warned It Will Run Out of Funds This Year, Remedy’s new CEO says Alan Wake and Control ‘should have sold more’ – and movie/TV deal will ‘help us do that’, Remedy’s new CEO says Alan Wake and Control ‘should have sold more’ – and movie/TV deal will ‘help us do that’, Pokémon Go Data Wasn’t Shared With Drone Company, Niantic Spatial Says, EA Announces New Plan To Launch Ads “Directly Into Gameplay” After Working On In-Game Ads For Decades Already and EA Announces New Plan To Launch Ads “Directly Into Gameplay” After Working On In-Game Ads For Decades Already.

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Rod, Karen, Sterling and Brandon Collins discuss listener feedback, entertainment Destiny 2 ending, Bungie expecting a round of lay-offs, Marathon retooling, Sony Reports $765 Million Impairment Loss Due to Underperformance of Marathon Developer Bungie, Microsoft Cuts $7 Off of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price as Call of Duty Removed from Day-One Availability, Xbox fans want exclusivity back, Single-player PlayStation-exclusive games will no longer get PC ports, EA Is Reportedly The Reason We Still Don’t Have An Xbox Game Pass Family Plan, Sony has increased PlayStation Plus prices, PS5 Player Counts for Popular Games May Soon Be Public, Forza Horizon 6 Has Made Over $140 Million from Premium Edition, Gamers sue Nintendo over tariff refunds, saying consumers should get the money back, Pokémon Doubles Down on Unpopular Decision to Punish Player Who Celebrated With a Fist Pump, GameStop CEO Accused Of Auctioning Off Remnants Of Game Informer Vault, Switch 2 going up, GTA 6 Price: Bank of America Says It Should Cost $80, Scalpers Charge $300 For Steam Controllers After They Sell Out, ‘Fast & Furious’ TV Series, Amazon & Henry Cavill’s ‘Voltron’ Movie, Ahsoka season 2 delayed, Subnautica 2 Sells 2 Million Copies Within 12 Hours of Launch, Police Arrest Man Who Threatened To Blow Up Nintendo and a man threatened to blow up Nintendo headquarters.

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Rod, and Karen discuss listener feedback, entertainment, DDR5 Memory Prices Just Took a Noticeable Dive for the First Time in Months, Fans Who Paid Up To $450 For Barbie Dream Fest Are Calling It A ‘Barbie Nightmare Fest’, Filming on ‘Tomb Raider’ Paused After Star Sophie Turner Suffers “Minor Injury”, ‘Pinky & The Brain’ Animator Barry Caldwell Dies at 68, Last of Us Online Was Canceled ’24 Hours’ Before Public Reveal, Lenovo Legion Go 2 suddenly costs $650 more, Xbox Announces ‘Game Pass Flex’, Replacing Loading Screens with Ads, Xbox Game Pass ‘has become too expensive,’ says Microsoft’s new gaming chief, Xbox Now Lets You Hide the Achievements You’re Ashamed Of, Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, Marvel Zombies Officially Returning For Season 2, The Boys Spinoff’s Quiet Cancellation Clarified By Showrunner, Attack On Titan Studio Caught With Generative AI In Latest Anime, Broken Sword devs showered in $400,000 after promising to drop AI upscaling and draw 55,000 frames by hand, Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest, Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI: ‘As Deep as the Grave’ Trailer Brings Late Actor Back, Avatar the Last Airbender movie leaked, Bungie says Marathon will be steadily improved for ‘many years’, Disney may be interested in acquiring Epic Games at some point, it’s claimed, Eidos Montreal studio head departs as it lays off another 124 employees, US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle, Super Mario Galaxy Movie has a better opening day than the first film,  Pokemon, The Switch 2 version of 007 First Light has been delayed until this summer, Peak Devs Aren’t Impressed With Players Demanding an Endless Onslaught of Updates, ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Movie in the Works From ‘Final Destination’ Duo, Gunzilla CEO says ‘haters’ are building the narrative that it doesn’t pay its contractors, Former Halo Studios art director accuses studio of harassment, Allegations Continue To Fly Over Shutdown Of $3.2 Million Kickstarter MMO Ashes Of Creation, New MindsEye Mission Will Reveal ‘Evidence’ the Game Was ‘Sabotaged’, Claims CEO and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 chief “really proud” of LGBT Gayming Awards nom, insists Henry and Hans’ gay romance isn’t “woke” like other RPGs.

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Rod, Karen, Lashonda and Shanna discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Sony Marvel movies vs MCU movies, live service games failing, PS5 prices going up, ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development, Meta Layoffs Could Hit 20 Percent of Workforce Over AI, Saudi Arabian investment firm that owns SNK has acquired a significant stake in Capcom, Niantic Spatial Says Pokémon Go Data Now Being Used to Train Delivery Robots, Arc Raiders, The Finals Dev Embark Studios Parts Ways With Co-founder Following Misconduct Allegations, Thai eSports players sentenced over SEA Games cheating scandal, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Studio Ending Game Development, as Ubisoft Lays Off 100+ Staff, Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely, Judge Slams Subnautica 2 Publisher Krafton in Victory for Fired Workers, Orders Company Reinstate Boss and Extend $250 Million Bonus, Buzzfeed Says Nintendo Inspired It To Make AI Slop Games, Sony Dropping ‘PlayStation Network’ Branding, 77% of US Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players were 30 or older, Nintendo Cuts Switch 2 Output by Over 30% on Weak US Sales, ‘We Should Have Clearly Disclosed Our Use of AI’ — Crimson Desert Dev Launches ‘Comprehensive Audit’ of All In-Game Assets After AI-Generated Art Was ‘Unintentionally’ Included in Final Release, Ayaneo says selling its Windows gaming handheld ‘is no longer sustainable’, Epic Games to cut more than 1,000 jobs as Fortnite usage falls, OpenAI to Shut Down the Sora Video App, Sony Shutters First-Party Partner Studio Dark Outlaw Games, Lays Off 50, New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie From Stephen Colbert and His Son in Development at Warner Bros., Nintendo Switch 2 Physical Games Will Now Be More Expensive Than Digital Versions, With $10 Price Difference for Yoshi and The Mysterious Book, Valve veteran slams Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for laying off 1000 people, ‘Harry Potter’ Star Paapa Essiedu Received Death Threats for Playing Snape, Glen Powell to Voice Fox McCloud in ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’, Sources: Nintendo is planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3D Mario, Hitman TV Series Is Officially Dead, The Rock apologizes for Moana wig, ‘The Lion King’ Singer Sues Comedian for Mistranslating ‘Circle of Life’ Chant and Seeks More Than $20 Million in Damages, New Xbox Ceo could lower GamePass price, Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to “current-generation consoles” later this year, Capcom Apologizes for Street Fighter 6 Alex and Patricia ‘Incest’ Controversy, Announces Patch on the Way, New Scientific Study Concludes ‘Post-Game Depression’ Is Real, and It’s RPGs That Have the Biggest Effect on Us, Attack on Titan Returns With Its Weirdest Crossover to Date and Attack on Titan Returns With Its Weirdest Crossover to Date.

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Rod, Karen and Charles discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Xbox’s leadership shake up, Nintendo selling 20 year old Pokemon games again, Poktopia being sold at a premium on Amazon, Sony not planning to bring single player titles to PC any more, Steamdecks running out of stock, Sony Plans To Minimize PlayStation 5 Hardware Price Increases By Focusing On “Monetizing” Existing Installed Base, Microsoft quietly retires ‘This is an Xbox’ marketing campaign, Sony’s PlayStation Store has been testing dynamic pricing on games, Highguard is shutting down this month Bluepoint Games, Sony’s famed remaster studio, is being closed, Amazon cuts ties with Maverick gaming, Amazon Prime charging more for streaming, , EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch, Former XCOM Director Jake Solomon Announces Shock Closure of Studio Making ‘Next-Gen’ Life Sim, King Of Meat Is Latest Live Service Flop To Announce It Is Shutting Down, Gaming accessory maker and publisher Nacon files for insolvency, Nintendo Suing United States Govt. Over Trump Tariffs, Master Chief And Yugi Actors Speak Out Against White House Video, Live-Action “Samurai Champloo” In The Works, The new game from Yakuza creators sounds like it’s in real danger, Video Games With Loot Boxes Will Now Have a 16 Age Rating Across Europe as Part of Huge PEGI Shakeup, New York sues video game developer Valve, says its ‘loot boxes’ are gambling, Atomic Arcade, the Studio Behind Hasbro’s Big-Budget G.I. Joe Snake Eyes Game has Reportedly Been Shut Down, IGN-owned Eurogamer cuts editorial staff, Sony hit with $2.67 billion lawsuit over alleged digital sales monopoly, Epic Games just increased the price of Fortnite V-Bucks, New Data Reveals Wonder Man’s Weak Viewership Vs. Other Marvel Shows, Sony Plans to Reboot Wider Spider-Man Universe, Discord is delaying global age verification, Valve Finally Details Steam Machine’s Verified Program, Resident Evil Requiem Fan Who Registered Secret In-Game Website Says He’ll Give Capcom the Domain Back for Free, Resident Evil got one star reviews for being too scary, Buffy: New Sunnydale Continuation Series Scrapped, Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms, Mega Man Actor Drops Out Of Sequel Over Non-Union Contract, ‘Family Guy’ Spinoff ‘Stewie’ Gets 2-Season Fox Order and Rosamund Pike Says Her Doom Movie With The Rock Was ‘Probably One of the Worst Films Ever Made.’

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Rod, Karen and Charles discuss listener feedback, PlayStation State of Play, iHeartRadio Exec Says Company Won’t ‘Play AI Music’ or Use ‘AI Generated Personalities’ in Staff Memo, Sony patents AI-generated podcasts voiced by characters from its games, Steam Machine release date announcement delayed due to memory shortages, Xbox says it wants to be ‘more consistent’ with its PS5 release timing in future, Fable has 1,000 ‘handcrafted’ NPCs, and you can apparently marry every single one of them, Beyond Good and Evil 2 still coming, Dispatch comes to Switch but it’s censored, A Week on From Its Company Reshuffle, Ubisoft Has Announced a Just Dance+ Price Increase, Ubisoft employee union calls for CEO to step down, More than a quarter of devs surveyed by GDC were laid off in the past two years, and half of them don’t have a new job, Meta’s Reality Labs Is Still Losing A Lot Of Money, Xbox Gaming Revenue Declines As Console Sales Continue To Slump, Google rolls out prototype of Project Genie, an AI tool which generates playable worlds, Last of Us might with season 3, Baldur’s Gate TV Series Set for HBO, Will Be a Continuation of Baldur’s Gate 3’s Story, Epstein was banned from Xbox Live, Ex-GTA Veteran Leslie Benzies Refutes Epstein Files Allegation: ‘I Have Never Met Jeffrey Epstein’, Epic Games Store boss says it plans to be on the next Xbox console ‘on day one’, Helldivers Movie Starring Jason Momoa Sets 2027 Release Date and Highguard Developer Wildlight Entertainment Confirms Layoffs At The Studio.

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Rod, Karen, Louie and Charles to discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Former PlayStation Exec Says Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo Must Learn From VHS’s Victory Over Betamax, PlayStation Patents AI Assist Feature, Call of Duty on Switch 2 could be ‘imminent’, dataminer claims, Xbox’s PlayStation 5 port of Forza Horizon 5 has reportedly been a big hit, Fallout season 2 viewership drops compared to season 1, Fallout Shelter Reality Show Announced For Prime Video, Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI in Its Content or Designs, Larian backtracks on AI use for Divinity concept art and writing, Stellar Blade studio Shift Up has gifted all its staff $3,400, AirPods Max and an Apple Watch, The Sims studio says its ‘values are unchanged’, including inclusivity, as EA’s Saudi takeover progresses, Peak Dev Explains The Bonkers Psychology Behind Game Prices, GameStop CEO Aims For $35 Bn Payout As Stores Close En Masse, Corey in the House, Ubisoft Shuts Down Assassin’s Creed: Rebellion Developer Halifax Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized, Meta CTO Explains Layoffs & Strategy Shift: “VR Is Growing Less Quickly Than We Hoped”, Anime Fans Are Livid as Oscars Snub Highest-Rated Animated Films of 2025, Tomb Raider movie, The Live-Action God Of War Series Has Found Its Kratos, Nintendo Unhappy at Sega Mascot’s Foot During Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Development, 11-year-old accused of killing his father after his Nintendo Switch was taken away, Disneyland Line Cutter Beats Up Dad In Front Of Family and Husbands in China desperately beg wives to stop playing AI dating sims.

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Rod and Karen discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot, Amazon Pulls AI-Powered Fallout Recap After Getting Key Story Details Wrong, Instagram Wants Your Living Room Next With a New Reels TV App, Esports Gamer Reportedly Leaves Hotel Room A Horrible Mess After Two-Year Stay, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Loses Indie Game Awards After Being Accused Of Lying About AI Use, GACHIAKUTA Black-face controversy, RAM Price Increases Could See Next-Generation Console Releases Delayed, Developer of New Postal Game Shuts Down Studio After Game Was Announced, Then Canceled Over Gen AI Allegations, Downey Land, Beau De Mayo back, Zootopia 2 becomes Disney’s highest-grossing animated film ever and they finish with their PlayStation and Xbox stats and some quirky awards.

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