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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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Rod, Karen, Lashonda and Louie discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Amazon pulls AI dubs for some anime, Zack Snyder projects ending at Netflix, Sega thinks definitive editions are harming sales,  Call of Duty Will No Longer Do Back-to-back Releases of Modern Warfare or Black Ops, More Switch Games Receive Compatibility Updates For Switch 2, Predator: Badlands highest grossing, WB for sale, Dragon Age Day comes and goes with no comment from BioWare, AI is driving up DDR5 RAM cost, Capcom plans to turn DMC, Mega Man and Ace Attorney into “core IPs”, CrunchyRoll kills free plan, The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora, The Game Awards won’t have a lot of developers there, Ubisoft No Longer Plans to Release a Second Assassin’s Creed Shadows Expansion, McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery and Xbox loses out in Pornhub battle.

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Rod, Karen, Charles and Jack discuss listener feedback, entertainment, the economics of gaming, Assassin’s Creed Shadows undersold,  PlayStation Portal can now stream games, Switch 2 sold over 10 million units so far, Captain America / Black Panther game delayed, Game Awards gets rid of “Future Class”, Baldur’s Gate 3 vs Dragon Age: The Veilguard in LGBTQ+ romances, major streamers fighting back against piracy, Funko pops in debt, Jimmy Olsen spinoff, Game Stop “trade everything day”, Twisted Metal getting season 3, the Steam Machine, GRR Martin says Game of Thrones TV spinoffs are in development, TMNT movie updates, Dispatch has over 2 million players, Square Enix wants generative AI to do debugging and customer service, GTA 6 delayed again, GTA 6, Sony updates, Death Stranding getting animated series on Disney+,  Battlefield 6, Subnautica 2 drama continues, Japanese AI lawsuit could be huge, should Valve put Steam OS on everything and a Nintendo Switch pirate loses lawsuit.

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Rod, Karen, Shanna and Charles discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Xbox’s latest unpopular decisions, Elden Ring pushed back on Switch 2, Marvel: Rivals loses 85% of player base in 10 months, GRR Martin on breaching deadlines, Andy Muschietti Explains ‘The Flash’ Failure, Ex-Assassin’s Creed boss says he was forced out, Streamer Emiru Issues Statement Following TwitchCon Assault, Simu Liu says Sleeping Dogs movie script is done, One Punch Man Season 3 director deactivates his social media due to harassment, Kylo Ren movie was canceled, Something is Killing the Children getting movie and series, Trump uses AI Halo meme, Crash Bandicoot animated series coming to Netflix, Remedy CEO Steps Down Following FBC: Firebreak’s Sales Flop, YouTube will ‘strengthen’ enforcement around violent and gambling games in November, Take-Two’s CEO doesn’t think a Grand Theft Auto built with AI would be very good, Pokemon loses patent for capture monster games, Nintendo making 25 million Switch 2s by March, Netflix exploring for WBs, Amazon makes significant cuts to video game division, a new NBA Street-style basketball game announced and Counter-Strike loses 1.75 billion in in-game market overnight.

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Rod, Karen, Charles and Bacon discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Xbox increasing prices, Ubisoft cancels Assassin’s Creed anti-slavery game, Treyarch’s co-founder going to jail, Bethesda takes down Indiana Jones clip, PS5 is the best generation ever, Demon Slayer live action TV show, EA bought by Saudi investors, SAG-AFTRA Slams AI Actress, Simpsons and Minecraft coming out on the same day, Fast and Furious final film needs to cut 50 mil out of budget, PlayStation cancels music tour dates, Halo TV show experiences resurrection on Netflix, Meg has killed the Chicken for good, Halo art director leaves cryptic message after leaving, Mindseye employees write letter to leadership, Hyper Light Breaker pulled after early access, Pico Park free permanently and “Countdown” and “Butterfly” canceled by Amazon.

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