Show Notes
Everything is a mess in the House of X this week as studios under XBOX scramble to restructure after prolific studios Obsidian and Id Software get cut in half. Not all news is devastating this week as TennoCon announces what's next for Warframe, Palworld launches into 1.0 to mass praise. Cohh and Zeke try not to kill each other in Fears to Fathom, Assassin's Creed Blackflag makes us wonder why Ubisoft has never made another pirate game and more! 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Right in to Microsoft layoffs 13:00 - Ubisoft :( 20:00 - TennoCon 2026 32:00 - Fears to Fathom: Scratch Creek 48:20 - DOOM: The Dark Ages Expansion 53:00 - Palworld 1.0 1:39:30 - 007 First Light 1:53:30 - Hunger 1:57:00 - RuneScape Dragonwilds 2:01:00 - MOLE 2:04:40 - Assassin's Creed Blackflag 2:10:00 - OUTBRK 2:18:00 - Anime games 2:23:00 - They Left Us Here 2:31:20 - Shoutouts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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There are just too many games that it's creating choice paralysis! Before that however: Zeke has been enjoying the Austin music scene, NVIDIA is shutting down 5090 production? and the furloughed Star Wars Zero Company devs finally return to the studio and paid! We've been playing loads of games this week including Hellraiser Revival, the indie MMO - Monsters & Memories, a deluge of Capcom games: Onimusha and Dragons Dogma 2, Silver Pines and much more!
JP has become a Vtuber (for a month.) We break down what it takes to become one from concept to reality and it's a lot. After that shock we get into reacting to us in the news, GTA6 gets content rated, Valve's Deadlock gets 6 news character a new map and RuneScape 4 gets announced. Cohh is having a time in Valheim, Zeke is still sailing the high fashion seas in Dressmaker and JP is scared of World of Warcraft Forever launching.
Mikael Kasurinen, the director of CONTROL: Resonant joins us this week to chat about his journey into game development, the intricacy of level design, and the willingness to go weird. Then we dive into Silent Hill: townfall a game Cohh and Zeke liked 80% of. XBOX continues to implode as multiple major dev studios seem to be shutting down, including Halo moving to Activision. Bungie recommits to Destiny while moving to unvault all of Destiny 2. Dune Awakening gets a single-player mode and Zeke gushes over the new surprise hit Dressmaker!
This week we're joined by Washington Post's Gene Park to get an expert opinion on all the Wolverine discourse and learn the deep lore of the fart gas. JP has played the World of Warcraft Forever beta, and uh oh, it's about to consume a lot of time. Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a lot of game, Gene has been playing Control Resonant, Zeke absolutely adores Onimusha and so much more this week!