There are too many games coming out! Sean wraps up Cairn and High on Life 2 and starts into Minishoot Adventures and Pokemon Pokopia. Paul plays through Resident Evil Requiem and Scott Pilgrim EX.

We have an official codename for the next Xbox. We also discuss PlayStation deciding to no longer make PC ports, the next Pokemon gen is announced, and Highguard is shutting down for good.

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We're talking about hard AF platformers this week since Sean and Paul are working through Love Eternal. Paul also checks out the Eternal Life of Goldman demo and Marathon's Server Slam. Claire love Romeo is a Dead Man.

News starts off with a bang as Phil Spencer is leaving Xbox. We also discuss Eurogamer layoffs, the story behind Highguard's failure, and New Radical Games.

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We're back with another week of games. Sean is playing through Cairn, Drop Shot, and goes to the SF Nintendo Store to see what's up with My Mario. Paul continues with Diablo 2 and every Mega Man game. Claire tries out Knights of the Round and King of Dragons.

News is bleak this week as the RAM shortage impacts PlayStation and Valve. We also discuss layoffs at Ubisoft and Bluepoints Games being shut down.

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It's almost Valentine's Day and everyone is eating steak! Claire continues with some Castlevania while Paul tries out a bunch of the GameBoy Mega Mans as well as Romeo is a Dead Man. Sean has started up High on Life 2 and Relooted.

We start news off with a really great PlayStation State of Play recap followed by some depressing lay off news for Highguard and 2XKO.

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Sean is back from Asia and is finally not sweating nonstop. He's been playing Highguard, Black Myth: Wukong, and Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles. Paul is playing through a bunch of the NES MegaMans. Claire continues with Melvor Idle.

Sony is back with another wild patent, Valve is delaying the Steam Machine and, apparently, raising its price point, and Overwatch drops the "2."

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Claire is back and we take some time to talk about where she's been and how MAGfest was. Claire has been playing a bunch of idle games, especially Melvor Idle which is essentially an MMO in idle form. While that runs, she also has been playing SoulBlazer on the SNES. Paul plays fangame called Mega Man Rock 'N Roll and loves it.

Not a lot of news, Ubisoft is "restructuring" and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake is officially cancelled as one of 7 sacrifices to the corpo-Gods. Also, we finally get some more info on Beast of Reincarnation (the new GameFreak game), Forza Horizon 6 and first looks at the new Fable. Also, Double Fine are doing some multiplayer pot thing called Kiln.

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It's a new year and the releases haven't started yet so it's free time! Sean is playing through the first Hades and Little Nightmares. Paul continues, seemingly forever, with Tainted Grail.

We catch up on news by discussing a possible Wolfenstein 3 in the works, Ubisoft closes a recently unionized studio, and the Switch 2 gets its first new joycon colors.

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Another year has passed and that means we've come together (including Nathan) to share our Game of the Year lists. Once again we've swapped some categories to make room for new lists and, of course, the community voted on everything as well. Lastly, we check back on the predictions we made one year ago and make new one for 2026.

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