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While wondering when Asha Sharma will calm down on social media, David Radd tries talking about Kentucky Route Zero and experiences Nathan Drake's final adventure in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s end.  In the news, Ubisoft is closing multiple studios and laying off hundreds, Valve confirms Steam Machine and Steam Frame for summer 2026, Xbox makes Gears of War and Clockwork Revolution console exclusives and considers more going forward, and PlayStation first-party game sales declined for five straight years as output diminished.  For the topic David delves into the biggest announcements from the June 2026 Summer Game...

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While wondering when the haedwae price increases will stop, DavId Radd has thoughts on Final Fantasy X, and olays the oddly retro Call of Duty: WWII.  In news, Destiny 2 is ending new content, Embracer splits and Sony confirms State of Play, while Circana talks their new tracking method for U.S. sales.  In the topic, David defines explorative platformers often called Metriodvanias.

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Hoping that eventually Saros finds a large audience, David Radd reflects on Final Fantasy VIII and plays Pillars of Eternity's White March Expansion.  In the news,  Nintendo forecasts Switch 2 sales slowdown, as price hikes confirmed, PS5 sales fall behind PS4, while Sony says it’s undecided on PS6 release date and price, Xbox scraps its Copilot AI companion on consoles, and Capcom just sold more games than in any year in its history.  For the Topic You talk about Respawn going to space in doing it better than Infinity Ward that most of these...

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While happy for Pragmata's success, David Radd played some Magic's Secrets of Strixhaven and gave an update on Ogre Battle 64.  In the news, Circana reported that US hardware sales rose 69 percent in March 2026, while Sony explains the 30-day timer for digital games.   Xbox cuts Game Pass prices and removes launch-day Call of Duty games while Xbox hardware revenue drops 33 percent year-on-year and Xbox confirms it’s ‘reevaluating’ exclusivity.  Nacon has rescheduled its postponed game showcase as Studio Spiders closes. For the topic David Radd  ventures into The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Ger...

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While celebrating the life of Yoshihisa Kishimoto, David Radd, talks Sonic Racing CrossWorlds and praises Astro Bot.  In the news, PS5 sales reached year highs as consumers raced to beat Sony’s price increases,  Rockstar hackers actually made Take-Two’s stock increase, after leaking how much GTA Online is making, Rockstar hackers actually made Take-Two’s stock increase, after leaking how much GTA Online is making, BAFTA Games chair believes Awards can offer hope, as Expedition 33 does well, wins GotY.  Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope says he no longer reveals what he’s working on...

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While watching Four Nacon subsidiaries file for insolvency. David Radd muses at Crimson Desert,  and reflects on Final Fantasy IX.  In the news  Epic Games is laying off over 1,000 employees.  Nintendo confirms its US Switch 2 games will soon cost more as physical versions as Switch 2 hardware price increases loom as hardware demand softens.   PlayStation is closing another game studio: Dark Outlaw Games an PS5 console prices are being raised by $100.  Circana reports that esident Evil Requiem tops US February charts, launch sales 60 percent higher than Village.  in the topicDavid visits the Zoras and the Gor...

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While contemplating talking about FBC: Firebreak someday, David Radd was cool but crude with the TMNT set for Magic the Gathering, It enjoyed the last performance by every original crew member of Star Trek together in Star Trek Judgment Rites.  In the news, Nvidia’s DLSS 5 gets a negative reception upon rollout, Nagoshi Studio reportedly facing closure, Shinji Mikami’s new studio, ‘Unbound’ is revealed, Microsoft reveals next-gen console details, while Epic is increasing the price of Fortnite V-Bucks.  For the topic, David takes a speculative crack at the Marvel Tokon roster and teams-enjo...

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While mourning the closure of Highguard (not really), David talks about Marathon and plays Shinobi 3D (not in 3D).  In the news, Sony'sBluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remaster that didn't get made and they are apparently turning off the spigot on PC ports.  Circana says U.S. video game spending rose 3 percent in January, Nacon files for insolvency and postpones game showcase.  Big story is that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are leaving Xbox and Asha Sharma is coming from Microsoft's AI division to replace him.  We look at Spencer's whole career at Microsoft, from...

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While mourning Shutaro Īda, gone too soon, David Radd, talks about  Baldur’s Gate 3's boundless appeal and is whelmed by Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.  In the news, Nexon is lifted by Arc Raiders, PS6 might be delayed until 2029, while Bluepoint is closed.  The 2XKO development team gets downsized, Ashes of creation shutters and Highguard clings to life.  Epic insists it gave Horses studio "context" while Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins five awards at the D.I.C.E. Awards 2026.  For the topic, all the news and announcements from a well received Sony State of Play...

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 While noting that  Comcept has dissolved, David Radd avoided treefolk erasure in Lorwyn Eclipsed before adventuring with Nathan Drake again in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.  In the news,  Sony says Ghost of Yotei sales are outperforming Tsushima and the PS5 sells surprisingly well.  Switch becomes Nintendo's best selling system all time, while the Switch 2 sets the first year record for sales.  At the same time, Xbox hardware sales crater and Valve delays the release timing and price of the Steam Machine.  For the topic, A.I. has been in the news for gaming a lot of...

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While wondering if the Switch 2 will get a price increase this year, David Radd played the surprisingly good Magic: The Gathering set based on Avatar: The Last Airbender as well as Monument Valley 3's DLC The Garden of Life.  In the news, Meta closes three VR studios in their Reality Labs metaverse division, Circana says  Battlefield outsold Call of Duty for the first time ever last year, as Black Ops 7 dropped to 5th place overall while Nintendo Switch 2 sold 4.4 million units in the U.S. in 2025 and remains the fastest-selling console in U.S...

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After wondering what's up with Switch 2 sales over the holidays, David Radd played the inferior sequel Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 and played the artistic but vapid Monument Valley III.  Meanwhile, Tuesday was actively not reading the plot in Hades II and glided around Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar.  In the news, Call of Duty co-creator and Respawn CEO Vince Zampella has sadly passed and CD Projekt sells GOG.  PS Blog and Steam lay out their most popular games as voted by the fans while the most popular games by gameplay hours remain sta...

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While wishing Harada well on his retirement from Bandai Namco, David Radd liked all the 50s sci-fi references in Runbow: Satura's Space Adventure, and played South of Midnight, a game with an interesting theme wrapped around a thoroughly mediocre character action game.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played a service game in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, while Marvel Cosmic Invasion taught them how to tag and elbow drop a dinosaur.  In the news, Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros Including the game division, hardware sales and physical game spending in the U.S. just had the wo...

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David and Tuesday Discuss just how many awards were won by Expedition 33, and talk about the big announcements from The Game Awards 2025, Including a fan favorite character being included in Resident Evil Requiem, a successor to the Knights of the Old Republic series and the next single player adventure from Remedy.

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While wondering if Call of Duty might finally be falling off, David Radd played Bayonetta Origins: Jeanne’s Story, which shockingly has a story connection to Bayonetta 3 as well as Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remastered, the sequel where the series really took off.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance for the first time and replayed Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, which is  still their favorite game in the series.  In the news, Valve reportedly removes the game from Steam on the ban for the Russian government and Horses is denied release on both Steam and t...

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While wondering if at Bottom has finally dropped out for the Call of Duty series, David Radd played Monument Valley 2 minimalist DLC in The Lost Forest and the story sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - CoD: Black Ops III.  Meanwhile, Tuesday found out that Powerwash Simulator 2 is just better Powerwash Simulator and didn't use the melee attack enough in Halo: Combat Evolved.  in the news, Valve announces a new Steam Machine, controller and VR headset, PS5 reaches 84 million in lifetime sales while Sony notes that buying Bungie and Destiny 2 have not pa...

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While wondering if another Mass Effect game will ever come out, David Radd is flying solo and playing some of the extremely odd Magic: The Gathering set in Through the Omenpaths, which is a Spider-Man set without the Man.  He was also thoroughly whelmed by the mother/daughter tale in Monument Valley 2.  In the news, GTA VI is delayed until Fall 2026 and Rockstar gets dinged for union busting, more Netease studios face difficulty, Amazon engages in massive layoffs as they shift away from making MMORPGs, and Nintendo sees massive sales on the back of...

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Even though he still hasn't watched the Kirby Air Riders Direct, David Radd kills his darlings in Alan Wake: The Writer And descends into post-modern nihilism in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days.   Meanwhile, Tuesday has the blandest game experience of the year in Gun Gun Pixies and glazes Devolver while seeing how many times they can say 'balls' describing Ball x Pit.  In the news, 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years, Circana reports the Borderlands 4 launch and Switch 2 hardware sales drove U.S. game spending to $4.8 billion, Xbox’s Sara...

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While wondering what game that Black Tusk could have made before they became The Coalition, David Radd Watch stuntmen in garbage bags fall into a bunch of traps in Night Trap: 25th Anniversary and finds out how little resolves in Alan Wake: The Signal.  Meanwhile Tuesday asks, 'Should Legos talk?' in Lego Batman 2 And determined that Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is an explorative platformer and not a Soulslike.  In the news, EA confirms that it will be acquired for $55 billion By an investment group that includes Saudis, PIF and Jared Ku...

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While thinking that Randy Pitchford needs to get offline, David Radd played Streets of Rage 4's survival mode in the Mr. X Nightmare DLC and found out how many references a game can make to David Lynch and Stephen King in Alan Wake: Remastered.  Meanwhile, Tuesday likes the game but hates the hates vehicles in Lego Batman and endures Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (emphasis on the walking).  In the news, Metaphor: ReFantazio is crowned best game at Japan Game Awards, Hideki Kamiya talks how Xbox’s canceled Scalebound ‘could’ve been differen...

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It's the big one folks, and we walk away... whelmed? While David would not quite label himself a "maniac" while playing Sonic Mania - Encore, he did learn the power of Donkey Kong's stand in Donkey Kong: Bananza. Meanwhile, Tuesday finally got to play a good Gears of War game again, in Gears of War: Reloaded, and helped crash the Nintendo E-Shop when they bought Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots on launch day. For the news this week, we discuss layoffs at Firaxis, the closure of T-Minus Zero Entertainment, and statistics regarding layoffs in...

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While wondering if Microsoft secretly wants to ditch console hardware and focus their efforts on Game Pass in the cloud, David Radd finally talks about the impressive Streets of Rage 4 and goes back to the start of Nathan Drake's adventures in Uncharted: Drakes Fortune Remastered.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played Angry Birds Bounce where Rovio made Breakout bad somehow and continues the  Lizardcube love, with Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap where mankind doesn’t need a savior such as an alien robot dragon.  In news, Sony increases the price of the PS5 hardware $50 across the board...

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While hoping itch.io and Steam can restore their content after blowback by payment processors, David Radd dealt with constant campers in the Battlefield 6 Beta and was impressed by what the Shinobi: Art of Vengence demo offered.   Meanwhile, Tuesday encountered the Chaos Hero and Law Hero in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth and played some Octogeddon, which is like Vampire Survivors before Vampire Survivors.  In the news, Nintendo Switch 2 sells nearly 6 million units while they increase prices on the original Switch in the U.S. while Sony's PlayStation division sees a 137 percent boost to op...

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While looking forward to a future where Magic: The Gathering become the Fortnite of CCGs, David Radd tried to produce all the value in Balatro and encountered some of the grossest pixel art ever in Mother Russia Bleeds.  Meanwhile, Tuesday   had to put shoes on Pauline’s feet in Donkey Kong Bananza and played Digimon Cyber Sleuth, where the police and internet are figments of our imaginations.  In the news, itch.io and Steam remove adult content after objections by payment processors, Sony acquires parts of Bandai Namco while announcing a new powersave featu...

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While wondering if Microsoft is planning on replacing half their workers with AI in the coming years, David Radd wished every level in Sonic Mania was as good as Studiopolis Zone and manage to shoot the Fuhrer in the foot in Sniper Elite V2 Operations mode.  Meanwhile, Tuesday is finding that Rogue-lite Peglin is becoming their new Binding of Issac and that Timespinner's "Za Warudo" time stopping power is less key than you would think.   In the news, Circana reports that Elden Ring: Nightreign topped the May 2025 U.S. charts, SAG-AFTRA members decisively vo...

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While wondering if all future Xbox hardware releases are just going to be white-label products, David Radd beat all of Tuesday's times in My First Gran Turismo and played the final Bayonetta game, perhaps ever, in Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon.  Meanwhile, Tuesday discovered that Pac-Man Championship Edition 2+ is not like Pac-Man for GameBoy and finally played The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition at a good framerate.  In the news, Microsoft lays off thousands, and cancels Perfect Dark, Everwild and project Blackbird, Sega accidentally reveals full soft...

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While wondering what shape Marathon will be in when it finally releases, David Radd remarked at everything that's been removed and put into Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber and waits for Trico to do what he needs to do in The Last Guardian.  In the news, Switch 2 sells over 3.5 million units in the first week,  SAG AFTRA moves to end the strike, Microsoft announces it is working with AMD on its next Xbox devices and Sony confirms PS5 surpasses PS4 in active users and reports more subscriptions at higher tiers.  For the top...

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As Build a Rocket Boy executives ominously leave ahead of MindsEye's release, David Radd got funky with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and was reminded of a worse Horizon Zero Dawn in ReCore: Definitive Edition.  Meanwhile, Tuesday got exposed for their Doom: The Dark Ages play via their PlayStation Trophy list and answers whether the story real or not and also was able to enjoy Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny and its  bad voice acting without COVID brain fog.  In the news, an Ubisoft Forward is not happening in 2025, the Black Panther game is cancelled whi...

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While happy that Giant Bomb achieved its independence, David Radd explores a psychedelic cult in Mafia III's Sign of the Times DLC and discovers that love can bloom between a pig man and spider lady in Black Myth: Wukong.  Meanwhile, Tuesday encounters Santa in 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors though not old Saint Nick and plays DOOM 3 as Warcrime McGee, blowing people’s heads off.  In the news, Circana reports that Oblivion Remastered was April 2025’s best selling game in the U.S., Embracer plans the Coffee Stan spinoff while renaming their gaming...

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While remarking a the reaction to a mere release date for Grand Theft Auto VI, David Radd, David Radd locked up his PS5 twice using the sniper option in Mafia III: Stones Unturned and notes that protagonist Karl Fairburne barely counts as a character Sniper Elite V2 Remastered.  Meanwhile, Tuesday deals with anime terminator waifus in Signalis and does a séance Fear the Spotlight because what else are you going to do but a in a boring mid-west town.  In the news, the Nintendo Switch sees a major update while Microsoft raises pri...

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While going solo in this episode, David Radd talks about playing a good aligned Dukes of Hazard in the Mafia III DLC Faster, Baby! while realizing the limits of the appeal of Super Mario Maker 2 to him.  In news, Devolver reveals their most successful IP and outlines future plans while cutting staff and Xbox streaming comes to certain LG Smart TVs and  all Game Pass Ultimate members, while Phil Spencer confirms Microsoft support of Switch 2.  Circana reports that Assassin's Creed Shadows is 2025's second best selling game in U.S. and leads the Mar...

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While wondering at the overconfidence of certain fanboys, David Radd appreciated the lack of mandatory waggle in Donkey Kong Country Returns HD and endured a hail of racial epithets in Mafia III. Meanwhile, Tuesday went inside of SHODAN in the System Shock remake and copes with more Inti Creates writing in Card en Ciel.  In the news, the Zenimax Union votes to strike, Microsoft's Quake II AI experiment draws criticism and Astro Bot wins big at the BAFTA Games Awards.  Newzoo also reports on trends in the Windows PC and console game markets, su...

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All the news from the big Direct detailing many of the Switch 2's features and several big game reveals like The Duskbloods, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Mario Kart World.

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While hoping the SAG-AFTRA strike resolves soon, David Radd finished Dragon Age: Inquisition with the Trespasser DLC and kept resetting over and over to get the right mithril weapons in Shining Force II.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played a  Roguelite starting with BAL that isn't Balatro, it's Ballionaire and put some time into Burnout Paradise, the thematic opposite of My First Gran Turismo.  In the news, Monster Hunter Wilds led U.S. sales in February 2025 according to Circana, Tencent invests $1.25 Billion in a Ubisoft subsidiary based around Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six.  United Game...

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While fully realizing that Trip Hawkins was an early tech bro, David Radd took at journey to the Deep Roads in Dragon Age: Inquisition - The Descent and played the heavily Dreamcast coded Penny's Big Breakaway.  Meanwhile, Tuesday drove like Gwupter Twiblorf in My First Gran Turismo and fought as a  chef and soccer referee in Warriors: Abyss.  In the news, Hideki Kamiya muses on Scalebound and says Clovers won't just be about sequels, the subject of tariffs affecting physical games is discussed, Disco Elysium successors Project C4, Disco Elysium  and Hopetown are anno...

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While celebrating Mouthwashing coming to PS5 and Switch, David Radd played the first Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC in Jaws of Hakkon and played one of the greatest Indy games of all time in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played the oddly titled Bloons TD 6 and a chance encounter in an arcade game led them to playing Gauntlet Slayers Edition.  In news, Microsoft talks up gen AI for game development, while NetEase pulls support for Western studios as the company achieves new levels of profits.  Meanwhille, Astro Bot wins Game of...

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While hoping we get more Capcom Fighting Collections, David Radd tried out the charity DLC Ida's Dream for Monument Valley and fought loads of monsters for his irradiated frog in Blaster Master.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night for the third time instead of tackling their backlog and enjoyed the "brain turns off, Nazi heads go pop" gameplay of Sniper Elite V2.  In the news, BioWare reportedly halves in size as questions linger about the studio's future, while Sony Interactive Entertainment sees its most successful holiday ever as the PS5 crosses 75 mi...

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While hoping the Nintendo Switch 2 will have some sort of achievement system, David Radd continues his journey through impossible geometry in Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores and spends several minutes trying to eject a Spartan from a vehicle they've commandeered in Halo Wars 2.  Meanwhile, Tuesday maybe gets into a Souls-lite in Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Nights and inflicts the Dark Souls of electronic board games on themselves in Dokapon Kingdom against the dreaded CPU Kathy.  In news, Sony live service games are cancelled at Blupoint, Bend Studio and NCsoft among other PlayStation corporate an...

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While bummed about the editors who have left GameIndustry.biz, David Radd constantly thinking of echochrome while in Monument Valley and played the "time-until-double-jump" game in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.  Meanwhile,  Tuesday had to resist being a chaos goblin at all times in Kuukiyomi Consider it! and dealt with cats and dogs living together in Cat Quest and Cat Quest 2.  In the news, Jar of Sparks runs out of funding and Splash Damage confirms layoffs as it cancels Transformers: Reactivate.  Platinum Games issues a statement about the New Year while a dire...

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While thankful that  the President of Square Enix had no New Year's letter this year, David Radd got started in Shining Force II and was flabbergasted you can't easily see enemy movement squares and spent all of December playing Dragon Age: Inquisition to completion.  Meanwhile, Tuesday played Wolfenstein: The New Order, giving them another chance to swoon over Mick Gordon and for the second game did not play Hades II much and instead had Deeprock Galactic Survivors as their holiday game.  In news, Tango Gameworks rebrands as a Krafton studio while SNK formalizes the...