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The Indie Guy - Rami Ismail, on the eve of the launch of his brand new game: Australia Did It, joins us to scare us about the future of video games... Again! What are the pros/cons of AI decompiling, how will this affect future games, especially in the indie space? What are the ramifications of Unity being bought out? Then we get into the games, including Ocarina of Time remake, Ace Combat 8, Phantom Blade 0, Journey and all the wild announcements coming out of ExileCon!

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:00 - The Indie Guy
00:02:50 - Australia Did It
00:19:00 - Pricing games
00:24:30 - AI decompiling
01:02:00 - The dangers of copycat games
01:10:00 - Unity getting bought out?
01:15:30 - Remedy doing well
01:16:00 - Elder Scrolls: Sentinel
01:17:00 - World of Warcraft Forever
01:23:00 - God of War Laufey delayed
01:24:30 - Queen's Domain
01:27:30 - Rumors of Arkane being bought by Ubisoft?
01:30:20 - BitReactor hit with layoffs
01:31:20 - ExileCon 2026 announcements
01:35:20 - The Legend of Zelda: OOT Remake
01:38:00 - Control Resonant
01:45:00 - Remedyverse
01:48:00 - Walk
01:50:00 - Ace Combat 8
01:55:30 - Phantom Blade 0
02:00:00 - Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
02:08:00 - The Farmer Was Replaced
02:19:10 - Zeke played Journey for the first time
02:27:20 - GOTY category deliberations
02:38:00 - Shoutouts
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Zeke's out at the Ren Fair this weekend so JP and Cohh talk at length about all their latest obsessions like Monsters & Memories, Enshrouded, soon to be World of Warcraft Forever and more! There's a lot to say about the new Wuxia action game Phantom Blade 0, the new Crimson Desert expansion and the unfortunate passing of Patrick Stewart deeply affecting them and much more!

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:00 - Pants.
00:02:20 - Halloween
00:08:30 - Emberville delayed?!
00:12:00 - Patrick Stewart passed away
00:17:00 - GTA6 is huge
00:22:30 - CoD using real footage from a tragedy
00:27:20 - Star Wars blamed for shutting down Bioware
00:34:40 - Phantom Blade 0
01:15:20 - Crimson Desert DLC
01:24:20 - Monsters & Memories
01:43:00 - Enshrouded
01:55:00 - Stupid Never Dies
02:01:30 - Final Fantasy Resonance
02:04:50 - Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fanfest
02:07:10 - Shoutouts
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We're joined by Pearl Abyss' Will Powers to catch up on where they're at after the success of Crimson Desert and where the game is going in the upcoming expansion coming this week! The big news this week is EA laying off 400 employees including shutting down decades old studio - BioWare. Long-time e-sports organization Evil Geniuses is also shutting down. Then we get into Final Fantasy Resonance, Stupid Never Dies and a whole ton of Steam demos!
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:00 - Will Powers from Pearl Abyss is here
00:04:00 - Crimson Desert Expansion
00:11:30 - When does Crimson Desert stop updating?
00:14:30 - How does underwater work?
00:27:00 - Romance
00:32:30 - Bioware
00:36:40 - New combat?
00:49:50 - Ship building and sailing
00:58:00 - Hockey
01:03:00 - Steam Slop Fest
01:11:20 - OpenAI and TwitchCon collab
01:16:40 - EA shuts down Bioware
01:20:00 - The origin of sad Cohh
01:24:00 - Evil Geniuses shutting down
01:29:10 - Project Helix rumored $1200
01:30:30 - New GamePass prices
01:34:50 - Arkane Lyon looking for a buyer
01:42:00 - Steam Demos Part 1
02:00:30 - Monsters & Memories
02:02:50 - Enshrouded
02:15:20 - Final Fantasy Resonance
02:22:30 - Stupid Never Dies
02:31:30 - Steam Demos Part 2
02:53:30 - Upcoming releases
02:56:30 - Shoutouts

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It's October and in the middle of dozens of major releases are also amazing horror games releasing with Tenebris Somnia, Silver Pines, Hellraiser as well as the fear of AI recompiling creating doppelganger video games! NVIDIA ceases production of the 5090, Control Resonant is the fastest selling Remedy game, WARDOGs drama and finally our time with Enshrouded 1.0!
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:00 - Three bards
00:05:20 - Concerts
00:08:00 - Control Resonant is fastest selling Remedy game
00:09:50 - Sad Cohh nominated for Streamer of the year
00:18:00 - NVIDIA stopping production on 5090s
00:20:00 - GTA6 PC rumored to release Q1
00:22:00 - Dev doesn't release demo out of fear of AI copycats
00:30:40 - Konami doesn't believe in the future of AI in game development
00:33:40 - XBOX Labs is just more AI
00:37:00 - Even more Fire Emblem
00:40:50 - The origin of Dressmaker
00:43:00 - Epic Games goes full AI
00:48:00 - Total War: Shogun 2 AI enhancement gets removed from Steam
00:50:40 - No Rest for the Wicked gets classes
00:57:00 - Hellraiser
01:10:00 - Valor Mortis
01:18:45 - Tenebris Somnia
01:26:30 - Deep Dish Dungeon
01:30:00 - Silver Pines
01:35:00 - Enshrouded 1.0
02:00:00 - Dragon's Dogma 2 Dark Arisen
02:06:25 - WARDOGs season 2
02:27:20 - Shoutouts
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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!

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:00 - Boomer music
00:23:20 - Choice paralysis
00:26:00 - 5090s not being produced anymore
00:30:50 - Star Wars Zero Company devs get paid
00:38:50 - Richard Garriott reclaims Ultima
00:40:20 - CapGods
00:59:00 - Triple I initiative
01:09:40 - Hellraiser
01:29:40 - Monsters and Memories
01:45:50 - Onimusha
02:01:45 - Silver Pine
02:16:40 - Endocopia
02:26:20 - Dragon's Dogma 2 Dark Arisen
02:35:00 - Star Wars Galactic Racer
02:52:45 - Shoutouts
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