Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Sony Doesn’t Sound Thrilled Microsoft Is Buying Activision

Episode 491: Sony’s Call - Sony is in the news again, but not in a positive way. Meanwhile, a classic game may be remastered...

Twitch Bans Streamer After She Openly Discusses Her Online Abuse

Episode 490: Twitch and Transphobia Twitch continues to mishandle bigotry, and NFTs and bitcoins continue to havens for fraud. That, and a legendary developer passes...

Ubisoft To Pull Online From Older Games

Episode 489: Gooey Episode This week includes a Gaming Flashback about the sticky puzzle game World of Goo, which was one of the first games...

Spacewar!

This week has a lot of follow up to the entire situation with Activision/Blizzard, and also a lot of news items that weren't a...

Live Games Service

The crew gets excited about the announcement of The Wolf Among Us 2, although it won't be out for a while, and bemoan the...

Sony Buys Bungie

This week, Sony responds to Microsoft's nearly $69B purchase of Activision/Blizzard by buying Bungie for $4B. The guys cover Sony's State of Play 2022,...

Activision Aftermath

This week, the crew discusses all of the news surrounding Activision/Blizzard after its purchase by Microsoft, and the consensus is that Bobby Kotick is...

Microsoft Buys Activision/Blizzard

The title about says it all. Microsoft has straight up purchased Activision/Blizzard -- in cash, no less -- and while it'll take til September...

The Best (and Worst) Games of the Year 2021

2021 is finally over. And for the first time in years, a proper Games of the Year Awards has been done by GameStooge/TD Gaming...

The Bad Awards Before the Good Ones

This one and a three-quarters hour podcast talks about the silly awards show known as The Game Awards (formerly Spike TV's Game Awards). Let...

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In my last post, I made a point of ridiculing the notion that a lack of female protagonists means that developers are sexists. Essentially,...

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