Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

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Run of Show -
00:00:00 - Start00:08:19 - Assassin’s Creed Devs Celebrate Black Flag Remake Launch With Layoffs00:20:31 - Ads00:22:43 - Xbox CEO Asha Sharma named as adviser to US Federal Reserve on ‘Jobs and Productivity’00:41:40 - John Carmack Responds to the id Layoffs… poorly00:49:12 - Bethesda Union Plans Protest For Next Week00:52:28 - Layoffs Hit GameSpot Again01:01:14 - Wee News!01:04:05 - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong



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Bethesda Devs are worried what the Xbox layoffs mean for morale and The Elder Scrolls VI.



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Run of Show -
00:00:00 - Start00:06:33 - The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Suffer Because of Xbox Layoffs00:25:35 - Id was working on a John Wick-style game, a Perfect Dark game, and multiplayer Doom00:37:50 - Ad00:40:05 - SuperChats00:42:32 - $70 EA Sports College Football 27 Locks Single-Player Content Behind Microtransactions And Earns ‘Mostly Negative’ Rating On Steam Within 24 Hours Of Release00:59:26 - GOOD NEWS FOR YA: Palworld Won’t Raise Its Price Following 1.0 Launch01:05:30 - Wee News!01:09:26 - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong


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Analysts say PlayStation won’t reverse course, and breaking news on a new Fallout from Obsidian!



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We have more news on the studios hit by Xbox layoffs, IO Interactive closes a studio, a new report on Xbox Game Pass numbers.



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Run of Show -
00:00:00 - Start00:09:52 - Report: Roughly half of the id Software team have been laid off00:24:45 - The Outer Worlds And Grounded Studio Obsidian Losing Around 25 Percent Of Its Staff To Xbox Layoffs00:28:19 - SuperChats00:34:16 - Ad00:36:30 - BREAKING00:39:03 - IO Interactive closes a studio and gains ownership of Project Fantasy IP00:54:43 - Microsoft Expected Game Pass Would Have 77 Million Subscribers by Now but It Reportedly Only Has 30 Million00:56:50 - 'Don't Kill the Disc' — Independent Retailer Launches Petition Calling on PlayStation to Keep Physical Games, Gets Over 115,000 Signatures01:00:38 - Wee News!01:06:04 - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong


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Xbox announces its cutting 3,200 jobs, Xbox is dropping multiple studios, and Double Fine and Compulsion go independent.


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Run of Show -
00:00:00 - Start00:05:36 - Xbox is Laying Off 3,200 people and Dropping Multiple Studios00:35:52 - Ad00:38:07 - SuperChats00:48:35 - Bethesda Pivots to a Franchise-First Model as Xbox Cuts 3,200 Jobs, Betting Everything on The Elder Scrolls and Fallout00:49:58 - The Elder Scrolls Online Team Seemingly Gutted By Xbox Layoffs, Says Game’s Roadmaps ‘Will Be Shifting’01:15:24 - As Xbox Tries to Sell or Close Arkane, the Future of Marvel's Blade Remains Unclear, With Reports Suggesting It Was Delayed Internally and Is Running Over Budget01:44:11 - Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year01:47:55 - Wee News!


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