Nathan joins this week as Claire had a potential previous engagement but shows up as well! Nathan is reaching for the stars in Wario's Woods, looking for a good speedrun time, Claire is playing a variety of cool stuff and is particularly fond of Tactical Breach Wizards and Paul... well, let's just say Paul wishes he was loving Doom: The Dark Ages.

In news, Bungie is accused of plagiarism (again!), Xbox adds retro games, Jade Raymond leaves Haven Interactive (the company she made years ago) and Randy Pitchford is saying some stupid stuff...again!

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Sean is somewhere in the world so it's up to the other two to hold down the fort. Paul has been enjoying the end-game stuff in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and has some thoughts on Doom: The Dark Ages early hours. Claire has been working through Mortal Kombat 1 despite being grossed out by how it's monetized and is working on Drawn To Life for game clearing.

In news, Skype is officially dead, EB Games is coming back (for some reason), Sony introduces a new studio called teamLFG and the PS5 is likely going to be more expensive due to tariffs.

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Paul is officially hooked on Clair Obscur and Sean dives into Blue Prince.

News is quite a bummer this week as we talk about the recent layoffs at EA, Polygon, and Giant Bomb.

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