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Oct 8, 2026 1 hr 4 min

The Player 2 PixelCast 195

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It feels like the last fortnight or so has been spent largely recalling how Halo used to be a near culture-defining event. Sure enough, the games produced under the stewardship of 343/Halo Studios were all perfectly fine games, it's hard to argue that the franchise has failed to hit as it did under Bungie. So, passing it on to some Call of Duty stuff (and leaving a bunch of other people without work in the process), well, we're not sure about that. Is there a better match out there, shy of Sony not gutting Bungie and selling the studio back to Xbox? That's at least a part of what Matt, Rob, and Tim are here to discuss. A part. Things have been pretty bleak these past years (most of the decade, really), and so in an attempt to make it a little bit more fun we have gone and simply thought of some waysided or mistreated franchises that we have some remaining affection for and pondered which studios we might like to see given the duty of breathing in some new life. Games: Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Resident Evil Requiem Theme Music: Visitors from Dreams by Mathieu Stempell Dma-Sc Break Music: Neonature by Alexander Brandon, Bryan Rudge, Dan Gardopée, Michiel van den Bos, Reeves Gabrels Cast Rob Caporetto Tim Henderson Matthew Hewson

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