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High Ping Basterds is a leisure podcast hosted by High Ping Basterds. It has 94 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

“We, to tell the actual absolute truth, don’t live in society, actually.”In the history of humans, for the first time after the glorious 18th Century have we had The 21st Century. If one strains their ears, one can gather echoes traveling back to us from a dismal future, hankering for the nostalgic and innocent and simpler times of The 21st Century. The 21st Century where we actually don’t live in a society. We live more in tubes, in simulations, in hypotheticals and in conspiracies. We live in line graphs, in word vomits, in feeds and filters, in videos and in games, and in video games. The Basterds navigate this terrain of solipsistic confabulations.“Two weeks to two minutes” Exclaimed Cyrus West Field—an American entrepreneur and financier, pointedly not an inventor, actually—when the telegraph line laid across Atlantic finally worked in 1866. Now in place of these obsolete thick copper cable lay nets upon nets of fiber optics where we

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94 Sony Removes AI Slop, Rockstar Gets Fined Minimally, EPIC laysoff, US Patent Revokes Nintendo Applications

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93. Sony shuts Bluepoint, Xbox New Head, PEGI Changes, Valve v NYC, EA Layoffs

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92 DRAM, BG3 Adaptation, Iron Lung

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91 Valve Monopoly Lawsuit, Ubisoft Strike, CDPR Mod DMCA, Video Game Developers' Conference

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90 Paramount v WBD, GoW Casting, Meta VR, Lara Croft, New World Closing, Ubisoft Layoffs The Division

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89 Thai Esports Scandal, Gamestop Store Closure, Ubisoft Halifax, NY Gov vs Roblox, Rainbow Six

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88 Game Awards & Trailers, PS5, Steam Deck, Post EA FIFA

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87 Epic, Xbox, AI, Rockstar, EA Sale, Warner Bros, Skybound

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86 Krafton, Black Ops 7, Battlefield 6, Tencent Ubisoft Deal, Xbox price increase, F126

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85 Nintendo Patents & Adaptations, Rockstar, Square Enix, Borderlands 4, Marvel& Insomniac

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84 EA AI, YouTube Policy, Amazon Studios, Rockstar, CoD Movie, IOC v Saudi Arabia Esports, Microsoft

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83 Pokemon Leak follow up, Next Gen Consoles, CS2 Rugpull, Remedy, Warner Games, AWS Blackout, FIFA.mp3

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82 EA Privatization, XBox Gamepass Price Hike

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81 Borderlands 4, Nintendo v Palworld, Krafton, Xbox Prices, Mass Effect TV Show, Tencent v Sony

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80 Nintendo Shenanigans, Borderlands 4, Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Far Cry

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79 CoD movie, Hollow Knight, Esports, MindsEye, 007

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78 Gaming Market Report, Wuchang, Valve, Roblox, Sony Russia, Neo Berlin 2087

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77 Digital Foundry, Horizon Knock-Off, Sony Live Service, RE Adaptation, Voice Actors, Battlefield 6 Beta

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76 Steam Visa Mastercard, Itch.io, Epic, Google, EA, Warner Bros, Reality Labs, God of War Adaptations

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75 Candy Crush, Splitgate 2, Krafton, Virtuos, Valve, Rainbow Six Siege, Nintendo

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74 VA Union Deal, Krafton v Unknown Worlds, Nintendo, Naughty Dogs, Epic Games v Samsung, EA, Canceled Games

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73 Microsoft Layoffs, Stop Killing Games, Helldivers 2 XBox, Ubisoft, Nintendo

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72 Microsoft XBox Layoffs, Epic Fines, Sony Tax, SteamOS, Esports Gambling, Stop Killing Games

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71 MindsEye, Xbox Handheld Canceled, SAG AFTRA Strike Ends, Nexus Mod, Take Two, Intel

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70 Nintendo Switch 2, Activision, MindsEye, XDefiant, Tencent, Summer Game Fest

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69 EA Black Panther, Activision Ads, ZeniMax QA Union, Cyberpunk 2, Kojima Adaptation, Elden Ring Nightreign

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68 AI Voice, Ubisoft, Bungie, Marathon, Elden Ring Adaptation, FTC v Microsoft

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67 WB Games Finance, AbleGamers, Ubisoft, SteamOS, Darth Vader AI, Bionicle, GTA6

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66 FTC v Microsoft, Diablo 4, Nintendo, Pocketpair, EA, Apex Legend, Codemasters

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65 World of Tanks, GTA 6 Release Date, Epic v Apple, Microsoft, EA, Polygon, Nintendo v Genki

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64 Video Game Price Increase, Sony Multiplayer Patent, Ubisoft Data Privacy, Ziff Davis v. OpenAI, Devolver, Nintendo, Discord

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63 Video Game Prices, Discord, Pocketpair, Nintendo, Niantic, Rebellion

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62 Japanese Game Stocks, Nintendo, Ubisoft, The Crew, Valve, Devil May Cry, David Fincher

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61 Tariffs, Switch 2, FromSoftware, Monster Hunter Wilds, Ubisoft, Minecraft Movie

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60 Ubisoft Tencent, Netflix Games, Nintendo, Game Informer, Unannounced Hogwarts Legacy DLC

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59 AC Shadows, Star Wars Hunters, Skate, GOT, Discord, VG Union, Niantic Sale

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58 Epic Games, Until Dawn, Nintendo, Bazaar, DA Veilguard, Discord, Killing Floor 3

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57 Monster Hunter Wilds, Twitch, WB Games, Pokemon TCG, Activision, Apex Leg VA

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56 PS5 PRO Sales, MUSE, Batman Beyond, Ubisoft, Amazon, Steam, TF2, Niantic, Nintendo, Unity layoff

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55 ARMA Hack, Video Game Tariff, AI Slop Games, EA Lessons, Kingdome Come 2, Football Mgmt Cancel, Project Ethos, Donkey Kong, New E3 Sub

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54 WB Cancels Multiversus, EA slashes Bioware, GTA 6 Rumor, Ubisoft, PS Account, Bloodborne DMCA, Elden Ring Scalping

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53 GTA 6 Price Estimate, Console Sales Data, Developers Survey, Apex Legends, Sega Launcher, WB and Insomniac Head Retire

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52 TikTok Ban, Switch 2, D&D, Rockstar GTA, GOG, Sony Unalive Service, FTC v Genshin

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51 COD Budget, Shadow of Colossus Movie, ACS Delayed, Team Fortress Crone Dome, GDQ raises money, CFPB wants feedback on Roblox

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50 Epic vs Cheater, Mincecraft Creator, Overwatch 2, Marvel Rivals, VG Violence, Stardew Valley, Net Neutrality, 2024 in Numbers.mp3

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49 Borderlands Sans Toilet, Elden Ring Nightreign, Sony & Kadokawa, Pacific Drive, Epic, Tencent, Indiana Jones, Chinese VG Approvals

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48 Blizzard, Ex Playstation Exec Opines, EA, Midia Research, Palworld v Nintendo Cont.mp3

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47 Microsoft Update, Ubisoft, Humanoid Origins, Steam, Nintendo Subpoena, Android Blocks XBox, Cyberpunk 2077 Anime, No Man Sky

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46 Steam News, Nintendo v. Palworld contd, Balatro, Larian Studios, Microsoft Game Assist, Bioware, Xbox

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45 Zenimax Union Strike, GOG, Nintendo v Archbox, XBox Cloud, Sony Patents, SAG AFTRA Update, GTA Trilogy

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