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All Episodes

Virtual Economy — 101 episodes

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Episode 207: GameStop is Too Fail to Big (News Show)

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Episode 206: Epic Fail (News Show)

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Episode 205: Amy Hood Draws Blood - Spencer and Bond Out (Earnings Show)

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Episode 204: Ubisoft's Hail Mary (News Show)

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Episode 203: The Last Gasp of Virtual Reality (Season 7 Premiere)

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Episode 202: The Last Gasp of a Brutal Year (Season Finale)

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Episode 201: No Matter Who Buys Warner Bros., We Lose (News Show)

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Episode 200: Amazon Primed for Gaming Exit (News Show) - Part Two

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Episode 200: Amazon Primed for Gaming Exit (News Show) - Part One

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Episode 199: Game Pass Abdicates 'Best Value in Gaming' Throne (News Show)

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Bonus Episode 12: EA Sells Its Soul (News Show)

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Bonus Episode 11: The PAX West 2025 Roundup

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Episode 198: Bungie Jump (News Show)

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Episode 197: Krafton Tries to Sink Subnautica Suit (News Show)

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Episode 196: We Have Horizon: Zero Dawn at Home (News Show)

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Episode 195: The Quarter Billion Dollar Subnautica Showdown (News Show)

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Episode 194: Xbox Gutted (News Show)

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Episode 193: Switch 2's Best Feature is Potential (News Show)

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Episode 192: PAX East Takes A MAGFest Turn (News Show)

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Episode 191: Who Can Even Afford to Be a Gamer Anymore? (News Show)

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Episode 190: Nintendo's Switch 2 Pricing Conundrum (News Show)

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Episode 189: WB's David Zaslav is the Real Nemesis System (News Show)

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Episode 188: We're Getting Tired of Clowns in the C-Suite (News Show)

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Episode 187: When A Publisher Won't Use the Word 'Layoff' (News Show)

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Episode 186: Unalive Service (Season Premiere - News Show)

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Episode 185: Survive Through '25 (News Show)

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Episode 184: Call of Duty Saves the Month… On PlayStation (News Show)

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Episode 183: The Cold Embrace(r) (News Show)

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Episode 182: We Carry On… Together (News Show)

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Episode 181: Roblox Remains Icky as Heck (News Show)

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Episode 180: Ubisoft in Freefall (News Show)

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Episode 179: The $700 PS5 Pro Is An Act of Desperation (News Show)

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Episode 178: EA Sports College Football Saves the Month (News Show)

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Episode 177: The Last Good Reason for GameStop to Exist is Gone (News Show)

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Episode 176: Microsoft Holds a Knife to the Golden Game Pass Goose's Neck (News Show)

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Bonus Episode 10: A Conversation About Unionization with IATSE

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Episode 175: Summer Game Fest Gets Closer to E3 Vibes (News Show)

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Episode 174: The World's Oldest Console War is Over (News Show)

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Episode 173: Sony Didn't Manage Democracy, Xbox Self-Immolates (News Show)

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Episode 172: Embracer Group Crumbles… And Friends (News Show)

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Episode 171: Why Layoffs? Because Everyone Else is Doing It! (News Show)

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Episode 170: Embracer Group Fire Sale Burns Labor (News Show)

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Episode 169: The AAA Video Game Industry is in Freefall (News Show)

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Episode 168: Switch 2 Switcharoo Could Thwart 2024 Recovery Hopes (News Show)

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Episode 167: Did Microsoft Trigger the FTC's Trap Card? (News Show)

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Episode 166: We Were Wrong About Microsoft and Activision (News Show)

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Episode 165: So… 2024, Huh? (News Show)

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Episode 164: The Game Awards Needs to Change (Season Finale)

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Episode 163: Embracer Group Claims Layoffs are How "We Will Win" (News Show)

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Episode 162: The Stark Contrast Between Positive Earnings and Gruesome Layoffs (News Show)

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Episode 161: Phil Spencer is Bobby Kotick's Daddy Now (News Show)

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Episode 160: A Bad Year for Game Creators is a Bad Year for Games (News Show)

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Bonus Episode 9: The State of Indie Publishing with Z from Serenity Forge

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Episode 159: Unity Says, "Nice Game You've Got There… It'd be a Shame if Something Happened to It" (News Show)

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Episode 158: Microsoft, Activision, and Ubisoft are a Thrupple Now (News Show)

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Episode 157: The ESRB Is Getting Weird (News Show)

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Episode 156: Xbox Live is Dead, Long Live Xbox Game Pass (News Show)

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Episode 155: FTC Cage Match (News Show)

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Episode 154: What Happens When a $2B Deal Evaporates Overnight? (News Show)

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Episode 153: The UK CMA Throws a Temper Tantrum Over the Activision Acquisition (News Show)

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Episode 152: Sega's Angry Birds Acquisition and Life After Microsoft/Activision (News Show)

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Bonus Episode 8: The UK CMA Murdered the Microsoft/Activision Deal

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GDC 2023: I Fought the Law 2 - Legal Rumble in the Bay

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Episode 151: E3 Can't Claw Itself Out of the Grave (News Show)

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Episode 150: Square Enix Says No Flippin' Thanks to its Web3 CEO (News Show)

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Episode 149: The Great Games as a Service Massacre (News Show)

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Episode 148: Dungeons & Dragons, New Coke, and Other Terrible Mistakes (News Show)

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Episode 147: Ubisoft in Crisis (Season 4 Premiere)

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Episode 146: GameStop's Still Hemorrhaging Money (News Show)

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Bonus Episode 7: What to do When Your Brand Isn't Working for You Anymore

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Bonus Episode 6: How Equity Funding Works (With Kelly Wallick)

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Episode 145: NetEase Thinks Activision is a Big Jerk (News Show)

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Episode 144: Weird Corporate Shenanigans (News Show)

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Episode 143: Microsoft and Sony Stumble on Subscriptions (News Show)

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Episode 142: The Console Supply Must Flow (News Show)

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Episode 141: We Need to Talk About the Voice Acting and Bayonetta Brujaha (News Show)

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Episode 140: E3, WISE FWOM YAW GWAVE (News Show)

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Episode 139: Yves Guillemot Can't Fix Ubisoft's Culture Problems (News Show)

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Episode 138: Amazon and EA: Will They Do The Horizontal Mambo? (News Show)

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Episode 137: Embracer Ate Middle-earth Enterprises for Second Breakfast (News Show)

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Episode 136: Activision Is Bleeding Players (News Show)

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Episode 135: Minecraft Tells NFT Twerps to Go 'Block' Themselves (News Show)

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Bonus Episode 5: Equity and Underrepresentation in Game Development with Code Coven

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Episode 134: GameStop and Unity Want Those Payoffs for Layoffs (News Show)

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Episode 133: The Video Game Industry Celebrated Pride with a Bear Market (News Show)

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Episode 132: Slurping From The Game Firehose (News Show)

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Episode 131: GameStop is Bleeding (News Show)

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Episode 130: A Soft Boiled Quarter (News Show)

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Episode 129: Jim Ryan's Tone Deaf Meow Meow Storytime Hour (News Show)

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Bonus Episode 4: A Conversation About Preservation with Limited Run & Hit Save

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Episode 128: You Can Stop Buying GTA V Now (Earnings Show)

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Episode 127: The Game Industry Is Deathly Quiet on Abortion Rights (News Show)

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Episode 126: Square Enix's Shocking Western Sell-Off (News Show)

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Episode 125: Activision Union Busters Rack Up Another L (News Show)

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Episode 124: Some Activision Shenanigans Afoot in the California Governor's Office (News Show)

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GDC 2022: Iron Galaxy's Commitment to a Nurturing Workplace with Chelsea Blasko (Bonus Episode)

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GDC 2022: I Fought the Law and the Law Won (Bonus Episode)

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Episode 123: What Sony is *Really* Doing with PlayStation Plus (News Show)

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Episode 122: Activision Blizzard Sued for Wrongful Death (News Show)

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Bonus Episode 3: A Ukrainian Perspective (Interview with Oleksandr Molodkin)

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Episode 121: You Can Listen to This Episode While Playing Elden Ring (News Show)