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2026 has been full of horrors, but it’s also been full of video games, too. With Grand Theft Auto VI coming later this year, though, there’s an avalanche of games coming throughout September and October. It felt like a good time to check in with Patrick, Chia, and Janet about their individual piles of shame, the games they plan to spend more time with before 2026 is over, and what games they’re looking forward to playing as the year rolls around. It’s, uh, a lot of games.
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Rob and Patrick have been digging into Zero Company and discuss the things they are getting from their vastly divergent contexts for it. The gang discuss Tim Curry's passing, Playdate's tariff generosity, and the Paradox founders' taxation takes. Then Janet has been digging Perfect Tides, Baldur's Gate 3, and Blood Dungeon, while Patrick is enjoying the a return to the grimness of A Plague Tale with Resonance.

01:17 - Star Wars Zero Company (Redux)
01:03:20 - Tim Curry's passing
01:05:49 - Doublefine's independent plans
01:09:29 - Xbox Discless Pivot
01:21:44 - Playdate refunds tariff money
01:26:46 - Paradox CEO complains about wealth taxes
01:48:25 - Perfect Tides: Station to Station
02:06:32 - Baldur’s Gate 3
02:15:01 - Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
02:35:53 - Manual Transmission Games & Rally Car School
02:56:38 - Blood Dungeon

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So far as we know, nobody is leaking clips from this podcast, but the same can’t be said for Grand Theft Auto VI. Join Patrick, Chia, and Janet as they reminisce about how their parents treated GTA growing up, Netflix’s latest signal they don’t know what to do with video games, and plenty of games talk, including impressions of Netflix’s (impressive!) Unhinged experiment, MiO: Memories in Orbit, Rogue Voltage, Mortal Shell II, and more. Plus, in The Question Bucket, we ponder why developers disable achievements when using options to tweak a game’s difficulty.
Links: GTA 6 Suffers Third Day of Leaks, Latest Video Suggests Leakers Have Access to a Build of the Game, Nightschool Shuttered by Netflix, Industry legend Warren Spector is retiring: 'I'm feeling like I've done what I set out to do', Matthew Karch Apologizes to Stella Sacco, School for Poetic Computing, Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox | exclusive
Discussed:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:12:19 - The GTA VI Leaks, the Worker's Union, and GTA Histories
00:16:32 - gameworkers.square.site
00:34:31 - Night School Shuttered by Netflix
00:38:37 - Unhinged
00:55:57 - Saber Interactive CEO Apologizes to Former Employee
01:05:38 - Warren Spector Retires
01:09:58 - Harvey Smith starts a new company
01:11:10 - Arco recoups it's development costs
01:14:21 - MIO: Memories in Orbit
01:24:51 - Mortal Shell 2
01:42:28 - Rogue Voltage
01:52:21 - School for Poetic Computing
01:57:28 - Compulsion Games is now Independent
01:58:37 - Angel Essence
02:07:02 - Pin-Crawl
02:12:14 - Question Bucket
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Patrick sits down with Nicole Carpenter to discuss her article on the prisoners at Rikers prison and their access to video games. Which games are provided to them, and who gets to make that decision? They also break down the biases people carry about who should have access to games, and how that access changes the prisoners' day to day life.
A Virtual Escape for Riker's Inmates by Nicole Carpenter
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Are you a down bad enough sicko to watch NFL pre-season football? That’s the question that Patrick poses to Rob as they kick off a new episode of Sports! We also discuss the state of sports journalism, the rise of analysis over journalism, what happened to The Athletic, the ongoing culture war in the WNBA, and much more. Plus, we strongly consider a trip to Detroit.
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