Game Mess Mornings

Jeff Grubb is joined by Tamoor Hussain to end the week with a bunch of game news! Today we do a review round up of Control Resonant, Twitch's CEO might know when GTA 6's multiplayer is coming, Denuvo is suing crackers, insight into the Japanese gaming market, and more! 

0:00 - Intro
4:00 - Control Resonant reviews
16:35 - Twitch CEO says Grand Theft Auto 6’s multiplayer mode will launch next year
25:30 - BREAK
25:50 - Denuvo has sued the cracker behind DRM removals for at least 26 games
33:15 - The Witcher 4 Studio Switch to Unreal Engine 5 to Spend Less Time on Technical Issues, Says Co-CEO
38:00 - Monster Hunter Wilds has two Switch 2 modes—and both target 30 fps
39:40 - Switch prevented the Japanese console market from disappearing
44:50 - Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert
50:50 - Modders finally cracked one of the PS2’s most stubborn security chips
53:00 - This week

Jeff Grubb and Jan Ochoa are here to give you the news! Today we're talking about updates from Xbox coming out of the Tokyo Game Show like casting getting revealed for Kojima's Physint, PlayStation games disappearing from Steam in the UK, GTA 6 getting and original music album, and more! 

0:00 - Intro
3:33 - Xbox’s TGS showcase was mostly updates … and Kojima
19:10 - Sony’s PC games mysteriously disappeared from Steam in the UK
24:00 - Break
24:10 - GTA 6 is getting a 34-song album of original music
31:30 - Xbox advertising patent
38:30 - Media Molecule’s New Game Inspired by Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon, Set for 2027 Reveal According to Leak
44:00 - The new Resident Evil is suddenly the best-reviewed video-game movie ever
47:00 - Japanese Charts: Rhythm Heaven Groove Surpasses 1 Million Boxed Units Sold
48:50 - A fan-built adapter can trade Pokémon directly from GBA to Switch

Jeff Grubb is joined by Dean Dobbs today to chat about Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave and Trails in the Sky 2nd reviews, Wardogs continuing to sell very well, layoffs happening at Mindseye, and more! 

0:00 - Intro
4:25 - Fire Emblem reviews
17:17 - Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter reviews
20:30 - Wardogs sells 2 million
27:35 - Layoffs at Mindseye Studio
34:20 - BREAK
34:40 - 007 First Light on Switch 2 slips to March 2027
38:40 - Steam Deck 2 remains in development despite the RAM crisis
42:30 - GTA 6’s musicians are starting a coordinated-looking tease campaign 
46:50 - Nightdive’s boss raises Eternal Darkness hopes 
50:00 - Someone revived a Chinese Paper Mario board game in English
51:00 - This week
52:00 - Poll

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Jeff Grubb is joined by Lex Luddy to jump start your week with news! Today we're catching up on some of the bigger announcements coming out of Blizzcon, Wardogs selling a million copies in 24 hours, Polyarc shutting down, and more! 

0:00 - Intro
5:00 - Blizzard announced Diablo and StarCraft games that are years away ‘to show confidence’
19:50 - WoW Forever is basically Blizzard making its own alternate-history World of Warcraft
23:40 - Wardogs sold 1.25 million copies in 24 hours
28:50 - BREAK
30:13 - Moss series developer Polyarc shuts down
33:30 - SOMEBODY GOT YELLED AT: Level-5 CEO had to respond to AI backlash
42:00 - Sony secretly killed a different project last week
48:20 - Bloomberg: Apple to make gaming controllers for the iPhone
51:40 - OLD GAME NEWS: The other Xbox 360 exclusive JRPG from the creator of Final Fantasy now has a PC port

HAPPY FANELLI FRIDAY! We've got Jason Fanelli joining Grubb today to talk about updates with Kojima's Physint, Ubisoft and Steam, the upcoming EA merger, and more!

0:00 - Intro
4:24 - Saudi wealth fund weighs EA-Savvy merger, Bloomberg News reports
13:20 - PlayStation cancelled Hideo Kojima’s Physint because Death Stranding and its sequel did meet revenue expectations
22:50 - BREAK
23:07 - Ubisoft is 'testing' making its games far less annoying to launch on Steam
30:09 - That Zelda Direct was absolutely enormous
38:40 - Guess what was the biggest Nintendo Direct trailer in Japan
42:35 - VR headset shipments have fallen 18%
48:36 - Footage of PlayStation’s Fairgames allegedly leaks via playtest