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GameHounds 782: Activision Shitshow Finally Ends May 26, 2025

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Well, we can now officially retire the banner. The Microsoft-Activision Shitshow has finally ended, and Microsoft can now officially rake in all that sweet, sweet cash with no chance of retribution. Also, Lego officially get the "Asshole of the Year" award.

GameHounds 781: Gawd, But Bungie Sucks!! May 19, 2025

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For the fourth... yes, FOURTH... time now, Bungie has been caught red-handed stealing art for their games. Why does this keep happening? Well, apparently, it's an ex-employee, or so we're supposed to believe. Meanwhile, Fortnight's Darth Vadar chatbot is going about as well as you might expect, Warner Bros' gaming revenue is going EXACTLY as badly as we expected, and Kojima announces a world starting,... holy crap, it's in two weeks!!! ALEXA, BUY AIRLINE TICKETS NAO!

GameHounds 780: GTA Delays and Pandemonium Ensues May 04, 2025

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Beyond the fact that every publisher is now scrambling to fill the September date Rockstar just abandoned, investors are losing their shit, and the GTA subreddit gets locked down. Everybody, kiss your children and your spouses and pray we all survive!

GameHounds 779: Oblivion Remake Takes Over EVERYTHING!! Apr 28, 2025

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SPECIAL GUEST: HOLY GOALIE with a review of the Oblivion Remake -- from a self-admitted Skyrim fanboy who HATED Oblivion the first time around. Good lord. The only thing as UNsurprising as the Oblivion Remake becoming a total juggernaut for gaming this month is how badly Blizzard's former chief is so INCREDIBLY out of touch with gaming! Oblivion Remake wasn't going to be a BIG DEAL?!?! WHAAAATTT?????

GameHounds 778: Two Weeks of Absolute Tariff-Driven Industry Chaos! Apr 21, 2025

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Edie goes away for a couple of weeks and the whole gaming world loses its damn mind! Nintendo delays the Switch 2 preorders in the USA because... tariffs. Then it cancels some preorders because... tariffs. And then they change prices on peripherals because of... you guessed it! Tariffs! This whole world-trade chaos is wrecking havoc on the game industry, and it looks to not be stopping anytime soon.

GameHounds 777: My Boyfriend Got Laid Off From Crystal Dynamics Mar 31, 2025

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Yes, Edie's beau was one of the unlucky 17. She has no insight, and she doesn't want to, but we will talk about those layoffs, what it's like to be part of a video game layoff (from the inside), and of course all the other news, including how, after their former c-suite buddies (literally) screwed their young, female employees, the Guilmonster family is now screwing over all their stockholders.

GameHounds 776: XBox Handheld!?! Mar 16, 2025

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Is this really a thing about to happen? And do you really want their shitty Copilot AI in your game? Well, buckle up, buttercup, because it seems like you're getting em. Also... Edie gets walked in on.

GameHounds 775: Here's the Thing About Buying Furniture Online... Mar 09, 2025

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There's quite the story about why we were unceremoniously dark last week. Edie shares it. Also, we talk more developers without jobs and WB cancelling games, closing studios, and locking the best new game mechanic in decades in a safe so no one can use it.

GameHounds 774: Sad Nutella Bullshit Feb 24, 2025

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Thanks Corey Wallace for the title name. Because it's sad, it's bullshit, and it's MS's Nutella or whatever his name is.

GameHounds 773: We Leave For One Week and EVERYTHING Goes to HELL! Feb 17, 2025

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We're back from a week off, and while we were gone so much fell apart, turned off, had service interruptions, and generally fell apart. We talk about it.

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