This week on Aggressively Casual, FreeBird and Cheeks are asking the big, stupidly obvious questions:

What the hell are Activision and Treyarch actually doing with Call of Duty?
Is ARC Raiders’ big “AI-powered” pitch actually exciting… or just another buzzword soup poured over a looter shooter?
And how did FreeBird manage to completely sabotage their own base in Dune: Awakening in record time?

We dig into CoD’s ongoing identity crisis, the live-service brain rot creeping into every corner of the industry, and whether AI in games is going to make things better, lazier, or just weirder. Then we break down one very cursed Dune: Awakening base mishap and what it says about the system FUNCOM used for the game.

Aggressively Casual is the laid-back chaos zone of Press X To Skip — part gaming podcast, part couch rant, zero corporate PR spin. If you’ve ever rage-uninstalled a game and reinstalled it 24 hours later, you’re in the right place.

Hit follow, tell us your Call of Duty takes, ARC Raiders fears, or Dune base disasters, and let us know what we should yell about next.

“What Is Amazon DOING?!”

In Episode 2, FreeBird and Cheeks zoom in on Amazon like it’s a raid boss with weird mechanics. “What Is Amazon DOING?!” isn’t just the episode title—it’s the mood. With New World’s future getting messier, confusing decisions around New World: Aeternum, Season 10’s “final chapter” energy, and the lingering threat of shutdown hovering over the MMO, the crew breaks down what Amazon is actually doing with its games division—and why players are tired of being caught in the crossfire.
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From Amazon’s handling of New World to big-picture decisions around live-service projects, layoffs, and long-term support, this one turns into a wider conversation about how mega-corps keep treating games like disposable experiments instead of communities. They also dig into other industry drama (including Bungie/Sony talk) and wrap it up with what they’ve been playing lately.
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Aggressively Casual is still the same cozy chaos: just two over-invested nerds picking apart the gaming industry with the energy of a Discord call that accidentally became a show.

In this episode:

• Amazon’s bizarre strategy around New World and New World: Aeternum
• What the Nighthaven “final expansion” moment says about live-service MMOs in 2025
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• Bungie, Sony, layoffs, and why the industry feels like it’s held together with vibes and shareholder slides
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• What we’ve been playing lately (and whether any of it actually respects your time)
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“New World’s New Update, Battlefield Played It Safe, and MORE!”

Season 2 of Aggressively Casual kicks off with FreeBird and Cheeks dragging a comfy chair over to the chaos table. This week, they’re digging into New World’s latest wave of content and asking the real question: is Season 10 / Nighthaven actually worth your time, or is Amazon just stress-testing your patience again?

From there, it’s over to Battlefield 6, where EA/DICE seem determined to play it as safe as humanly possible. The crew talks about why “safe” might be worse than “bad,” what shooters are doing right (and wrong) in 2025, and where multiplayer games keep fumbling the bag. Expect rants, side quests, and at least one “are we the problem?” moment.

If you’ve ever yelled at patch notes, stared at a roadmap in quiet despair, or wondered why live-service games feel allergic to fun, you’re in the right place. Aggressively Casual is where low-stakes meets high-rant—laid-back vibes, unskippable opinions.

In this episode:

• New World: Aeternum and the Season 10/Nighthaven update – is it a comeback or a content coffin?
• EA and DICE playing it safe with Battlefield 6
• The state of big-budget live-service games in 2025
• Tangents, side quests, and the usual PX2S nonsense

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