On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett start by paying tribute to Tim Hibbs from the BRB podcast, who recently passed away. We then cover the games we have been playing this week, including:

Pete: Balatro, Bomberman collection (switch 2)

Kiley: life is strange, abiotic factor, bendy and the ink machine

We then talk about the news thats occurred over the past week including:

2 huge losses for the industry this week, lead designer of sega consoles https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hideki-sato-designer-of-segas-consoles-dies-age-75/ and castlevania and bloodstained developer https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/castlevania-and-bloodstained-veteran-shutaro-iida-has-died-at-52/

Tencent claimed to be a secret backer of Highguard https://www.gamefile.news/p/tencent-highguard-wildlight-entertainment

Phil Spencer and Sarah bond leave Microsoft https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/huge-xbox-shakeup-phil-spencer-retiring-sarah-bond-resigns-microsoft-ai-boss-becomes-new-microsoft-gaming-ceo/

Steam deck currently suffering shortages https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/steam-deck-is-out-of-stock-in-the-us-as-valve-warns-of-intermittent-memory-and-storage-shortages/

Sony shuts down Bluepoint games https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-is-shutting-down-bluepoint-developer-of-demons-souls-remake/

We hope you enjoy the episode

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