Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave, Castlevania Belmont's Curse, Resident Evil and more – Geekoholics Anonymous Video Game Podcast 549

On this weeks episode we blab about the following Games and topics:

Hosts - Rico & Joe

• Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave
• Castlevania Belmont's Curse
• Control Resonant
• Escape Together Backrooms
• Street Fighter 6
• RV There Yet
• Disney Dreamlight Valley - Halloween

News:
Cross Platform / PC / Misc

• Witcher 3 Remastered patch addressing "various lighting adjustments" rolls out
• Kena: Scars of Kosmora has been delayed until next year, Ember Lab announces
• Former Halo lead suggests three ways Activision could revive the legendary series, and urges the company to hire laid off Bungie staff
• The Division studio Massive expands to take control of Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon, and a new IP, in Ubisoft's most recent reorganisation

Nintendo

• Zelda 40th Anniversary Concert tickets go on sale in Europe this week, as Nintendo says more countries are coming

PlayStation

• Sources: Naughty Dog is working on Uncharted 5

Xbox

• Xbox's disc-to-digital feature rolls out for Series consoles and Xbox One, allowing you to digitise your game-disc collection

PSA's:

• Epic Games Store Freebies: System Shock 2, Buried Stars
• Here are our PS Plus monthly games for October 2026

Free 4 All

• Backrooms
• Resident Evil
• Transformers Pinball

Intro/Outro Music: Geeky Beat – @johnsbernardo

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Hosts - Dayne, Jacob

Whatcha Been Playing?

• Wolverine
• Crimson Moon

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc

• The Witcher 3 Remastered will also turn the Xbox version into a Play Anywhere title, making the PC version available too
• Sega wanted to cancel the entire Sonic series but the first movie saved it
• Bungie announces plans to bring back Destiny 2 and improve Marathon
• Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will let players raise their character's level automatically to skip grinding
• Discord launches controversial age-verification system "using the most privacy-preserving approach we could build" months after first delay

Nintendo

• 007 First Light was delayed on Switch 2 for a third time to let players experience it 'as fully as possible', IO says
  

PlayStation

• Hideo Kojima says Sony told him Physint was being cancelled over a Zoom call

Xbox

• Xbox officially announces more layoffs and widespread changes to its entire studio structure

PSA's:

• Epic Games Store Freebies: Astrea: Six Sided Oracles, MechaBellum
• A demo of Castlevania Belmont's Curse has been officially announced

Free 4 All

• Fantastic Beasts Trilogy
• Transformers Movie (40th Anniversary)
• Ted Lasso season 4

Intro/Outro Music: Geeky Beat – @johnsbernardo

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Hosts - Dayne, Jacob

Whatcha Been Playing?

• SpeedRunners 2

• Dave the Diver

• Tried the Twitch - Crimson Desert demo (failed)

• Onimusha: Way of the Sword (Jacob Demo)

• Metal Gear Solid 4

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc

• SNK's NeoGeo AES re-release delayed by nearly a year due to components shortage

• Capcom has another hit on its hands as Onimusha sells 1 million in a day

• Here's everything Konami announced in its latest showcase

• Almost 1,900 Blizzard workers vote through a "historic" union contract securing protections against layoffs and gen-AI

• Nearly a decade on, legendary director Hideki Kamiya says he's "100% serious" about reviving Xbox's canned Scalebound

Nintendo

• Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Nintendo Direct

• Nintendo Direct: Here's everything announced during Nintendo's presentation

PlayStation

• PlayStation State of Play: All the news from today's Japan live stream

Xbox

• Xbox is capping cloud gaming to 15 hours and charging for extra playtime

PSA's:

• Epic Games Store Freebies: Astral Ascent, Luftrausers

Free 4 All

• Toxic Avenger (2023)

• Toxic Crusaders (TV Show)

• Coyote Vs Acme

Intro/Outro Music: Geeky Beat – @johnsbernardo

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Hosts - Dayne, Joe

Whatcha Been Playing?

• Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced

• Halo Campaign Evolved

• Splatoon Raiders

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc

• Double Fine has laid off 23 staff after going independent

• Crazy Taxi World Tour is getting a closed network test in September, applications open now

• Clair Obscur studio says it wants to bring it to Switch 2 but it's 'way too early to announce anything'

• A Dragon Age remaster trilogy is unlikely

• Capcom reports another strong quarter as Resident Evil Requiem passes 8 million sold and Pragmata hits 2.5 million

• EU approves Saudi Arabia's $55bn acquisition of EA, clearing path for largest private leveraged buyout of all time

PlayStation

• PlayStation confirms God of War Laufey release date

• Angry PlayStation Fans Propose PS5 Blackout in Protest of Sony's Disc Decision

Xbox

• Xbox says it's aware of 'major outages' when signing in and launching games, and is 'working to mitigate the issue'

• Xbox has started testing the option to stream games for free with ads at the start

PSA's:

• Epic Games Store Freebies: OTXO, Sol Cesto

• PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for August

Free 4 All

• Supergirl

• 2 mystery action movies

Intro/Outro Music: Geeky Beat – @johnsbernardo

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