E11: When too call it quits?

This episode, you guessed it, more tariff news! Also when are dev's going to realize a model just isn't working for their game.

News

Critical Role has started development of their first video game!

Supermassive Games facing industry layoffs of up to 36 employees, and also pushing back Directive 8020 to a 2026 launch.

The Chinese Room (from Still Wakes The Deep) have become independent, but also have faced layoffs.

Hades 2’s “Patch 11” was announced to be the last patch before V1.0.

Splitgate 2 - Going back to “beta” and taking the game offline to address issues and feedback after very low numbers.

Elden Ring Nightreign duo mode is out!

Microsoft is backing away from $80 price point for games, dropping The Outer World 2 price to $70 to be ‘in line with current market conditions’

Sony looking to expand out their first-party games, could be coming to Xbox, Nintendo, etc.

Brennan Lee Mulligan heading up CR4

Nintendo Direct showed some new Pokemon info, including more about Legends Z-A, Pokemon friends (a puzzle game with over 1,200 puzzles), and Pokemon Champions, a battle game set to come out in 2026.

Ubisoft stated that microtransactions in single player games makes them “more fun”

Ubisoft has allegedly cancelled an early in-development sequel to Star Wars Outlaws.

Dying Light: The Beast pushed back to September 19th.

DND Beyond gets map features for everyone, no longer paid tier

Battlefield 6 was announced and is coming fast! Beta soon with release on October 10th.

Tariffs: “de minimis” is ending and tariffs are applied on all packages entering the US, hurting buyer choice.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is getting NG+ and 3rd-person mode.