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    <itunes:summary>You might not have asked for it, but here is a podcast that will bring you News about nerd culture, raw and unfiltered. Let Nick take you on a magical journey through Video Games, Movies, Comics and other geeky things. 
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  <title>Episode 389: Thank the Maker?</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <itunes:title>Thank the Maker?</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>George has moved on, we need to accept that, elsewhere in a Galaxy Far Far Away Ben Solo is staying dead. Warner Bros has finally accepted its time to sell, after saying no to unwanted solicitors, Amazon paid pennies for James Bond. Xbox is sticking with the high prices, ಠ_ಠ, and more drama out of Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed. That and more on tonight's episode. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:32:10</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 385: Hey Bub....This is the way</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:45:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <itunes:title>Hey Bub....This is the way</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>New Trailers for Insomniacs Wolverine and The Mandalorian and Grogu have blown me away. Black Ops 7 gives a full multiplayer reveal, Xbox jacks up prices in an unprecedented move, and Nintendo is trying to rewrite the rules. Plus Daredevil is getting more screen time, Disney+ is hiking up prices, Alien: Earth needs more time, and James Gunn says Batman has to be done right. That and more on this weeks episode. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:19:09</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 384: Mileage may vary</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <itunes:title>Mileage may vary</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>While there are fun things to talk about, like the Muppets returning, Nintendo directs, the 90s Console wars, and the new Anaconda. There are also not fun things, like Nintendo and Pokémon behind paywalls, HBO and passwords, and The Long Walk. And at the end, a serious discussion about a topic I try to stay away from, but luckily, that's at the end. Enjoy</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:37:43</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 381: No Difficulty Options</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <itunes:episode>381</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>No Difficulty Options</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>What is a call of Duty campaign without veteran difficulty? We are going to find out this year, plus Mass Effect has a filming date, Nintendo Switch 2 beats the price allegations, Nic Cage is headed to HBO and Superman breaks the $600 million barrier. Plus a lookback at gamescom, horror icons hit the soda aisle and South Park is moving slow. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:32:22</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 377: Eating Hay, laying by the bay, making things out of clay...</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <itunes:title>Eating Hay, laying by the bay, making things out of clay...</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>I just may, whaddya say? Comic-Con came and went this year, and maybe because the MCU and DCU were so muted, but there were still some good announcements. Xbox says game pass revenue is up, so is it profitable? Wolfenstein is heading to TV, and EA says no to $80. Air Bud is returning and I have serious questions, South Park takes time in its return, Star Trek goes all in on Comic Con, plus reviews of Happy Gilmore 2 and Fantastic Four!</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:25:05</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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    <![CDATA[<p>I just may, whaddya say? Comic-Con came and went this year, and maybe because the MCU and DCU were so muted, but there were still some good announcements. Xbox says game pass revenue is up, so is it profitable? Wolfenstein is heading to TV, and EA says no to $80. Air Bud is returning and I have serious questions, South Park takes time in its return, Star Trek goes all in on Comic Con, plus reviews of Happy Gilmore 2 and Fantastic Four!</p>]]>
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  <title>Episode 376: No More Tears</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
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  <itunes:episode>376</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>No More Tears</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Another day, another round of layoffs in the gaming industry, will it ever stop? The Pokémon company had a presents and showed off more TV than games, Xbox rolls back a controversial pricing plan, and why are video games getting popcorn buckets? Plus, new trailers all around: Tron Ares, Mortal Kombat, Stranger Things and Alien: Earth. Kevin Feige holds an MCU roundtable instead of going to Comic Con, Captain Planet is headed back to TV!</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:43:21</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 375: Major Snubs, Potential dubs!</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
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  <itunes:title>Major Snubs, Potential dubs!</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Look UP! Its a review of Superman! Plus, more fallout from the Xbox layoffs, what's in store for Final Fantasy's future, Resident Evil gets a multiverse, and the internet can finally calm down about the Legend of Zelda movie. Also Scrubs is back with its main cast, the Emmy nominations were announced, and why no love for Cassian? That and a whole lot more. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:36:37</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <title>Episode 373: Imperfect Dark</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
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  <itunes:episode>373</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>Imperfect Dark</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:author>Nick DeFalco</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Xbox is always finding rakes to step on, which is ridiculous. After the success for NCAA College football, EA is brining NCAA College Basketball, and no one is shocked. Vin Diesel announces the plan for Fast X part 2, and there's major concerns. Matt Reeves finally finishes the Script for The Batman sequel, and James Gunn gives us who is playing Jor El. Plus a full review for F1 The Movie, which is hands down the best movie of the year so far. That and more on tonight's episode. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:22:59</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>Xbox is always finding rakes to step on, which is ridiculous. After the success for NCAA College football, EA is brining NCAA College Basketball, and no one is shocked. Vin Diesel announces the plan for Fast X part 2, and there's major concerns. Matt Reeves finally finishes the Script for The Batman sequel, and James Gunn gives us who is playing Jor El. Plus a full review for F1 The Movie, which is hands down the best movie of the year so far. That and more on tonight's episode.  
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  <title>Episode 360: Xbox 360 2</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
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  <itunes:episode>360</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>Xbox 360 2</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:author>Nick DeFalco</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>The wait it finally over, The Nintendo Switch 2 finally has a release date, a price and some games! Nintendo isnt playing anymore. Plus the MCU decided to blow up the internet the one week I record a day early. CinemaCon is staging a bright future for Hollywood, and Asus may be behind the first Xbox handheld. Plus Ubisoft, Sean Bean, and Coyote vs Acme!</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:27:40</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>The wait it finally over, The Nintendo Switch 2 finally has a release date, a price and some games! Nintendo isnt playing anymore. Plus the MCU decided to blow up the internet the one week I record a day early. CinemaCon is staging a bright future for Hollywood, and Asus may be behind the first Xbox handheld. Plus Ubisoft, Sean Bean, and Coyote vs Acme! 
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  <title>Episode 310: Okey Dokey</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d123fe1e-af9a-444a-82a1-ad727c243689/243eeba3-7dd0-48ab-b5ad-cc42f748facf.mp3" length="59726697" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  <itunes:episode>310</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>Okey Dokey</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Welcome Vault Dwellers! If you cant tell, this is a Fallout centric episode as we cover all the news of the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Fallout! Plus a full review of the series! Also layoffs continue to plague the industry, even its top dogs, plus More news on the PS5 Pro, and its goals, but is it for everyone? Also We have more news from Cinemacon, reboots continue to proliferate, and Star Trek loses another red shirt. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:09:27</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>Welcome Vault Dwellers! If you cant tell, this is a Fallout centric episode as we cover all the news of the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Fallout! Plus a full review of the series! Also layoffs continue to plague the industry, even its top dogs, plus More news on the PS5 Pro, and its goals, but is it for everyone? Also We have more news from Cinemacon, reboots continue to proliferate, and Star Trek loses another red shirt.  
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    <![CDATA[<p>Welcome Vault Dwellers! If you cant tell, this is a Fallout centric episode as we cover all the news of the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Fallout! Plus a full review of the series! Also layoffs continue to plague the industry, even its top dogs, plus More news on the PS5 Pro, and its goals, but is it for everyone? Also We have more news from Cinemacon, reboots continue to proliferate, and Star Trek loses another red shirt. </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Welcome Vault Dwellers! If you cant tell, this is a Fallout centric episode as we cover all the news of the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Fallout! Plus a full review of the series! Also layoffs continue to plague the industry, even its top dogs, plus More news on the PS5 Pro, and its goals, but is it for everyone? Also We have more news from Cinemacon, reboots continue to proliferate, and Star Trek loses another red shirt. </p>]]>
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  <title>Episode 294: Yuletide Prognostication</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 13:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
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  <itunes:episode>294</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>Yuletide Prognostication</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The Holidays are nearing their end, so lets not continue a trend. Instead of a top 10 again and again, we will look into the future and pretend to be wise men. The gaming is light, and movies alright, lets spend a short while, and talk with artistic style. OK, no more rhyming, we have some light news for you all this week, Sony and War Thunder have some heat, Insomniac stands tall and GTA Hacker gets sentenced. Meanwhile Peaches is out of season at the Oscars, Scream 7 loses its sails, and Aquaman swims slowly to a win. Plus my most anticipated in 2024. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>42:19</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>The Holidays are nearing their end, so lets not continue a trend. Instead of a top 10 again and again, we will look into the future and pretend to be wise men. The gaming is light, and movies alright, lets spend a short while, and talk with artistic style. OK, no more rhyming, we have some light news for you all this week, Sony and War Thunder have some heat, Insomniac stands tall and GTA Hacker gets sentenced. Meanwhile Peaches is out of season at the Oscars, Scream 7 loses its sails, and Aquaman swims slowly to a win. Plus my most anticipated in 2024.  
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    <![CDATA[<p>The Holidays are nearing their end, so lets not continue a trend. Instead of a top 10 again and again, we will look into the future and pretend to be wise men. The gaming is light, and movies alright, lets spend a short while, and talk with artistic style. OK, no more rhyming, we have some light news for you all this week, Sony and War Thunder have some heat, Insomniac stands tall and GTA Hacker gets sentenced. Meanwhile Peaches is out of season at the Oscars, Scream 7 loses its sails, and Aquaman swims slowly to a win. Plus my most anticipated in 2024. </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The Holidays are nearing their end, so lets not continue a trend. Instead of a top 10 again and again, we will look into the future and pretend to be wise men. The gaming is light, and movies alright, lets spend a short while, and talk with artistic style. OK, no more rhyming, we have some light news for you all this week, Sony and War Thunder have some heat, Insomniac stands tall and GTA Hacker gets sentenced. Meanwhile Peaches is out of season at the Oscars, Scream 7 loses its sails, and Aquaman swims slowly to a win. Plus my most anticipated in 2024. </p>]]>
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  <title>Episode 197: Nick's Nerd Living: A community for people</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
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  <itunes:episode>197</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>Nick's Nerd Living: A community for people</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>I never thought I would say the words " a planned community brought to you by Disney" yet here we are just a few weeks into 2022. Also on the docket, Microsoft vows to change the culture at Activision, and also vows to keep CoD multiplatform. Cyberpunk 2077 finally receives its next gen updates, and becomes the game it was meant to be, a year and a half later. The Super Bowl is come and gone, and that means, trailers, trailers, trailers. Plus, The Book of Boba Fett knocks it out of the park for its season finale. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:18:21</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <title>Episode 170: The Suicide Batch 2.0</title>
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  <itunes:title>The Suicide Batch 2.0</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Well this week the major focus is of course James Gunn's The Suicide Squad! We also talk more fallout over ActivisionBlizzard. Microsoft Flight Simulator is unreal. Deadpool 3 is closer then we think. Rick and Morty and The Bad Batch drop great penultimate episodes. South Park isn't going anywhere, and more!</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>57:23</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 154: I left my heart in Verdansk</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 00:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
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  <itunes:title>I left my heart in Verdansk</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Resident Evil makes some splashes as it readies for the release of RE8. Xbox Cloud gaming is finally making its way to IoS devices. PS5 hits another major milestone. KoToR Remake news. and say goodbye to Verdansk,  Meanwhile the streaming wars continue to burn hot, and The Falcon and the Winter Solider hits with poignant messaging. Scream 5 is practicing subterfuge, while Alfred Molina is just letting it all out for Spider-Man. That and more come take a listen. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>1:09:26</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Episode 112: Mobile? Nintendont.</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
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  <itunes:title>Mobile? Nintendont.</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Nintendo seems to be shifting away from mobile, the all digital next Xbox is practically an open secret. Suicide Squad from Rocksteady? Sign me up. MIxer dies, as Twitch faces a reckoning. The doc is not in. Pokemon takes a major blow. Cyberpunk shines, and Marvels Avengers lands flat.  Cobra Kai is shifting to Netflix, The Boys are back in September  and the Muppet's are back sooner then you think. Margot Robbie is headed to the Caribbean, Spongebob is staying on TV, while Collin Trevorow is headed under the sea. Plus, Dodgson, we've got Dodgson here. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>58:54</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>Nintendo seems to be shifting away from mobile, the all digital next Xbox is practically an open secret. Suicide Squad from Rocksteady? Sign me up. MIxer dies, as Twitch faces a reckoning. The doc is not in. Pokemon takes a major blow. Cyberpunk shines, and Marvels Avengers lands flat.  Cobra Kai is shifting to Netflix, The Boys are back in September  and the Muppet's are back sooner then you think. Margot Robbie is headed to the Caribbean, Spongebob is staying on TV, while Collin Trevorow is headed under the sea. Plus, Dodgson, we've got Dodgson here.   
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  <title>Episode 78: Blizz who? Oh wait they announced what?</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Nick DeFalco</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/d123fe1e-af9a-444a-82a1-ad727c243689/fb620777-74ee-4bf2-a35d-62f55d9b864a.mp3" length="56752269" type="audio/mp3"/>
  <itunes:episode>78</itunes:episode>
  <itunes:title>Blizz who? Oh wait they announced what?</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:author>Nick DeFalco</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>YEET! Spooky time is over, onward to the rest of fall! This week includes Blizzcon news, EA makes some announcements, HBO Maxx has a price, and D&amp;D leave Star Wars. </itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>46:54</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>YEET! Spooky time is over, onward to the rest of fall! This week includes Blizzcon news, EA makes some announcements, HBO Maxx has a price, and D&amp;amp;D leave Star Wars.  
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