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  <title>Episode 410: Fist my bump</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Amaze! we have the first big movie review of the year, and it gets a perfect score, full review of Project Hail Mary inside. Plus the Harry Potter HBO show dropped its first trailer, The aforementioned Project Hail Mary dominates at the box office, and post game depression is a real thing. Meanwhile Epic is cutting staff at a hefty amount, and Stephen Colbert is making his mark on middle earth. </itunes:subtitle>
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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>
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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>
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  <title>Episode 245: Cubicle of 10k layoffs</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Those Microsoft Layoffs may have a greater impact on gaming then we might realize, especially for Master Chief. NVIDIA and Google voice their concerns over the Activision deal, but stop short of jumping in Sony's bandwagon. Pour one out for Stadia, as today was its final day. Mark Hamill gives and update on playing the Joker, Spielberg wants to jump into TV, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are coming back. Meanwhile the BatVerse is more real then you realize, James Cameron hits another Billion, and Rainbow Six is coming to the big screen. </itunes:subtitle>
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