Gaming Is Bigger Than Ever… So Why Are So Many Games Dying?
About this episode
The episode discusses the current state of gaming, including new releases, industry news, and the trend of canceled games.
EGP 336 kicks off with Hans showing off his new “Godlike-adjacent” gaming laptop, Gray talking up Ramble Office Anywhere, and the World Cup briefly invading a gaming podcast against everyone’s better judgment. Then it’s straight into Nintendo Direct news, including Stellar Blade coming to Switch 2, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Devil May Cry 5, Rayman Legends Retold, and the big one: an Ocarina of Time remake tease. The crew also covers Star Trek: Outpost Unknown, Destiny 2’s final major update, Nvidia RTX Remix shrinking game installs, the growing graveyard of canceled and shut-down games, cloud gaming growth, AI-generated game slop, Hans’ shunt-modded RTX 5090 laptop, Valheim finally leaving early access, AMD Zen 6 rumors, Ubisoft layoffs, Xbox’s uncertain future, Computex oddities, GPU shipments, and one deeply unwell GTA 6 fan hiding in bushes. discord.gg/extremegamingpodcast.com
People in this episode
Hosts: Hans, Gray
Topics covered
- gaming news
- Nintendo Direct
- canceled games
- cloud gaming
- AI in gaming
- game updates
- gaming hardware
Keywords
- gaming
- Nintendo Direct
- canceled games
- cloud gaming
- AI-generated games
- Destiny 2
- Ubisoft layoffs
- RTX 5090
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AMD, Ubisoft, Xbox
Products: Godlike-adjacent gaming laptop, Stellar Blade, Switch 2, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Devil May Cry 5, Rayman Legends Retold, Ocarina of Time, Destiny 2, Nvidia RTX Remix, RTX 5090 laptop
Books & works: Star Trek: Outpost Unknown
Places: Computex
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