About this episode

In the 90th episode, the hosts discuss various topics including Paramount's legal actions, casting news for God of War, Meta's VR studio closures, and layoffs at Ubisoft.

On our 90th episode, we talked about the following topics: Paramount Escalates WBD Fight, Sues Over Netflix Deal and Aims to Install Friendly Directors at Warner Shareholder Meeting Ryan Hurst Cast As Kratos In Prime Video’s 'God of War' Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts | The Verge First Look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in Amazon's Tomb Raider TV Series - IGN The Future of New World: What to Expect - News | Official New World: Aeternum Website Ubisoft hits The Division and Avatar studio, Massive Entertainment, with layoffs | VGC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: High Ping Basterds

Topics covered

• Paramount vs WBD
• God of War casting
• Meta VR
• Lara Croft
• New World
• Ubisoft layoffs

Keywords

• Paramount
• WBD
• God of War
• Meta
• Lara Croft
• New World
• Ubisoft
• The Division
• Ryan Hurst
• Sophie Turner

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Paramount, WBD, Netflix, Warner, Meta, New World, Ubisoft, Massive Entertainment

Products: God of War, VR, The Division, Avatar

Books & works: Tomb Raider

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