About this episode

The episode covers various gaming news including Rockstar's hacking incident, the Zelda movie update, and discussions on PlayStation's game release strategy.

On our 96th episode, we discussed the following topics GTA 6 Developer Rockstar Reportedly Hacked, Data Being Ransomed Filming has wrapped on The Legend of Zelda (UPDATE) | GoNintendo Shuhei Yoshida Shares Why Releasing First-Party Games On PC Day One Is A Bad Strategy For PlayStation Microsoft is considering doing a customizable Xbox Game Pass subscription - IG News Windrose sells 1 million copies in less than a week, and as the open-world pirate game passes 220,000 concurrent Steam players, devs say the support is "absolutely astonishing" | GamesRadar+ NZXT to cough up $3.45 million over 'predatory' Flex PC rental scheme in RICO class-action settlement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: High Ping Basterds

Topics covered

• gaming news
• hacking
• video game strategy
• subscription services
• game sales
• legal issues

Keywords

• Rockstar
• GTA 6
• Zelda movie
• PlayStation
• Xbox Game Pass
• Windrose
• NZXT
• gaming news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rockstar, Microsoft, NZXT

Products: Xbox Game Pass, Windrose

Books & works: The Legend of Zelda

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