About this episode

John and Niki discuss the latest gaming news including GTA VI details, Xbox price hikes, and Steam Machine availability.

This week, John and Niki discuss the biggest news of the gaming week, including Grand Theft Auto VI edition details, Steam Machine details, and more price hikes for Xbox consoles. 00:00:00 Intro & when it became Turkiye 00:12:30 Steam Machine is in the wild and available for waitlisting 00:28:13 Xbox consoles increase in price again 00:33:08 Grand Theft Auto VI isn't on disc and somehow people were shocked 00:46:38 Bungie lays off Destiny 2 team ; Hermen Hulst writes bad blog post 01:04:00 Tim Sweeney thinks you owe it to yourself to play his games 01:07:07 LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight looks great, feels great, and deftly balances multiple tones 01:10:50 Niki bought NBA 2K26 for cheap and still regretted it 01:20:05 Beatdown City Survivors successfully riffs on a familiar formula, but is it enough? 01:23:42 Niki talks about Carly Rae Jepsen's new album while agonizing over whether to buy a new television 01:27:55 Outlier is a great new online word game you're going to get sucked into 01:33:45 Niki updates us on their NAS system (and hating Linux) 01:39:07 HIVE QUESTIONS 02:00:45 Outro Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review! We'll read it on the show and it…

People in this episode

Hosts: John, Niki

Topics covered

• gaming news
• GTA VI
• Xbox price hike
• Steam Machine
• video games
• game reviews

Keywords

• GTA VI
• Xbox
• Steam Machine
• gaming news
• video games
• game reviews

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bungie, VGBees

Products: Grand Theft Auto VI, Steam Machine, Xbox, NBA 2K26, Beatdown City Survivors, Outlier

Books & works: LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

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