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Whatcha Been Playing?

• Ball x Pitt
• Mewgenics
• Ghost of Yotei

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc

• Discord admits it rushed age checks
• Valve's Loot Boxes Are Gambling And Illegal According to new lawsuit
• Skate Studio Says It's Laying Devs Off In Order To 'Better Support' The Game
• Nacon files for insolvency
• Amazon abandons its open world driving game with Maverick Games

PlayStation

• Wolverine announced for Sept 15

Xbox

• Huge Shakeups this week at Xbox
• New Xbox CEO On Company Strategy

PSA's:

• Weekly Epic Games Store Freebies: Boxes: Lost Fragments, My Night Job
• PS Plus Games for March announced

Free 4 All

• Galaxy Quest

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Whatcha Been Playing?

• Gorn 2 VR2

• Lego Horizon Adventures

• Broken Edge VR2

• What the Bat? VR2

• Pragmata (switch 2 demo)

• Ball X Pitt

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc

• Developer 10 Chambers hit with large layoffs

• Replaced Gets Pushed into April

• CastleVania and Bloodstained Developer Shutaro Ida Dead at 52

• Valve confirms Steam Desk out of stock

• Todd Howard Says next Elder Scrolls 6 return to "classic" Style

• Bungie announces delay of next major Destiny 2 update amid Marathon launch

• Saudi Arabia looking to add more of the games industry to it's grip

PlayStation

• State of Play Feb 2026

PSA's:

• Weekly Epic Games Store Freebies: Return to Ash (Visual Novel), Stalcraft: X Starter Edition (free to play, MMOFPS)

Free 4 All

• Misfits Season 2

• 10 Things I Hate About You - Movie

• Batman Begins

• Batman Dark Knight

• Viture AR Glasses - Pro (older model)

• Wonderman Disney+

• Wrecking Crew

Intro/Outro Music: Geeky Beat – @johnsbernardo

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Whatcha Been Playing?

• Overwatch
• BF6 Single Player completed
• MIO: Memories in Orbit

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc

• HighGuard Reportedly hit with Layoffs
• Riot downsized the 2XKO team
• Discord to start requiring age verification
• Everything Blizzard Announced for Diablo 30th today
• Nioh 3 is killing it on Steam
• Hideo Kojima says he talked to Vince Zampella about making a Metal Gear shooter at Respawn

Nintendo

• All the things announced at the Nintendo Partner Direct

PlayStation

• PlayStation Plus Extra February games leak ahead of tomorrow's State of Play | Eurogamer.net
• Sony Aims to hold the PS5 prices
• PlayStation and Guerrilla announce 'tactical co-op' Horizon game

Xbox

• Microsoft might be getting ready to simplify Gamepass Tiers
• The next Xbox might not even be made by Microsoft
• Epic Games Store boss says it plans to be on the next Xbox console

PSA's:

• Weekly Epic Games Store Freebies: Nobody wants to Die, The Darkside detective a fumble in the dark

Free 4 All

• Gladiator 2
• The Three Musketeers 1993
• A Whole New Sound (Music Album)

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Whatcha Been Playing?

• G'Aim'e Light Gun, Point Blank, Time Crisis, Steel Gunner 1+2
• Forza Horizon 5
• Pie in the Sky
• Gorn 2 PSVR2
• BF6

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc

• Epic Games Launcher finally getting upgraded
• BattleChasers Mod Now available for Wayfinder on Steam
• Valve announces Steam Machines delay
• Everything Blizzard announced today in the Overwatch Spotlight
• Highguard makes the 5v5 mode permanent
• Ashes of Creation dev reports "mass layoffs" as the MMO's director resigns "in protest" due to decisions he "could not ethically support"
• Metal Gear Solid series soars past 62.5m copies sold following release of Metal Gear Delta: Snake Eater
• Players buying third-party games on the Epic Games Store will soon unlock Fortnite cosmetics based on those games

Nintendo

• Nintendo Acknowledges Switch 2 Sales Have Been 'Slightly Weaker' Than Expected Outside Japan - IGN
• Nintendo Partner Direct announced
• Nintendo president says increasing memory costs won't affect Switch 2 price for now
• Switch is officially Nintendo's best-selling console ever, overtaking DS

PlayStation

• PS5 console exclusive Nioh 3 could appear on other systems as soon as August

Xbox

• AMD hints at a 2027 launch window for Microsoft's next Xbox console
• Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 sales didn't meet expectations

PSA's:

• Epic Games Store Freebies: Botany Manor, Poison Retro Set
• Crunchyroll announces price hike

Free 4 All

No Hard Feelings
Kill bill vol 1
Devil May Cry Anime season 1
Rewatch Daredevil season 1
Weapons

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Whatcha Been Playing?

• Spider-Man 2 - PS Pro
• Upgraded to deluxe - Game trials ( Borderlands 4, Expeditions, Ball x Pit)
• Humanity
• HighGuard
• Blood West
• Gorn 2 - VR
• Trialled tutorial in VR for Demeo X DND

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc.

• Ubisoft Unions Vote to Strike
• Disney Afternoon collection incoming
• Monster Hunter Wilds gets patch to fix DLC performance issue
• Blizzard announces four showcases over the next two weeks for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone and Diablo
• Fantasy MMO from husband-and-wife duo who worked on formative games like EverQuest and Asheron's Call leaves Steam early access after 8 years
• Arc Raiders hit with "extensive, coordinated DDoS attacks"

Nintendo

• Dispatch will be censored on Nintendo Platforms

Xbox

• Xbox Developer Direct

PSA's:

• Epic Games Store Freebies: Definitely Not Fried Chicken
• Playstation+ Feb Games revealed

Free 4 All

Watching - Devil May Cry Anime
Watching - Misfits
Watching - Trap

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Whatcha Been Playing?

• The Plucky Squire
• Terminator 2D No Fate
• Battlefield 6
• Marvel's Rivals - Deadpool

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc.

• GameStop reportedly shuts hundreds of US stores as CEO strives for $35bn pay packet
• "A sad end to a sad story" - fond Anthem farewells begin as BioWare's Destiny-like game reaches last day of operation
• The Division 3 creative director has suddenly left to join Battlefield Studios
• Ex-Assassin's Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté sues Ubisoft after his surprise and "disguised dismissal"
• Ubisoft Cancels Prince of Persia remake

Nintendo

• The first Lego Pokémon sets have been revealed, including a $650 Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur statue
• Zelda: Ocarina of Time Lego set leaks, and Ganon looks fierce
• Nintendo's Japan dominance continues as Switch 2 fuels 40% market growth in 2025
• Donkey Kong Country Returns HD has new Switch 2 update

PlayStation

• Marathon releases March 5, new Limited Edition DualSense controller revealed

Xbox

• Forza Horizon 6's release date might have been revealed early, and it's allegedly coming sooner than anticipated | Eurogamer.net

PSA's:

• Epic Games Store Freebies: Rustler - Grand Theft Horse (Styx currently)

Free 4 All

Alien: Earth 2
Best of 2025 lists are being released on the explosion Network
Old Guard. Old Guard 2
K Pop Demon Hunters
New PS5 Pro setup and transferred today

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Geekoholics Anonymous Game of the Year Extravaganza!

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Dayne

• Final Fantasy Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles
• South of Midnight
• Claire Obscure: Expedition 33
• Donkey Kong Bonanza
• Ghost of Yotei

Honorable Mentions:
Avowed
Hades2

Jacob

• Dispatch
• Ruffy and The Riverside
• Battlefield 6
• Demeo X DND Battlemarked
• Donkey Kong Bonanza

Honorable Mentions:
Henry Halfhead
Once Upon a Katamari

Joe

• Arc Raiders
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Battlefield 6
• Ghost of Yotei
• Assassins Creed Shadows

Honorable Mentions:
Dune Awakening

Rico

• Claire Obscure: Expedition 33
• Arc Raiders
• Death Stranding 2
• Ghost of Yotei
• Donkey Kong Bonanza

Honorable Mentions:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
Hollow Knight: Silksong

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Whatcha Been Playing?

• Ready Or Not
• Demeo X D&D
• DorfRomantik
• Stick it to the Stick man
• Arc Raiders
• Marvel's Cosmic Invasion
• Dispatch (completed)
• Donkey Kong Bananaza (Completed)
• Lost Soul Aside

News:

Cross Platform / PC / Misc.

• Vince Zampella, co-creator of Call of Duty and Respawn Entertainment, has died
• 'It's going into very good hands': CD Projekt is selling GOG
• Marathon art lead departs Bungie of his own volition, ahead of game's new release date
• AMD and Nvidia will reportedly raise GPU prices "significantly" in 2026
• Yes, aggression-matchmaking is now a thing in Arc Raiders
• From the Air Force to arcades to home consoles: Sega co-founder David Rosen dies aged 95
• Fortnite's latest collab with an adult animated series that's somehow still going is none other than South Park | Rock Paper Shotgun
• Ubisoft close the studio behind Assassin's Creed Rebellion days after the developers vote to unionise | Rock Paper Shotgun
• Top Five Most-Played Games on PlayStation and Xbox in 2025 in the US Were the Same as in 2024 - IGN
• 007 First Light has been Delayed
• Top Selling Steam games of the year

Nintendo

• Nintendo will offer an alternative to Switch 2's controversial Game Key Cards, dev claims

PlayStation

• Sony announces the Hyperpop collection

PSA's:

• Epic Games Store Freebies: Bloons TD6
• Monthly PS games are out

Free 4 All

• SpongeBob movie
• Messing around with my Spectrum
• Steam sale shame
• Steelseries Nova 7 Wireless V2
• Rewatching Reacher
• Reading Reacher (The book that matches season 3)
• Finished Gen V