GameHounds 650: Price Hikes, Gamescon, and the Metaverse NOBODY Wants

We've got two weeks of news stored up, and it's ready to blow! Price hikes everywhere on hardware AND software, Amazon may -- or may not -- be purchasing EA, Gamescom reveals some (but not many) surprises, Nintendo's squeeky-clean image may be just that... an image, and WHAT THE FUCK IS MARK ZUCKERBERG DOING, FFS??!!?!?