Gamers Week Podcast
Video games are fun. Video game news should be, too. Join Blue, Ryan, and Donnie as we analyze the week's best, worst, and weirdest gaming headlines. New episodes every Friday!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 182
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Episode 181 - 007 First Light State Of Play
In this episode...
--> IO Interactive, developers of the much-beloved Hitman series, showed off its latest title, 007 First Light, during a special September State of Play.
--> The Call o…
Episode 180 - Nintendo Is Gatekeeping Switch 2 Dev Kits
In this episode...
--> A fresh report has detailed the difficulties faced by some developers keen to launch games for Switch 2 — but who remain unable to do so due to a lack of Nintendo …
Episode 179 - Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025
In this episode...
--> Gamescom Opening Night Live marks the start of the gaming convention in Cologne, and it’s always packed full of announcements, trailers and gameplay reveals. We're…
Episode 178 - Battlefield 6 Wants To "Bootstomp" Call Of Duty
In this episode...
--> EA is calling the Battlefield 6 open beta its biggest ever, and Weekend 1 just wrapped up with a peak of 521,079 players, which is also an all-time peak for the en…
Episode 177 - Visa And Mastercard Deny Censorship Allegations Over Adult Video Games
In this episode...
--> Visa and Mastercard are refuting censorship allegations after forcing storefronts to remove adult video games. Valve says otherwise.
--> The BioShock remake has bee…
Episode 176 - Roblox The Dating App???
In this episode...
--> The Roblox CEO has officially horrified every parent alive by announcing his ambition that the platform become a dating hub, despite the fact that roughly 40% of i…
Episode 175 - Xbox Backtracks On $80 Video Games
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--> Just weeks after confirming The Outer Worlds 2 will be the first Microsoft game to retail for $80, Microsoft has reversed the decision, revealing the highly-antici…
Episode 174 - Steam Turns Its Back On Adult-Only Video Games
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--> Valve has introduced new - and worryingly vague - guidelines aimed at the adult-only game development community, and some are worried they could be used to target …
Episode 173 - Xbox Game Pass Is "Damaging The Industry"
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--> Among the waves of fallout from Microsoft’s layoff of 9,000 employees last week, Xbox Game Pass has now come under fire for its “unsustainable model that has been …
Episode 172 - Microsoft Celebrates Profits By Laying Off 9,000 Employees
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--> Microsoft began its fiscal year Wednesday by laying off thousands of employees, expanding one of the largest runs of layoffs in the company’s history.
--> Video gam…
Episode 171 - Third-Party Games Are Struggling On Nintendo Switch 2
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--> Third-party games have reportedly struggled to sell on Nintendo Switch 2 at launch, with one publisher claiming that its game has sold “below our lowest estimates”…
Episode 170 - Microsoft And AMD Partner For Next Gen Of Xbox
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--> Microsoft has confirmed a “strategic multi-year partnership” with AMD for the next generation of Xbox.
--> Borderlands 4 preorders are finally live, and the base ga…
Episode 169 - Summer Game Fest And Xbox Games Showcase 2025
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--> Summer Game Fest 2025 included 15 individual events running from June 3-9. Here are the biggest announcements, including Resident Evil Requiem, Scott Pilgrim EX, t…
Episode 168 - PlayStation State of Play June 2025
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--> The summer gaming reveal season is upon us, with PlayStation swooping in at the last second with a new State of Play livestream and introducing us to titles like B…
Episode 167 - More Layoffs As EA Cancels Black Panther Game
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--> In its third round of layoffs this year alone, EA has canceled its single-player Black Panther game and shut down developer Cliffhanger Games.
--> A24 is doubling d…
Episode 166 - Randy Pitchford Says "Real Fans" Will Pay $80 For Borderlands 4
In this episode...
--> Last week, when a Twitter user expressed concern over the upcoming Borderlands 4 potentially being $80 (a price point hasn't been set just yet), Gearbox head Randy…
Episode 165 - Nintendo Now Says It Can Brick Your Switch
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--> Nintendo has revised its Account Agreement and Account Privacy Policy to tighten the rules on emulation and piracy, and the company now says it has the right to br…
Episode 164 - Microsoft Increases Price Of Xbox
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--> Microsoft has announced that it is raising the prices of its Xbox consoles globally and has also announced that it will charge $80 for games starting later this ye…
Episode 163 - Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-Orders Were A Dumpster Fire (Because That's The World We Live In Now)
In this episode...
--> Nintendo’s delayed Switch 2 preorders finally kicked off in the US at 12AM ET on Thursday, April 24th, and everything went to hell almost immediately.
--> The found…
Episode 162 - Bethesda Shadow Drops The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
In this episode...
--> Bethesda has finally revealed the worst-kept secret in video games... The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered.
--> Pocketpair has presented a comprehensive, multi-…