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🎯 Disney x Epic’s newest (and possibly dumbest) venture yet. 📉 Find out if today’s industry is “crashier” than it was in the 80s. PLUS: Capitalism enters a new phase of stupid and we hate it! Tune in here: buff.ly/6H7QOKT
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🎮 PlayStation price hike 📈 PLUS: Subscriptions rise as game sales fall. Tune in: buff.ly/ZeXbBNm
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🤯 Layoffs of Epic (Games) proportions 🌍 PLUS: India’s rise & global power shifts in gaming? Tune in: youtube.com/@unboxing_po...
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🎮 Tune in for our GDC 2026 recap: buff.ly/bV10IlT
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⚖️ New York takes on Valve over loot boxes 🏠 The WoW × Zillow collab no one asked for... PLUS: Our guide to surviving GDC 2026! Tune in here: buff.ly/90EXVYU
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👀 What if we told you that Xbox’s CEO reshuffle wasn’t just a swap…
🤯 Check out the this week's episode for the rest of our hottest take yet 🫶
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👀 Discord is entering its verification era... Face scans. IPO plans. Enshittification? 🫣 Laine and Joost break it down. 🎧 Tune in here: buff.ly/uRjl0Uc
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🧞 Project Genie: What it actually does vs. what it promises 🤔 Tune in here: buff.ly/v9uuA0a or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
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🧞 Project Genie: What it actually does vs. what it promises 🤔 Tune in here: buff.ly/v9uuA0a or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
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🤖 Joost talks games and AI with pod friend Julian Togelius 🎮 Tune in: buff.ly/lrPP71G
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💰 Netflix’s $80B bid for Warner Bros. 🏆 PLUS: an indie sweep at The Game Awards?!
Tune in here: buff.ly/FYwPyWj
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📚 End-of-semester wrap–finals, feedback & feels 🫶 PLUS: Pwns, owns & holiday vibes ✨
Tune in: buff.ly/FYwPyWj
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🚨 GTA VI delayed (yet again) + union-busting allegations at Rockstar? 🌱 PLUS:
The Game Awards preview with some thoughts 🏆 Tune in: buff.ly/abMV2zw
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💻 Steam Machine crashes the console party 📉 Ubisoft delays earnings & halts trading (!?) 🤔 PLUS: Sky Sports’ “Halo” disaster. Tune in: buff.ly/7YZzJEY
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🕹️ GDC gets a rebrand! 🎮 PLUS: Laine’s inside look at GDC’s State of the Industry report 📑 Tune in: youtube.com/@unboxing_po...
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📑The EU’s Digital (Un)Fairness Act? ⚖️ PLUS: Pod Friends returns with Mitu Khandaker on the future of games in NYC 🎮 Tune in: youtube.com/@unboxing_po...
✈️ UNBOXING is grounded this week––Joost got stuck on the tarmac and couldn’t record this week, but don’t worry, we’ll be back next week with a brand-new Pod Friends. 🫂 In the meantime, queue up our Greatest Hits of 2025 playlist: buff.ly/3hvPL8s
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🌍 The ESA’s 2025 Global Games Report drops 💬 and Laine + Joost have some thoughts
🎂 PLUS: 40 years of the NES! Tune in here 👉 buff.ly/vN4lyND
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🤑 EA acquired in a $55B Saudi-backed buyout 🌍 What this means for the gay couple in The Sims AND for our geopolitical landscape 🎮 PLUS: Xbox’s $1K handheld + what’s new at the Video Game History Foundation. Tune in here 👉 buff.ly/LcNXiDv
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💸 What Trump’s $100K H-1B visa fee means for games 👥 “Pod Friends” kick off w/ @colleenmacklin.bsky.social, fresh from the Game UX Summit 🪨 PLUS: Stone-skipping scandals (?!) & the benefits of regular student feedback (!!)
Watch here 👉 buff.ly/ttCbuqX
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📊 Student gameplay survey results revealed. PLUS: WNBA playoffs 🏀 & Mario turns 40 🎂Tune in:
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🎮 Nintendo’s Switch 2 smashes records & why they keep winning ⚖️ Roblox faces a new lawsuit, and more policy shifts 💸 PLUS: the $80 game debate & student survey sneak peaks for next week! Tune in here 👉 buff.ly/zVx3VbQ
🎙️ BACK TO SCHOOL EPISODE ALERT 🎙️
📚 Fall syllabi with final cuts revealed 🎮 Peek inside their annual gameplay habits survey 📊 PLUS: Roblox doc w/ Chris Hansen? Yep, that’s a thing 🕵️ Tune in here: buff.ly/zVx3VbQ
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📊 EA, Take-Two & Krafton earnings decoded 🔍 Updates on this summer’s top stories 🇦🇺 PLUS: Find out who is throwing dildos at WNBA games and why! 🏀
Tune in here:
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📈 Roblox quarterly earnings broken down ⚖️ Updates in the Epic v Google lawsuit. PLUS: Raven Software locks in a historic union contract ✊
Tune in here:
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Steam and itch pulled thousands of NSFW games 🔞 PLUS, find out how payment processors became censors 🤬 and how the UK’s Online Safety Act isn’t helping 🙅 Tune in here:
you may know that my game industry podcast @unboxingpod.bsky.social is back. Did you know we also switched frm Substack to Buttondown?
But this hasn't been great for our discoverability, and ppl unsub b/c they prefer ST's format. So sub & share, if you dare: buttondown.com/unboxingpodc...
I make my triumphant return to Unboxing to talk about Trade Magazine Week!
