Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast

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Epic Games cuts over 1,000 employees, Nintendo cuts Switch 2 output by over 30%, and Crimson Desert reaches another sales milestone.

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Run of Show -
- Start - Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 People, Will Shut Down Fortnite Rocket Racing, Ballistic, And Festival Battle Stage - Charles Harte @ Game Informer - Nintendo Cuts Switch 2 Output by Over 30% on Weak US Sales - Takashi Mochizuki @ Bloomberg - Ad - Crimson Desert Reaches Another Sales Milestone - Eddie Makuch @ Gamespot - Scientific Study Concludes Finishing RPGs Evokes The Strongest ‘Post-Game Depression’ - Lewis Parker @ Kotaku - GenAI In Games? Most Players Just Don't Care, Study Finds - Eddie Makuch @ Gamespot - Wee News! - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong

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Good and bad news for Crimson Desert, Xbox announces a Partner Event featuring Stranger Than Heaven, and Nvidia confirms DLSS 5 is re-drawing games.

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Run of Show -
- Start - Crimson Desert Dev Launches 'Comprehensive Audit' of All In-Game Assets After AI-Generated Art Was 'Unintentionally' Included in Final Release - Crimson Desert Steam Reviews Jump to 'Mostly Positive' as Latest Patch Makes Significant Improvements - Ad - Sega’s Stranger Than Heaven will headline an Xbox Partner event this week - Nvidia Confirms DLSS 5 Is Re-Drawing Games - ‘The Last Of Us’ Adds Michelle Mao As Yara & Kyriana Kratter As Lev For Season 3 Of HBO Series - Wee News! - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong

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- Start - Crimson Desert Dev Says It Will 'Work to Make Improvements Quickly,' as Sales Hit 2 Million in Just a Day - Wesley Yin-Poole @ IGN - Nintendo Switch 2 With Removable Battery in Production, Report Reveals — But Only for Europe - Tom Philips @ IGN - Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed series has started filming as cast is officially announced - Chris Scullion @ VGC - Resident Evil Requiem Debuts as the Best-selling Game of the Year in the U.S. So Far - Rebekah Valentine @ IGN - Wee News! - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong

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The world reacts to Crimson Desert’s reviews, PlayStation Network is becoming a thing of the past, and some sad news at Ubisoft and Crystal Dynamics.

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Run of Show -
00:00:00 - Start00:06:20 - Crimson Desert studio Pearl Abyss sees share price plummet by nearly 30% after first reviews arrive - Chris Scullion @ VGC00:23:45 - Ad00:27:50 - PlayStation is Phasing Out The “PlayStation Network” Branding - Tom Henderson @ Insider Gaming00:35:40 - Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses - Andy Robinson @ VGC00:43:06 - Tomb Raider Studio Faces Fourth Round Of Layoffs In Just 12 Months - Ethan Gach @ Kotaku00:46:00 - One year till Sonic 4 - Ben Schwartz on Twitter00:53:30 - Wee News!00:54:30 - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong

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Run of Show -
- Start - ‘They’re completely wrong’: Nvidia CEO responds to widespread criticism of DLSS 5 - Ad - More Games for Expedition 33’s Charlie Cox - Hitman TV Series Is Officially Dead - Who Is Leon Married to?! - Subnautica 2 Will Get Early-Access Release In May Following The Latest Court Ruling - Wee News! - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong

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