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Please join us this Friday and Saturday for two days of streaming, as we raise money for the Immigrant Defenders Law Center! Back in podcast land, though, we gather to discourse about this week’s big discourse, aka learning 2026’s beloved Big Walk was, in part, made with AI. What are we supposed to do with this information? Is this a tipping point? Plus, Janet’s played Ocarina of Time for the first time, Patrick’s catching up with Wolverine, and Rob’s vampire-pilled.
Links: IGF Jury Member Statement, House House Statement on their AI Use, Supper Mario Broth's Health Post , Playstation Cancels "Fairgames" from Haven Studios,
Discussed:
00:00 - Intro
9:33 - Group of IGF Jurists Make an Anti-AI statement, Big Walk Dev Discloses AI Use
1:16:46 - Supper Mario Broth shares health issues
1:24:38 - Playstation Cancels Fairgames, Marathon Announces Future Plans
1:32:46 - Wolverine
1:44:10 - Ocarina of Time
2:03:39 - Nighthawks
2:22:14: - Virtue and a Sledgehammer
2:24:48 - Master of Command
2:32:29 - Outro and Announcements
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We joke about “the Bears being back” and “Super Bowl Super Bears,” but after the Bears went to Seattle and punched the Seahawks in the mouth, Rob and Patrick are left with only one option: hey, this team might be good? Like, really good? Like, actually a Super Bowl team?
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The gang discuss the fate of Arkane, the onslaught of games and mods in the age of AI, and whether the election results spell trouble for AI and data centers. Then it’s time to talk the Ocarina of Time remake and (for some reason) Link’s moisture levels. Rob has been playing Ratline and has some thoughts about what makes a good mystery and the difference between theme being a flimsy frame or a load-bearing pillar. Then Patrick’s high on Hellraiser and it triggers some massive introspection about whether we can call it good.
Links: Xbox's Arkane Studios attracts multiple bidders Including Ubisoft, Xbox is merging its Forza developers into a single studio, Itch.io Deletes "a Couple Terabytes of AI Slop" From Platform, Expands Generative AI Filtering,
Discussed:
00:00 - Intro
04:06 - Arkane and the STJV Fighting Microsoft
13:14 - Dan Greenwalt leaves Turn 10
19:16 - The AI slop wave is here
57:23 - Ocarina of Time Remake
1:31:44 - The Ratline
1:53:05 - Hellraiser Revival
2:25:08 - Escape Academy 2
2:26:26 - Paranormasight
2:28:40 - Marathon
2:29:30 - Outro and Announcements
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In a quest to better understand gaming’s AI moment, Patrick spends an hour with Dr. Luke Dicken, a former data scientist at Zynga and the eventual Director of Applied AI at Take-Two Interactive. Where did the underlying technology behind what is colloquially called "Generative AI" come from? Why do tech companies exaggerate what it’s capable of? What are the optimistic—and pessimistic—outcomes for game developers and players?
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The Chicago Bears played two games last week. And the Chicago frickin’ Bears won both of those games. Rob and Patrick find themselves in a strange place: already happy with the season and what it says about the future, deluding themselves into Super Bowl Super Bears, and already rationalizing how losing to the Seattle Seahawks doesn’t actually mean anything.
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