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Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about what's been going on in the film and television business over the last few years: why Hollywood is in a scary spot, how covid affected it all, the parallels with the video-game industry, and of course, the big old AI question mark.
One More Thing:
Kirk: Rhythm Doctor
Maddy: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Jason: Circe (Madeline Miller)
LINKS:
STRONG SONGS LIVE!! Saturday, July 11, at the Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland, OR. Buy tickets here
Gunpoint & Tactical Breach Wizards dev Tom Francis’s advice for running a sustainable indie studio
Maya Hawke talking about Netflix’s lack of transparency on Search Engine
Chris Hayes’s book The Siren’s Call: How Attention Became The World’s Most Endangered Resource
Excerpts from the Rhythm Doctor OST - “All The Times” by fizzd with lyrics by Winston Lee

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk open up the mailbag to answer your burning questions about all sorts of things, from the gambling epidemic to our favorite funny bugs. And the burningest question of all: What do you do when your dog hates your Switch 2?
One More Thing:
Kirk: Skate Story
Maddy: Mothership
Jason: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
LINKS:
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Drew Gooden’s video about online gambling
Jason’s Bloomberg column on the misreported GTA VI rumors
Kirk’s newsletter about podcasting’s pivot to video
“Coastal” by Blood Cultures from the Skate Story OST

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Kirk, Maddy, and Jason go back through 2025's predictions to see who won the annual bet, then make some new predictions for the year to come!
One More Thing:
Kirk: The Rose Field (Phillip Pullman)
Maddy: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Jason: That’s Not How It Happened (Craig Thomas)
PREDICTIONS: 
JASON:
Game: Chrono Trigger
Grand Theft Auto VI will have an in-game interactive version of Tiktok
Persona 6 will be announced
Xbox will announce that first-party games will no longer be day 1 on Game Pass
Steam Machine will slip to June or later
Another Elden Ring DLC or sequel will be announced
Danganronpa 2X2 will secretly be Danganronpa 4
Another Zelda remake will be announced
One of this year's GOTY candidates at The Game Awards will be 2D (or HD-2D)
Final Fantasy XIV will be overhauled again
Marathon will peak at less than 10,000 concurrents on Steam
BONUS: EA will sell or shut down BioWare / EA will announce BioWare 2
KIRK
Game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Square will announce… Final Fantasy VII Return
GTA VI will feature a character based on Charlie Kirk
All three consoles - Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch - will get a price increase
A Roblox game will be nominated for a Game Award
Valve will announce a new non-VR Half-Life Game
Sony will announce a new PlayStation Portable
In Fable, you will be able to plant an acorn and have it grow into a tree
Team Cherry will make The Knight playable in Silksong
Xbox game pass will come to PlayStation or Switch
Nintendo will announce a Star Fox movie
BONUS: Epic will add Joe Biden to Fortnite
MADDY
GAME: Bioshock
In Grand Theft Auto 6, Lucia will be revealed to be queer / not only attracted to men
Leon Kennedy is going to turn out to be Grace’s dad in Resident Evil Requiem
A triple-A game advertisement will brag that the game doesn’t use generative AI
Laura Kinney, aka X-23, will have a cameo in the Wolverine game
The Switch 2 will get a $50 price increase
Phil Spencer will step down as CEO
Halo will come to Switch
FF7 Remake part 3 will get a release date
Waluigi will be in the Mario movie sequel
Luigi’s Mansion 4 will be announced
BONUS: Nintendo will announce a Metroid film

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk have left the temple of time, set out across Hyrule, and defeated the evil Ganondorf.  They can finally go back to being kids again… but will they ever truly be the same?

LINKS, ETC:

“Ocarina of Time End Credits” by Koji Kondo, 1998

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Kirk, Maddy, and Jason cap off 2025 with a hearty discussion of the year's best games.
One More Thing:
Kirk: The Onion (Print Edition)
Maddy: Hedda (2025)
Jason: Chronoquartz
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GAMES OF THE YEAR
Kirk:
Dispatch
Sunderfolk
Blue Prince
Split Fiction
News Tower
Donkey Kong Bananza
Hollow Knight: Silksong
The Roottrees Are Dead
Kingdom Come Deliverance II
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Jason:
Dispatch
Blue Prince
Hollow Knight: Silksong
The Roottrees are Dead
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Avowed
Nurikabe World
The Séance of Blake Manor
Strange Jigsaws
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
Maddy:
Blue Prince
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Consume Me
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
Elden Ring: Nightreign (w/ Yeui’s Multiplayer Mod)
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
Keeper
Hollow Knight: Silksong
The Séance of Blake Manor

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