Nicolas Cage is playing Spider-Man in a black-and-white 1950s noir series that’s out at the end of this month, and somehow that’s not even the wildest thing discussed this week. Asha Sharma quietly killed Xbox’s Copilot integration, an AI assistant that was officially announced as recently as March. Luke is so relieved he can barely contain it. Between that, the price cuts, and the achievement system overhaul, we try to work out whether she’s the real deal or if Microsoft just had a drawer full of approved changes waiting for someone new to take credit. There’s also the question of what Peter Molyneux knew and when, as his new Fable-adjacent game Masters of Albion gets caught up in accusations that its predecessor Legacy was a crypto rug pull. We trace the full sorry arc from CryptoZoo to Hawk Tuah to Johnny Depp drinking his investment wine, and end up somewhere near ’nobody learns anything.’ On the genuinely good news side: Alien Isolation 2 is real, Conan Exiles got a surprise free Unreal Engine 5 rebuild that looks stunning, The Guild is crowdfunding a 20th anniversary reunion movie, and the new Resident Evil film from Zack Cregger looks considerably better than its early ‘road trip comedy’ reputation suggested. Plus Luke has opinions about every movie coming out for the rest of 2025, and the Terminator 2 35th anniversary theatrical run might actually be worth seeing in 70mm.
Luke is wrestling with beard envy, or is he upset about something else?
Justice has been served and a Switch 2 has been obtained. We talk Bond, Witcher 4, The Sega Master System, Formula 1 and more. Plus this week we want to say a heartfelt farewell to Dr Watson. She may not have been a real doctor but she was a real cutie.
We’ve hit another milestone, 600 episodes! How? Well actually it’s easy, we just show up and talk every week. Matt showed up even though he’s on vacation, except he sounds like crap because he didn’t have a decent mic - have to sort that out for next time.
We do eventually get to some nerdy topics this week, but we’ve got a lot of chatter to get through first. Then we talk Switch 2 backwards compatibility, Elon “cheating” at games, Kraven the Hunter’s weird CGI usage, The Book of the New Sun and we’ve got an update on our fitness pact!
We’re back after a brief hiatus! Matt does have a cold though, sorry. We talk Assassins Creed, Indiana Jones, Switch 2, Xbox portable, The Dead Don’t Die, Peep Show, Tik Tok, Thriller and much more! * Switch 2, baby! - https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-2-teaser-trailer-mario-kart-reveal-2025-1851741096 * Xbox portable? - https://www.vg247.com/microsoft-handheld-best-of-windows-xbox-steam-deck * Tik Tok will probably be banned here soon - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/supreme-court-rules-tiktok-can-be-banned/
Good thing nothing happened in the world this week and we can just focus on fun topics like Alan Wake 2, Fallout Season 2 starring Macauley Culkin, the Mass Effect TV series, Sega and much more!
Luke and Dan were at PAX, Matt was not. This is their story. They also weigh in on Alien: Romulus, Disco Elysium, Skyrim, Joker 2, and more!
