Favorable Jesus | Eidos Montreal, Cinemersive Labs, PlayStation prices, next gen speculation

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Matt and Eric react to Jason Schreier's report on mass layoffs at Eidos Montreal after a major project cancellation.

The episode begins with hosts Matt and Eric delivering a humorous parody advertisement before sharing personal weekly updates. Eric discusses his busy family life during spring break and his gaming sessions with Battlefield and Crimson Desert. He details his process for evaluating new anime seasons and his frustrations with Crunchyroll's recommendation algorithm during transitional periods. Matt talks about taking his mother to see 'Project Hail Mary' and attending a Lansing Symphony Orchestra show. He then delves into his exploration of free indie games discovered through PC Gamer, highlighting '13 Bones', 'One Million Shrimp', 'Worms', and 'Microsoft Bubble'. Matt provides an in-depth preview of the newly released game 'Grime 2', describing its Metroidvania gameplay, weapon variety, and boss mechanics. He also previews 'Darwin's Paradox', a stealth-platformer where you play as an octopus. The hosts list various free games available on platforms like Amazon, Game Pass, and Epic, including XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Clone Drone in the Danger Zone. The news segment covers mass layoffs at Eidos Montreal following the cancellation of a major project, with the hosts reflecting on the studio's history with franchises like Deus Ex and Thief. They briefly mention Sony's acquisition of the technical studio Cinemersive Labs. The discussion then shifts to gaming hardware rumors, specifically a purported PlayStation 6 portable device and its speculated GPU capabilities. A major focus is the hosts' critique of recent PlayStation console price increases, with Matt suggesting this may be a strategy to normalize higher prices for the next generation. They debate the value of consoles versus PCs in light of rising costs. The episode concludes with Uncle Man's Trivia Corner, a question about the Telstar console, and calls for listener engagement via email, social media, and Patreon.

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A loose, personable game chat finds its best spark in a short octopus stealth adventure and a pair of free strategy picks.

Third Shift 496 wanders from a strange Salovex ad and Eric's spring-break household into a set of game picks that feel unusually specific. Matt and Eric settle longest on Darwin's Paradox, a compact stealth-platformer about a little octopus up against aliens, and the talk has…

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You get a short octopus stealth-and-platforming pick, some free-game talk, and XCOM dice-roll pain on the side.

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