Oh, yeah, that thing is about to happen isn’t it?

Games we played this week include:
Vampire Survivors (18:35)
Midnight Sons (19:40)
Grand Theft Auto V (25:24)
Pokémon Scarlet/Violet (33:25)
Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising (41:15)
Diceheart (53:20)
Slay the Princess (1:00:00)
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News things talked about in this episode:
Ransomware group releases trove of material stolen from Insomniac Games (1:07:15)
www.cyberdaily.au/culture/9959-sni…es-internal-data
Internal Sony documents give candid view of concerns over ABK acquisition (1:19:15)
www.windowscentral.com/gaming/micros…-massive-hack
ABK studios are ending hybrid work (1:21:50)
www.eurogamer.net/abk-workers-alli…g-hybrid-working
ABK settles California worker discrimination suit (1:24:20)
www.wsj.com/tech/activision-bli…s-takeover-4dc1178b
Valve delivers festive DOTA 2 bans (1:26:00)
www.polygon.com/24002666/dota-2-f…e-toxic-lump-coal