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Dermie and Jason dig into the PS5 jailbreak fallout, AI-powered decompiling and the homebrew boom, Halo mods shaming 343, Gears of War: E-Day, soaring hardware prices, what the EU KIDS Act could cost indie devs, and Sega’s Sonic revival.
Jump to:00:28 Show rundown02:48 What we’ve been playing: RoboCop: Rogue City06:28 The Dreamcast homebrew boom08:24 How AI is speeding up game decompiling13:58 Halo on Dreamcast and N64, Project Reclaimer mod; Helldivers 2 modders and anti-cheat17:44 Gears of War: E-Day impressions, compared with Halo’s writing26:36 PS5 root keys revisited: where PS5 hacking is now32:40 Next-gen console costs, Helix rumours and the price of PCs39:40 The EU KIDS Act: age checks, time limits and costs for indie devs49:04 Sonic was nearly cancelled before the movie50:52 Tokyo Game Show hands-on53:16 Sonic Racing CrossWorlds crossovers56:04 Xbox film and TV division58:26 Wrap-up

Dermie and Jason are joined by Australian videogame industry veteran Drew Taylor again for a deep dive into game franchises that fell from grace, Sony's new customer harassment policies, and who is the ghost of Don Mattrick haunting now?

Dermie and Jason are joined by Australian videogame industry veteran Drew Taylor for a dive into Trump's appropriation of videogame culture, what should we do with pervert glasses, girlfriends telling their men not to play GTA6, the Roblox apocalypse, and which videogame franchises still have respect in the gaming community.

Dermie and Jason analyse the GTA6 Netflix special - why you should be excited, and why you should be concerned about the biggest game release in history.

There is never a dull moment in the videogame industry. This week Dermie and Jason unpack the big leak and what it means, Xbox getting platinum trophies, why the 2XKO shutdown should be the standard for all publishers, some Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 news, and lots more.

Another big episode of gaming news to unpack - PSN shows us the digital future by going down, EA boss gets a bonus for the work his sacked staff did, Xbox announces its new priorities which for some reason include TV, EA is now officially owned by Saudis and a member of the Trump family, Australians can't go to the casino in GTA so what does an R18+ rating even mean, plus lots more.

Another week of videogame companies behaving badly - we identify the shareholder making Sony stop physical media, Nintendo decides to pocket tariff refunds, Microsoft wants a billion daily xbox players, Roblox now has 26 different Meccha Chameleon games, and GTA6 has already made a billion dollars profit and it hasn't been released.

Dermie and Jason get stuck into what was an awful week for gamers - the ESA reckons anybody who runs a game server is a criminal, Sony decides to stop physical media, the latest from Microsoft's descent into hell, and lots more.

Join Jason and Dermie for the latest gaming news about GTA6, the Steam Machine prices, Halo on PS5 wants your money, why the XBox head reckons gaming is too expensive.

Join Dermie and Jason for another big week of gaming news - the EU decides games can be killed after all, Gears of War cost the same as Concord to develop, Xbox is about to "reset" by sacking people, EA's new in-game advertising plans, Castlevania is the latest games to have a girl in it but why no outrage, and Commodore is releasing the phone of Jason's dreams.