Endgame Recap
Congratulations. You've reached the endgame. We're recapping gaming and esports news every Friday. No fluff. Only the good stuff.
Episodes
Obsidian reveals Avowed’s 2025 roadmap with major gameplay updates, while Kojima leaves a posthumous legacy on a USB stick. Plus, Riders Republic gets the movie treatment, Ubisoft posts major losses, and video games continue to reshape education, identity, and the environment.
This week, we talk about a game built from a 4-year-old’s drawings, a fantasy football-style pope-picking app, and Riot’s undercover war on cheaters. Plus, how EA’s staying profitable without raising game prices, why some games now double as Alzheimer’s screening tools, and how watching Twitch might feel as real as playing.
The wife joins this week and it's mayhem as we dive into Leisure Suit Larry's soon departure from Steam, the sad state of recent layoffs in game development and journalism, the good, the bad, and the ugly of how games impact us, and so much more.
If you listen to one Endgame Recap, this is it, folks.
Arguably the most *high-octane* gaming podcast around. Covering news hot off the presses like SNK's big championship prize, UK's exporting of controllers to Russia, how games help one person process...all the things going on, and so much more.
This week I gush about Lushfoil Photography sim, give a few new release recommendations for next week, discuss $90 Zelda, and why gaming gets blamed for everything (and maybe rightly so for some things...).
This week: Big Rigs, the worst PC game ever, lands on Steam. Elon rage quits, Nintendo sidesteps tariffs, FF7 Remake still resonates, Minecraft climbs the box office, and gaming starts to blur into real life.
This week's an unapologetic love letter to gaming. We've got Switch 2 news, Monster sales, logic-based Tetris, and why Shenmue somehow beat Doom in a BAFTA poll. Plus: Netflix shrugs off consoles, Trump tariffs threaten hardware, and science says gaming makes kids smarter.
This week: chaos over balance in Helldivers 2, GDC highlights, and a deeper look at gaming’s role in shaping young men.
From cozy MMOs to virtual cartridges and big Tencent plays there's lots to unpack.
It's GDC week and a prophet reports (not me), more accessibility information will be displayed when buying games, further unionizing coming soon, YoY sales falling in February, and more gaming news from the week.
Niantic sold off its gaming division, Minecraft mod platforms consolidate, Battlefield leaks, new research on "Social Value", and more as I *struggle* through with allergies. Woe is me.
A dev mod claps back at someone claiming 'woke mods'. DLC needs to prove value. And what’s up with Activision’s AI PR crowdsourcing?
Warner Bros. shuts down studios, C&C source code is free 4 u, and Epic giveth the gameseth. Plus(!), the world’s smallest video game pushes nano-tech to new frontiers.
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More influencer drama, CEOs getting wild on LinkedIn, Epic's sweet revenge, Xbox sales and the response, and more gaming news with chill vibes.
Today, we reflect on LinkedIn lunatics, the lack of no-friction cozy games, how games can be good for you, CEOs at war, and more.
We cover The Sims celebrating 25 years and diversity, Roblox and investors of all kinds, consumer protections, esports and money, and more including a game about a Charlotte exit.
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Elon Musk cheats at games, Microsoft ended the year as the top games publisher for the month, games are helping diagnose autism, and much much more is discussed in our first episode.
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