While mourning the passing of Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi, David Radd engages in tedious robot fights in The Great Battle IV, plays the much better (if incredibly safe) Super Bomerman 4, and deals with wiseguys right out of central casting in Mafia II: Definitive Edition. Meanwhile, Tuesday plays some Aliens Fireteam Elite, where they plumbing the absolute depths of Alien series lore and plays some more Fire Emblem: Three Houses where they want to marry Edelgard and become war crimes: the couple. In news, there's announcements around NFT games and consoles while sales in the sector plummet, Blizzard picks up developer Proletariat to help finish the latest World of Warcraft expansion, a U.K. regulator examines the proposed buyout by Microsoft of Activision Blizzard and Blizzcon will apparently return in 2023. Google settlted a class action lawsuit with developers and the EU Digital Markets Act could open the closed platforms on phones. Finally, ReedPop announced that it will work with the ESRB to produce E3 2023... which leads us to the SNGP topic on the troubled expo. David and Tuesday go over the pros and cons of E3 and give their concluding opinion on the annual gaming event.
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