Podquisition 441: Rik Merlin (Patreon)

A film out of time.

Games we played this week include:
Amnesia: The Bunker (19:00)
Infernax (28:50)
Street Fighter 6 (33:10)
Outriders (40:50)
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (44:05)
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News things talked about in this episode:
Bobby Kotick allowed to make wild claims about abuse allegations and unions in Variety interview (49:34)
www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizza…lize-the-company/

Microsoft seems willing to pull out of UK over CMA refusal to allow merger with Activision (1:00:15)
www.vg247.com/microsoft-withdraw-activision-uk

Yuji Naka likely to do time for financial crime (1:01:35)
kotaku.com/yuji-naka-prison-sq…-fantasy-1850501221

Nintendo set to launch game reported to have performed very poorly in focus testing (1:03:15)
www.polygon.com/23746686/1-2-swit…ntendo-party-game

Report from Bloomberg sheds light on issues at Arkane which resulted in Redfall (1:07:30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…n-microsoft-deal

Niantic swears low shiny rate for remote raids in Pokémon Go event was totally an accident (1:11:35)
www.eurogamer.net/pokemon-go-devel…worse-shiny-odds