Podquisition 466: Rubber Baby Tuggy Bumps (Patreon)

Such pain.

Games we played this week include:
In Stars and Time (16:00)
Loop Hero (27:25)
Dave the Diver (31:00)
Knuckle Sandwich (42:00)
Lonovo Legion Go (49:50)
Yakuza 0 (53:05)
Deadly Premonition (54:50)
Laika Aged Through Blood (1:07:50)
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News things talked about in this episode:
Layoffs at Unity, Free Radical and Fishlabs (1:12:40)
www.polygon.com/23980876/unity-la…offs-weta-digital
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/embrac…-christmas/
www.rockpapershotgun.com/embracer-lay…per-fishlabs
Full-screen ads interrupt gameplay in Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft claims technical error (1:15:15)
www.pcgamer.com/assassins-creed-p…ickly-patched-it/
Court docs reveal Google wanted to acquire Epic with the help of Tencent (1:18:45)
www.pcgamer.com/google-considered…-court-documents/
EA filed patent for using player’s voice for generated character speech in games (1:20:55)
www.veryaligaming.com/ea-player-voic…racters-games/