Doublejump Radio - the official podcast of Doublejump.co

For the first episode of the year, John, Cai, and Abir discuss:

• Layoffs at Riot Games, Unity, Twitch, CI Games, People Can Fly, and Versus Evil;
• News from Xbox's Developer_Direct (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Avowed, Visions of Mana, Ara: History Untold, and Senua's Sage: Hellblade II),
• Palworld's meteoric launch,
• John refamiliarising himself with pastic instruments for Clone Hero,
• Cai gushing over God of War: Ragnarök and Don't Starve Together,
• Abir rapidly reviewing The Boy and the Heron, Godzilla Minus One, Leave the World Behind, The Thing, Love Actually, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Wonka, The Matrix, Ferrari, Donnie Darko, The Iron Claw, and Saltburn;
• and a very, very special announcement from one of our co-hosts.

This week on Doublejump Radio, John and Cai discuss:

• The Game Awards 2023!
• E3 is dead dead;
• Epic Games finally wins a court case;
• Impressions on Fortnite's three new games;
• and John's quest for a second-hand Guitar Hero controller!

This week on Doublejump Radio, Cai, John, and Abir discuss:

• Debut trailers for Grand Theft Auto VI and the Fallout TV show,
• Layoffs at New World Interactive, Codemasters, tinyBuild, and League of Geeks;
• Twitch leaving South Korea,
• Fortnite Chapter 5's new game modes,
• Lethal Company, Red Dead Redemption II, and more!

This week on Doublejump Radio, Cai, John, and Abir discuss:

• ReedPop "investigating" selling Gamer Network publications,
• Free Radical closing down (again),
• Unity laying off Wētā Workshop employees,
• ByteDance shutting down its Nuverse gaming label,
• Aussie studio Samurai Punk shutting down,
• John's thoughts on the Dragon's Dogma 2 showcase,
• The Game Awards’ Future Class members calling for The Game Awards to acknowledge the ongoing Palestinian humanitarian crisis,
• Dead Space (and its remake), Red Dead Redemption II, and Marvel Snap!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John and Abir discuss:

• Our new member and merch hub,
• Aussie studio Samurai Punk shutting down,
• Digital Bros, Humble, and Amazon cutting staff;
• Atlus raising staff salaries,
• announcements from BlizzCon 2023,
• The Game Awards 2023 nominees,
• the latest Nintendo Indie World Showcase,
• Valve snubbing ANZ... again, and
• David Fincher/Netflix's The Killer!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John and Cai discuss:

• Announcements from BlizzCon 2023,
• Xbox wanting chatbots to make games,
• The Glory Society closing shop,
• Aftermath and Second Wind spawning from the muck, and
• The Legend of Zelda's new live-action movie!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John, Cai, and Abir discuss:

• Atari acquiring Digital Eclipse,
• rumoured layoffs at Bungie,
• Remedy Entertainment updating its progress on several projects,
• Microsoft blocking unauthorised Xbox accessories, and
• Alan Wake II's first few hours of brilliance.

This week on Doublejump Radio, Cai returns to regale John and Abir about his success with "wedding bingo" before they chat about:

• Microsoft successfully acquiring Activision Blizzard King,
• Epic Games being good to consumers and developers while shitting on Bandcamp's employees,
• Paradox and Harebrained Schemes parting ways,
• more dodgy Roblox news,
• Pete Hines leaving Bethesda after 24 years,
• why Mario games are Christmas games,
• John's rekindled love of Alan Wake,
• the zaniness of Twin Peaks's third season, and
• Matt Smith's acting chops!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John and Abir celebrate 100 episodes by looking back at some notable podcast moments after discussing:

• The new PS5 Slim and PS5 game streaming announcements,
• John Ricciatello stepping down from Unity,
• Disney reportedly considering purchasing EA,
• Avalanche Studios Group employees unionising,
• Ubisoft indefinitely delaying XDefiant and claiming cultural change, and
• John's impressions of Horticular, Japanese Drift Master, Robocop: Rogue City's Steam Next Dest demos.

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Thank you to all of our listeners for supporting us throughout the years. We really appreciate you sharing your time with us every week!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John, Cai, and Abir chat about:

• Layoffs at Epic Games, Naughty Dog, The Creative Assembly, Twitch, Team17, and Puny Human;
• Screen Australia revamping its games funding programs,
• The arrests of dodgy ex-Ubisoft executives,
• Former employees suing BioWare,
• Nintendo shutting down the 3DS and Wii U eShops,
• Cai's quest for an Alan Wake thermos,
• John's love for Cocoon, and
• Abir's appreciation of The Creator!

This week on Doublejump Radio, Cai and Abir chat about:

• The Australian government's strong stance against gambling in video games,
• SAG-AFTRA video game actors voting in favour of striking,
• Jim Ryan leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment,
• Hideki Kamiya leaving PlatinumGames Inc.,
• Capcom's president questioning current game pricing,
• Valve's failed appeal against its EU fine, and
• Our impressions of Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John, Cai, and Abir chat about:

• Last week's Nintendo Direct and State of Play presentations,
• Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios laying off staff,
• Unity apologising for it "runtime fee",
• That huge Xbox leak,
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,
• Batman: The Animated Series, and
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John and Abir chat about:

• Nintendo showing off Switch 2 demos at Gamescom,
• Embracer Group looking to sell Gearbox Software,
• AAA gaming on iPhone 15 Pro models,
• Donald Mustard leaving Epic Games,
• Stig Asmussen leaving Respawn Entertainment,
• More shady news coming out of Unity, and
• Some more of our thoughts on Starfield!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John, Cai, and Abir chat about:

• Embracer Group shutting down 30-year-old studio Volition,
• SAG-AFTRA calling its video game members to action,
• brand new Super Mario Bros. Wonder details,
• Final Fantasy XVI coming to PC,
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2's rebooted development,
• John and Abir's initial Starfield impressions, and
• Abir's trip to Gotham in Batman: The Animated Series!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John, Cai, and Abir chat about:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III's ToxMod anti-toxicity tool,
• Sony increasing PlayStation Plus pricing,
• Larian's trouble with bringing Baldur's Gate 3 to Xbox Series S,
• layoffs at BioWare and Mimimi Games,
• Abir's final Hi-Fi Rush impressions,
• John's battle with Baki Hanma's (final?) season,
• Cai's return to CONTROL,

and more!

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Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:03:39 - News
• 00:35:39 - Chit-Chat
• 01:07:48 - Outro

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John and Abir chat about Gamescom 2023's Opening Night Live, Xbox shutting down the Xbox 360 storefront and announcing an unlikely Ubisoft partnership, Charles Martinet stepping down as Mario, PlayStation hardware news, John's latest Japanese wrestling binge, and more!

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Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:01:28 - News
• 00:53:21 - Chit-Chat
• 01:12:58- Outro

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John, Cai, and Abir chat about THQ Nordic's Digital Showcase, Embracer Group's failed Saudi Arabian romance, Xbox's new online conduct strike system, disappointing allegations levelled against Linus Media Group, Baldur's Gate 3, Twisted Metal, Only Murders in the Building S3, Abir's worrying Dark Urge thoughts, and more!

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Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:02:30 - News
• 00:50:36 - Chit-Chat
• 01:22:12 - Outro

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John, Cai, and Abir chat about the announcements coming out of EVO 2023, new Pokémon Scarlet & Violet DLC details, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's impressive sales, Charles Martinet haunting our dreams, final Exoprimal thoughts, A24's Talk to Me, whether Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical is more banger than bop, and more!

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Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:01:36 - News
• 00:49:42 - Chit-Chat
• 01:22:21 - Outro

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John, Cai, and Abir chat about Screen Australia's latest Games: Expansion Pack recipients, dodgy Roblox news, the ESRB's weird age consent proposal, Ubisoft cancelling an Immortals Fenyx Rising sequel, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Exoprimal, and more!

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Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:03:09 - News
• 01:09:39 - Chit-Chat
• 02:00:10 - Outro

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John, Cai, and Abir chat about the last two weeks of Microsoft/Activision Blizzard King acquisition news, the UK industry's "11 Principles" against paid loot boxes, trouble at Roblox Corporation, the hurdles facing video game preservation, Gex's triumphant return in Gex Trilogy, NJPW G1 Climax 2023, Halo and Halo 2, Street Fighter 6, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, and more!

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Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:02:02 - News
• 01:21:00 - Chit-Chat
• 01:59:51 - Outro

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John and Abir chat about the impressive Annapurna Interactive Showcase, Valve's reluctance to approve games with AI-generated assets, Niantic & Daedalic Entertainment's drastic restructurings, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, Secret Invasion, continuing Breath of the Wild adventures, Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto manga & upcoming Netflix adaptation, and more!

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Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:14:00 - News
• 01:24:20 - Chit-Chat
• 01:57:09 - Outro

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This week on Doublejump Radio, Abir joins John and Cai to chat about revelations from the Microsoft v. FTC trial, Meta's take on a game subscription, Mojang shutting down Minecraft's subreddit, more awesome Steam Next Fest demos, casting for an Australian RPG party, the Hasbro Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Mask of the Rose, and more!

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John and Cai return to chat about the newest Nintendo Direct and Super Mario Bros. Wonder, their pointless ideas for Nintendo's next console, the mounting futility of Alan Wake II's release date, EA's anti-merger, this month's Steam Next Fest, and more!

This week on Doublejump Radio, John & Abir chat about every new reveal from Sony's supersized PlayStation Showcase, how Mortal Kombat 1 is just comic books, their ongoing time travel adventures with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Halo: Combat Evolved, John's new Vampire Survivors-like obsession Halls of Torment, an academic discussion of Vin Diesel in Fast X, and more!

This week's episode is dedicated to Abir's late beloved fur baby, Tiger Ryan.

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John & Abir return to talk about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's gameplay additions, Bobby Kotick's passive aggressive jab at PlayStation, Democrats & Republicans uniting against Japan's anti-Xbox agenda, the Aussie government's vague stance against “simulated gambling”, the epic new Unreal Editor for Fortnite, John's new mouse, John Wick: Chapter 4, and more!

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John & Abir return to talk about PlayStation suggesting that Xbox could sabotage Call of Duty for its console players, Starfield's delay and their love/hate relationship with Bethesda games, layoffs at Take-Two Interactive, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Atomicrops, Battlefield 2042, Halo Infinite, and more!

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John & Abir talk about the Australian government reviving the Australian Interactive Games Fund, E3 2023's crumbling fate, multiple game shut down announcements, the potential for Titanfall's return, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Hi-Fi Rush, Dead Space Remake, James Gunn's DCU plans, and more!

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John & Abir talk about Xbox & Bethesda's Developer_Direct featuring Minecraft Legends, Forza Motorsport, Hi-Fi Rush, The Elder Scrolls Online, & Redfall; layoffs at Fandom, Vox Media, Unity Technologies, & Riot Games; the shady vibes surrounding The Day Before, Psychonauts 2 & Titanfall 2's excellence, and more!

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This week on Doublejump Radio, John & Abir talk about Ubisoft's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week; layoffs at Microsoft & Xbox Game Studios, Awesome Games Done Quick's massive 2023 event, Abir's shiny new NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti, John's thoughts on HBO's The Last of Us adaptation, and more!

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This week on Doublejump Radio, esteemed alum Cai joins Abir & John to talk about the Aussie games industry's bumper year of growth, Epic Games's audacious spin on having to pay out US$520M in fines/refunds, John Carmack throwing shade on his way out of Meta, Two Point Campus's the capitalist underpinnings, learning to "break bad" in Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator, and more!

On this week's episode, John & Abir break down the winners and contentious categories from The Game Awards 2022, Ziff Davis's unfortunately-timed IGN layoffs, John's beastly new gaming PC, and more!

This week, John & Abir talk about that Super Mario Bros. Movie teaser trailer, Need for Speed Unbound's comic book styling, Starfield's dialogue minigame, Microsoft vs. the UK, CD Projekt RED announcing six new projects, Blue Lock, Hellraiser (2022), Boneraiser Minions, and more!

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This week, John & Abir talk about Mighty Kingdom's impending layoffs, Netflix's first in-house game studio, our first look at Wild Hearts, Overwatch 2's newbie restrictions, THE FINALS's promising gameplay trailer, Ubisoft's latest shenanigans, Sam Barlow's modern FMV games (Her Story & Telling Lies), TRIGGER Inc.'s take on Night City in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and more!

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This week, John & Abir talk about the latest GTA VI leak, EVGA breaking up with NVIDIA, NVIDIA's new RTX 40 Series graphics cards, Twitch's confusing revenue sharing decision, Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and more!

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In this episode, John & Abir break down the biggest reveals & trailers from this week's State of Play, Nintendo Direct, Ubisoft Forward, and D23!

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In this episode, John & Abir talk about the new PlayStation Studios Mobile Division, the debunked Amazon x EA buyout rumour, NetEase buying Quantic Dream, the impending Zelda Switch remasters, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, Zoids, Super Sentai, and more!

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In this episode, John & Abir talk about the major announcements and news from Gamescom 2022 including Geoff Keighley's impressive leather jacket, Everywhere, Dune Awakening, The Callisto Protocol, Destiny 2: Lightfall, Moonbreaker, Lies of P, The Finals, Dead Island 2, and more!

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In this episode, John & Abir talk about THQ Nordic's latest showing, Embracer Group's ongoing journey to world domination, the toxic workplace allegations against Nintendo of America, Rumbleverse, Cult of the Lamb, Apex Legends, and more!

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In this episode, John & Abir talk about Microsoft's rebuttal against Sony, the delightful Splatoon 3 Direct, the announcements from EVO 2022, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, RRR, Prey, and more!

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