Rushdown Radio - Video Game and Entertainment Podcast

The Total Global Saturation of Evo is happening...

This is a very grim episode of Rushdown Radio. The video game industry has become a cesspool and Sony is the main villain behind it this week. Hold your PS5 disc close to your chest.

Geoff Keighley is throwing another trailer bonaza for the new games you can't play right now. We're talking all things Summer Games Fest 2026 and the Playstation's State of Play.

Disney just laid off almost their entire visual artist team while pushing AI-generated slop. The Clayface movie got a teaser. Street Fighter 2026 dropped a trailer. Someone leaked the Avatar animated movie and apparently reviewed it already. D4vd got arrested for murder and pleaded not guilty. Illumination made a Super Mario Galaxy movie and we're gonna talk about whether that's a good idea. Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler are doing a Miami Vice reboot for some reason. Invincible season 4 is here. Megan Thee Stallion revealed Klay Thompson cheated. Zach Cregger teased his Resident Evil movie. Mortal Kombat II is out, Daredevil Born Again season 2 is out, The Boys is in its final season and we're checking in mid-season.That's a lot. We're gonna try to get through all of it without losing our minds.Welcome to Hollywolves.

This week: Pickmon's pivoting their marketing—hopefully to something that makes sense—while PlayStation hunts for their "biggest fans" to scan their faces into Gran Turismo 7. Nothing says "we value the community" like turning your most loyal players into digital NPCs. Meanwhile, Take-Two laid off their AI team right after Nexon called Arc Raiders a "Trojan Horse" for proving controversial AI tools can build triple-A hits with smaller teams. The irony is so thick you could spread it on toast.In other chaos: Stop Killing Games had their day in the European Parliament and apparently crushed it, leaked GTA Online revenue data sent Take-Two's stock soaring, and the new Xbox CEO reportedly admitted in a leaked memo that Game Pass "has become too expensive for players." It's been a week of leaks, layoffs, and corporate face-scanning. Standard operating procedure, really.

This week: Fatal Fury gets Wolfgang Kruiser in City of the Wolves, Punk declares Invincible Vs "one of the worst fighting games ever made" after the open beta, and MenaRD vs. Daigo goes down April 29th—first-to-10, no excuses. Meanwhile, Tekken 8's Season 3 patch got review-bombed so hard Bandai Namco dropped an emergency hotfix, Harada's out, and the community is treating the Discord feedback portal like group therapy.On the brighter side: Jam's back in Guilty Gear Strive 2.0, Akali hit 2XKO, and Avatar Legends launches July 2nd with rollback and crossplay for $29—finally, a licensed fighter that gets it. But the real chaos? Max put a $10K bounty on UMVC3 rollback and the internet told him to add another zero. Oh, and Capcom Cup 13 has no LCQ, four spots already locked for Japan, and we're all pretending this is fine.