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TGI 698 - Weathering the Bad News Storm
Ep. 698
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We’ve got more Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced to discuss, plus the return of TGI Game Club with Supergiant Games debut Bastion. Over in the news, we continue the not so great news train with the live action God of War TV series needing to recast Kratos, Bethesda makes promises of many Fallouts to come as a distraction from the Xbox fire, Nintendo says no to tariff refunds for customers, and some data on physical sales for PlayStation games in 2026.
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00:00:00 - Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced
00:12:18 - Bastion
00:18:11 - News
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