The Player’s Club Podcast Ep 131: What Happens After Microsoft Buys Activision/Blizzard?

You ready for this, Playa?

Welcome back to the club! This week, Allan Muir and Emmett Watkins Jr. return to talk about our lingering thoughts in the final days before the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger is finalized. Will Game Pass get a bunch of new games added? Will dead franchises like Singularity and Spyro return? Will the Call of Duty devs get a break for a few years? And more importantly, will the folks who have been suffering under Bobby Kotick be treated better once under Microsoft? We discuss all that and more in this episode, so buckle up!

Also, in the Watcha Playin segment, Al talks about Tears of the Kingdom and South Park: The Stick of Truth and  Emmett talks about Thymesia and Victor Van.

You can listen to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts, on this article, and more!

• Timestamps
  • TOTS: Microsoft & Acti/Bliz is near official, what now? 8:17
  • Whatcha Playin 1:14:43
  • South Park: The Stick of Truth 1:15:02
  • Thymesia 1:22:23
  • Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 1:38:00
  • Victor Van 1:49:59
  • Housekeeping 1:56:48
• Housekeeping:
  • Our Favorite Double-A Games – Roundtable – VGU.TV
  • Al’s Top Ten of Summer Game Fest 2023 | VG-Lists – VGU.TV
  • Protect Toad Jr At All Costs! | The Wolf Among Us Episode 1: Part 6
  • VGU Rewind – Bloodstained Ritual of the Night
  • Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Mini Spoilercast 
  • Social Media in the Modern Age & What We’re Playing | Spoonful Podcast Ep. 22 – YouTube
  • Welcome to the Thing 17: We Apologize (with ukulele)
  • The Abridged Videogaming History of Big-Money Buyouts & Mergers
  • Game Companies are NOT Your Friends 
  • Player’s Club Episode 77: 
  • The Games Industry Is Failing the Working Class
  • Companies Don’t Want You Playing Classic Games 

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