The 3DS and Wii U servers have been pulled offline for good, but Cheech & Chong are coming to Call of Duty, so everything is going to be juuuuust fiiiiiine. Also: the next Battlefield game gets more developers, Microsoft planning for more backwards compatibility, Roblox probably planning to media train more of its executives, and more of the week in video game news! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Embracer sells Gearbox to Take-Two and says it’s done with its restructuring… does that mean they’re going to start buying stuff all over again? Also: Eddy Gordo hits Tekken 8, Guild Wars 3 officially confirmed, Jim Ryan retires, and a lot of talk about where all of this stuff is heading over the next few years. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

The Atari 400 Mini is out this week and I’ve been messing around with it a bit, so let’s talk about the golden era of Atari’s 8-bit home computer products. Also: Are third-party publishers looking to ditch Xbox? How about a little Dragon’s Dogma 2 talk? Oh, and some Horizon Forbidden West since that’s out on PC now, along with a new Call of Duty release for phones. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Let’s talk about the recently released Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story! Also these leaked PlayStation 5 Pro specs are apparently the real deal. Also: Sony Supposedly Pauses PSVR2 Production, Saber splits, South Korea notices a devkit, Denuvo: still bad, and more on this week’s installment of The Jeff Gerstmann Show! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Jeff sinks into Sixty Four’s world of big black cubes. Also, new Contra! MultiVersus makes its re-entry as Warner attempts to delist a bunch of other games! The future of consoles according to Peter Moore and Shawn Layden! EA’s flimsy-sounding plans for AI! And more! Get the show ad-free at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Here’s the final analysis of the new GameScent device and its various smells. Also: Balatro, WWE2K24, EA’s latest round of layoffs, studios going indie, and Nintendo’s Yuzu lawsuit. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

It’s time to dig deep into the Sir Mix-A-Lot catalog, but first we’ll get into some Skull & Bones, a little Last Epoch, the PlayStation layoffs, Ninja Five-0, those Xbox games coming to Switch and PS5, and more. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

This week there are a ton of games to talk about, like Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, Helskate, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, and Mario vs. Donkey Kong. Let’s also talk about the far-flung future and the next-generation of consoles, from the latest PS5 Pro talk to whatever the heck Xbox is going to do next. Don’t wait for the Helldivers 2 servers to be up to listen to this one, you might never make it! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

The Xbox business update gets scheduled for later this week, so let’s talk about the few new developments in that whole thing that have happened over the last week. We’ll also cover the latest Switch 2 reports about backwards compatibility and custom hardware, Disney’s Fortnite-fueled metaverse, Helldivers 2, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and… at the end Jeff gets mad about Minecraft. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

It’s starting to look a lot like Xbox games are going to appear on PlayStation and Switch. Let’s walk through what we do know, what we don’t know, and what we think we might know as we sit at the edge of next week’s Xbox “business update.” Also: Death Stranding 2, Kojima returns to action-espionage even if it isn’t Metal Gear Solid, new guitars, and more! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Tekken 8 is out, let’s talk about it! Suicide Squad was subject to a bunch of review-related shenanigans, let’s talk about that, too! Also: Microsoft lays off 1,900 people, Embracer cuts another 97 folks, and a lot of discussion of “Goku” and “Vegeta.” Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Let’s try to talk about Palworld without morphing into copyright cops or armchair lawyers in the process! Also: 2023 sales data, Riot’s layoffs, the future of the game industry, “two years of pain,” and much more! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Foamstars gets a date, as does STALKER 2. Smite 2’s announced, Halo’s battle royale is (probably) canceled, GAME gets out of used GAMEs, and a brief review of Retro-Bit’s Saturn Pro controller, which Jeff bought to… play N64 games? Join the madness as SCART cables and scalers once again enter the conversation! Also your emails???? Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Let’s wade through the muck a bit and discuss these rumors of Xbox bringing Sea of Thieves—or maybe way more—to other game platforms. Also, the muck of CES (it’s TVs. It’s always TVs)! Twitch’s upcoming enhanced broadcast beta! A Fortnite car! Ice-T! More! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Jeff Gerstmann returns for 2024 with his review of the CRKD Nitro Deck, a little talk about Tekken 8’s bizarre colorblind options, that Quest 2 “price drop,” the imminent onset of CES, and your emails! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Sony and Discovery reach a deal to keep some of the worst-sounding television shows on the planet from disappearing out of your libraries! Spider-Man 2 was expensive to make, what does that mean for games, if anything? Rockstar and Nvidia hacker sentenced! Bobby bounces! 2024 rear trigger plans! And more! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Let’s talk about the end of The Last of Us Online, Insomniac’s situation, the Death Stranding movie, Spring Breakers, almost buying another Xbox, remembering Godus, uninstalling The Finals, and more. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

The ESA is officially calling E3 dead and I don’t believe it for a minute… but I’d probably believe it for at least the next few years. Let’s go over that whole thing and then get into all these huge Fortnite expansions like Lego Fortnite, then we’ll talk Sebil Engineering, The Game Awards, Sega’s batch of announcements, The Day Before debacle, and Epic’s victory in court over Google. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

Let’s talk about the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer and then get into the end of the Call of Duty DMZ “beta,” Sony and Discovery’s long list of questionable television shows that you are no longer allowed to digitally own, new games in Atari 50, Eminem, another route to get PC VR in your Quest, and more. Get it ad-free at http://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann

What is indie? I don’t know, no one does. Forget about it. Let’s talk about that OLED Steam Deck, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Bungie’s Destiny 2 delay, Starfield’s sad Steam review responses, KillZone Shadowfall, CM Punk, and hey… who the heck is going to buy Eurogamer and GI.biz? You? Is it you? Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann