Sorry, Microsoft, I still remember all the things you did that led me to not trust you in the first place, Bill Gate's evil microchip vaccine plan notwithstanding. Like that time you deliberately sabotaged Lotus, or the time you sold 360s that you knew were going to break easily, or the always on Kinect camera you were forced to walk back, or the time you tried to trick people into updating to Windows 10 like it was malware. Kindly fuck off with your "friendly happy new Microsoft" shit.

On the bright side, when the climate makes global society shit itself inside out and we all start fighting over fresh water, videogames wont be a thing so we wont have to worry about NFTs being shitty in games.

That's why most of the pokedex entries are complete nonsense! Because the first one was written by a literal child who was just giggling to themselves while writing about how Magcargo's body tempature is hotter than the surface of the fucking sun.

Feudal society with magical creatures that can literally create space time distortions and some may have been involved in actually creating the universe, yeah we have to consider the context here. But I guess Conrad probably isn't familiar with any of the "lore" of Pokemon since the early games - it's gotten pretty wild.

A tribute.

Games we played this week include: 
Pokémon Legends: Arceus (14:10)
Sifu (33:20)
Silent Hill Book of Memories (39:10)
Killzone Mercenaries (41:35)
God of War Chains of Olympus (44:30)
Unbound Saga (44:55)
Unit 13 (45:55)

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News things talked about in this episode:
Pokémon Legends Arceus sells 6.5m copies in a week, probably because it’s good (18:30)
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-02-04-pokemon-legends-arceus-sells-6-5m-copies-in-seven-days

Google rumored to be dropping Stadia, trying to shop its tech around (46:40)
https://www.vg247.com/stadia-reportedly-deprioritized-inside-google-which-aims-to-secure-deals-under-google-stream-label

Microsoft is rolling out the anti-trust defense propaganda, points cheeky fingers at Apple (50:15)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2022/02/09/open-app-store-principles-activision-blizzard/

Ubisoft is licensing their characters to third-party NFT producers (56:44)
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-02-09-ubisoft-rabbids-added-to-blockchain-metaverse-the-sandbox

Itch.io calls NFTs what they are: a scam (1:00:00)
https://twitter.com/itchio/status/1490141815294414856

No, Nintendo isn’t going to be buying up developers like Sony and Microsoft (1:02:25)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-03/nintendo-cuts-switch-outlook-again-on-supply-logistics-jam

Kotaku feature on Steph (1:10:35)
https://kotaku.com/jim-stephanie-sterling-youtube-interview-jimquisition-w-1848501185

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Podquisition 372: The PS Vita Special

Audio home of The Jimquisition, featuring its lovely little podcast, Podquisition - starring Jim Sterling, Laura Kate, and Conrad Zimmerman!

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