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The Game Professors
Join Plague and Heru in the Game Professors Podcast, where the students take over to profess our love (and hate) for all things video games! Dive into classroom-style segments: Lowdown Lecture on announcements and rumors, Independent Study on what we're playing, Lab Work critiquing recent releases, Business & Econ with industry discourse , a look a gaming hardware in Shop Class, Gaming History retrospectives, Gym Class, and Free Period for fun miscellaneous topics. Bangers, bombs, and bold…
Episodes
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RIP BioWare and MassEffect
Join the Professors for Course #49! Grab a seat as we kick things off with GTA 6 eating up 210 GB of your PS5, Baldur's Gate 3 printing $1.2B, and Gears of…
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GTA Bankrupts America and Next-gen Consoles Bankrupt You!
Join the Professors as we dive into a heavy week! We start with the unfortunate looting of Team Vitality's Paris HQ, followed by how the GTA 6 launch might…
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Did Xbox Just Become a Movie Studio?
Join the Professors for Course #47 as we tackle the biggest news in gaming! We kick off with GTA 6’s rumored early PC window alongside Epic Games mandating…
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$1K+ PS5 Pro Prices & Pokémon Panic
Join the Professors as they dive into a packed course of gaming news and history! First up, we look at the touching return of a tribute quest in World of…
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Sony Dumps Kojima & Wolverine Goes on Autopilot
Join the Professors for another jam-packed course! We kick off with Nintendo's massive tariff-refund sale and wild BlizzCon reveals like Diablo V, an…
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Your Latest Game Chats are Now Public
Join the Professors as we kick things off with Breaking Benjamin’s wild mid-concert rant over a Fallout 4 modding beef and break down the latest lackluster…
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Gamescom Rocks out With Stage Tour
Join the Professors as they talk about the confirmation of Xbox's new disc-to-digital program and the massive Gamescom 2026 reveals, including the epic return…
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GTAVI Leaks Used as Blackmail
Join the Professors for this week's big gaming news! We kick off with KH4's release window, a Steam VR leak, and a hilarious physical "bug" in the Fallout: New…
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How Much Would You Pay for a Respawn?
Join the Professors as we kick things off with Nvidia's DLSS 5, decade-old games dominating sales, and the Google TV digital library debacle. Then, we…
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Peeping Pokémon and DRM Saves Game Disks?
Join the Professors as we tackle a packed syllabus! We kick things off with the disturbing hidden camera lawsuit hitting The Pokémon Company, followed by the…
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Will your GTA6 Game code expire?
Join the Professors as we break down a massive lineup of gaming news! We start with the wild Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced photo mode and Call of Duty's…
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Admin Abuse in Azeroth and Troy’s Baked Opinions
Join the Professors as we dive into the sudden recasting of Kratos in the live-action God of War series and the latest Xbox hardware sales. Next, we break down…
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An Apple a Day Keeps OpenAi in Play
Join the Professors as Heru and Plague tackle a wild story of a gaming PC saving its owner from a stray bullet, before breaking down the surprise PlayStation…
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You Will Own Nothing and Sony Will Be Happy
Join the Professors as we dive into Meccha Chameleon's wild auto-paint cheating epidemic and say our goodbyes to Mario Kart Tour. Next, we explore…
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PlayStation with that Zero D Energy
Join the Professors as we kick things off discussing the passing of Ubisoft's co-founder and the wild tale of Mexico's vigilante "Batman." We then dive into…
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GTA6’s Hit and Run on Gamers Wallets
Join the Professors for Course 34! We kick things off with a quick-hit news rundown as we dig into Hideo Kojima’s terrifying teaser for OD and its cryptic…
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EA Sports... It's in the Commercial!
Join the Professors as they unpack a major Steam Workshop malware issue hitting Wallpaper Engine, plus some wholesome Valve customer service wins. Next, we…
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Would you delete your level 100 character for a +1?
Join the Professors as they dive into Ace Combat 8's extreme visual realism and maybe receive classified specs. Next, we analyze Path of Exile 2's wild new…
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Tongue Combat and Ruined Races (Down with Bowie Knife99!!)
Join the Professors as they unpack a few missed weeks in gaming hardware and culture! We kick things off with Valve’s 2026 Steam Controller charging puck…
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Moon Dad and Gabe Newbot
Join the Professors as we dive into the "Steamy" drama in Far Far West and Valve's strict stance on in-game review requests. We discuss Project Theseus, which…
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DRM Controversies and AI takes over
Join the Professors for a look at some wild gaming news this week. We start with a breakdown of "Digital Diogenes" on Steam, examining the world's #1 collector…
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Live, Laugh, Love, Live Service
Join the Professors for Course #28! We get into the corporate fallout of Sony’s live-service mandate, Shuhei Yoshida’s exit, and the harsh financial reality of…
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The CIA can hear your Heartbeat!
Join the Professors as we dive into the major production leaks for the Elden Ring movie and Amazon’s "non-gamer" rewrites for the Mass Effect series. We break…
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Sony ain’t April fooling around with prices
Join the Professors for Course #26 as we kick things off with Disney considering an Epic acquisition and an incredible flea market find in Edinburgh. We check…
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I’m Innocent! I was playing GTA.
Join the Professors for a deep dive into the biggest shifts in gaming and tech! We start with a discussion on the rumored Netflix-Xbox subscription alliance…
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C-Suite Psychos
Join the Professors as we dive into a packed course on the latest gaming chaos. We start with an in-depth look at Marathon’s uphill battle for profitability…
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PC and Sony Break Up, Capcom Looking for a Rebound
Join the Professors for Course #23! We start with our most in-depth dives yet: the sudden 45-day death of Highguard and its relation to Marathon. Nintendo's…
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NY vs Valve & Xbox vs its self
Join the Professors for Course #22 as we grade the week's biggest gaming disasters! We kick off with Hideki Kamiya’s viral curse on story leakers and the…
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Kratos, Cat Breeding, and Superhero dispatchers
Join the Professors as we deep-dive into the massive PlayStation State of Play, the breakout hit Mewgenics, and our time as superhero dispatchers in Dispatch!…
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Nintendo says “worth” laying down 20 mil for ad
Join the Professors for Course #20 as we dive into the $12,000 'Goliath' CPU cooling project that ranks among some of the top Cinebench scores in the world. A…
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Ashes of Creation goes up in flames
Join the Professors for Course #19 as we navigate a semester of industry-shaking news and devastating studio collapses. We lead with an in-depth Business and…
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GAME FREAK off the leash
Join the Professors as we deliver an in-depth analysis of Ken Levine’s upcoming project, Judas, where we break down the unique Narrative system and the…
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Bezos Wants My PC as GPUs go EOL
Join the Professors for Course #17, as Bezos wants our PC’s, and his "Grid Compute" vision to replace your hardware. There was a massive GPU "end-of-life"…
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Anthem Dies, StarCraft Lives, & The Steam Monopoly | Course #16
Join the Professors as we discuss potential DRAM supply from the $100 billion Micron "mega-fab" project, the bizarre rise of targeted RAM theft, and the…
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Riot Can Cert & AM4 is Here to Stay | Course #15
Join the Professors as we dive deep into two massive gaming industry stories that are reshaping the landscape! We're covering the PlayStation 5 ROM key leak…
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First Year Finals (2025 GOTY) | Course #14
Join the Professors for the FINAL course of the year! We start by honoring the legacy of industry titan Vince Zampella and addressing the reality behind those…
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AI has destroyed everything and yet we still use it | Course #13
Join the Professors as we dive deep into the wild world of PC hardware economics, from Nvidia GPU production cuts to the bizarre reality of older Ryzen CPU’s…
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Are Clair Obscur's devs too shy to throw down? | Course #12
Join the Professors as Heru and Plague dive deep into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's incredible Game of the Year victory—uncovering how a $10 million French…
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WB Games are Worthless! | Course #11
Join the Professors as we look at the The Game Awards 2025 nominees, with the event happening tomorrow! Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sets the bar with 13…
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2024 GOTY Retrospective, still Astro Bot? | Course #10
Join the Professors as Heru and Plague dive into whether Astro Bot truly deserves the crown for 2024's Game of the Year! Discover why Micron's exit from…
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64Gbs of RAM > Spleen | Course #9
Join the Professors as we dive deep into the memory crisis that's making 64GB of RAM cost more than a PS5 (no one is selling but in case you're wondering…
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Agonizing AI Applications and COD concerns | Course #8
Join the Professors as Heru and Plague dive deep into the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, breaking down the campaign's disappointing shift to fantasy…
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Shroud Says and Roblox Repugnance | Course #7
Join the Professors as we dive into the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, dissecting its extraction-inspired Endgame mode, and how it stacks up against Arc…
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Titillating Topside Turnout | Course #6
Join the Professors as we dive deep into PlayStation's controversial dynamic pricing strategy and potentially sprinkle it with a spicy take or two. We’ll break…
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Markets, Margins and Master Chief | Course #5
Join the Professors as we dive deep into gaming's business shakeups and market madness! Heru and Plague dissect Microsoft's aggressive 30% profit margin…
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New Hardware Hints and Twitchcon Turmoil | Course #4
Join the Professors as they dissect the TwitchCon 2025 disaster that has the twitch community in uproar. Heru and Plague break down the shocking assault on…
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Lost Creeds and New Battlefields | Course #3
Join the Professors as Heru and Plague dive deep into Battlefield 6's massive launch success with 747K peak Steam players, TPM 2.0 security requirements…
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Game Pass, Play, or Pay? | Course #2
Join the Professors for Course #2: GamePass, Play, or Pay? Join the Professors as Plague and Heru dive deep into Microsoft’s big Game Pass shake-up, unpacking…
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And so it Begins! | Course #1
Join the Professors in our very first episode as we dive into major gaming news, including Escape from Tarkov's Steam launch, World of Warcraft's upcoming…