PPR 173

You know, it wasn’t that long ago (almost a full year ago, really) that we were talking about the advent of generative AI and the stupid bullshit it was churning out — its own slop—and it’s truly wild how much this endemic has escalated in our daily lives. Folks aren’t even pretending to cart out some bad-faith “Trolley Problem” to justify their damaging use of the quote-unquote “tool.”

Any way, we get into it plenty on this latest show of Press Pause Radio, but as has been tradition throughout the year of 2026, we brought on a friend to record the newest show with us, Jordan Andow, AKA WheelieAverage, co-owner of Analog Stick Gaming.com, Gaming & Tech Editor at The Outerhaven, Co-Founder & Host of Between Levels Podcast alongside FightinCowboy and Sarthe, to join George and Andrew on a huge discussion of the latest news, and what we’ve been spinning or inserting into our dang ol’ dang consoles.

In this episode, we gab about the state of Xbox, the Skydance Merger being overseen by everyone’s least-favorite corporate douchebag, Bobby Kottick, and all of the stuff we’ve been playing, which includes Orbitals, Onimusha: Way of the Warrior, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Marvel's Wolverine, Normal Golf Game, Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, Kingdom Hearts [I~III] Collection, Final Fantasy XI, Forever Ago, Pokémon Champions, Control Resonant, Star Wars: Zero Company, and a whole lot more! This one is a bit of a Long Boi ™, so be sure you’re set to give this one a listen (because so help us, if we find out you generated an AI summary of this episode, we’ll give you a stiinkin’ swirlie!)

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