We're back, baby! Matt had surgery, Luke got sick, got better, went back to work, and got sick again with something different. Classic Luke. Anyway, we pushed through because we missed you.

• Thimbleweed Park 2
• The Elder Scrolls 6 Demo To Xbox Leadership Included A Giant Inflatable Rat Placed Outside Bethesda Offices In Protest At Microsofts Mass Layoffs
• Region Locked: A Documentary Series on Aussie Video Games by Region Locked Documentary — Kickstarter
• Movie-Goers Evacuate Spider-Man: Brand New Day Screening After 'Rotten' Fart Rips
• Sadie Sink’s Secret Role in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Finally Revealed
• Ryan Gosling Is Officially the MCU's New Ghost Rider
• Emma Frost has been cast
• Mahershala Ali Officially Moves on From ‘Blade’ After Marvel Cancellation
• Marvel's Giant 'Avengers: Doomsday' Comic-Con Ad Resulted In a Huge Fine
• James Bond Will Be Officially Announced This Year
• God Of War Show May Have Found Its Kratos In Dave Bautista
• Alan Ritchson Is Officially Crowned Netflix's Streaming King

This week we wonder how Nolan made a $250 million movie that looks like The Odyssey, while Moana 2 cost the same amount and looks like... Moana 2.

• 'The Mandalorian & Grogu' Officially Surges to No. 1 as Instant Digital Hit in Just 24 Hours
• Whoopi Goldberg Slams Transphobic Critics of Elliot Page’s Casting in ‘The Odyssey’: ‘Then Don’t Go See It… Why Do You Care Who’s Cast in It?’
• ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way
• Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Is Officially Too Popular
• 'Avengers: Doomsday' Breaks New Record 6 Months Before It Hits Theaters
• First Photos: "Blade Runner 2099" TV Series
• Blade Runner 2099 Teaser
• Disney Officially Confirms the End of 'The Mandalorian'

Luke is back from hospital where he apparently has built up a full tolerance to ketamine ('I have no idea what people are going on about') and Matt is falling apart at the spine. It's fine. Everyone's fine. Somehow they still watched a bunch of movies and have opinions.

• id creative director says they were not completely nerfed
• BBC Officially Responds to 'Doctor Who' Cancellation
• George Lucas Says 'There's Nothing You Can Do About AI'
• Bethesda Gives Update On Elder Scrolls 6 And Future After Xbox 'Reset'
• Fallout 3 And New Vegas Remasters Coming Ahead Of Fallout 5
• Sydney Sweeney to star in new, erotic, Sleepy Hollow
• The New 'G.I. Joe' Movie Just Landed a Surprising Director
• Live-Action ‘Moana’ Remake To Lose $100 Million After Disappointing Box-Office Debut

So Taylor Swift got married, Adam Sandler officiated (yes, really, no one knows why either), and you could buy 'wedding memorabilia' off a New York street artist - including a used ovulation test - for $25. We live in a society.

Then there's the Xbox stuff, which is a lot. Like, a LOT. Thousands of jobs gone, Double Fine just... set free, id Software's programmers shown the door (great for the legendary game engine people, obviously), and Obsidian pulled off Avowed 2 to go make Fallout instead. The good news: this is what everyone wanted since New Vegas. The bad news: it's happening because Microsoft bought literally everything and then panicked.

Sony's having a bad fortnight too. No disc drive on PS6, and they're nuking 551 movies from people's PlayStation libraries because the licenses ran out. You know, movies people paid for. Bought. Owned. Allegedly.

Armie Hammer took a role in Uwe Boll's new film without reading the full script, then rang his publicist crying after he saw it. He did say he'd do the sequel for 'life-changing money,' which is a very reasonable position. Mindhunter is dead forever and Fincher hates that you keep asking. Ludwig got renewed for season 3 before season 2 is even out, which - watch Ludwig. And Supergirl bombed harder than Blue Beetle, which is impressive given that nobody remembered Blue Beetle existed.

• Armie Hammer’s ‘Citizen Vigilante’ Secures Worldwide Distribution Following Dramatic Elon Musk Intervention (EXCLUSIVE)
• Armie Hammer was 'in tears' the first time he saw the 'hateful' Citizen Vigilante in full
• Taytay got married
• Taylor Swift fans pay $25 for garbage from outside wedding
• Sony will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028, citing "consumer preferences" as the reason why | Eurogamer.net
• People are cancelling PS Plus over the disc situation
• Game Pass Reportedly Down To 30 Million Subscribers After Churn
• Xbox Wants To 'Entertain More Than A Billion People' Daily
• Resetting XBOX - XBOX Wire
• Doom Studio's Future Unclear After Xbox Bloodbath At id Software
• Obsidian working on new Fallout game?!?
• The Odyssey is getting rave reviews
• DC’s Latest Superhero Movie Crosses $100 Million, but There’s a Catch
• Sony Deletes 551 StudioCanal Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
• ‘Mindhunter’ Is Officially Cancelled, So Stop Asking David Fincher About It
• Beloved Detective Series Officially Renewed Ahead of New Episodes

Luke went to see Supergirl and came back mostly flat. His verdict: he laughed once.

• Xbox prices are going up
• GTA 6 Will Just Be A Code In A Box At Launch With No Disc
• Steam Machine Review
• Steam Machine
• Richard Garriott Wants To Take Ultima Back From EA
• The villain in Spider-man Brand New Day hasn't been revealed yet
• ‘World War Z’ Officially Returns With New Sequel in Development

Matt beat an innocent stranger to death with a rock this week. Listen to find out what the hell that's about.
We get into the Xbox chaos (Ninja Theory gone, Elder Scrolls 6 still apparently coming in 2028 or possibly never, Tim Schafer potentially going indie), the Commodore flip phone that blocks social media and may or may not be purchased by Luke on the spot, why Ridley Scott doing Treasure Island feels weird, and the very depressing news that Europe can't legally force publishers to keep game servers alive.
Also Matt's daughter is already better at the Bluey game than he is, which tracks.

• Flip-Phone - Commodore
• Xbox VP Says Gears Of War Wasn't Ripped From PS5 Last Minute
• Xbox Promises The Elder Scrolls 6 Is 'Coming Along Well'
• XBOX Studios Facing Possible Closures - Blue's News Story
• Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs
• Xbox Game Studios Boss Resigns Ahead Of Mass Layoffs
• Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory
• EC "Cannot Propose a Legal Obligation to Keep Video Games Playable" - Blue's News Story
• We got free GTA V upgrades before GTA VI
• Hugh Jackman Is Ready for Ridley Scott’s “Thrilling” Pirate Adventure [Exclusive]

Luke spent many hours at the cinema this week, drinking his way through five movies, then got on a kick scooter and came straight to record a podcast.

• I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works
• George Miller Has "Mad Max" Film & TV Plans
• Steven Spielberg Says James Bond Movies ‘Constantly Turned Me Down’ and ‘If They Asked Me Now’ to Direct the Answer Would Be: ‘You Can’t Afford Me’

Luke's heroics at a pub meat raffle set the tone for this week's episode. When a man grabs a woman's arm on the dance floor he'll be there, like a red bearded Batman.

An 83-year-old man's retirement fund - a warehouse's worth of vintage Star Wars LEGO he's been sitting on since the '90s - is stuck in the middle of one of the strangest internet dramas going right now. Bricks and Minifigs, Antifa, a YouTuber getting arrested in corporate lobbies, a police raid on an Airbnb to search for stolen LEGO, and a Patreon CEO publicly telling a franchise to get stuffed. Nuts.

That's not all: Matt has sunk 131 hours into Dune: Awakening and it's coming to Xbox and Game Pass in September, which means he and Luke might actually play it together (for about two weeks before their schedules implode). Uwe Boll is back with a potential Batman/Punisher ripoff that Warner Bros. forced him to rename. Luke cannot play Wolverine because Sony exist. And the Buffy the Vampire Slayer LEGO set - the library AND The Bronze, with minifigs - is officially under review after clearing the Ideas supporter threshold.

• Trailer: Armie Hammer In "Citizen Vigilante"
• Buffy Lego
• Everyone In This LEGO Dispute Should Have Spoken To A Lawyer Earlier Than They Did | Techdirt
• Alien Isolation 2
• New Wolverine gameplay
• PlayStation State of Play June 2026: All the news and trailers
• Dune Awakening comes to console in September with a new single-player mode | TheSixthAxis