This week, Niki and John are joined by perhaps the greatest games media talent scout in the industry's history, Endless Mode's Editor-in-Chief Garrett Martin. He hung out to tell us about the new site, what to expect from its amazing writers, and, of course, theme parks! Also:

• nearly half an hour of AEW All In Texas preview discussion (sorry non-wrestling fans)
• Kotaku's sale to Keleops
• Microsoft's astonishing layoff round of 9,100 employees
• Perfect Dark reboot canceled and studio shuttered
• EA's bonkers 100,000,000 player expectation for Battlefield
• Bonk!
• Shmups!
• Half Sword
• SGDQ 2025

Also, we answer your burning HIVE QUESTIONS from our Discord.

This week, Niki and John go deep (again) on Mario Kart World and its most head-scratching design choices. Tired of us talking about that? Okay! We also talked about:

• Andrew Wilson's obscene pay bump at EA
• Microsoft's upcoming massive layoff
• Peak sells 2m copies
• Nintendo "fixes" something everyone thought was fine in Mario Kart World
• the dark corners of Cyberpunk 2077
• and much more!

Also, we answer your burning HIVE QUESTIONS from our Discord!

John returns to the podcast after spending last week in the hospital and joins Niki to talk about the second full week of Switch 2 as well as:

• the indefinite Marathon delay
• 3rd party titles apparently lagging on Switch 2
• historic sales figures for Switch 2
• Xbox's core strategy
• Mario Kart World
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2
• Poxel
• FBC: Firebreak
• Deltarune

Also, we answer your burning HIVE QUESTIONS from our lovely Discord community.