Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only podcast that's vapor cooled for your enjoyment.

It's November 9th, 2017, and we have got a guest-packed episode for you this week.

First Jason and I discuss the news of the week, including Blizzard's announcement of World

of Warcraft Classic, the Death of the Nintendo Meverse, and industry layoffs and what Jason

really means when he says the games industry is unsustainable.

Then we're joined by Zach Barth, creative director of Zach Tronix, to talk about his terrific

new game Opus Magnum and what it's like running a small niche indie studio. Last will be joined by Kotaku's Mike Fahey to talk about the Xbox 1X, which he just reviewed.

There's a whole lot to talk about from pixel counts to the state of capitalism in the West.

Let's get to it.

Welcome back to Kataku split screen. My name is Kirk Hamilton.

I am the editor-at-large at kataku.com, and I am joined, as ever, by Kotaku News editor, Mr.

Jason Schreier.

Hello, Jason.

It's nice to see you.

How are you doing?

Hello, Kirk.

I bought a new video game console this week to celebrate the launch of the most powerful console ever. Did you now? I feel like there's some sort of a punchline coming here,

but I'm just going to say, so you bought an Xbox 1X? No, I bought a Nintendo Switch, a second Nintendo Switch,

as a surprise for my lovely fiance who has been stealing my Switch all year to play Zelda,

so I figured I'd just get her her own. That's probably a good idea. And now you can transfer

your save now, so that's also something nice that you can do. Wait, you can? I thought you couldn't. And now you can transfer your save now. So that's also something nice

that you can do. Wait, you can. I thought you couldn't. Yeah, you can transfer saves now. You

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