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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of DLCs. I'm your friend David Pierce and this is the third and final episode in our mini series about the future of gaming.

We've talked about handheld gaming and why consoles like the switch and the steam deck might just be the future of everything.

We've talked about how to emulate and preserve old games and why that matters in a really important way.

And today we're going to talk about big games, the biggest

games, games like Fortnite and Call of Duty and Roblox and Madden and Assassin's Creed,

the kinds of games that even people who don't care about

know about. These games are so culturally important and

economically outrageous that it often feels like

as those games go, so goes the whole gaming industry.

But those games are changing. The way that they get made is changing, the way that they get sold is changing.

Everything about them is changing. So we're going to try to figure out today

what happens to the biggest games

and what it means for all the rest of the games

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