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Game Scoop! 839: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Games

Game Scoop!

IGN

Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.74.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to IGN Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops -- Daemon Hatfield, Sam Claiborn, Mark Medina, and Nicholas Limon -- are looking at the most-played PlayStation games of 2025, which happen to be the exact same most-played PlayStation games of 2024. Plus there's actual reader mail -- as in from the post office -- and, of course, they play Video Game 20 Questions. Watch the video above or hit the link below to your favorite podcast service. Listen on: Apple Podcasts YouTube Spotify   Find previous episodes here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Adobe Acrobat Studio so brand new.

0:02.0

Show me all the things that PDFs can do. Do your work with ease and speed. PDF spaces is all you need. Do hours of research in an instant. Key insights from an AI assistant. Pick a template with a click. Now your Prezo looks super slick. Close that deal. Yeah, you won. Do that, doing that, did that done. Now you can do that, do that with Acrobat. Acrobat, now you can't do that, do that doing that did that done now you can do that do that with acrobat now you can do that do

0:24.6

that with the all new acrobat it's time to do your best work with your new adobe acrobat studio

0:29.6

who are you looking for william shakespeare based on the best-selling novel tell me a a story. Of the untold love story

0:37.5

that inspired Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece.

0:40.7

What story would you like?

0:42.2

Something that moves you.

0:43.5

Starring Jesse Buckley and Paul Meskell.

0:46.5

What shall I do?

0:47.8

Keep your heart open.

0:49.5

Hamnet is a monumental, cinematic experience

0:52.7

and one of the best films ever made.

0:56.4

Hamnet in Cinemas Now.

1:05.2

What's up, everybody? Happy Scoop Year. Welcome to IJ Game Scoop. I'm your host, Damon Hadfield.

1:09.3

Joining me here in studio is Nick Lamont. I'm back, baby. We're also joined by Sam Claybourne.

1:14.0

Happy Scoopier, everybody. And Mark Medina.

1:17.2

Happy 2026. I'm here, Damon. And we've got a great show for you this week. Great show to kick off the year.

1:23.0

We'll be talking about, I think, Sam beat Metroid and someone from inside Nintendo is throwing

1:29.8

a little bit of shade Samus's way over the Switch 2's holiday sales. We've also got a new trailer

1:35.4

for Resident Evil Requiem. A Val was just announced for PS5 moments ago, just moments ago.

1:40.2

And we also have some speed runner news that I'm looking forward to sharing with Mark.

1:44.8

But first, what were the most popular games on PlayStation 5 in 2025?

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