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Game Scoop! 843: Did an Extra $10 Kill a Franchise?

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Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.74.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Welcome back to IGN Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops -- Daemon Hatfield, Sam Claiborn, Justin Davis, and Peer Schneider -- are discussing Dispatch on Nintendo Switch 2, The Outer Worlds 2, Metroid Prime 4, Cairn, Resident Evil Requiem, The Adventures of Elliot, and more. And, of course, they play Video Game 20 Questions. Go to https://surfshark.com/gamescoop or use code GAMESCOOP at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.3

What's up everybody? Welcome to Aijian Game Scoop. I'm your host, Damon Hadfield, and joining me this week here in studio is Pierre Schneider.

1:06.7

I'm your friend, Pierre Schneider. We are also joined by Sam Claiborne. I just want to point out this intro is completely unprompted.

1:48.0

Unprompted. No prompter. And Justin Davis. And we've got a great show for you this week. You've got unfortunate news that a couple of big games recently have underperformed, leaving their future up in the air. No, that's not true. Actually, we know the future of one of them. And there's not much happening with that one. Also, a couple of them are both Metroid Prime 4, because it came up for Switch 1 and Switch 2. Yeah, yeah, that's true. I've got to believe. We also had this Nintendo Direct today, which is one of those that could have been an email, but there's still a couple interesting things to talk about. And also, I don't know if you guys heard, but PlayStation is coming for our jobs. So we'll see. We'll see about that. I don, but first, obsidian, the auto roles two underperformed and there won't be a third, which, first of all, if you

1:54.5

remember, obsidian, our outer worlds two won a damey last year. It was one of the top five

1:58.7

damey games of the year. Okay. So it didn't get the d the Dami bump. Does the dami bump not mean anything? It might cause the opposite. I don't think. It's like the sort of Damocles. It's possible that this was a financial decision that was made before the Damies. And we always advise people not to do that. You know, you can shift your fiscal year to actually be any quarter you want.

2:20.9

That's true.

2:21.2

You might as well just do it at the end of quarter one.

2:23.0

Wait for the damees.

2:23.9

Safely accommodate the damees, right?

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