Killing Games | The Grinding Gear Podcast #128

The Grinding Gear Podcast

Garrett Weinzierl and Kyle Fergusson

Nexus, Games, Video, Ffxiv, Gaming, Pc, Games & Hobbies, Diablo, Warcraft, Blizzard, Ff14, Final, Starcraft, Mmo, Console, Hots, Fantasy, Video Games

4.9 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

It’s that slow summer time for gaming news, and the bad news rings loud and clear. The Microsoft layoffs have rocked the industry, stopping some games while they were deep in production. The company claims everything in the 2025 Showcase is safe, but what about the games we didn't see? In good news, Stop Killing Games finds its footing after a rocky start. Plagued with misunderstood goals and dismissive assumptions, it seems the EU based initiative has finally taken off after finding its villain. FF14 pulled a weird thing in there cash shop. We spent the weekend playing MTG. All this and more. Supportourbromance.com or you’ll be thinking about cheesecake.

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0:00.0	How was your weekend, man?
0:23.5	It was good.
0:24.3	It was, oh my God.
0:25.6	I took Friday off except for a couple of morning, like 8 a.m. posts.
0:29.8	It was, it was freaking weird, man.
0:32.1	I felt like I've been gone forever.
0:33.6	It's the longest break we've had since we started the retro streams.
0:40.8	Well, yeah, I guess from streaming, right?
0:42.4	But in terms of just like days of the week, man, like our travel was on weekends.
0:47.4	Often when we were doing the videography work, like I don't, I don't think I've had a three-day weekend since Christmas.
0:52.8	Trying to think.
0:54.3	Maybe, did we do like, there was something. No, no, no. Memorial Day. No, no, we did, we did patron's choice that day. Oh, you're right. We did find blueprints. So, you know, romance flowed and it was a beautiful thing. And I'm okay with that, you know, that chance I took. We did find that. Yes. You're right. We did stream on Memorial Day. I went away, so I counted it.
1:14.6	Count. I'm okay with that, you know, that chance I took. We did find that. Yes, you're right. We did stream on Memorial Day.
1:12.3	I went away, so I counted it.
1:14.5	I counted it as a break even though.
1:16.5	You came back.
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:17.3	Yeah.
1:18.2	Yeah.
1:18.8	That was a good time.
1:22.2	Cool, man.
1:23.0	I'm happy for it.
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