Paranormasight, RIP Xbox, .hack is .back

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Note: Microsoft and the Xbox brand remain subjects of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement for their complicity in the ongoing apartheid and genocide of Palestine. Visit https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft for more information.It's been a hell of a news week so we're gearing up for an Oops! All Random Encounters. From major pillars of the game industry collapsing in spectacular fashion, to sequels we never thought we'd see; it's a jam-packed week that is sure to have ramifications that we'll be feeling for years on this tumultuous episode of Axe of the Blood God! Subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod⁠ and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with new merch at ⁠https://shop.bloodgodpod.com⁠ Also in this episode: Sony shuts down Bluepoint Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen Shutaro Iida's passing The ghost in Mario 3's shell Timestamps: 07:30 - Main Topic - Random Encounters - Xbox news! 29:36 - Bluepoint 1:00:00 - .hack//ZERO 1:15:44 - Tavern - Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse 01:38:08 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] Pub - [Lunar Knights] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] Mac Anu - [.hack//INFECTION] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God.
0:18.9	I'm your host for this episode, Victor Hunter and with me as always a lovely co-host
0:24.4	Nadia oxford how the hell are you Nadia oh you know how it is i love these slow news weeks but we'll
0:30.5	we'll dredge up some news somehow we'll find something to talk about yeah we got to find something to talk
0:35.1	about this is going gonna be rough.
0:42.9	Maybe our other co-host can bring us some good news.
0:45.7	Good old Eric Van Allen.
0:47.3	How the hell are you, Eric?
0:48.9	Random encounters are haunted.
0:50.3	Random encounters are haunted.
0:51.3	Oh, no.
0:52.9	Loads gone.
0:55.0	Random encounters are haunted. That's no. Loads gone. Random encounters are haunted.
0:56.9	That's right.
1:02.0	It has been a pretty heavy news week.
1:04.4	Some good, some bad.
1:10.6	But we figured we might as well hash it out, figure out what's going on in the world, because there's a lot going on.
1:13.2	So it's an extra heavy random encounters episode.
1:16.5	Hey, hey, call us Shinmogami Tense If, because there's way too many random encounters.
1:25.6	It's like, what was the thing they did in Fantation that was like the dungeon dimension zone or whatever?
1:31.4	Yeah, the dimension.
1:32.2	You could absorb up all the random encounters and then fight them all at once.
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