Biond! Biond! My name is Colin Moriarty. I'm editor of IGN Play Station and for some reason I'm in the hosting chair. I'm with Andrew Goldfarb. He's IGN's news editor.

Hi Colin Moriarty, thank you for joining me. Now, a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago, maybe even more than that, we had some sad news when Ryan Clements left us. He's working now with Deep Silver, a pretty prominent publisher.

And Clements and I used to do something that was pretty special, Goldfarb. We used to do this thing called the Fireside Chats. It was inspired by FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I don't really know why, because he had nothing to do with video games.

But it was something we used to do when Greg wasn't around. We couldn't record the podcast. And so we used to just kind of talk. And this is the Fireside Chats 4. And instead of Clements joining me today, it's going to be Andrew Goldfarb. Now, Goldfarb, Greg is sick.

He sounded terrible. He sounds like shit. He sounds like a villain in a bad movie. And so he's, you know, he's at a commission.

So he's left us two chuckleheads to record podcast beyond. We're already a day late. It's Wednesday, April 3rd. I think I think we're supposed to go on the second, but too bad. This is episode 287. So we are 13 away from 300.

Oh, my God. The wheels are in motion to plan episode 300. And we hope to have more information on that more specific information.

More specific, even than the information we gave you a couple of weeks ago when Greg returns from his illness sabbatical. Let's call it.

So Goldfarb, before we get into the Fireside Chats, let's do quickly the Roper Report and PlayStation Store update, whatever.

So let's do the Roper Report first. There's no one to say anything.

I was waiting for you. This is a bushely version of the Roper Report. There are only seven items. We'll go quickly through them. So we can have the reader questions.

By the way, I solicited a bunch of reader questions on Twitter. So they're going to be in 140 characters or less. Oh, my God. Looks like you quite a few.

There's a lot. A lot of them. Okay. So number one, stat news first. Layoffs have hit high moon studios.

The guys behind Deadpool, which isn't even out yet and Transformers fall of Cybertron and LucasArts.

This historic studio behind a humongous amount of games. Our best goes out to all those affected. For sure.

Is there any new information about what's going on with Lucasfilm or LucasArts rather in particular?

The studio itself, no, I mean, it could talk you heard that 150 people were laid off, which appears to mean that their entire studio was closed, basically.

Yeah, they said they're ceasing internal development and moving to license games. So, yeah, I mean, 1313 and that XBLA game that's been moved for a very long time.

First assault are effectively canceled from what we understand. I mean, the official messaging is that somebody else could take over 1313, but I feel like that will never happen.

That is sad. LucasArts, been around forever, made more prolific games, not recently, but back in the day than we could possibly do justice to appear on podcast beyond, but very sad news.

Sad about high moon studios, too, it's sad they can't even come out yet. So I'm not sure of expectations or just low for that game or what, but.

Yeah, it is that time of year, I guess, to where some layoffs are happening. It's the end of the fiscal year. Yeah. So it's very sad.

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