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This week, Niki, Lotus, and John played some great games and took a full week off from games news because there just wasn't anything to talk about! What's that? [holds earpiece] I'm being told there was a lot of news this week. Okay. Well. Here's what they talked about, I guess!

1. Sony testing dynamic pricing everywhere but Japan
2. EA conducting layoffs at Battlefield 6 devs
3. GDC will return to San Francisco despite everything
4. Resident Evil 4 director Shinji Mikami has a new studio
5. SAG-AFTRA issues "do not work" order for Mega Man: Dual Override
6. PEGI ratings getting overhaul targeting loot boxes and dark patterns
7. Jeff Kaplan left Blizzard after CFO gave him a nightmarish ultimatum
8. V-Bucks receive a significant price hike
9. Slay the Spire 2 is more of the same, yes, but it's also better than the first one
10. Lost and Found Co. is impossibly cute and a lot of fun
11. Pokémon Pokopia continues to delight and mechanically excel
12. Marathon is the pleasant surprise of the year
13. Your Hive Questions have us wondering what we'd teach Ditto

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