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Why is Nintendo Getting Rid of This?
About this episode
This week the crew discuss Nintendo ditching Gold Points, the Dice Awards, games from the latest State of Play and Xbox's continued movement to third party.
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Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:16:44 - Nintendo getting rid of the gold points program
0:24:37 - Switch Games at State of Play
0:34:11 - Dice Awards
0:47:21 - More Xbox
0:57:54 - What we're playing
1:38:19 - Final Fantasy X Magic The Gathering
1:46:02 - Marvel Rivals Switch 2 and layoffs
1:53:43 - Anti-Palworld Patent update from Nintendo
2:02:13 - Closing Questions
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