In this week's episode we skipped a couple weeks to catch up to October. Don't worry, we'll still release the backlog episodes! Justin has big news, he finally bought a Switch, and Marcus, the Nintendo guy, preordered the Xbox Series X, and boy what that quite the tale. I won't spoil it for you, you just gotta listen!

Now that both console had their preorder periods, we go over the timeline of major events involving these console announcements going back to June and give you a play by play, blow by blow events in the order they happened, all the way up to the biggest news of the week, ZeniMax being bought by Microsoft, one of the biggest purchases in gaming, if not THE biggest, totaling in at $7.5 billion. Marcus shares his conspiracy how he thinks that Besthesda didn't want to be bought by Microsoft, and the big secret reason why Microsoft wanted them in the first place.

The Microsoft stuff doesn't stop there though, they announced further efforts to establish themselves in Japan, the cost and design of the Xbox Series X and S storage expansion slot, and first gen scalpers.

This week also bought some major Amazon news, they announced a new streaming service we called Stadia 2, but they called Luna. It seems better than Stadia, and unlike Xcloud, it's seemingly possible to use on iOS. Additionally Amazon announced a crazy new camera drone that is part of your Ring security system. All that and a whole lot more!

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