This week's episode looks at Naughty Dog's highly anticipated standalone online project of TLOU being canceled, the unfortunate mega leak for Insomniac Games, and Bobby Kotick's resignation and what that means for Xbox and Activision Blizzard moving forward.

We are looking at all the winners and announcements from The Game Awards 2023.

Dissecting the GTA 6 trailer that dropped earlier this week, Naughty Dog's output for the current PS5 generation, and on this week's "Have you played this?" we look at an underrated open-world game based on a famous IP.

In episode 2 we discuss the 2024 release window for Xbox first-party titles, which is poised to be a strong year for the brand if everything is released as expected. We also discuss Phil Spencer's comments about Xbox potentially leaving the gaming landscape by 2027, if Game Pass targets are not met, and on this weeks, "Have you played this?", we look at a forgotten platformer released on the original Xbox.

In the debut episode of Digital Downtime, we discuss the 2023 nominees for the game awards, with an in-depth conversation about the GOTY nominees. In the " Did you play this?" segment, we talk about Spawn: Armageddon, a hidden-gem hack-and-slash game from the PS2 era.