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April 17, 2026

🤪🤑 Welcome to Stupid Stage Capitalism: The Games Industry Edition

This week on UNBOXING, Laine and Joost dive into Disney and Epic’s rumored extraction shooter, which quickly turns into a deeper critique of an industry chasing trends that it no longer understands. From there, the co-hosts branch into a broader conversation about whether gaming is in a “crash” moment right now, unpacking comparisons to the 1980s and arguing that today’s problems are less about collapse and more about suffocation. Tune in!

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