This week on UNBOXING, Laine and Joost are finally back to unpack the summer’s biggest games industry stories. First up: Gamescom, which may have officially become the industry’s most important global event as other major conferences continue to lose their footing. Then, the duo digs into the Saudi-backed $55B acquisition of Electronic Arts, asking what the deal means for independent publishing, labor, and the increasingly tangled relationship between games, private capital, and geopolitics.

From there, they turn to the GTA VI hype machine and Netflix’s unexpected role in it, before tackling Sony’s decision to stop manufacturing physical PlayStation games and what an all-digital future means for ownership, preservation, and platform power. It’s three months of industry news packed into one episode—and a lot to unbox.

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