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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Casual chat among three hosts reviewing past predictions, scoring them, and making new ones—part competition, part banter-filled retrospective.
- The Key Players:
- Maddie Myers: Host and podcaster, picks bold predictions like Waluigi in Mario; her game pick (Super Metroid) nearly wins via debate.
- Jason Schreier: Bloomberg games journalist, vacation storyteller, pushes for Chrono Trigger; known for industry scoops.
- Kirk Hamilton: Composer and Giant Bomb alum, runaway winner with 4/10 correct 2025 predictions; selects Soma for group play.
- The Vibe: Fun, geeky, and self-deprecating—intense scoring debates mix with ironic humor on industry woes and absurd bonuses like Joe Biden in Fortnite.
🗝️ Key Themes & Topics
The episode revolves around video game industry foresight: reviewing 2025 hits/misses, crowning a winner for a group playthrough, and bold 2026 bets amid layoffs and hype.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:12) **2025 Predictions Review: Maddie Myers**
- 2 (09:58) **2025 Predictions Review: Jason Schreier**
- 3 (12:56) **2025 Predictions Review: Kirk Hamilton**
- 4 (19:43) **2026 Predictions: Jason Schreier**
- 5 (29:41) **2026 Predictions: Kirk Hamilton**
- 6 (36:30) **2026 Predictions: Maddie Myers**
- 7 (43:47) **One More Things**
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Show Notes
Kirk, Maddy, and Jason go back through 2025's predictions to see who won the annual bet, then make some new predictions for the year to come!
One More Thing:
Kirk: The Rose Field (Phillip Pullman)
Maddy: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Jason: That’s Not How It Happened (Craig Thomas)
PREDICTIONS:Â
JASON:
Game: Chrono Trigger
- Grand Theft Auto VI will have an in-game interactive version of Tiktok
- Persona 6 will be announced
- Xbox will announce that first-party games will no longer be day 1 on Game Pass
- Steam Machine will slip to June or later
- Another Elden Ring DLC or sequel will be announced
- Danganronpa 2X2 will secretly be Danganronpa 4
- Another Zelda remake will be announced
- One of this year's GOTY candidates at The Game Awards will be 2D (or HD-2D)
- Final Fantasy XIV will be overhauled again
- Marathon will peak at less than 10,000 concurrents on Steam
BONUS: EA will sell or shut down BioWare / EA will announce BioWare 2
KIRK
Game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Square will announce… Final Fantasy VII Return
- GTA VI will feature a character based on Charlie Kirk
- All three consoles - Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch - will get a price increase
- A Roblox game will be nominated for a Game Award
- Valve will announce a new non-VR Half-Life Game
- Sony will announce a new PlayStation Portable
- In Fable, you will be able to plant an acorn and have it grow into a tree
- Team Cherry will make The Knight playable in Silksong
- Xbox game pass will come to PlayStation or Switch
- Nintendo will announce a Star Fox movie
BONUS: Epic will add Joe Biden to Fortnite
MADDY
GAME: Bioshock
- In Grand Theft Auto 6, Lucia will be revealed to be queer / not only attracted to men
- Leon Kennedy is going to turn out to be Grace’s dad in Resident Evil Requiem
- A triple-A game advertisement will brag that the game doesn’t use generative AI
- Laura Kinney, aka X-23, will have a cameo in the Wolverine game
- The Switch 2 will get a $50 price increase
- Phil Spencer will step down as CEO
- Halo will come to Switch
- FF7 Remake part 3 will get a release date
- Waluigi will be in the Mario movie sequel
- Luigi’s Mansion 4 will be announced
BONUS: Nintendo will announce a Metroid film
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