Bend Reportedly Aims to Reveal AND Release Its Co-Op Game in 2027

Jeff Grubb and Jon Martin bring you into a new week with news about Yakuza creator Toshiro Nagoshi's new studio dissolving, Bend studio's new co-op game, Ocarina of Time midnight launch fun, and more.

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00:00 Intro
04:22 Nagoshi Studio has been dissolved
11:01 Nintendo announces Zelda: Ocarina of Time UK midnight launch, with free N64 boxes up for grabs
18:36 Bend reportedly aims to reveal AND release its co-op game in 2027
27:33 Digital Foundry: Modern Warfare 4's Switch 2 compromises
30:02 Speaking of Call of Duty – Activision will remove real Itaewon disaster footage from MW4
32:32 Modder uses AI to port Switch 2 games to Switch 1
36:05 Rumored Persona remake footage appears online
41:30 Phantom Blade Zero passes four million sales in 72 hours
43:46 Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering
47:49 Old game stuff: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Is Getting an AI-Free SNES Port, and You Can Play It Now
49:35 Until Dawn 2 live from Alamo Drafthouse (?)
49:57 This Week
50:23 Poll & outro