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High Ping Basterds

High Ping Basterds

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“We, to tell the actual absolute truth, don’t live in society, actually.”


In the history of humans, for the first time after the glorious 18th Century have we had The 21st Century. If one strains their ears, one can gather echoes traveling back to us from a dismal future, hankering for the nostalgic and innocent and simpler times of The 21st Century.


The 21st Century where we actually don’t live in a society. We live more in tubes, in simulations, in hypotheticals and in conspiracies. We live in line graphs, in word vomits, in feeds and filters, in videos and in games, and in video games.


The Basterds navigate this terrain of solipsistic confabulations.


“Two weeks to two minutes” Exclaimed Cyrus West Field—an American entrepreneur and financier, pointedly not an inventor, actually—when the telegraph line laid across Atlantic finally worked in 1866. Now in place of these obsolete thick copper cable lay nets upon nets of fiber optics where we sail daily. And the echo of our future sounds across these nets of our present and of our past, where we are constructing a singular Transatlantic tunnel, dug under the pioneer ocean for us to live in, when the whole world itself shall drown under the weight of our present and of our past.


The Basterds navigate these uncertain terrain.



Release Schedule: New Episodes Every Tuesdays

Language: English

Category: Video Game Commentary, News Reviews, Criticisms

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Episodes
  • 90 Paramount v WBD, GoW Casting, Meta VR, Lara Croft, New World Closing, Ubisoft Layoffs The Division

    90 Paramount v WBD, GoW Casting, Meta VR, Lara Croft, New World Closing, Ubisoft Layoffs The Division
    Jan 20 2026
    On our 90th episode, we talked about the following topics:
    • Paramount Escalates WBD Fight, Sues Over Netflix Deal and Aims to Install Friendly Directors at Warner Shareholder Meeting
    • Ryan Hurst Cast As Kratos In Prime Video’s 'God of War'
    • Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts | The Verge
    • First Look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in Amazon's Tomb Raider TV Series - IGN
    • The Future of New World: What to Expect - News | Official New World: Aeternum Website
    • Ubisoft hits The Division and Avatar studio, Massive Entertainment, with layoffs | VGC

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 89 Thai Esports Scandal, Gamestop Store Closure, Ubisoft Halifax, NY Gov vs Roblox, Rainbow Six

    89 Thai Esports Scandal, Gamestop Store Closure, Ubisoft Halifax, NY Gov vs Roblox, Rainbow Six
    Jan 15 2026
    On our 89th episode, we return to discuss the following topics:
    • Disgraced Thai e-sports queen denies cheating but faces lifetime ban
    • Report: GameStop closing hundreds of stores in the United States | GamesIndustry.biz
    • CWA Canada says it will "pursue every legal recourse" to protect unionised Ubisoft Halifax workers | GamesIndustry.biz
    • Hochul targets Roblox, kid-focused platforms in renewed push for online child safety | News, Sports, Jobs - Adirondack Daily Enterprise
    • Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans
    • New games performed really well on Steam last year, shaking the dominance of the same old live service games | Eurogamer.net

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 88 Game Awards & Trailers, PS5, Steam Deck, Post EA FIFA

    88 Game Awards & Trailers, PS5, Steam Deck, Post EA FIFA
    Dec 26 2025
    On 88th episode, we discussed the following topics:
    • PS5 reigns supreme over Black Friday, accounting for a staggering 62% of all console sales | Eurogamer.net
    • Steam Deck LCD production is ending — Valve's budget handheld gaming PC will no longer be available once stock is gone
    • Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN
    • The first post-EA FIFA soccer sim will be a Netflix Games exclusive
    • The Game Awards 2025: Complete list of winners as Clair Obscur wins Game of the Year and sets a new record for awards won | VGC
    • The Game Awards 2025 – All the Announcements and Trailers

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    1 hr and 12 mins
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