Game Mess Mornings 8/10/26

Lex Luddy joins Jeff Grubb to talk about Blizzard reportedly being Xbox's "Top-Performing" studio thanks to Overwatch and Diablo, Valve hardware customers being hit by a shipping-partner data breach, and more.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

05:26 Valve hardware customers hit by shipping-partner data breach

13:58 Blizzard Reportedly Leads Xbox as 'Top-Performing' Studio Thanks to Overwatch and Diablo

25:14 Doom developer slams Xbox after layoffs hit id Software

34:45 THQ Nordic says it has 12 unannounced games in development

41:00 Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive

44:21 Dragon Age was always "too niche, too backwards, too old-school" in EA's eyes, former BioWare lead argues

48:13 After 10 years, players have discovered less than 1% of the planets in No Man’s Sky

51:52 SanDisk is the third company to release Xbox Series X/S Expansion Cards, with 2TB storage costing $340

53:16 This week

54:24 Outro