Ep. 207: GameStop Closes Stores | PC Gaming Just Got Super Expensive

2026-01-13

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Send us a textWe’re back! After taking a month-long break to recharge and deal with the holidays, the crew returns to break down a few topics that matter in the gaming world.In Episode 207, we recap 2025, talk about what we’re looking forward to in 2026, discuss the rising prices of PC RAM and GPUs and how it impacts PC gaming, and cover GameStop closing even more stores. Plus, we hit a few other topics too… because of course we still manage to go off the rails.But hey, that’s why you love us.So yeah… welcome back!...

Send us a text

We’re back! After taking a month-long break to recharge and deal with the holidays, the crew returns to break down a few topics that matter in the gaming world.

In Episode 207, we recap 2025, talk about what we’re looking forward to in 2026, discuss the rising prices of PC RAM and GPUs and how it impacts PC gaming, and cover GameStop closing even more stores. Plus, we hit a few other topics too… because of course we still manage to go off the rails.

But hey, that’s why you love us.

So yeah… welcome back!

Episode 207 Timestamps

00:00 – Intro
10:37 – What We Have Been Playing
17:47 – 2025 Recap
52:58 – Wishes and Plans for 2026
1:09:22 – PC Gaming just got even more expensive
1:28:29 – GameStop Closing More Stores
1:37:00 – Outro

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