Gamified
by Samuel J Steffanina
LeisureE · Explicit
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About this podcast
Gamified is a weekly gaming-industry panel show, played as a game.
Host Sam Steffanina and a panel of industry operators, builders and founders take on the week's biggest gaming stories: the deals, the layoffs, the launches and the hot takes. Every topic is a round. Everyone answers first, then we go around the horn and argue it out.
New episode every week. Watch the full show on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@SamSteffanina), and get the weekly breakdown in the Gamified newsletter at gamified.beehiiv.com.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 262 episodes
- Steam & AI Game Clones | Games Industry Hiring Scandal | Xbox Cloud | Gamified 182 · 1 h 9 minTim Sweeney is going after Valve again over Steam's rule that developers disclose generative AI use Indie developers say AI has made cloning a game fast enough to become a…
- BioWare shuts down & cancels Mass Effect | $1,800 Xbox | Gamified 181 · 1 h 40 minEA closes BioWare and cancels the next Mass Effect How many successful games will AI 2027 produce in 2027? Can Xbox sell a $1,200–$1,800 next-gen console? Is Supercell finally…
- Tim Sweeney Goes ALL IN on AI Game Dev | Xbox XP | Gamified 180 · 1 h 10 minCross-game mashups: Pokémon football, World of Warcraft with Vampire Survivors, Minecraft systems inside Skyrim...are these game projects a green flag for game creativity, or a…
- Gaming on iPhone Duo? | Wizards of the Coast Unionizes | Gears of Woke | Gamified 179 · 1 h 44 minWill the iPhone Duo do anything meaningful for gaming? Is Xbox turning around, or just getting better at Public Relations, and Gears of War backlash. Would China's $7.65…
- WoW Forever Bans Everyone | Minecraft Expands 14 Years Later | Gamified 178 · 1 h 32 minWhat's the biggest deal in WoW Forever currently? And how important is it for games to listen to streamers being that streamers are not technically normal players? Will it be…
- Bungie's Apology | Xbox's Ads Patent | Halo's New Home | Resident Evil Movie 10/10? | Gamified 177 · 1 h 9 minAfter so many failed attempts, can a new MMO offer enough financial upside to justify the risk again, or does the business case only work for established companies like Blizzard…
- Kojima to Xbox | Blizzcon | Roblox Dev Conference | Wolverine's Gaffs | Gamified 176 · 1 h 20 minA review telling people not to buy the new Wolverine game got more views than the official trailer What was the biggest announcement from BlizzCon 2026? Is Blizzard so back?…
- Halo’s Remake Credited 12x More People Than the Original | Xbox Removes Discs | Gamified 175 · 1 h 26 minThe new Halo had 2100+ names credited to it's development. Has AAA development become catastrophically complicated? Xbox is testing a system that lets players insert a supported…
- Is Call of Duty Cooked? | Ubisoft's Hilarious Launch | Gamified 174 · 1 h 48 minIs this year’s Gamescom a bust and is the entire industry on hold until GTA VI? Is the sour sentiment on gaming really just the XBOX implosion? Ubisoft's $10 Heroes of Might…
- GTA VI Leaks | Wolverine Backlash | Gamified 173 · 1 h 35 minGTA VI leak dropped mid-August 2026, about a week before Rockstar’s scheduled official “Extended Look.” Take-Two’s fast DMCA strikes are being read as a signal the footage is…
- AI Mario and the New Parody Line | ANOTHER TCG? | Gamified 172 · 1 h 25 minShould Nintendo be able to stop a potentially offensive AI parody of Mario depicting real-life war scenarios? Would you invest in the future of gaming being Streaming? Does…
- Roblox Stock Down 70% | Nintendo Buy or Sell | Gamified 171 · 1 h 40 minIs the Roblox selloff a temporary monetization reset, or proof that the platform's growth model is breaking? What is the one word for putting prediction and pick-to-win…
- EA Goes Private | AI in WoW | Atari's Movie | Gamified 170 · 1 h 32 minEA promises "creative freedom" under its new Saudi sovereign-fund owners Is DLSS 5 / neural rendering a genuine "GPT moment" for gaming, or NVIDIA hype? Atari turning its…
- Unity 7 is all AI | Gamescom's first sell out | Gamified 169 · 1 h 39 minUnity is building its next-gen engine around AI agents. MindsEye's Meltdown - A GTA legend's comeback studio flops, lays off 400+, blames corporate sabotage, and throws an…
- Games Industry CRASHING? | Sony Returns to Physical If...? | Gamified 168 · 1 h 27 minEA put paid progression into College Football 27's single-player modes, then pulls it days later in launch week? What Would It Actually Take for Sony to Walk Back the Disc…
- MASSIVE Job cuts from Xbox | Ads come to Console & PC | Gamified 167 · 1 h 29 minIs Asha Sharma's reset actually making Xbox a healthy business? What the **** was Phil Spencer doing, and how did he survive 38 years at Microsoft to walk out with Xbox losing…
- PlayStation Cuts Discs | GTA 6's Full Social Network | Gamified 166 · 1 h 28 minIs the market right to torch AI games, or is this punishing the people doing it well? Physical game discs die January 2028. Big deal, little deal, or no deal - for ownership…
- REDEMPTION for God of War: Laufey? | GTA is $80 | UE6 Destroys Blueprints | Gamified 165 · 1 h 38 minTwo weeks ago this room mostly buried Laufey through Bullish or Bullshit. Is the no-Kratos pivot looking like a win, or is the mindshare just negative sentiment piling up? What…
- Xbox Just Restarted the Console War | Gamified 164 · 1 h 35 minSharma took over from Spencer last month and is already torching every major decision Xbox made. Employees are surprised. Retailers are confused. Layoffs incoming. Future Halo on…
- God of War: NO Kratos | Steam Wishlists are BS | Roblox AI | What Killed Destiny? | Gamified 162 · 1 h 37 minHave Steam wishlists become a vanity metric that no longer measures what people think it measures? The market just split on AI, and gaming is the clearest example. Nintendo has…
