{"podcast":{"title":"Game Mess Mornings","slug":"game-mess-mornings-5219402","podcast_index_feed_id":5219402,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5928689/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/game-mess-mornings","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/8e92055dc70987e9a55497265a3cc688.jpg","author":"Giant Bomb","episode_count":775,"summary":"Prolific gaming news expert Jeff Grubb is here to dish out all of the hottest headlines from the around the world of video games!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T06:18:25.571114+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/game-mess-mornings-5219402"},"episode":{"title":"Blizzard Is Reportedly Xbox's \"Top-Performing\" Studio Thanks to Overwatch and Diablo","slug":"blizzard-is-reportedly-xbox-s-top-performing-studio-thanks-to-overwatch-and-diablo","published_at":"2026-08-10T17:54:29+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/game-mess-mornings-5219402/blizzard-is-reportedly-xbox-s-top-performing-studio-thanks-to-overwatch-and-diablo","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/game-mess-mornings-5219402","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/blizzard-is-reportedly-xbox-s-top-performing-studio-thanks-to-overwatch-and-diablo--73770062","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73770062/game_mess_mornings_8_10_26.mp3","summary":"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. Support us directly and get new episodes ad-free by signing up for Giant Bomb Premium at https://www.giantbomb.com/join Timestamps ( note, timestamps on this free version may vary greatly depending on how many ads you receive ): 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","meta_description":"Lex Luddy joins Jeff Grubb to talk about Blizzard reportedly being Xbox's \"Top-Performing\" studio thanks to Overwatch and Diablo, Valve hardware customers…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3435,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/game-mess-mornings-5219402/episodes/blizzard-is-reportedly-xbox-s-top-performing-studio-thanks-to-overwatch-and-diablo/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/game-mess-mornings-5219402/blizzard-is-reportedly-xbox-s-top-performing-studio-thanks-to-overwatch-and-diablo.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}