Ep 115: Saber CEO's Outburst, Netflix Closes Studios, Star Wars Zero Company Impressions

This week, John and Niki are joined by Jesse Vitelli, fresh off a five day subathon on his [Twitch channel](twitch.tv/mamavitelli) after being laid off at Restart.Run. Together, they take a hard look at Matt Karch's history of odd behavior, Netflix's most recent studio closures, and *Star Wars Zero Company*. 00:00:00 Intro & Raising Cane's talk 00:11:25 Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch did something very weird and has done many weird things previously to this new weird thing 00:34:14 Netflix closes Night School, Moonloot, and lays off others 00:41:35 Restart.Run's remaining leadership releases a bizarre statement 00:48:23 Pokémon Pokopia sold five million copies 00:54:00 Take-Two looks to be getting deeper into simulation sports 00:56:00 *Wolverine* & *Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave* previews dropped 01:11:20 South of Midnight now listed as self-published, but is that the whole story? 01:12:55 *Esoteric Ebb* serves the best of *Disco Elysium* without some of the baggage 01:20:30 *Knytt Classic* is a faithful update of a 2006 freeware standout 01:23:27 Niki's in the *Splatoon Raiders* endgame now 01:26:55 *Star Wars Zero Company* is a lot more than a new *XCOM* 01:47:00 HIVE QUESTIONS 02:20:55 Outro Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review! We'll read it on the show and it helps us out a lot.