The Dropshot

The Dropshot

The Dropshot is a weekly gaming news and culture podcast hosted by Casey, AKA Razinon, and Jakedown. Casey and Jake are long-time gaming buddies who have strong opinions they are all too happy to share with the internet. The podcast is streamed live at youtube.com/thedropshotpodcast and is also available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit TheDropshot.com for links to all of the podcast's varied content, including the vibrant Discord community, the Patreon for bonus content, and much more.

Episodes

Episode 599: WARDOGS Alpha Review: Battlefield But Dying Actually Matters

August 10, 2026 • 141 mins
Imagine Battlefield, but dying matters. That's the WARDOGS closed alpha in one sentence — and after a weekend in it, we're calling it the most polished alpha we've ever played. WARDOGS is Bulkhead and Team17's 100-player tactical shooter: three factions, one randomized control zone, first side to 100 points wins. You start with $10,000, you buy your loadout from in-game vendors, and when you die you lose the gear AND the m...
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Episode 598: Saudi Arabia Bought EA — And Gamers Are Mad About a Camera

August 3, 2026 • 127 mins
On Tuesday, Electronic Arts stops being a public company. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners are closing a $55 billion all-cash buyout — the largest leveraged buyout of a public company in history — and PIF walks away with 93.4% of Madden, FIFA, Apex, The Sims, Battlefield and BioWare. So we spent half the episode on what that actually means: what going private do...
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Episode 597: WARDOGS Looks Incredible... Then They Got Banned On Twitch

July 27, 2026 • 105 mins
WARDOGS ran its first ever gameplay livestream this week and it went about as well as you'd expect from a studio full of guys in their late twenties: the alpha codes were a QR-code disaster, the stream started two hours late, and it ended with a Twitch ban for throwing a sex toy across the room. And yet — the actual gameplay looked incredible. We break down everything we saw: the enormous map, the three-team control zone loop...
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Episode 596: MW4 Gameplay Reveal: Kill Block, Recoil Backlash & the DMZ 2 Problem

July 20, 2026 • 106 mins
Infinity Ward just had its biggest Modern Warfare 4 reveal week yet — and the community immediately found the flaws. We break down everything shown at the MW4 creator event and Fanatics Fest: the Kill Block modular map with 500+ configurations, the gunplay reveal and the instant visual recoil backlash, VFX masking, no-bloom hipfire, doors, takedowns, proximity chat, and the Aston Martin Dreadnought that quietly confirmed Warz...
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Episode 595: Bethesda Layoffs, Black Flag Resynced & Tarkov Kord Breach

July 13, 2026 • 112 mins
Black Flag Resynced just became the biggest Assassin's Creed launch in history — and it's a remake of a 13-year-old game with mixed Steam reviews. The boys break down the day-one microtransaction backlash, whether the remake gold rush is good for gaming, and which classics deserve the full ground-up treatment next. Then it gets heavier: Microsoft's July layoff wave hit Bethesda and ZeniMax hard, and Raz makes the case that...
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Episode 594: The Steam Machine Is Weaker Than a PS5 (And Costs 2x)

July 6, 2026 • 106 mins
Valve's Steam Machine reviews are in — and the verdict is brutal: by most measures it's slightly less powerful than a base PS5 while costing more than double. We break down the benchmarks, why Valve went semi-custom on the chips, and whether "access to the entire Steam library" is worth the price of admission. Before that, we go deep on Escape from Tarkov's first-ever season, Cord Breach — the new seasonal character sys...
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Episode 593: GTA 6 Is $100 For a Code in a Box (And You'll Buy It)

June 29, 2026 • 100 mins
GTA 6 pre-orders are live, the price is confirmed, and the internet is melting down — so naturally that's the whole episode. Raz and Jake break down the $80 standard / $100 Ultimate pricing, the "physical copy" that's really just a download code in a box with no disc, and whether you're actually losing anything (spoiler: lending to your buddies, and not much else). Then it's the free-market case for why $80 is eminently fair,...
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Episode 592: Halo on PlayStation, GTA 6 Pre-Orders & WARDOGS Killcam Drama

June 22, 2026 • 94 mins
Halo is on PlayStation. Let that sink in. On this one we get into Halo: Campaign Evolved — the full Unreal Engine 5 remake landing on PS5, Xbox and PC on July 28 — and why cutting the multiplayer to protect the "next mainline Halo" might be the dumbest part of the whole thing. Plus the AI controversy Halo Studios can't stop being squirrely about. Then it's GTA 6: pre-orders go live June 25, November 19 release, no PC...
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Episode 591: Warzone Is an Abusive Ex & Other Truths

June 15, 2026 • 114 mins
Jake's sick, Raz is recovered, and karma is real — so we kept it loose and answered your questions from the Discord this week. We get into whether Apex hitting all-time-high player counts means anything for a Warzone comeback (short version: Warzone is the abusive ex who shows up with roses), why Zelda is a children's game, the most overrated franchises in gaming, when a game stops being a game and becomes a simulator (Tar...
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Episode 590: This is not God of War

June 8, 2026 • 89 mins
It's the summer of the delay. This week Raz and Jake break down two tactical shooters moving in opposite directions — Hell Let Loose: Vietnam getting pushed back to August after a rough beta, and Wardogs pulling its early access UP (something you basically never see) — and what each move says about a studio's confidence. Then it's Summer Game Fest: the turn-based Star Wars Zero Company that's right up Raz's alley, th...
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Episode 589: Modern Warfare 4 Looks Good — We Still Want It to Fail

June 1, 2026 • 107 mins
Modern Warfare 4 got revealed, 007 First Light is finally out, and the Hell Let Loose: Vietnam beta dropped — so naturally we spent an episode on the franchise we swore off, a Bond game that isn't quite Hitman, and a beta that can't hold a frame rate. We get into the HLL: Vietnam open beta (the rubber-banding, the keybinds that won't stick, the studio's track record) and whether it's worth grabbing at the June 18 launch. T...
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Episode 588: We Put 27 Hours Into Forza Horizon 6 (And We Have Opinions)

May 25, 2026 • 114 mins
Forza Horizon 6 dropped in Japan and we both went deep — Raz put in 27 hours, Jake is still learning. This week we break down everything: who this game is actually for, whether you need to be a car guy to enjoy it, and whether the critics are right about the Metacritic 92. We go hard on the manual vs. automatic debate (Jake is on manual with clutch, Raz is on automatic — and Jake has opinions about that). We talk tun...
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Episode 587: Stop Killing Games: The Law That Could Change Everything

May 18, 2026 • 103 mins
California's Stop Killing Games bill just cleared its first major hurdle — and if it becomes law, publishers won't be able to just flip the switch on your games anymore. We break down what the bill actually says, why the gaming industry is quietly panicking, and whether it'll even survive long enough to matter. Then: Subnautica 2 launched in Early Access and immediately broke Steam records for the franchise — 1 milli...
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Episode 586: The Gaming Industry Is Cooked (Sony, GTA 6, UFOs)

May 10, 2026 • 127 mins
Sony just wrote off $765 million on Bungie — and somehow that's not even the wildest thing that happened in gaming this week. We break down what PlayStation's impairment loss actually means for Marathon, whether Xbox has quietly become just a publishing label, and why the GTA 6 PC delay is a deliberate cash grab no matter what Take-Two's CEO says. Plus: Tarkov is officially going the live service route (RIP), GameStop trie...
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Episode 585: GTA 6 Is Going to Break the Internet and Nobody Is Ready For It

May 3, 2026 • 110 mins
The boys talk the news of the week in gaming including a substantial amount of time on the much-anticipated GTA 6. 0:00 — Intro 5:00 — Format explanation: public episodes vs. Patreon 5:58 — Grey Zone Warfare / Tarkov fail story 9:10 — Active Matter extraction shooter preview 15:44 — Black Ops 7 review bombing + AI in game assets controversy 27:59 — Windows Recall (K2) / Microsoft bloatwar...
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Episode 584: A New Direction for the Podcast

May 1, 2026 • 50 mins
Big news. Exciting changes. L Call of Duty. W Claude. Big announcement in this one take a listen. The podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and ad-free & early access versions - as well as bonus episodes - are available to all of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot) supporters. We stream the podcast live on our website (https://www.thedropshot.com/live), on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/thed...
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Episode 583: RIP Call of Duty on Gamepass

April 24, 2026 • 51 mins
The boys talk the news of the week including Activision's decision to take new Call of Duty titles off of Gamepass for a full year after release. The podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and ad-free & early access versions - as well as bonus episodes - are available to all of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot) supporters. We stream the podcast live on our website (https://www.thedropshot.com/l...
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Episode 582: Seek and Ye Shall Find

April 12, 2026 • 67 mins
The boys answer some fire questions. The podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and ad-free & early access versions - as well as bonus episodes - are available to all of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot) supporters. We stream the podcast live on our website (https://www.thedropshot.com/live), on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/thedropshotpodcast), and on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/thedrop...
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Episode 581: Season 3 is Here!

April 10, 2026 • 48 mins
The boys talk a bit about Season 3 amongst other things like Artemis. First impressions potentially forthcoming on #582. The podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and ad-free & early access versions - as well as bonus episodes - are available to all of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot) supporters. We stream the podcast live on our website (https://www.thedropshot.com/live), on YouTube (https:/...
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Episode 580: It's Time...

March 29, 2026 • 61 mins
The boys do an ominous episode... The podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and ad-free & early access versions - as well as bonus episodes - are available to all of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot) supporters. We stream the podcast live on our website (https://www.thedropshot.com/live), on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/thedropshotpodcast), and on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/thedropsho...
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