just to start out I want to wish my dad a happy birthday I hope you're having a great day let's Jump Right In huge news coming out on Marathon the director of marathon Chris Barrett has been accused of being inappropriate in the workplace he has been fired uh multiple allegations uh on top of that he basically responded with I never felt that I was being inappropriate to anybody I didn't mean to be that way so I don't know you know if we'll get more details on that but he is out as a director of marathon Amazon games and Bandai Namco have decided to end development on their MMO RPG blue protocol what really sucks about it too is the fact that people have purchased in-game currency they are not going to be getting refunded they are essentially going to be getting I believe it's like 55,000 of these uh of this currency for them to use on cosmetics and stuff like that so uh that's pretty lame however they're killing not only are they killing it over in Japan but that means obviously that it won't be coming out over in Europe or the us as well so if you're looking forward to this sad news uh for sure an interesting feature we're finding out about valves MOA deadlock apparently you can pause the game in the middle of it which is absolutely pkers to me um I don't know how long you can pause the game for or you know what it does but apparently it pauses it for everybody obviously so whoever thought to put a a pause feature in a MOA a game that takes forever uh shame on you a shame on you and your whole household and that'll do it for your gaming news don't forget subscribe to the podcast or our YouTube channel of course you can hit us up on the socials at ittybitty news or @ sm24 47 we head out to PA West tomorrow but I'll be producing content throughout the weekend looking forward make sure you check out the socials all that good stuff uh and we'll see you real soon