Dropped Frames Episode 455

Highguard released this week to extreme criticism, is it warranted, is there a good game there? The breaking news this week, however, is the sudden mass layoff and shuttering of Ashes of Creation studio Intrepid. Is this a uniquely bad situation or is it another failure in a long list of MMOs failing? Cohh officially announced the game he's working on: Emberville and we get some more info about his and his team's project. Nioh 3 expands into an open world, Cairn is great and more! 0:00 - Intro 1:40 - Nerd detection 11:10 - Highguard 53:20 - Ashes of Creation devs mass layoff 1:14:30 - Cohh's Emberville 1:39:00 - Nioh 3 2:06:10 - CD-Rom-a-Thon 2:24:00 - The numbers 2:28:50 - Cairn 2:44:10 - Tainted Grail 2:46:20 - Fish Hunters 2:56:10 - Shoutouts

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Dropped Frames Episode 455 is an episode from DroppedFrames by itmeJP.

This episode is 178:52 long.

This episode was published on Feb 2, 2026.

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