Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome to "WaPo Story Mode", a recurring show on Thursdays at 4 p.m. ET where the Washington Post's video game coverage team, Launcher, brings on big-name guests to discuss the top gaming news of the week and provide a quick round-up of other top stories.

In this episode, reporters Nathan Grayson, Shannon Liao and Mikhail Klimentov go over their thoughts and predictions for what's to come for gaming in 2022. Join them as they discuss unionization, esports organizations, gaming tv series like The Witcher and more!

For more video game news, be sure to go to launcher.gg , or subscribe to our channel and check back in every Thursday at 4 p.m. ET for your gaming news update!

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0:00 Loading
5:18 Breath of the Wild 2?
11:05 Covid-19 predictions
13:40 Steam Deck
14:16 Supply chain issues with consoles
30:28 More consolidation
32:54 Pandora’s Xbox
34:42 Bobby Kotick’s future
42:14 Unionization
54:03 Rapid-fire predictions
57:30 Cyberpunk revival?
1:05:00 Witcher 4 news
1:07:50 Project L/Riot MMO
1:12:14 Video game movies & TV
1:14:31 Tom Holland plays Nathan
1:18:35 Games releasing in 2022
1:19:52 Twitch predictions
1:30:00 Waluigi in Smash and other things
1:32:27 Other news
1:40:21 Headlines of the times