2025 Predictions

The DLC video game podcast is a weekly show hosted by Jeff Cannata and Christian Spicer. They cover gaming news, new releases, and have a guest on each week to share other perspectives. At the beginning of each year, the two hosts go over their major predictions in gaming for the coming year.

Starting in 2024 they invited their friend & third chair of DLC Lana Bachynski to join them in their predictions extravaganza. They pick a number of Bold predictions. Which are their maybe unlikely predictions, but still possible. And then they really go bananas with their Cool Ranch predictions. Which are completely off the wall predictions of what will happen in the coming year. Some might even say they've gone too far. In these episodes they also review their past predictions to determine if they were core-rect or if they got rekt.

This is a fan made, non-affiliated site displaying their current predictions, past predictions, and fun stats since they started doing these predictions in 2015.

Jeff "Cannasticator" Cannata

Profile image of Jeff Cannata, one of the two hosts of DLC.

Bold

  1. 1. 
    Grand Theft Auto VI pushed to 2026
  2. 2. 
    Gameplay for the Insomniac Wolverine game
  3. 3. 
    New Animal Crossing for 2025. Announcement if not release
  4. 4. 
    Sony Bend Studio announces a new game franchise. New open world IP.
  5. 5. 
    Microsoft announces a new Marvel Ultimate Alliance game

Cool Ranch

  1. 1. 
    First party Microsoft exclusive that we already know about, launches day & date on Playstation
  2. 2. 
    Xbox Series gets a Steam app, that lets you play Steam games
  3. 3. 
    Announcement or teaser of a Superman game
  4. 4. 
    Next 3D Mario game is multiplayer focused
  5. 5. 
    Astro Bot for PSVR 2 in 2025

Christian "Spicetradamus" Spicer

Profile image of Christian Spicer, one of the two hosts of DLC.

Bold

  1. 1. 
    New Steam VR hardware in 2025
  2. 2. 
    Mario Kart is a launch-window game for Switch 2
  3. 3. 
    Microsoft doubles down on cloud gaming
  4. 4. 
    Gamepass gets more expensive
  5. 5. 
    Nvidia's next gen GPUs come out, and are generally available to people who want to buy them

Cool Ranch

  1. 1. 
    Steam or Valve branded console
  2. 2. 
    New Xbox hardware is announced
  3. 3. 
    Ubisoft acquisition happens in 2025
  4. 4. 
    Insomniac game is big part of a Playstation showcase
  5. 5. 
    Wonder Woman game has a big coming out party this year.

Lana "Crystal Ballchynski" Bachynski

Profile image of Lana Bachynski, the third chair of DLC.

Bold

  1. 1. 
    Gameplay from the next Sony Santa Monica Game
  2. 2. 
    Product placement in games starts being seen more and more. Whether background items, or blatant ads
  3. 3. 
    Zelda remake of a classic for Switch 2. Such as Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask
  4. 4. 
    From Software announces Bloodborne 2
  5. 5. 
    Ubisoft merge/fold into another company

Cool Ranch

  1. 1. 
    Cross-company games industry union formed
  2. 2. 
    Game of the year is won by an indie game
  3. 3. 
    A game using Blizzard IP is built by an outside studio
  4. 4. 
    A AAA game announcement for a popular franchise from the 80s/90s that hasn't been used in games since.
  5. 5. 
    Silksong launch date is announced, and game is playable within 1 month of the announcement

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