Ep. 87 of The Circle Back Podcast. The whole gang is here again and they'r all playing one of the year's biggest games in "The Last of Us Part II. Dan dipped into the stellar storytelling of "Signs of The Sojourner" and could not seem to put it down. Shelby is practicing for Drone racing with the incredible first person drone sim "Liftoff". Dan dabbled in some demos from the Steam summer event including "Gloomwood", "Disc Room", "Ynglet", and "Windjammers 2" all of which he loved. He also played a few other things that we talk about before getting into a ton of news stories. We cap it off with a super fun top 5 before wrapping up the episode. Stay safe and we hope you enjoy!

Games Discussed:

-The Last of Us Part II

-Signs of The Sojourner

-HyperDot

-Hardspace: Shipbreaker

-Gunfire Reborn

-Liftoff

Ep. 86 of The Circle Back Podcast. The whole crew is here and ready to talk a whole lot about some videogames. Dan played and finished "If Found..." and loved it as well as some "Legends of Runeterra". Shelby finished "Murder by Numbers" and realized he's a nonogram savant. Dan in the mean time played a ton of games, most notably two that he says are some of his favorites of the year in "Signs of The Sojourner" and "Umurangi Generation". We then do a deep dive on the entire Playstation 5 "The Future of Gaming" event going through each announcement and trailer. We end the episode with a couple of news items that caught our eye. We hope you enjoy, stay safe, and keep fighting, never let them tell you when to stop- Black Lives Matter.

Games Discussed:

-Monster Train

-Sludge Life

-Umurangi Generation

-Darkest Dungeon: The Butcher's Circus

-Valorant

-Lonely Mountains Downhill

-Signs of The Sojourner

-If Found...

-Legends of Runeterra

-Murder by Numbers

Ep. 85 of The Circle Back Podcast. The whole gang is here and they've got some great games to talk about including Riot's incredible ccg "Legends of Runeterra" hitting 1.0, a very fun co-op dwarf mining game "Deep Rock Galactic", a fast-paced excellent 2D dogfighting jet game "Jet-Lancer", a beautiful, heartfelt, intimate story about a transgender woman returning to her hometown after graduating college "If Found...", and a bit more on XCOM: Chimera Squad and Murder by Numbers respectively. We then dig into a few short news items including a new Paper Mario game out in July,  Ghost of Tsushima's first gameplay reveal, and the "coming surprisingly soon" 1.0 launch for Valorant on June 2nd. Next we do a sure-to-be very controversial top 5 most overrated games of all time. We cap it off with an announcement of our new podcast, a video-game book club style show where we bring on some new voices and all play the same game over the span of the month and reconvene to dive in on our thoughts! The first episode will be out in the beginning of July and is the original Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic! So play along if you feel like doing so, we're really looking forward to it! We hope you enjoy, and stay safe!

Games Discussed:

-XCOM: Chimera Squad

-Deep Rock Galactic

-Legends of Runeterra

-Jet-Lancer

-If Found...

-Murder by Numbers

A deep dive into the story of Final Fantasy VII Remake. We hope you enjoy!

Ep. 84 of The Circle Back Podcast. The entire crew is here again! Dan and Shelby are still working on wrapping up Final Fantasy VII Remake  but Dan sure has played a lot of other games to make up for it including the beautiful 16-bit looking Final Fantasy Tactics meets Chrono Trigger "Horizon's Gate". A few quick new items including Animal Crossing's incredible sales numbers, Xbox's first of their monthly direct-style livestreams, Tony Hawk blessing us with a dual pack of remastered classics due out later this year, and that Unreal Engine 5 gameplay demo that has everyone buzzing.  We cap it off with a super fun Top 5 and Bottom 5 videogame locations to live in in real life.  We hope you enjoy and stay safe!

Games Discussed:

-Final Fantasy VII Remake

-XCOM: Chimera Squad

-Gears Tactics

-Moving Out

-Streets of Rage 4

-Horizon's Gate

Ep. 83 of The Circle Back Podcast. We have the whole crew here again and there are a lot of games to discuss! Everyone's playing Final Fantasy VII Remake, Dan got a double dose of new tactics games in XCOM: Chimera Squad and Gears Tactics, and there are a few other games we dabbled in. A few quick news hit follow including the updated release dates for The Last of Us Part II and Ghost of Tsushima, the leaking of TLOU2 story scenes, and the incredible Travis Scott concerts in Fortnite. We wrap things up with a Top 5 jumps in video games which was a ton of fun. We hope you enjoy, and stay safe!

Games Discussed:

-Final Fantasy VII Remake

-Filament

-Gears Tactics

-XCOM: Chimera Squad

-Valorant

-Murder by Numbers 

Ep. 82 of The Circle Back Podcast. We have the full crew again and we have been playing some games! We then jump into some news hits including the portal turret of controllers, a new Rogue Legacy, a PVP Darkest Dungeon expansion, Gearbox continuing their stellar track record, RE VIllage, RE 4 Remake, and the Last of Us Part II delay. We cap it off with another super fun Top 5. We Hope you enjoy, and stay safe!

Games Discussed:

-Doom Eternal

-One Step From Eden

-Animal Crossing: New Horizons

-Resident Evil 3 Remake

-Final Fantasy VII Remake

-Valorant

-Gears of War 2

-Gears of War 3

Ep. 81 of the Circle Back Podcast. The crew is all together again, still in quarantine so again, sorry about the varying audio quality! We had some more time  with many of the games from last time, with a couple of new arrivals sprinkled in. We then jump into some news including the reception of Valve's newest Half-Life game, RE3 remake reviews, and Rumors about a whole bunch of old Mario games coming to switch in the form of remasters later this year. We then kick off the first edition of our newest segment Top 5, Bottom 5! We hope you enjoy, and stay safe!

Games Discussed:

-Doom Eternal

-Animal Crossing: New Horizons

-Murder by Numbers

-Ori and the Will of the Wisps

-Metal Gear Solid 5

-Gears of War

-Gears of War 2

-Moonlighter

Ep. 80 of the Circle Back Podcast. The gang is all together albeit from their respective abodes (apologies for the audio quality, we did the best that we could!) due to the coronavirus situation. and boyyyy we have a lot of games to discuss! We then dip into a few quick news hits including E3 cancellation and subsequent prognosticating regarding future 2020 video game releases being affected by the pandemic. We cap it off with some really unintelligible tech spec comparisons between the Xbox Series X and PS5. We hope you enjoy, and please stay safe out there!

Games Discussed:

-Kentucky Route Zero

-Fire Emblem: Three Houses

-Gears of War

-Roundguard

-Murder by Numbers

-Yes, Your Grace

-Doom Eternal

-Ori and the Will of the Wisps

-Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Ep. 79 of the Circle Back Podcast. Shelby is out this week but luckily Dan played a little bit of a lot of things as the great gaming drought of 2020 rolls into a close. Also lots of exciting demos! We jump into a few quick news hits including a release date for Ghost of Tsushima, the cancellation of GDC, and Riot's Valorant reveal. We cap it off by having some fun prognosticating about the cast of the newly announced The Last of Us HBO series. We hope you enjoy!

Games Discussed:

-Two Point Hospital

-Death Crown

-World of Horror

-Beautiful Desolation

-Final Fantasy VII Demo

-Backbone Prologue (demo)

-A Space for the Unbound Prologue (demo)