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Chip and Gimpy got to hang out in person over the weekend and touched on the Halo Infinite Beta, and couch gaming with a group. Here are the highs and lows of our eventful weekend. what started out as excitement in playing games in person turned to the realization that everything sucks.

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 With the recent release of Deathloop Gimpy’s wish for a FPS with invasion mechanics is finally a reality. The boys go in on games that took another games concept and created new genres. We also speak on Microsoft developer acquisition oddity's include A Xbox Exclusive PS5 game.

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Todays podcast we talk about game emulation, and the importance of preserving gaming history.

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Gimpy starts us off today telling us that he is is starting work on a new solo game project. His first in years.

Todays episode Chip and Gimpy discuss great gameplay loops and how the developers through gameplay force players to play the game their way, and force the players to have fun.

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Chip and Gimpy discuss a little gamescom news some exciting, and one piece of news that's incredibly disappointing. Then we dive into an almost forgotten genre, stealth games, join us and jump into the history of stealth games, and where we go from here.

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Chip and Gimpy discuss the Diablo 2 remastered beta, and then jump into the fall of Konami, We go into how/why the company decided to seemingly shoot themselves in the foot and abandon gaming.

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Chip and Gimpy go in on alcoholic beverages of choice to start this free flowing update episode. Then we dive into our experience playing Splitgate the FPS that combines Halo with Portal. We wrap with Gimpy screaming at the Konami cloud in the sky.

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Gimpy shares the good news that after months of trying he finally was lucky enough to get a PS5 (disc version) he shares his thoughts so far after 1 ½ weeks of owning it.

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Kicking off season 2 Chipped Monk and Mr. Gimpy go through valves previous hardware announcements and go over the newest announcement of the Steam Deck.

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Chipped Monk and Mister Gimpy discuss the past 24 episodes, the difficulties and successes, they speak on what it takes to keep a podcast going for its first 24 hours of content on video games ranging from a budding developer standpoint, to whats going on in the industry we also revisit the “are games art debate”

Happy Season 1 thanks for sticking with us, Season 2 will be even better!

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