As we prep for the State of Play today, we talk about the games we played this week, and hit the news about all the Warlocks coming to all the Diablos. Highguard and 2XKO getting big layoffs, and the upcoming Baldur’s Gate 3 TV show!

Games Played This Week

Shared Play

- Jon & Beau: Mewgenics

Scott

- Animal Crossing (on Switch 2)

- Goblin Sushi

- V-Rally 4

Jon

- Mewgenics

- Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Beau

- Yakuza 3

- Marathon

- Crimson Desert

- Game with Balls

- Ravenswatch (as Merlin)

- Skate Story

- Overwatch

- Enshrouded (Solo)

- Deadlock

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Overwatch might be making a big play with some re-branding, a slew of new heroes, and loads more. Will it put things back on top for the team shooter to beat? We talk about that, plus the Ashes of Creation mess, Steam hardware talk from Valve, and what might be the end of all things Outer Worlds.

GAMES PLAYED

- The Midnight Walk (Scott)

- Butcher's Creek (Scott)

- LUNARK (Scott)

- Resident Evil 2 (Jon)

- Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (Jon)

- Super Nintendo (Jon)

- Pirate Yakuza (Beau)

- Overwatch (Beau)

- Valheim (Beau)

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So, now that Highguard is out, what the hell is it? We have takes. Also, the games of Feb, new Mario trailers, Dispatch censorship worries, Hasbro up to no good, Bobby with a Mini Instance chat about the Midnight pre-patch and upcoming launch in WoW, all the games we played and more!

Shared Play

- Highguard 

Scott

- V Rising

- Caravan SandWitch

Jon

- Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth

Beau

- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords

- Cobalt Core

- Jump Space

- Enshrouded

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Let’s talk about the Xbox showcase today, as well as the dust up over CDProjekt Red and VR mods. Plus RE getting yet another remake, Highguard getting a freebie, Marathon maybe doing ok afterall, and Nintendo getting you guy another weird toy. 

GAMES PLAYED:

SCOTT

Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster 

Fire Emblem: Engage 

Terra Pit

JONI 

Final Fantasy VII Remake

BEAU 

Elden Ring 

Shinobi 

Guild Wars Reforged 

Pirate Yakuza 

Heroes of the Storm 

Peak

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January Releases: Let's mostly focus on Animal Crossing and FFVII Remake for Switch 2, plus Code Vein 2 and Highguard. (yeah, we kinda forgot about Highguard too.)

StarCraft Shooter coming to Blizzcon? It might be Blizzard’s third attempt at a SC shooter, reportedly an open-world project led by Dan Hay (Far Cry fame).

Other stuff: Awesome Games Done Quick, a Starfield Star Wars conversion, and FF Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles hitting 1 million players.

We discuss games we played this week, including PlippUp, Fallout 4/New Vegas, Trails in the Sky, The Séance of Blake Manor, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, Voidigo and beating Powerwash Simulator 2. 

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Diablo IV: Both Scott and Beau are back in for Season 11. Scott’s "Hot Take" is that the game is officially "very good now”, and he does not care who knows it. (Paladin to 46); Beau claims it’s the best season of "Diablo 3" yet. (lol)

Scott: Revisiting Overload (on sale), playing Escape Room Simulator 2, and starting Banquet for Fools.

Jon: Reached the new area in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and is impressed by the visuals.

Beau: Mostly Jump Space outside of D4 play. 

And a CRAP ton of your emails and texts for our last episode of 2025!

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Get your ‘500+ Episodes’ mugs at Frogpants.shop now before its too late!. We recapped The Game Awards: Jon loved Resident Evil Requiem, Scott is into Total War Warhammer 40k, and Beau liked Gang of Dragon. We mostly bounced off Highguard.

News: Steam Winter Sale is live. Fallout Season 2 has started. We discussed Netflix buying WB (details at core.show). Supervive is shutting down after 7 months.

Played: Scott is on Path of Exile 2 and Mutant Football League 2. Jon is trying demos like Pragmata and back in FFXIV. Beau is on Witcher 3 and other sick-friendly games this week.

Ozzfudd notes Scott can finish Far Cry 4 and 5 in minutes via secret endings. Just another Nick suggests Super Fantasy Kingdom. Email us at [email protected]! 

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