Cohh is on vacation so this week JP and Zeke are joined by Pro-gamers DatModz and Shroud! Before getting into the games we realize how young Shroud is to everyone's despair. Then we get down and dirty with Marathon, a very good game that may be too hard for the average player. Will that hinder the game long term? Then we go deep with our time with Crimson Desert, a weirdo game for the true freaks out there!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Disneyland
3:20 - Games while podcasting
5:30 - Epic Games laying off 1000 people
14:30 - Sony raises price of PS5 and Pro
20:00 - Star Wars XCOM
23:50 - Borderlands 4
33:20 - DLSS5 slop
36:00 - Warhorse Studios switching to AI translation
47:10 - Viewbotting
1:00:30 - Marathon deep dive
1:34:40 - Steam chart andy
1:35:55 - Last Epoch
1:48:50 - Crimson Desert
2:34:00 - WoW
2:43:00 - Quarantine Zone
2:50:00 - Hellmart
3:00:10 - The next big FPS game by Shroud
3:09:25 - Shoutouts

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The AI Slop filter is coming for our video games as Nvidia unveils what their new frame gen tech DLSS 5 will be and how it will YASSIFY everything! Fun! Jeff Kaplan has a tell all about his new game The Legend of California as well as his decades long career at Blizzard. Krafton loses big in their court case with Subnautica 2 devs: Unknown Worlds. We go long on our time with Crimson Desert, a flawed janky mess of an awesome game. Marathon releases a raid, and much more!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Existence
7:00 - DLSS5 Slop
13:20 - "The Gamers are wrong"
28:50 - Jeff Kaplan interview
34:00 - The Legend of California
37:00 - Slay the Spire 2
50:25 - Krafton loses in court
55:00 - Storage chests
58:40 - Crimson Desert
2:15:00 - AI assets in Crimson Desert
2:28:40 - Marathon raid
2:34:10 - Monster Hunter Stories 3
2:40:30 - Pokémon Pokopia
2:49:00 - Anime tourists
2:52:10 - Movie minute
2:52:40 - Zeke's gaming minute
2:55:45 - Shoutouts

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Angela Sant'Albano & Nick Apostolides, the voices & mocap actors of Grace Ashcroft & Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil Requiem, join us this week to talk shop, acting and mocap in video games, and horror voice acting.Then we get into the news with Highguard shutting down, Sony halting PC ports of their single-player games, and the next XBOX is announced? Games this week: Legacy of Kain Defiance, Where Winds Meet, more Mewgenics, Docked, Path of Exile and more!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Lizz & Faetality are here
8:40 - Thoughts on RE9
13:00 - Nick and Angela are here
16:00 - Angela's journey to Resident Evil
30:10 - Scream queen
41:00 - LEON S. KENNEDY
1:00:00 - Getting into video game VA
1:05:20 - Favorite RE games
1:08:50 - You have to enjoy voice acting
1:13:20 - Continuing to VA for games?
1:24:00 - Slay the Spire 2
1:28:10 - Highguard shutting down
1:37:20 - Marathon
1:46:00 - Sony pulling away from PC
1:51:30 - Project Helix
1:54:00 - GDC starts this week
2:02:30 - Legacy of Kain Defiance
2:11:00 - Lollipop Chainsaw
2:14:00 - Fatal Frame
2:16:40 - Even more Mewgenics
2:18:50 - Docked
2:23:20 - Vampire Crawlers
2:24:40 - The Dungeon Experience
2:27:00 - Path of Exile Mirage
2:35:10 - Fears to Fathom
2:39:50 - Shoutouts

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Zeke is out enjoying life so we brought in a couple of ringers: Sodapoppin and Annie Fuchsia! We all collectively find out we've been streaming a really long time. We chat about loot boxes, AI invading game reviews, game length, our time with the new Resident Evil Requiem, a break down of the new World of Warcraft expansion; Midnight. We get some time to play Marathon and much more!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Zeke is having fun
1:50 - Soda and Annie are here
10:20 - Cohh roots
13:50 - New York sues Valve
20:30 - AI reviews
26:30 - Resident Evil Requiem
45:00 - Streaming and game length
52:00 - Constantly restarting Baldur's Gate 3
58:20 - New Pokémon
1:04:00 - Wolverine
1:08:00 - Catching Soda up on current events
1:24:00 - World of Warcraft Midnight
1:44:40 - Addons
1:56:00 - WoW Lore
2:02:00 - Annie's WoW Housing tour
2:14:00 - REANIMAL
2:15:40 - Mewgenics
2:18:50 - MARATHON
2:39:30 - God of War TV Show
2:46:00 - Shoutouts

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Another week, another day of industry changing news as Heads of XBOX Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond resign from Microsoft, were they ousted, what's the future of XBOX? In the bad news competition, Sony shutters Bluepoint Studios, makers of the Demon's Souls remake and Shadow of the Colossus remake. In the games portion we get spooky with REANIMAL and Creature Kitchen, return to Helldivers 2, roll some dice in Rune Dice and wonder if Twitch is a lunch room bully?

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Cat tower
6:45 - Xbox conspiracies
11:20 - Phil Spencer retires
36:00 - Sony shuts down Bluepoint
48:00 - Mewgenics
51:10 - Slay the Spire 2 early access
54:30 - League of Legends gets voice chat
1:10:20 - New TES6 news
1:20:30 - Nioh 3
1:28:50 - 9 years of NieR Automata
1:34:50 - Stop Killing Games
1:36:00 - Discord age verification
1:45:00 - Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
1:46:10 - REANIMAL
1:54:10 - Rune Dice
2:00:00 - Windrose
2:09:25 - Replaced demo
2:12:40 - Creature Kitchen
2:25:10 - Helldivers 2
2:32:40 - Core Keeper expansion
2:38:00 - The Eternal Life of Goldman
2:42:30 - Yakuza Kiwami 3
2:48:00 - Twitch bans streamer for being a kid
2:55:30 - Shoutouts

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We're joined by Will Powers - Marketing Director for Pearl Abyss this week to chat about the challenges of creating a game as large and varied as Crimson Desert. Then we get into the mass layoffs of the devs behind Highguard as well as 2XKO. Chat about cats and then all the announcements from the recent Sony Playstation State of Play!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Fixing audio
6:30 - Will Powers from Pearl Abyss is here
14:00 - What is Crimson Desert?
1:48:00 - Highguard devs have mass layoffs
2:01:00 - The Ashes of Creation situation is crazy
2:11:20 - Mewgenics
2:18:50 - 2XKO layoffs
2:22:20 - Sony State of Play
2:55:50 - Shoutouts

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We're joined by Rami Ismail today to talk about Olympic speed skating, what's going on with Ashes of Creation and "The Bubble." Guerrilla Games announces a new multiplayer Horizon game, Overwatch returns to its roots and we're excited for Mewgenics! Games this week: Cairn, Nioh 3 and Chilla Art's Umigari!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Sports!
5:00 - Rami is NOT late
9:00 - Winter Olympics
15:00 - What's happening with Ashes of Creation
20:00 - Horizon Hunters Gathering
41:10 - Overwatch 2... 1?
54:40 - Mewgenics reviews
1:00:20 - Cairn
1:33:20 - Nioh 3
1:55:00 - AI game design
2:15:40 - The bubble
2:35:00 - Extreme fishing
2:41:00 - Zeke's indie life
2:50:30 - Umigari
2:55:00 - Rami is also making a game
2:57:10 - Shoutouts

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Highguard released this week to extreme criticism, is it warranted, is there a good game there? The breaking news this week, however, is the sudden mass layoff and shuttering of Ashes of Creation studio Intrepid. Is this a uniquely bad situation or is it another failure in a long list of MMOs failing? Cohh officially announced the game he's working on: Emberville and we get some more info about his and his team's project. Nioh 3 expands into an open world, Cairn is great and more!

0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Nerd detection
11:10 - Highguard
53:20 - Ashes of Creation devs mass layoff
1:14:30 - Cohh's Emberville
1:39:00 - Nioh 3
2:06:10 - CD-Rom-a-Thon
2:24:00 - The numbers
2:28:50 - Cairn
2:44:10 - Tainted Grail
2:46:20 - Fish Hunters
2:56:10 - Shoutouts

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Back in our day we walked uphill, both ways, through the frozen snow, to bring you a podcast! This week we brace for the big reveal of Highguard happening in just a day, is this the next big thing or will become just another foot note in the long line of multiplayer shooters? XBOX had a developer direct last week and we gush over the new Fable and wonder why Game Freak doesn't make more games that don't look like Pokemon? Games this week: Hytale, MIO: Memories in Orbit, Warframe and more!

0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Cold weather
4:10 - The most hyped game Highguard launching
38:00 - Forza Horizon 6
45:00 - Kiln
50:00 - Beast of Reincarnation
1:00:00 - Fable
1:14:50 - Deadlock approaching release?
1:15:10 - Fallout season 2
1:22:00 - The Pitt
1:24:50 - Yoshi
1:26:30 - Ubisoft restructuring 
1:30:00 - AI Funny Money
1:36:00 - Arknights PayPal
1:41:40 - Twitch podcast
1:45:10 - 2XKO and Twitch
1:50:45 - Preordering Marathon installed Destiny 2
1:54:50 - Is ARC Raiders fatigue setting in?
2:00:00 - Marathon
2:04:50 - Dan is in a game!
2:08:40 - Nioh 3
2:17:20 - MIO: Memories in Orbit
2:21:00 - Hytale
2:28:40 - Abiotic Factor
2:29:30 - No Rest For The Wicked
2:35:50 - The whale
2:38:00 - Warframe
2:43:00 - Deus Ex: The Invisible War
2:52:50 - Octopath Traveler 0
2:54:50 - Heavy Metal
2:57:20 - Shoutouts

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The first real episode of 2026 is upon us. We chat about all the silly things announced at CES 2026, speedruns at AGDQ 2026, Anthem shutting down. Going over the Reddit AMA with Swen Vincke giving more insight into Divinity and their development process also is StarCraft returning? Games this week are StarRupture, Alchemy Factory, Octopath Traveler 0 and more!

0:00 - Intro
3:40 - Where Cheeks Meet
7:30 - CES 2026
18:00 - AGDQ 2026
30:00 - Anthem shutting down
32:10 - Larian Studios AMA
1:00:30 - XBOX Developer Direct announced
1:02:00 - StarCraft is back?
1:08:00 - New Game+ showcase
1:22:00 - Rumor: Fallout New Vegas Remaster
1:24:00 - Old games have no QOL
1:46:50 - StarRupture
1:59:10 - Alchemy Factory
2:06:50 - League of Legends
2:10:30 - Octopath Traver 0
2:11:40 - Trails in The Sky 1
2:26:20 - Shoutouts

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