We're joined by Rebecca Ford, creative director of Warframe, this week to chat about having an existential crisis, before heading into group therapy. But then we get into the games! We talk Deadlock, Slay the SPire 2, 007 First Light, Path of Exile 2, and more! 

Make sure to check out our Summer of Games Showcase this week starting with the Playstation State of Play happening on June 2!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Rebb Ford is here!
5:00 - What's XBOX showing?
12:10 - Warframe/Soulframe
30:00 - Existential Crisis/viewbotting
36:00 - Warframe in 2026
45:40 - Destiny 2
58:00 - Marketing around GTA6
1:08:00 - The normies
1:14:30 - Deadlock
1:16:50 - Slay the Spire 2
1:23:00 - Boardgame commercials
1:27:00 - FFXIV: Evercold
1:29:30 - TwitchCon EU
1:36:50 - GIFs coming to Twitch Chat
1:44:30 - Viewership caps
1:57:20 - Props
1:58:00 - New expansion for The Witcher 3
2:04:00 - Steam Deck price change
2:16:40 - Grim Dawn/ Dragon Quest XII
2:17:50 - 007: First Light
2:28:50 - LEGO Batman
2:40:20 - Path of Exile 2
2:57:00 - Shoutouts

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We're joined by Gothalion this week, Twitch streamer and now CEO of a game studio: Magic Find Studio to chat about Forza Horizon 6 and eulogize the end of Destiny 2. Kingdom Come Deliverance devs; Warhorse Studios, is developing a Middle-Earth game. Rocket League upgrades to Unreal Engine 6, Lots of Warhammer, a secret No Man's Sky announcement incoming and we prepare for the Summer of Game Showcases quickly approaching. We've also played Thick as Thieves, The Adventures of Elliot, Luna Abyss and much more!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Gothalion is here
2:55 - Goth is making a video game
31:00 - Balancing game dev with streaming
32:30 - Star Citizen reaches $1b
36:00 - Warhorse doing Lord of the Rings
39:00 - No killing in Subnautica 2
42:00 - Rocket League going to UE6
45:10 - Warhammer 40K Skulls
49:00 - A secret No Man's Sky announcement?
51:50 - Destiny 2 reaches end of life
1:43:00 - The summer of game showcases
1:51:30 - Thick as Thieves
2:03:00 - The Adventures of Elliot
2:09:20 - The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot
2:15:50 - Forza Horizon 6
2:28:30 - Luna Abyss
2:41:20 - LEGO Batman
2:42:40 - Conan Exiles Enhanced
2:51:20 - Rune Dice
2:54:00 - Phonopolis
2:54:40 - Shoutouts

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We're joined by Warren Spector & Jeff Hickman to chat about their upcoming game Thick as Thieves and the very deep lore of how they both got into video games. After that we chat about our time under the sea with Subnautica 2, Zeke's time with Mixtape, and Dead as Disco and then JP's thoughts on Forza Horizon 6!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Texas Zeke
3:00 - Warren Spector and Jeff Hickman are here!
4:30 - Russian Interrogator to game dev
12:00 - Thick as Thieves 
47:00 - The MMO guy
51:00 - Dark Age of Camelot
55:00 - Warren Spector's road to game dev
1:06:10 - Common misconceptions of game dev
1:31:30 - xbox is now named XBOX!!!!!
1:32:10 - Subnautica 2 sold over 2 million
1:50:40 - Amazon cancels Lord of the Ring MMO
1:52:30 - 93% of Capcom's game sales are digital
1:53:30 - Marathon getting a PvE mode
1:54:20 - Falcom gains 1200% profit growth
1:55:00 - Cohh finished Crimson Desert I guess
2:02:50 - Stop Killing Games moves forward in California
2:04:00 - Zeke plays Mixtape
2:22:50 - Forza Horizon 6
2:32:30 - Death's Stranding 2
2:36:00 - Dead as Disco
2:39:30 - Everything is Crab
2:45:20 - Shoutouts

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Ross Scott & Pavel Zálešák from the Digital Rights Advocacy group 'Stop Killing Games' joins us this week to tell us how the campaign is going and to answer some Q&As about some common misconceptions some throw their way. Then JP and Cohh talk about JP's trip to Final Fantasy XIV's FanFest this year where they announced their new expansion Evercold. Cohh loves the new Stranger than Heaven news, everyone is in awe of Path of Exile 2, Mixtape is a vibe and much more!

0:00 - Intro
2:00 - Disc golf
4:00 - Stop Killing Games
1:23:10 - FFXIV FanFest
1:29:00 - Sony adjusts financial forecast for 2026
1:30:30 - Grand Theft Auto 6 needs to sell at least 25 million on Day 1
1:34:00 - Stranger than Heaven
1:41:00 - The new Steam Controller
1:45:30 - Path of Exile 2 0.5
2:01:00 - Death's Stranding 2
2:08:40 - SAROS
2:14:00 - Conan Exiles
2:18:30 - PRAGMATA
2:19:00 - Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred
2:32:00 - Dead as Disco
2:37:40 - Mixtape
2:39:40 - Everything is Crab
2:47:00 - Shoutouts

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The start of the Spring release fever has begun! This week the new CEO of XBOX starts promising the changes, the BAFTA Game Awards makes us wish the TGAs were more about the awards. Crimson Desert continues to sell and a new Metro game announced! We played a ton of new games this week as well such as Windrose, Replaced, Mouse: PI for Hire and another Capcom classic: PRAGMATA!

0:00 - Intro
2:00 - Corrupted saves
4:10 - Windrose selling a lot
7:00 - New Metro game
12:30 - New Gamepass
16:10 - Lana Del Ray
19:50 - The BAFTA Game Awards
31:00 - Crimson Desert Crosses 5 million
36:30 - Battlefield 6 gets a new mode
41:20 - Replaced
54:50 - Windrose
1:40:00 - PRAGMATA
1:59:30 - Mouse: PI for Hire
2:14:00 - JP killed SkyrimRP
2:24:20 - Jacksepticeye making a Bloodborne movie?
2:29:00 - Northernlion's Supercruise
2:35:50 - The Street Fighter movie
2:42:20 - Shoutouts

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Cohh becomes Florida Man on this episode after he regales us with stories from his Disney vacation before moving into the despairing news of Khazan's dev team dissolving, Rockstar suffers a data breach, and where your Kickstarter pledge to Ashes of Creation went. The Triple I Initiative gave us a very good indie game showcase, former Bethesday exec, Pete Hines hates Microsoft, Skyrim gets a multiplayer RP server and much more!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Florida Man
9:00 - Moving to Texas
12:00 - Eating healthy
17:50 - Khazan & Wuchang devs dissolved
21:00 - Data breach at Rockstar
22:40 - Ashes of Creation Kickstart money spent on chefs and TCG
26:40 - Triple I Initiative Wishlist
39:50 - Prove You're Human
43:50 - Pokémon in No Man's Sky
47:00 - Pete Hines does not like Microsoft
54:00 - More Crimson Desert
1:07:00 - Starfield launches on PS5
1:10:00 - Samson
1:20:40 - RACCOIN
1:29:00 - Soulmask
1:45:10 - Disney Extraction Shooter
1:47:40 - Skyrim RP
2:35:10 - Retro Rewind
2:45:00 - Sol Cesto
2:49:00 - Mice tech
3:01:05 - Shoutouts

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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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