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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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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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