Cohh and Zeke return from a weekend of sunshine and fish just in time for Twitch severely restructuring their VOD system, NetEase restructuring, Hades 2 updating and more! We also have a long conversation about the trap of rushing video games and a deep dive into our time with Avowed!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Blaze it
6:00 - Small burn
12:40 - Aquariums
16:00 - Twitch changing VODs
44:00 - NetEase lays off support staff
56:50 - Hades 2 gets a new update
1:04:00 - Trying to rush games
1:08:00 - Monster Train 2 announced
1:10:20 - Chris Wilson has left GGG?
1:16:55 - Avowed
2:11:50 - Steam NEXT Fest returns
2:13:10 - Roadcraft
2:24:00 - Shoutouts

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We're honored to have Obsidian Games' Carrie Patel, Game Director for Avowed, return on the eve of their game launch to share our early thoughts and answer our most pressing questions! We're also joined by special guests DansGaming and Gothalion to chat about the recent Playstation State of Play, Skibidi toilet horror stories, ending the debate on Overwatch 2 vs Marvel Rivals and much more!

0:00 - Intro
1:50 - Carrie Patel is back!
4:15 - Launching games
5:50 - Game reviews
10:00 - Writing with established lore
21:45 - Garrus
25:50 - Tips & Tricks
28:00 - Build variety
33:40 - Level design
45:50 - Why the drastic change from Pillars of Eternity to Avowed?
48:10 - Will this lead to Pillars of Eternity 3?
49:00 - Dodger's questions
51:00 - Mod support?
58:55 - Our time with Avowed
1:05:20 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
1:19:00 - Art Director of Half-Life 2 - Viktor Antanov passed away
1:19:50 - Borderlands 4
1:24:10 - Skibidi Toilet
1:27:00 - Saros 
1:29:30 - Tides of Annihilation
1:31:25 - Lies of P: Overture
1:39:25 - Monster Hunter World has sold a lot recently
1:46:10 - Overwatch 2 vs Marvel Rivals
1:55:40 - Elden Ring Nightreign
2:07:00 - Love and Deepspace
2:14:00 - Warframe
2:19:40 - Destiny 2
2:22:40 - Civilization VII
2:24:10 - VRChat gooning
2:32:20 - Goth is making a game
2:35:10 - BREAKING: Rainbow Six Siege X
2:39:50 - Path of Exile 2
2:42:20 - No Man's Sky
2:44:00 - Shoutouts

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We're finally blessed with the presence of Dodger this week to chat about how getting old is super weird, another pitch for Tub Grub, being on LSF, League of Legends spreading, Monster Hunting and more! We also get the lowdown on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, indie darlings, retro games and a very extended look into VRChat.

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - The times are changing
6:00 - LSF
10:00 - Tub grub
15:30 - Indie games
24:40 - PSN down for 20 hours
27:00 - Civilization VII
32:00 - Sworn
47:10 - GTA6 still on track to release in 2025
48:00 - Borderlands
52:00 - The Switch 
54:00 - Avowed
58:20 - Battlefield Labs
1:09:20 - Monster Hunter Wilds approaching
1:17:00 - The League virus
1:23:00 - Riot removes F2P features
1:34:00 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
1:59:20 - Ender Magnolia
2:08:20 - Is This Game Trying to Kill Me?
2:10:00 - Pitching Dodger games
2:17:10 - Urban Myth Dissolution Center
2:23:30 - VRChat
2:39:00 - CD-Rom-a-thon
2:47:00 - Shoutouts

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We're joined by Farm boy Strippin this week to take stock of all the games releasing in the month of February and being on a farm! But first an update from the front lines of the ongoing Bronze Wars in League of Legends, getting influenced into playing No Man's Sky, more layoffs and more OnlyFangs drama. Games this week: Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Monster Hunter Wilds and much more!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Bronze Wars
4:00 - Apples
7:00 - Spider Facts
14:00 - Wayne June - The voice of Darkest Dungeon passed away
17:00 - More Ubisoft layoffs
26:20 - No Man's Sky Worlds 2
44:00 - Next Path of Exile 1 league delayed indefinitely
54:00 - Parenting
1:07:40 - Bioware layoffs
1:14:40 - PSN changes for PC
1:19:20 - Baldur's Gate 3 Update 8
1:24:00 - 5090s
1:27:50 - Midnight Society shutsdown
1:29:00 - WoW drama
1:36:00 - The February games onslaught
2:46:00 - Why is Marvel Rivals engaging?
2:52:30 - Shoutouts

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Crendor and Jesse Cox join JP and Zeke this week to chat about leaving social media, showers, eating in the bath, Rumble Packs and Home Improvement? Of course we also chat about the recent XBOX Developer Direct that gave us release dates for DOOM The Dark Ages, Claire Obscura Expedition 33, South of Midnight & revealed Ninja Gaiden 4!

0:00 - Intro
0:55 - What are intros?
7:00 - Social media
13:00 - Rain Wind Fire
22:30 - Cox & Crendor
29:00 - Home Improvement
39:00 - Top 10 Most Pointless
50:20 - XBOX Developer Direct
1:35:00 - Console add-ons
1:45:40 - EA loses a lot of money
2:04:20 - Warhammer 40k - Rogue Trader hits 1 million sold
2:06:25 - Resident Evil 4 Remake sold less than 10K on iOS
2:09:00 - The Video Game History Foundation makes digital collection public
2:22:50 - Needy Streamer Overload hits 2 million sold
2:28:00 - Home Improvement (again)
2:36:39 - Crendor's games
2:43:00 - Showers
2:50:00 - Tub grub
3:02:00 - A conversation about orgies
3:08:10 - Shoutouts

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We're joined in the first half by Rebel Wolves - Creative Director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz and Writer Ariana Siarkiewicz - developers of the just announced game Blood of the Dawnwalker! We chat about the narrative ambitions of the game, and what a narrative sandbox really means. In the back half we get into some of the news such as the Switch 2 being officially revealed, TikTok being banned and unbanned. Our roach expert Cohh weighs in on the recent Twitch drama and POE2 drama. Games we're playing: Dynasty Warriors Origins, The First Berserker Khazan demo, Indiana Jones, Oni and more!

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Cats
1:55 - Interview with Rebel Wolves (Blood of the Dawnwalker devs)
13:20 - What is a narrative sandbox?
55:00 - Rebel Wolves shoutouts
57:40 - Knowing the people who make our games
1:00:00 - TikTok
1:05:40 - The Switch 2!
1:16:00 - PlayStation cancels more GaaS games
1:20:00 - Dragon Age: The Veilguard director leaving Bioware
1:25:00 - Studies suggest players want shorter games
1:28:30 - The First Descendant loses 96% players
1:29:50 - David Lynch passed away
1:33:40 - Roach expert Cohh
1:39:00 - Comedy stuff
1:42:50 - Shuhei Yoshida on Bloodborne
1:49:00 - Elon's maps
1:54:40 - Dynasty Warriors Origins
2:10:30 - CD-ROM-a-thon
2:35:40 - League hell
2:36:40 - The First Berserker Khazan
2:45:10 - Indiana Jones
2:47:50 - Vtuber haters
2:53:20 - Shoutouts

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Cohh and Zeke are out this week, which means it's the perfect week to bring in some vtubers: Jhinxx & Neomi (and Bruce Greene)! We ask some hard hitting questions about vtuber tech, reasons for wanting to be a vtuber and why vtubers talk about poop so often? Then we get into Nvidia's new AI initiative and some of the games we've been playing that includes a lot of Marvel Rivals!

0:00 - Intro
1:22 - Vtubers
7:40 - Vtuber tech
19:35 - Why choose a virtual model?
32:00 - VRChat
46:25 - New Years resolutions
48:00 - Game of the Year
55:20 - League grinding
55:55 - Stellar Blade devs get bonuses 
56:35 - Marvel Rivals player retention
1:01:20 - Switch 2 announcement imminent?
1:09:10 - Musk is a fraud (to the surprise of no one)
1:13:20 - Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed again
1:17:30 - Tencent is a military company?
1:19:45 - Nvidia and AI
1:40:50 - AGDQ raises 2.6 million
1:43:40 - It takes 36 days to unlock a single hero in League?
1:46:00 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
1:52:00 - The Closing Shift
1:57:40 - Project Zomboid
2:03:00 - WoW Hardcore
2:07:50 - Balatro
2:09:00 - Fast Food Simulator
2:16:45 - Helldivers 2
2:25:00 - Marvel Rivals
2:38:30 - Ys
2:39:00 - Are vtubers anime?
2:42:00 - Shoutouts

 

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It's time for our extremely objective list of the top games of 2024! Much deliberation and brain power was used in the making of these lists to give you the most accurate assessment of what games are the best in 2024!

0:00 - Intro

2:55 - Games We're Playing

19:32 - Our GOTY begins!

20:24 - Favorite New IP

30:33 - Favorite Multiplayer

39:52 - Favorite Writing

49:20 - Favorite Art Style

55:05 - Favorite Music

1:00:46 - Favorite Sound Design

1:07:51 - Favorite Character

1:19:11 - Favorite Performance

1:31:12 - Intermission

1:36:11 - Favorite Moment

1:45:52 - Favorite Feature

1:57:01 - Biggest Surprise

2:07:46 - Biggest Disappointment

2:20:01 - Games We Wished We Played

2:28:16 - Most Anticipated Game of 2025

2:35:34 - Top 3 Games Streamed

2:37:07 - Our Top 10 Games of 2024

3:52:48 - Shoutouts

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We're joined by Warren Spector and Greg LoPiccolo to chat about their new multiplayer immersive sim: Thick as Thieves! After that we ask Cohh how he can split up a family of kittens before getting into our discussions of The Game Awards and our thoughts on Path of Exile 2 (so far)!

0:00 - Intro
1:22 - Interview with Warren Spector and the Thick as Thieves devs
26:00 - What's an immersive sim?
48:10 - Interview over
56:50 - Stream together
1:05:00 - The Twitch Mobile app still sucks
1:08:00 - The Game Awards... Controversies?
1:16:00 - Astro Bot wins GOTY at TGA
1:18:40 - Wukong devs criticize TGA
1:21:00 - NFT cats
1:25:10 - Real cats
1:28:00 - Bungie hires fans to save money
1:34:30 - Publisher won't commit to a 2025 schedule until GTA6 announces
1:37:50 - Path of Exile 2
2:00:05 - Box opening
2:23:00 - Dropped Frames GOTY vote
2:25:50 - Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2 
2:27:40 - Zeke plays a ton of games
2:44:50 - Metaphor: ReFantazio
2:48:20 - Shoutouts

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It's been a crazy week for game releases! JP has been deep into Path of Exile 2, luckily we've brought in a ringer with GassyMexican to give us the lowdown on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Marvel Rivals!

0:00 - Intro
2:20 - The week of games
2:50 - AI emotes
9:00 - Merged chat
22:40 - More people watch games than play games
30:50 - OTK Winter's Game Expo
36:00 - PC Gaming Most Wanted
37:05 - The Streamer Awards
42:30 - Fortnite Ballistic
49:40 - Moonlighter 2
52:45 - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
1:30:25 - Marvel Rivals
2:09:30 - Twitter take of the week
2:12:45 - Path of Exile 2
2:50:30 - Our TGA plans
2:56:45 - Shoutouts

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