Game delays are upon us, and Battlefield 2042's delay may spell trouble for the franchise. We also discuss our favorite game environments, how we would run a dev studio, what happened to sports games, play some brand new mini-games, and more!

Gaming news, trivia, discussion, and more! Game Groofs is the weekly all-encompassing video game podcast from the Goodnight Groofs!

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:31 - Peak of the Week

4:54 - Trending Topics

7:28 - The Big Question (Game Delays & Battlefield 2042)

23:29 - Name That Dev (New Minigame!)

27:03 - The Watercooler (What We're Playing)

42:22 - Over/Under (New Minigame!)

51:03 - Audience Questions (Our Dev Studios & Sports Games)

1:09:27 - Tickle My Listicle (Favorite Game Environments)

1:22:27 - A Special Shoutout

1:24:27 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

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The PlayStation Showcase has us all super hyped! We spent a lot of time discussing the event game-by-game, then we talk console exclusives jumping to other platforms, our favorite video game peripherals, play some mini-games, and shed some light on smaller news from this week.

Gaming news, trivia, discussion, and more! Game Groofs is the weekly all-encompassing video game podcast from the Goodnight Groofs!

Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:25 - Peak of the Week

5:29 - Trending Topics

8:07 - The Big Question (PlayStation Showcase)

1:18:20 - Claim A Game

1:27:39 - The Watercooler (What We're Playing)

1:34:05 - Audience Questions (Cross-Platform Exclusives & Best Peripherals)

1:50:08 - BMK: Video Game Edition (Multiplayer Games)

1:58:08 - News Bytes (New Segment!)

2:01:24 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

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On this week's episode we talk No Man's Sky and its continuing free updates, our favorite video game soundtracks, the best games for non-gamers, Gamescom meeting expectations, play mini-games, and more!

Gaming news, trivia, discussion, and more! Game Groofs is the weekly all-encompassing video game podcast from the Goodnight Groofs!

Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:25 - Peak of the Week

6:13 - Trending Topics

9:42 - The Big Question (No Man's Sky)

27:54 - Name That Game

30:45 - The Watercooler (What We're Playing)

44:30 - The Score Is Right

1:02:13 - Audience Questions (Favorite Soundtrack & Gamescom Expectations)

1:15:04 - Tickle My Listicle (Top 3 Games For Non-Gamers)

1:33:10 - A Special Shoutout

1:36:38 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

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Could we be living in a post-E3 world, where major press conferences with big audiences are a thing of the past? We also discuss the best-looking game consoles, our desert island games, roast Nintendo, and play a ton of mini-games!

Gaming news, trivia, discussion, and more! Game Groofs is the weekly all-encompassing video game podcast from the Goodnight Groofs!

Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:29 - Peak of the Week

3:12 - Trending Topics

5:15 - The Big Question (Are Big E3 Shows Going Away?)

17:56 - Name That Game

21:51 - The Watercooler (What We're Playing)

38:55 - Claim A Game

45:25 - Audience Questions (Best-Looking Consoles & Desert Island Games)

51:32 - Cash or Trash

1:01:21 - The Roast (Nintendo)

1:02:43 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodnightGroofs

Innersloth, the dev team behind Among Us, has some beef with the new Fortnite Impostors mode. We discuss the morality behind Epic Games' move, play mini-games, talk game worlds, singleplayer spin-offs, competitive games, and more!

Gaming news, trivia, discussion, and more! Game Groofs is the weekly all-encompassing video game podcast from the Goodnight Groofs!

Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:22 - ANNOUNCEMENT

1:48 - Peak of the Week

5:21 - Trending Topics

9:06 - The Big Question (Fortnite Impostors vs Among Us)

26:44 - Name That Game

31:50 - The Watercooler (What We're Playing)

49:48 - Claim A Game

1:03:08 - Audience Questions (Game Worlds & Singleplayer Spin-Offs)

1:13:10 - Tickle My Listicle (Top 3 Competitive Games)

1:31:25 - A Special Shoutout (New Segment!)

1:33:50 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodnightGroofs

Blue Box Game Studios and Hasan Kahraman continue to tease us - despite not releasing a teaser. We finally put this topic to bed until something concrete actually comes out. We also talk about remakes and remasters, objectively bad games, pitch some new game ideas, play some mini-games, roast No Man's Sky, and much more!

Gaming news, trivia, discussion, and more! Game Groofs is the weekly all-encompassing video game podcast from the Goodnight Groofs!

Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:41 - Peak of the Week

5:15 - Trending Topics

8:18 - The Big Question (Blue Box Game Studios)

33:02 - Name That Game

36:00 - The Watercooler (What We're Playing)

58:32 - Audience Questions (Remakes & Bad Games)

1:20:29 - Pitch Meeting

1:33:01 - The Roast (No Man's Sky)

1:36:15 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

Visit https://goodnightgroofs.com/ for all of our content!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodnightGroofs

Halo Infinite may be getting a Battle Royale mode, but should it? Meanwhile, Blizzard is doing the important things and removing the /spit emote from its games and Matt finally finished Ghost of Tsushima. We talk retro consoles, virtual events, our top 3 most-played games, play some mini-games, and present the audience with a haiku.

Gaming news, trivia, discussion, and more! Game Groofs is the weekly all-encompassing video game podcast from the Goodnight Groofs!

Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:09 - Peak of the Week

4:59 - Trending Topics

7:36 - The Big Question (Halo Infinite Battle Royale)

26:33 - Name That Game

29:18 - The Watercooler (What We're Playing)

53:56 - The Score Is Right

1:07:44 - Audience Questions (Retro Consoles & Virtual Events)

1:28:56 - Tickle My Listicle (Top 3 Most-Played Games By Hour Count)

1:44:25 - A Haiku For You

1:47:00 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodnightGroofs

With a successful beta for Amazon's New World, Final Fantasy XIV riding high, Guild Wars 2 showing off their new expansion, and many others still kicking, are we about to enter a new era of the MMO genre with a much more level playing field? We answer that big question, play a bunch of mini-games, talk about our favorite gaming genres and how genres are evolving, and much more!

Gaming news, trivia, discussion, and more! Game Groofs is the weekly all-encompassing video game podcast from the Goodnight Groofs!

Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:52 - Peak of the Week

8:08 - Trending Topics

11:51 - The Big Question: Are we entering a new era of MMOs?

29:01 - Name That Game

34:02 - The Watercooler (What We're Playing)

48:27 - Claim A Game

1:03:24 - Audience Questions (Favorite Genre & New Genres/Spinoff Genres)

1:15:37 - Bang, Marry, Kill: Video Game Edition

1:26:42 - Video Game Olympics

1:30:03 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

Visit https://goodnightgroofs.com/ for all of our content!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodnightGroofs

Activision Blizzard has put itself in a bad spot. What exactly happened to Blizzard, and where did it all go wrong? Can the company that we all  once loved be fixed, or is it time to give up and move on? In addition to this discussion, we play a number of mini-games, talk game guides and  handheld consoles, reflect on games we unexpectedly loved, and more!

Game Groofs is a weekly all-encompassing gaming podcast from the Goodnight Groofs.

Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:19 - Peak of the Week

7:02 - Trending Topics

11:01 - The Big Question: What happened to Blizzard, and can it be fixed?

31:30 - Name That Game

35:12 - The Watercooler (What We're Playing)

53:25 - Claim A Game

1:04:00 - Audience Questions (Game Guides & Handheld Consoles)

1:26:24 - Tickle My Listicle (Top 3 Games We Unexpectedly Loved)

1:44:20 - The Roast (Call of Duty)

1:46:12 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodnightGroofs

Valve revealed the Steam Deck, their own Switch Pro, since Nintendo wouldn't give us one. Meanwhile, Netflix is getting into gaming and the Blue Box mystery continues. We take some time to play a few mini-games and answer some big questions!

Game Groofs is a weekly all-encompassing gaming podcast from the Goodnight Groofs.

Get this show 2 days early at https://www.patreon.com/goodnightgroofs

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:24 - What have we been playing?

12:02 - Non-Comprehensive News (Steam Deck, Netflix Gaming, and Blue Box)

58:00 - Name that Game

1:03:06 - The Big Question

1:13:29 - Claim a Game

1:22:18 - Audience Questions

1:41:05 - Aimless Last Words

1:42:18 - Outro

Goodnight Groofs is an independent media production team focused on creatively providing commentary on the video game landscape, and tangentially-related areas of pop culture, with enthusiasm, unapologetic authenticity, and diverse thinking for a massively underserved gaming community that deserves such honest, genuine, and fun content.

Visit https://goodnightgroofs.com/ for all of our content!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodnightGroofs