I Play Boring Games Podcast

Hosts Matt 'Captain Archer', Jon 'Mufasa' and our guest today Ben 'ElderSrgGears' chat about what we've been playing this week and summarize our thoughts on all the great content and designs shown at this year's Star Citizen CitizenCon 2954 in Manchester.

Games and news we discussed this week:

• Aliens: Fireteam Elite
• ATS/ETS2 (American/European Truck Simulator) Louisiana DLC and Driving Academy
• No Man's Sky
• Satisfactory 1.0
• Timberborn Update 6
• Factorio Space Age DLC
• Farming Sim 25 "Neighbor NPCs"
• Star Citizen CitizenCon 2954
  • Catch the 4k replay on the official Star Citizen YouTube channel
  • Insurance clarification post by Disco Lando (Jared)
  • Interview with Benoit during CitCon RE server meshing

You can find our guest, Ben 'EderSrgGears' at https://www.twitch.tv/eldersrggears or https://www.youtube.com/@esggaming117

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Hosts Matt 'Captain Archer' and Jon 'Mufasa' chat about what we've been playing this week and then about several game redemption stories— games that had a troubled start but followed up with changes and new content to bring the game around to be something as great as we hoped it would be. Hopefully.

Games and news we discussed this week:

• Satisfactory 1.0
• Golden Joystick Awards
• Star Citizen
• Starfield Shattered Space DLC
• Breachway
• Hooded Horse publisher sale on Steam
• Norland
• American Truck Simulator Driving Academy
• Space Engineers next content patch: "Contact" news
• No Man's Sky
• Star Wars Galaxies
• Anthem
• the Mass Effect series
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Final Fantasy XIV
• New World

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Hosts Matt 'Captain Archer' and Jon 'Mufasa' chat about what we've been playing this week and our favorite parts of the recent Satisfactory 1.0 release.

Games mentioned and relevant links:

• Satisfactory 1.0
• Star Citizen Blockade Runner event
• Carmen Sandiego trailer and web site
• Farm Simulator 25 Peas crop and machine fact sheet
• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
• American Truck Simulator World of Trucks Cruising Arkansas event
• Dyson Sphere Program
• Steam Families
• Civilization 6 monthly challenge
• Starfield Shattered Space DLC

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Hosts Matt 'Captain Archer' and Jon 'Mufasa' chat about what we've been playing this week and the recent & upcoming releases for "Falliday" 2024. We close by discussing the Perforce State of Game Technology report.

Games mentioned and relevant links:

• Barotrama
• Civilization
• Enshrouded
• No Man's Sky Aquarius content release
• Satisfactory 1.0 releasing this week!
• Space Trucker release
• Star Citizen all the news: 3.24, 4.0, Ship Showdown, CitizenCon, Sabre Peregrine and the cargo lifter tease, Inside Star Citizen, Star Citizen Live, monthly reports
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Perforce 2024 State of Game Technology report
• 🎥 The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian Season One

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Hosts Matt 'Captain Archer' and Jon 'Mufasa' chat about what we've been playing this week and all the video game announcements coming out of the big Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany. Finally, we discuss many of the film adaptations of video games that have come out recently and in the past—the gems and the flops.

Links:

• Star Citizen Ship Showdown 2024, and 3.24 PTU which is open to all backers
• Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space currently free on Amazon Prime Gaming
• Aliens: Dark Descent on Steam
• Star Wars Outlaws is available on Auguest 30th, 2024, or watch us play the early access this week at twitch.tv/iplayboringgames
• Starfield REV-8 trailer
• Civilization VII gameplay reveal trailer Gwendoline Christie is the in-game narrator for Civ7. Sorry we couldn't remember your name, Gweondoline!
• Farming Simulator 25 gameplay trailer
• RoadCraft review trailer
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Gamescom date reveal trailer
• Satisfactory "Glimpse Into Quantum Technology" video
• The ATS/ETS2 SCS Software blog
• Company of Heroes 3 (CoH3) Fall and Winter roadmap post
• Dyson Sphere Program on Steam
• For the Stars on Steam

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Hosts Matt 'Captain Archer' and Jon 'Mufasa' chat about what we've been playing this week, and then our guest, Nate McCrash, walks us through sim rigs— or in other words, steering wheels, unique controllers, and other hardware that take your sim experience to the next, physical level.

Links:

• Star Citizen Ship Showdown 2024
• Thrustmaster TX Racing Wheel
• Thrustmaster TH8A Shifter
• DOF Reality sim rigs

Find Nate McCrash on:

• Instagram @officialworldrallyfamily
• Twitch @natemccrash
• Or search for World Rally Family for other social media

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Hosts Matt 'Captain Archer' and Jon 'Mufasa' chat about the latest gaming news, what we've been playing this week, and how game mods effect the community—for better or worse.

News links:

• No Man's Sky - Worlds Part I update
• Dexter Stardust and The Abandoned Planet from Dexter Team
• Enshrouded Twitch drops through Aug 12, 2024
• Space Engineers "Prototech" teaser

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In our second episode, hosts Matt 'Captain Archer' and Jon 'Mufasa' chat about the latest Star Citizen news and go through our favorite games featured in the Steam Simfest.

Steam Simfest: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/simfest2024

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Hello and welcome to the show! Hosts Matt 'Captain Archer' and Jon 'Mufasa' chat a little about themselves, discuss games of the past, present and future and what it means to be a boring game.

Additional discussion of upcoming gaming news of your favorite Sims, Strategy and Survival video games.

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