IMPOSSIBLE COIN

Look, Brian's not in the office today. He literally threw his back out at a funeral. THAT HAPPENED. What you get is Rocky and Tegan talking Splatoon, Fortnite, FFXIV and those clowns at Hitrecord. And grab your finest fight stick, bar of soap and dread of a community that lacks accountability. It's time to talk EVO!

If this episode was a cat you would gaze upon it and say "Oh lawd, he comin'." Strap in for 3 hours and 44 minutes of content. YOU CAN LISTEN TO US AT THE GYM FOUR TIMES YOU NERDS. We got video games, we got anime, we got bad mobile games, we got G2A scum bag action, we got trademark infringement lawsuits and of course we got your "What came out on Steam today" We gonna keep your NOURISHED.

So apparently we didn't screw up last time as Dave Lang actually agreed to come back for our second annual check-in. We talk about ethical labor management in the game industry, unions, the possibility of an IG buyout, who Lang finds intimidating and for all of you hardcore Lang fans we also talk the wine fridge situation and you get the first sex in the Prius update in six months.

We watched Ready Player One. It is bad. We talk about it being bad. Like really bad. I was going to call the movie a crime against humanity. I, Brian, normally use this space to make jokes about the content of an episode and invite the listener to play along. It's fun. But I struggle to joke about something being a crime against humanity when there are people in cages on our border. So maybe listen to this garbage and then legit write your Congressperson about people in cages. It would be in service of human rights and Festival Hardbody would be proud of you.

The gang discuss mouthbreathers' total lack of understanding of boobs and bras. Brian is anime now so the natural order is completely upset and EA, Randy Pitchford and Elon Musk all do what they do best this week.Please hang out in our weird Pokemon gym and use our waffle maker. Spooky neckbeards need not apply.

Rocky, Tegan and Brian perform an E3 post-mortem. They don't agree on the cause of death. Heck, they don't even agree if the patient is dead! Rocky and Tegan think Brian is wrong about Nintendo and crowds. We discover that Earth has always been a battle royale and there are new video games even though it is hot, gross summer. Pull up a chair there's Bahama Mamas for everybody.

This is kind of a sealed envelope podcast. Brian and Tegan circled up on Saturday for their last look at the world prior to E3 2019 popping off. They talk Pokemon (British), lawsuits (Apple) and Musk (Elon). Of course Impossible Coin's premier Call of Duty correspondent is here to tell you where to put the boots. Time to smoke weed, eat pizza and play CoD!

Rocky, Tegan and Brian happily limp across the finish line of press conferences and Nintendo is here to give them electrolyte enhanced sports drinks, bananas and a protein bar. Nintendo presents a conference which is NOT a deep dive of various sound effects in Smash. They find time to troll us, surprise and provide us with some new desired details. Press F for new back compat titles on Xbox One.

Here's what you need to know; Tegan had hard cider. Rocky had a lot of red wine and Brian had craft beer. E3 marches on! First the team argues about the Ikumi Nakamura and Twitter. Then Ubisoft has two bangers with a dog in between. Square-Enix mostly does well. Everyone and their body pillows is GONNA LOVE IT.

The gang convenes an emergency meeting to dig through the carnage of the opening of E3 and the Google conference. EA impresses no one, Ikumi Nakamura impresses everybody and Rocky calls Brian a corporate Stan for Microsoft. Come with us on a journey with twists and turns and lots of Devolver Digital lore. Free Nina Struthers.