Mike and Ting talk about what they're looking forward to in 2026, new Steam hardware and the best sellers of 2025.

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Genuinely Want to Play

• Slay the Spire 2 - Reveal Trailer (YouTube)
• Deltarune
• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Order of the Sinking Star
• Forza Horizon 6
• Last War Frontline Breakthrough: guide and strategies
• Raccoon Coin Pusher
• GTA 6 and everything else: What to watch in video games in 2026
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV - At last, back to war!
• Iron Harvest 1920+
• The LARGEST Real-Time Strategy Game I've Ever Seen (YouTube)
• Beyond All Reason

Academic Interest

• 007 First Light - Announcement Trailer (YouTube)
• CONTROL Resonant – Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2025 (YouTube)
• Big Walk
• Mewgenics on Steam
• Your Daily Dose Of Cats v14 🤣 - YouTube
• summertime - 麦吉_Maggie x 盖盖Nyan [romaji/japanese/english lyrics] (YouTube)
• Fable Gameplay Teaser - Xbox Developer Direct 2026 (YouTube)
• Spotted dick - Wikipedia
• Marathon
• The Marathon art theft debacle has been 'resolved to my satisfaction,' according to the artist Bungie stole from | PC Gamer
• Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Announcement Trailer (YouTube)
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) - IMDb
• Street Fighter (2026) - IMDb
• Mortal Kombat II (2026) - IMDb

Steam Hardware and Charts

• Steam Hardware Announcement (YouTube)
• Steam Machine pricing soars past PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X in new retailer listing
• GPD Win 5 Brings PS5-Class Performance To PC Handhelds (YouTube)
• Steam Charts Best of 2025
• Schedule I on Steam
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on Steam
• Dune: Awakening on Steam
• ARC Raiders on Steam
• ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN on Steam
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Steam
• Anno 117: Pax Romana on Steam
• inZOI on Steam
• Digimon Story Time Stranger on Steam
• FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH on Steam
• R.E.P.O. on Steam
• PEAK on Steam
• Escape From Duckov on Steam
• RV There Yet? on Steam
• METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER on Steam
• Blue Prince on Steam
• FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles on Steam
• ARC Raiders - Upgrade to Deluxe Edition on Steam
• CloverPit on Steam
• BALL x PIT on Steam
• Megabonk on Steam
• Nubby's Number Factory on Steam
• Hello Kitty Island Adventure on Steam
• The 50 best games of 2025, ranked | Eurogamer.net

Mike and Ting talk about the latest Avatar, Disclosure Day and Avengers: Doomsday.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2026 Look Forward.

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Pre-Chat

• Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - IMDb
• 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Surpasses $1 Billion at the Global Box Office | The Walt Disney Company
• James Cameron Explains Why 'Avatar 4 and 5' Are Still Not Sure Things
• LucasFilm Tells Darth Vader That Return Of The Jedi Hasn't Made A Profit!? - SlashFilm
• Disclosure Day | Official Teaser (YouTube)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - IMDb
• Super 8 (2011) - IMDb
• 'Avengers: Doomsday' Proved "Superhero Fatigue" Is a Myth in Just 1 Day
• The X-Men Will Return | Avengers: Doomsday in Theaters December 18, 2026 (YouTube)

Mike and Ting hand out the Meaningless Awards.

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Meaningless Awards

• Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun dorma" from Turandot (The Three Tenors in Concert 1994) (YouTube)

Meaningless Awards - Best Multiplayer

• Arc Raiders (Mike)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (Ting)

Meaningless Awards - Best Game

• Blue Prince (Mike)
• Hades II (Ting)

Meaningless Awards - Missed in 2025

• The Séance of Blake Manor (Mike)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Ting)

Meaningless Awards - Honourable Mention

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Mike)
• Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Ting)

Mike and Ting comment on each other's top Spotify tracks.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2025 Wrap Up - Part 2.

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Pre-Chat

• FURFAG - song and lyrics by Pent Up Pup | Spotify
• PITS - song and lyrics by Pent Up Pup | Spotify
• Already Done - song and lyrics by Free Worship | Spotify
• Never Meant to Know - song and lyrics by Tally Hall | Spotify
• Intel Ultra 7 258V vs i7-6650U

Mike and Ting look back on 2025.

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Year in Review

• Undertale - Snowdin Remix (YouTube)
• A $5 Million Gift From Sega Saved Nvidia - GameSpot
• A Minecraft Movie (2025) 4K - Steve vs. Malgosha | Movieclips (YouTube)
• Despite Past Viral AI Fakes, This Grand Theft Auto 6 Leak Looks Real - GameSpot
• Brief explanation: why people are angry about pre-announced DLC : LegendsZA
• Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well — joining Everwild and ZeniMax's new IP, and other unannounced projects | Windows Central
• The Windows 11 Crisis (YouTube)
• Steam Web API - Valve Developer Community
• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Rises to $30 a Month, Microsoft Adds More Day One Games and Throws in Fortnite Crew and Ubisoft+ Classics to Help Justify the Cost - IGN
• Costco Confirms It Will No Longer Sell Xbox Consoles
• Silksong finally has a release date, officially, from Team Cherry and everything—putting an end to over half a decade of Silksanity | PC Gamer
• Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary
• Hades II Reviews - Metacritic
• Pokemon Legends: Z-A Reviews - Metacritic
• After Raising Over $1 Billion From Players, Star Citizen Dev Chris Roberts Hopes Squadron 42's 2026 Launch Will Be 'Almost as Big an Event' as GTA 6 - IGN
• Steam Hardware Announcement (YouTube)
• Cut Content From Metroid Prime 4 Reveals Its Companions Were Meant To Be Even More Annoying
• Shadow of Mordor's innovative Nemesis system is locked behind a patent until 2036
• Scaled agile framework - Wikipedia
• Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive (of course it's AI) and why PC gaming hardware prices are only going to keep rising, even probably for GPUs | PC Gamer
• Now what do I do!?!? #wholesome #animals - YouTube
• Announcing a New Shorts Remix Capability - YouTube Community
• How did Zach braff win an Oscar for garden state when he just picked music he liked and slapped it on a CD? : r/NoStupidQuestions

Stats

• Deltarune - Dark Sanctuary Remix (YouTube)
• 2025 Wrap Up (stats spreadsheet)
• Slay the Spire 2 Release Date Slips to March 2026 — and No, It Had Nothing to Do With Silksong, Dev Insists - IGN
• Borderlands 4 Review - Too Much Of An Overcorrection - GameSpot
• Goodbye Zachtronics, Developers Of Very Cool Video Games - Kotaku
• Kaizen: A Factory Story review | Rock Paper Shotgun
• Donkey Kong Bananza: Post-Game - What To Do After Rolling Credits | Nintendo Life
• Mario kart 8 deluxe vs Mario kart world. Which game do you enjoy playing the most? : mariokart
• Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it's coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here's what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it
• Welcome to Springfield - Fortnite | The Simpsons (YouTube)
• Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter Seven: Pacific Break - v39.00 Update Notes
• The Rise of the Golden Idol: Detective Pass Trailer (YouTube)
• BALL x PIT
• Cloverpit Official Game Announcement | Triple-i Showcase 2025 (YouTube)
• The Roottrees are Dead
• Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review (Switch) | Nintendo Life
• ZELDA NOTES for Nintendo Switch App

Mike and Ting talk about their extremely cursed Spotify Wrappeds and YouTube Recaps.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2025 Wrap Up.

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Pre-Chat

• Mike's 2025 Spotify Wrapped
• Ting's 2025 Spotify Wrapped
• Mike's 2025 YouTube Recap
• Ting's 2025 YouTube Recap

Mike and Ting talk about Deltarune.

Contains SPOILERS for Deltarune and Undertale!

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DELTARUNE

• 2. Beginning (DELTARUNE Chapter 1 Soundtrack) - Toby Fox (YouTube)
• Undertale Reviews - Metacritic
• 『DELTARUNE Chapter 1』が2/28に配信決定 | トピックス | Nintendo
• deltarune.com on the Wayback Machine
• Undertale teaser points to Delta Rune, a new game, er, thing you can play right now
• Deltarune Chapter 2 gets surprise release in two days
• DELTARUNE Nintendo Switch 2 Announce Trailer (YouTube)
• Undertale's Toby Fox Composing Music for Nintendo
• A Few Musical Notes from Game Developer Toby Fox | #PokemonSwordShield (YouTube)
• Homestuck - Wikipedia
• Earthbound Halloween Hack Music - Final Boss (Megalovania) (YouTube)
• "...only one ending...?" : r/Deltarune
• EarthBound - Wikipedia

UNALTERED

• 1. ANOTHER HIM (DELTARUNE Chapter 1 Soundtrack) - Toby Fox (YouTube)
• Introduction - The Deltarune Wiki
• Susie - The Deltarune Wiki
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Reviews - Metacritic
• Ralsei - The Deltarune Wiki
• Hometown - The Deltarune Wiki
• DELTARUNE ending | Chapter 1 (YouTube)
• 39. Don't Forget (DELTARUNE Chapter 1 Soundtrack) - Toby Fox & Laura Shigihara (YouTube)
• Castle Town - The Deltarune Wiki
• Weird Route - The Deltarune Wiki
• Ralsei explain How The Light and Dark World Work | deltarune chapter 3 (YouTube)

UNDERTALE

• 001. Once Upon a Time (UNDERTALE Soundtrack) - Toby Fox (YouTube)
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Wikipedia
• W.D. Gaster - The Undertale Wiki
• UnderTale-ENTRY NUMBER SEVENTEEN (YouTube)
• Sans - The Undertale Wiki
• Deltarune, The Place Where It Rained (YouTube)
• Sans and Toriel dancing - Deltarune Chapter 4 (YouTube)
• Papyrus - The Undertale Wiki

UNRELATED

• 13. Field of Hopes and Dreams (DELTARUNE Chapter 1 Soundtrack) - Toby Fox (YouTube)
• Susie confuses Asriel for Ralsei - Deltarune Chapter 4 (YouTube)
• Lying by Omission - TV Tropes
• Queen - The Deltarune Wiki
• Spamton - The Deltarune Wiki
• Why Ralsei Grows the Beard - A Deltarune Theory Video (YouTube)
• Egg - The Deltarune Wiki
• SOMEHOW... KRIS KNIGHT RETURNED (YouTube)
• Susie is NOT a hero! | Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4: Neo Prophecy Theory (YouTube)
• December Holiday - The Deltarune Wiki
• UNUSED - The Deltarune Wiki
• Why Does Kris have a Save File in Deltarune?
• DELTARUNE and the Fourth Wall || THE DEVICE THEORY [PART 1: SURVEY_PROGRAM] (YouTube)
• The Roaring Knight is a Soul Fusion, a Deltarune theory (YouTube)

NUTDEALER

• 36. Your Power (DELTARUNE Chapter 1 Soundtrack) - Toby Fox
• Why has Fox never mentioned chapter 6+? : r/Deltarune
• SAVE - The Undertale Wiki
• Asriel Dreemurr - The Undertale Wiki
• Telltale Games - Wikipedia
• Return of the Obra Dinn - Wikipedia
• DELTARUNE - No Hat Ralsei Plush - Fangamer

Mike and Ting are taking a break.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Deltarune.

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Pre-Chat

• Why I think the podcast ended : r/HelloInternet
• Somehow Palpatine Returned (YouTube)

Mike and Ting talk about what they played in the first half of 2025.

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Multiplayer

• Split Fiction | Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer (YouTube)
• It Takes Two | "My Cutie" Toy Commercial (YouTube)
• BOKURA on Steam
• Return to Verdansk: Massive Intel Drop Ahead of Call of Duty: Warzone Season 03
• Call of Duty: Warzone's streamlined loot is so much better than fiddling with backpacks | PC Gamer
• Fortnite Is the Biggest Competitor to Any New Game or Service; Top Live Games Sucking Nearly Half of the Playtime on Consoles Are a Bigger Threat to the Video Games Industry Than Subscription Services
• History of basketball - Wikipedia
• R.E.P.O. - Official Release Trailer (YouTube)
• PEAK Trailer: OUT NOW! (YouTube)
• Peak went from a canceled game that couldn't get funding to selling millions on Steam

Singleplayer

• Monster Train 2 - Official Announcement Trailer (YouTube)
• Void War - Launch Trailer (YouTube)
• Nubby's Number Factory on Steam
• Gloomhaven | Board Game | BoardGameGeek
• Gloomhaven (video game) - Wikipedia
• Isles of Sea and Sky
• New Updates and Insight into Thekla/Jonathan Blow's Upcoming Sokoban Game (Release, Development, Mission Statement) : r/TheWitness

Mario Kart World

• Mario Kart World – Announcement Trailer (Nintendo Switch 2) (YouTube)
• My Opinion on Intermissions VS Regular Tracks in Mario Kart World (YouTube)
• This Nintendo Update just Ruined Mario Kart World… (YouTube)
• 14 Ways To Dodge The Blue Shell Every Time in Mario Kart! (YouTube)
• How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2's USB-C port and broke third-party docking | The Verge
• Singapore has the most expensive Nintendo Switch 2 price in the world at US$560, while Hong Kong offers the cheapest Switch 2 at US$440 | HardwareZone Forums
• Buying Switch 2 Secondhand? Beware Nintendo's Anti-Piracy Solution That Has 'Bricked' Some Consoles, Fans Warn - IGN
• Nintendo revealed the Super Mario Odyssey team made Donkey Kong Bananza | The Verge
• Donkey Kong Bananza Reviews - Metacritic

Mike and Ting talk about Anthropic's Project Vend and being a tryhard at Puzzmo.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Now Playing 2025.

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Pre-Chat

• Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) \ Anthropic
• Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees | Reuters
• Why Anthropic's Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon - Ars Technica
• ClaudePlaysPokemon - Twitch
• World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
• "Computer Says No..." | Little Britain | Lucas & Walliams (YouTube)
• Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) - IMDb
• Today's Puzzmo
• GD Column 17: Water Finds a Crack | DESIGNER NOTES
• TED Tumblewords Mobile Game: Everything You Need To Know About - Netflix Tudum