Not Without Merit: A Gaming Podcast

Written reviews are coming to the Not Without Merit Podcast! Check out our website starting this Friday! Game releases are back and so are we! Mike picked up Slay the Spire, but also started up Final Fantasy VI, Ben tried out the Modern Warfare alpha test while continuing with Final Fantasy XIV, and Jake bought Control, and played more of MLB The Show, Judgment, No Man's Sky, and more! We lead off with our PS+ games for September in news, collections for the Mega Man X titles and a Aladdin/Lion King combo pack, the revival of Telltale games, and a Fortnite/Borderlands crossover event! Bonus Round this week is a chat about recent NFL news along with a look ahead at this season, as well as the future of the NFL. Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!

News is back finally, but first we game! Mike finished his playthrough of EarthBound, while continuing his endless journey through Warframe, Jake was very busy with Detroit: Become Human, MLB The Show 19, Judgment, and Final Fantasy 14, and Ben never stopped playing Final Fantasy 14 with some Madden 19 sprinkled in there too. Gamescom came with a ton of announcements, including the release dates for Yakuza 3, 4, and 5, PUBG crossplay on consoles, Sony buying Insomniac Games, FFVIII Remastered's release date, Ori and the Blind Forest coming to Switch, new colors for the DualShock 4, Stranger Things coming to Dead By Daylight, and a bunch more! Bonus Round this week is our favorite moment from Gamescom! Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!

We're back with some new(ish) games! Mike started Mutant Year Zero, while continuing with EarthBound and Super Mario Maker 2; Jake started Detroit: Become Human and is still playing Final Fantasy 14 and MLB The Show; Ben is still going with FF14, but also (with Mike) had the absolute pleasure of playing the Black Desert Online beta. News is the lightest yet, with the continued development hell of Dead Island 2, a delay of the XIII remake, and the reveal of the next Need for Speed title. Bonus Round this week is a chat about S1 of The Boys (Lots of spoilers, obviously). Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!

Summer trudges along with another boatload of Final Fantasy XIV from both Ben and Jake, while Mike has gone nostaglic, playing through Doom 2 and starting up EarthBound. Big news this week with Yuke's no longer developing the WWE 2K series, Rocket League ending their crate system, Tekken 7 announcing another season of DLC, No Man's Sky giving a date to their Beyond expansion, and Darksiders 2 being announced for the Nintendo Switch! Bonus Round this week is a retrospective on our history with fighting games! Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!

Ben took a vacation so it's just Mike and Jake this week, Mike has been juggling a lot of games: Streets of Rogue, Warframe, The Talos Principle, Doom 2, and playing his SNES Classic, while Jake is still heavily invested in Final Fantasy XIV. Still not much summer news outside of August's PS+ titles, Doom 1-3 being re-released on modern consoles, Outer Worlds coming to Nintendo Switch, and the confirmation of Hitman 3's development. Bonus Round this week is our earliest memories of playing horror games! Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!

Jake is out this week and leaves a handful of games played and even lesser news in his wake. Mike continues on with Super Mario Maker 2 and Warframe while starting Streets of Rogue, while Ben is still very much all-in on Final Fantasy XIV. Summer rolls on with a sprinkle of news, Sony is coming back to the convention circuit with plans for Gamescom and TGS, a PSN Summer Sale, and Stardew Valley set to get multiplayer on PS4 this week. The Bonus Round for this week is looking back at our gaming collections! Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!

Final Fantasy XIV has taken the world by storm (again), along with it Ben and Jake, who both have spent a considerable amount of time with the game. Mike is still in as deep as ever with Warframe, but managed to also spend more time with Super Mario Maker 2, Cadence of Hyrule, and Far Cry: New Dawn. Nintendo leads the news this week with the reveal of the Switch Lite, a release date for Luigi's Mansion 3, an updated version of the original Switch, Amazon making a Lord of the Rings MMO, Super Monkey Ball getting remastered, and Man of Medan adding two multiplayer modes. Bonus Round is a deep dive into Jake and Ben's experience with Final Fantasy XIV! Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!

We are halfway through 2019! Now it is time to look back on all the big releases we have played so far this year and reflect on our favorites, and to look forward to what is coming out in the second half of 2019! Bonus Round this week is our most anticipated game this fall! Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!

Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday! We are back with a bunch of games, Mike played Far Cry New Dawn, Super Mario Maker 2, and Bloodstained; Jake played Final Fantasy 14, Enter the Gungeon, MLB The Show 19, and Judgment; Ben also played Final Fantasy 14, along with Bloodstained. News is still in a summer drought, with only the swap of one of the PS+ games for July, Remedy re-acquiring the publishing rights for Alan Wake, and release dates for EA Access on PS4, as well as Hunt: Showdown. Bonus Round this week is our favorite games, TV shows, and movies of 2019 so far! Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!

Mike is back and he played some games! Bloodstained is one of them, along with Cadence of Hyrule and of course more Warframe. Ben is also way into Bloodstained and checked out the Monster Hunter World Iceborne beta. To no surprise, Jake is completely all-in on Judgment. News is very light in the heat-filled post-E3 summer, with the PS+ games for July, a new expansion for Hitman 2, the release date for Blazing Chrome, and Twitch rolling out subscriber-only streams. This week, our Bonus Round is taking a look at our backlogs and what we want to catch up on this summer! Follow us on Twitter at @NWMPod, visit our website at nwmpod.com, and leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music, we greatly appreciate it!