Not Without Merit: A Gaming Podcast

Sekiro has nearly broken Mike, but he presses on, while Jake is basking in the glory of completing his first run of the game. Jake has also been spending more time with Enter the Gungeon, and Ben has fully dove into Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. News brings us a "home arcade console" from CAPCOM, Octopath Traveler coming to the PC, and a public test server being added to Division 2. We have a long discussion about the recent article about the "next-gen" PlayStation and make our predictions about what that console will be. 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 has been struck with the stomach bug so he left Mike and Ben to talk up Sekiro, a little bit of Enter the Gungeon and Black Ops 4, with even some recapping of WrestleMania 35. News is quite light this week, with only the ability to change your PSN name going live for everyone, Persona 5 joining the "PlayStation Hits" list, and a date for the reveal of Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order. For our Top 5, we pick the five hardest games we never finished! 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!

So we only played four games between all of us this week, but we played the heck out of them: Sekiro, The Division 2, Path of Exile, and Black Ops 4. All of us are very pleases....though Mike is very mixed on Sekiro so far, we'll see how that goes next week. News brings us the reveal of the SEGA Genesis Mini, the end of DriveClub's online features, a release date for Borderlands 3, and the next batch of NES games coming to Nintendo Switch Online. In place of a Top 5 this week, we make our predictions for Wrestlemania! 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!

Before everyone gets lost in the endless void that is Path of Exile, both Mike and Ben continue on with The Division 2, Jake is just over the halfway mark in Sekiro, and Mike has reached the conclusion of Hollow Knight. In news we have the PS+ games for April, Sony's debut episode of "State of Play", the final expansion for Enter the Gungeon, reveals of Persona 5: The Royal and Shantae 5, a GameStop esports performance center opening in Texas, and the end of PS4 download codes being sold in retail stores. For our Top 5, we rank the hardest games we've ever beaten! 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!

The Division 2 is finally here and both Ben and Mike have played it extensively, with a very positive outlook on it! Everyone has still been playing Hollow Knight and Jake is getting deeper into Divinity: Original Sin 2. Our news this week is a slew of game announcements for the Nintendo Switch, Konami releasing three different 50th anniversary collections, another monumental update coming to No Man's Sky, and the reveal of the lead character in the next Yakuza game. The Top 5 this week is our most-anticipated developers working on new 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!

So we're all playing Hollow Knight while we impatiently await for The Division 2. In the meantime Jake has also started up The Last of Us, Rayman Legends, and Divinity: Original Sin 2. News gives us Judgment being removed from sale in Japan for a very peculiar reason, new content in Fallout 76, free DLC coming to Dead Cells, release dates for Path of Exile and The Messenger on PS4, and the announcement of a Dragon's Dogma animated series coming to Netflix. In place of a Top 5 we talk extensively about the wild start to NFL free agency! 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 did it, we bought Rainbow Six Siege. Jake was ecstatic, Mike was pretty pleased, Ben...not so much. We also all spent some time with Hollow Knight, Mike also played Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Ben played Civilization 6, and Jake played more Ace Combat 7. For news we have the official sell off of all Ubisoft stock owned by Vivendi, the first Tetris 99 tournament, the next two games coming to Nintendo Switch Online, a release date for Judgement, and Friday The 13th: The Game coming to the Nintendo Switch. Our Top 5 this week is our favorite gaming reboots! 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!

Big surprise, Mike is playing Trials Rising and even with some of its issues, he is absolutely loving it, along with more Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Apex Legends. Jake finished the Odyssey story, another run of Resident Evil 2, restarted Hollow Knight, and is nearing the end of Ace Combat 7. Ben started both Hollow Knight and Civilization 6: Gathering Storm. The end of February brings us the Playstation Plus games for March, the upcoming retirement of Reggie Fils-Aime, release dates for Resident Evils 0, 1, and 4 for the Nintendo Switch, a large update for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, a free starter pack for Hitman 2, the canceling of Overkill's Walking Dead game, a new Pokemon game, and a collaboration between Horizon Zero Dawn and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. In our Top 5, we choose our favorite gaming franchises! 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!

Finally a week without a new game, but we still had plenty to play. Mike played through SUPERHOT, and spent more time with Apex Legends and Enter the Gungeon. Ben completed the Blood and Wine expansion for The Witcher 3, another playthrough of Symphony of the Night, and also played some Apex Legends. Jake finished the story of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, while playing a lot of Ace Combat 7. Light news week with the reveal of Black Ops 4's next Blackout Operation, a Playstation Plus deal for new/lapsed subscribers, and the announcements of Darkest Dungeon 2 and Haven. Our Top 5 this week is our most disappointing game sequels! 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 has finished Resident Evil 2, Jake is nowhere near finishing Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Ben very early in the Witcher 3 "Blood and Wine" expansion. We all spent time with Apex Legends, The Division 2 beta, and the Devil May Cry 5 demo. News is monumental with Nintendo Direct announcing a ton of new games and updates, a bunch of classic RPGs coming to consoles, Rocket League getting cross-party support, release dates for World War Z, Assassin's Creed 3 Remastered, and Dangerous Driving, along with news on Year 4 of Rainbow Six Siege. Our Top 5 this week is our favorite simulation 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!