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The podcast currently has 141 episodes available.
This week, Tori and Nathaniel are joined by fellow Gen-Z gamer, streamer and YouTubers Rowndlet. The gang talks about her history with gaming, retro collecting in Europe and more.
THING(S) MENTIONED:
This tweet about Ariana Grande: https://x.com/ArianaToday/status/1856492487529115748
Follow Rowndlet on social media!
She's @Rowndlet on Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and you can add her on Pokemon TCG Pocket with her friend code: 6203072500666307
Noah and Nathaniel are also playing PTCGP
Noah: 0951374552733587
Nathaniel: 0951374552733587
Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always
Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased
Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us your game recs and whatever else at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
It's the family-friendly, backwards compatible Gen-Z video game podcast with oodles of monetizable intellectual property — and this time it has three hosts. We're discussing last week's biggest news item (no, not that one) and the latest in scummy business practices in journalism.
THINGS MENTIONED:
IGN with a breakdown on Nintendo's casual info about a live action Zelda movie: https://www.ign.com/articles/well-at-least-we-know-the-live-action-the-legend-of-zelda-movie-will-be-released-before-the-end-of-the-decade
Nintendo Forecast breaks down the latest Nintendo investor call: https://youtu.be/SSH2bGqZa7U
Fast Company on the NYT tech strike: https://www.fastcompany.com/91222488/new-york-times-tech-workers-strike-election
Aftermath's breakdown of the latest round of Kotaku layoffs: https://aftermath.site/kotaku-layoffs-go-media
If you've made it this far in the description and you're a media person, hire our friend Willa: https://muckrack.com/willa-rowe
Evan Pincus' really good Letterboxd review of The Devil and Daniel Johnston: https://letterboxd.com/drlemon/film/the-devil-and-daniel-johnston/
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us your game recs and whatever else at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
Hey, did y'all hear that the Dreamcast is back? Call of Duty is back, too, but that's a lot less exciting. Tori and Nate discuss...
THINGS MENTIONED:
Polygon on the CoD ban in Kuwait: https://www.polygon.com/news/470233/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-kuwait-ban
Tim Walz, for reference: https://x.com/BoozeRadly/status/1851238159746482278
Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always
Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased
Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us your game recs and whatever else at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
Tori's holding down the fort this week with the lovely guest hosts Kim and Chase from all kinds of podcasts. You'll recognize them from shows like dotzip, Frog of the Week and Video Game Podtimism. No news this week, just a rootin-tootin good time discussing the games we love :)
Find our guests online!
Kim hosts Frog of the Week and dotzip
Chase hosts dotzip and Video Game Podmitism
Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always
Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased
Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us your game recs and your favorite games whatever else at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
Sometimes the biggest game release isn't even a game, it's an alarm clock.
THINGS MENTIONED:
Vice is trying to resurrect Waypoint: https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-want-waypoints-return-to-be-like-the-silent-hill-2-remake/
Alarmo...: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/nintendo-sound-clock-alarmo-121311/
The many spiritual successors of Disco Elysium: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/theres-now-a-third-studio-boasting-disco-elysium-veterans-trying-to-follow-up-the-beloved-rpg-here-with-a-a-spiritual-successor-psychogeographic-rpg/
What the hell is going on at GameFreak: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/pokemon/huge-game-freak-leak-reveals-pokemon-source-code-unused-designs-switch-2-details-and-unannounced-gen-10-games/
Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always
Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased
Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us your game recs and whatever else at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
We start with some news and jump into talking about the new Zelda and also a completely unrelated big magnet.
THINGS MENTIONED:
Aftermath on the Gamurs layoffs: https://aftermath.site/gamurs-group-has-more-shitty-layoffs
Polygon: Palworld is coming to PS5 despite its ongoing lawsuit: https://www.polygon.com/gaming/455993/palworld-playstation-5-ps5-release-date
Everything announced at the recent State of Play: https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/24/everything-revealed-in-state-of-play-september-2024/
Microsoft is sorta going green: https://www.eurogamer.net/microsofts-green-initiatives-for-xbox-have-saved-over-3bn-car-miles-of-co2-emissions
Popular retro YouTuber in Nintendo's sights?: https://www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming/comments/1frjcaa/hey_everyone_this_is_russ_from_retro_game_corps_i/
Nintendo Forecast on the team for the new Zelda game: https://youtu.be/Te7vo8-9CK0
Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always
Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased
Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us your game recs, thoughts about blemished food and whatever else at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
Resignations, layoffs and the soulless husk of a beloved (?) mobile game in the news this week. Plus: Nathaniel delves deeper into tinkering, a femininomenon in Elden Ring and Tori's crunchy audio quality because she's still on vacation and had a recording hiccup.
THINGS MENTIONED:
Variety on the realities of the PS5 Pro's power: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24243216/playstation-5-pro-ps5-big-4k-screenshots
What's up with the Annapurna resignations?: https://www.polygon.com/gaming/451240/control-2-remedy-annapurna-interactive-resignations
Microsoft lays off 650 more people: https://variety.com/2024/gaming/news/microsoft-gaming-layoffs-650-employees-1236141947/
Willa Rowe for Inverse on the weird revival of Flappy Bird: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/flappy-bird-returns-ios-android-microtransactions-trademark
The Strange Sexlessness of Skyrim on YouTube: https://youtu.be/H3ZMz4_iVjE
Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always
Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased
Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us your weird, lame 90s movie recs and whatever else at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
Tori and Nathaniel are out this week, so Noah recruited a crack team of gamers to talk about the week in game news. First is Brendon Bigley of Into the Aether and second is Emily Price, whose writing on games is all over the place including Unwinnable and Paste.
Find Brendon's work: https://wavelengths.online/
Find Emily online: https://bsky.app/profile/emilyprice.bsky.social
THINGS MENTIONED:
The Sonic suit (don't buy it, we're not sponsored): https://www.opposuits.com/products/sonic-the-hedgehog?srsltid=AfmBOopba7TsIh-VO5IZjZqiYLir3KJ_6L99nAdpwnFXBeQCpDrgSflK
Rolling Stone breaking down the Concord shutdown situation: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/playstation-concord-dead-offline-1235094165/
Lex Luddy's Astro Bot review for StartMenu: https://www.startmenu.co.uk/home/review-astro-bot-melancholy-hill
GameRant: Sony CFO says the company doesn't have enough IP: https://www.thegamer.com/playstation-not-enough-original-ip-says-sony/
Emily's recommended Vagrant Story YouTube video: https://youtu.be/oJbq959x-xU
The Verge on Baldur's Gate 3's new official mod support: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24236649/baldurs-gate-3-patch-7-now-live-evil-endings-mod-support
People Make Games' new video on war games: https://youtu.be/lYaDXZ2MI-k
Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always
Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased
Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us PS2 RPG recs and whatever else at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
Well, you know we have to talk about last week's Nintendo Directs, we can't not. Plus there's some other games coming out soon that we're excited about and one that led to a company getting shuttered regardless of its quality.
THINGS MENTIONED:
Robin Bea's Visions of Mana review for Inverse: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/visions-of-mana-review
Gematsu on the closure of Ouka Studios: https://www.gematsu.com/2024/08/bloomberg-netease-games-plans-to-close-visions-of-mana-developer-ouka-studios
Ken Shepard's Metaphor Re:Fantazio first impressions for Kotaku: https://kotaku.com/metaphor-refantazio-preview-persona-atlus-political-1851633394
Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always
Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased
Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us video game recs and whatever else at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
With Noah out this week, what better opportunity is there for Nathaniel and Tori to talk about Gamescom, Nintendo's museum and House Season 4?
THINGS MENTIONED:
Nintendo is killing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp: https://www.polygon.com/nintendo/442905/animal-crossing-pocket-camp-shut-down
Nintendo shows off its new museum: https://youtu.be/JApUMBscKOc
The new Indiana Jones won't be stuck on Xbox and PC: https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-boss-phil-spencer-explains-decision-to-launch-indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-on-ps5
Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always
Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased
Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts
As always, our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by @tristemegistus. We curate your gaming news together and Noah, Tori and Nathaniel take turns producing the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod, on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and on bluesky @press-startpod. Email us cozy video game recs at [email protected]. We'd also appreciate if you left us reviews on your podcast app of choice! Good text reviews will be read out on the show.
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