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Gaming... We all love it. This week we're talking about the whacky XBOX leaks, the future of jizz in Star Wars and more. Join us for a rolling (like how a Katamari ball rolls) good time.

THINGS MENTIONED:

XBOX leaks! Here's IGN's breakdown: https://www.ign.com/articles/all-the-major-revelations-from-the-ftc-vs-xbox-court-document-leaks

Willa Rowe's take for Inverse on lame console designs:

https://www.inverse.com/gaming/xbox-leak-brooklin-console-design

Here's where you can make your 5x5 game grid:

https://topsters.org/

Kotaku's latest on Star Wars: Eclipse:

https://kotaku.com/star-wars-eclipse-quantic-dream-game-delayed-anyone-die-1850865409

R.I.P. jizz:

https://www.avclub.com/is-star-wars-trying-to-ditch-its-most-hilariously-inapp-1850868249

Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts

Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always

Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased

Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by ⁠GEIST⁠ and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah and Tori produce the show. You can follow the show on Twitter ⁠@Press_StartPod⁠  and on tumblr at ⁠press-startpod.tumblr.com⁠ and you can email us about your favorite fall games 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.

The elephant in the room this week is the latest Nintendo Direct, but there's still lots of other stuff going on: Unity blowing up, new Pokemon collabs and everybody's still talking about One Piece. Plus, outside of news, you can tune in to hear about fitness, about a particular TruTV television program and much more.

THINGS MENTIONED:

The excellent Twitter thread about Mario RPG and accessibility: https://twitter.com/momoxmia/status/1702400250198237286

The Verge's explainer on the Unity drama: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/12/23870547/unit-price-change-game-development

Axios' update on Unity:

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/13/unity-runtime-fee-policy-marc-whitten

Bloomberg on Square Enix's financial woes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-13/underwhelming-final-fantasy-xvi-costs-square-enix-2-billion-in-market-value

The Santa Cruz Pokemon skateboards:

https://santacruzskateboards.com/pokemon

Editor Claire Murashima on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clairemurashima?lang=en

Noah's on Twitter: noah_hurts

Tori's on Twitter: tori_as_always

Nathaniel's on Twitter: nathanbased

Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by ⁠GEIST⁠ and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah and Tori produce the show. You can follow the show on Twitter ⁠@Press_StartPod⁠  and on tumblr at ⁠press-startpod.tumblr.com⁠ and you can email us about salad 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.

There are some HUGE games out this year. We haven't played any of them, but there's lots of other stuff to talk about, too.

THINGS MENTIONED:

The latest episode of the podcast Into the Aether: https://intothecast.transistor.fm/episodes/into-the-starfield

A GameRant article about the latest Nintendo Direct rumors: https://gamerant.com/nintendo-direct-september-2023-rumor/

IGN: No ToTK DLC:

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-moves-on-to-brand-new-the-legend-of-zelda-game-rules-out-tears-of-the-kingdom-dlc

Eurogamer says people have seen Switch 2:

https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-demoed-switch-2-to-developers-at-gamescom

Vice breaking down the latest updates in the SAG-AFTRA strike: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy34zq/video-game-workers-are-now-voting-whether-to-strike-over-ai-wages

Deadline, also:

https://deadline.com/2023/09/sag-aftra-says-dual-strikes-against-video-games-film-tv-industry-makes-sense-as-key-issues-of-wages-ai-mirror-each-other-1235538222/

FF7 Ever Crisis is not what we thought it would be :

https://www.ign.com/articles/final-fantasy-vii-ever-crisis-hands-on-preview

Friend of the podcast Emily Price's review of Chants of Senaar for Polygon:

https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23864920/chants-of-sennaar-review-puzzles-stealth

Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by ⁠GEIST⁠ and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter ⁠@Press_StartPod⁠  and on tumblr at ⁠press-startpod.tumblr.com⁠ and you can email us about salad 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.

You ever just look up and see him? Monkey D. Luffy? We do. But this is a video games podcast, and we're talking video game news this week.

THINGS MENTIONED:

EA layoffs and bad union behavior: https://venturebeat.com/games/eas-bioware-will-lay-off-50-and-cut-ties-with-unionized-keywords-playtesting-group/

From Axios: Apparently the next Immortals game was gonna be really interesting, but it got canceled: https://www.axios.com/2023/08/21/immortals-2-oxygen-elden-ring-wind-waker

Here's an update on the Persona 3 remake: https://www.polygon.com/23841928/persona-3-reload-remake-hands-on

Nicki Minaj is in Call of Duty, let's go: https://www.polygon.com/23844644/call-of-duty-nicki-minaj-warzone-modern-warfare-2

And check out Resonant Arc on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFzWAEPDGiY34bGpwM_DWmA

Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod  and on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and you can email us about your creative process 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 Noah are joined this week by the fabulous hosts of the Origin Story podcast. Listen in for a deep conversation about the creative process, interviewing people whose art you admire and nostalgic memories of sharing games with your friends.

You can find more Origin Story on their website, originstory.show, and on Twitter @originstory_.

Phillip's on Twitter @3DSisquo and Ben's on Twitter @sad_radio_lad

THINGS MENTIONED:

This dude's incredible fashion: www.tiktok.com/@desertedinurban

weird and kinda scary tokusatsu girls from YouTuber Hazel: https://youtu.be/rlpI--ndhhk

Final Fantasy XVI & Masculinity from ThorHighHeels on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pYHCswe7XIk

Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod  and on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and you can email us about your creative process 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.

This week: Pokemon, Pikmin and ports. Plus a special guest gives Tori some Pikmin pointers. You won't wanna miss this one.

THINGS MENTIONED:

A More Civilized Age: https://amorecivilizedage.net/

Let One Thousand Rei Ayanamis Bloom from Pyramid Inu on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qYjj1Rljr94

Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod  and on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and you can email us about your preferred Pikmin color 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.

Find us on social media, and wherever else podcasts are found, here: linktr.ee/press_startpod.

It's Noah and Nathaniel this week, and the vibes are pretty loose. We're talking Switch 2 rumors, 3DS sales numbers and Elder Scrolls. Plus Barbenheimer thoughts and lots.

THINGS MENTIONED:

Video Games Chronicles' Switch 2 leak: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sources-nintendo-switch-2-targets-2024-with-next-gen-console/

Polygon: People love the 3DS: https://www.polygon.com/23818670/nintendo-3ds-eshop-closure-game-sales-2023

Game Rant on the Oblivion remake rumor:

https://gamerant.com/the-elder-scrolls-6-oblivion-remake-rumors-release-date-concerning-good-bad/

DavidSocial.com

Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod  and on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and you can email us about Fortnite 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.

Find us on social media, and wherever else podcasts are found, here: linktr.ee/press_startpod.

Barbie this, Oppenheimer that, we're here to talk about video games, dammit. Neopets is doing some stuff (not NFTs), Tori's playing Final Fantasy and there's lots more this episode, too.

THINGS MENTIONED:

Neopets is under new ownership and ready to kick ass: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/17/23798368/neopets-relaunch-website-flash-games

From Kotaku: Cowboy Bebop's daddy is releasing a new series: https://kotaku.com/shinichiro-watanabe-new-anime-cowboy-bebop-john-wick-1850660451

Polygon on the Dolphin emulator probably not coming to Steam: https://www.polygon.com/23801889/dolphin-wii-emulator-steam-gamecube-nintendo

From NPR: Barely any old games are being preserved: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188042795/only-a-small-percentage-of-older-video-games-are-accessible-now-a-new-survey-fin

Friend of the show Emily Price's review of Pikmin 4 for Polygon: https://www.polygon.com/reviews/23792462/pikmin-4-review-coop-treasures-nintendo-switch

Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod  and on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and you can email us about what your first Sonic game was 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.

Find us on social media, and wherever else podcasts are found, here: linktr.ee/press_startpod.

We've both finally done it: we beat Tears of the Kingdom. So, of course, we decided we'd ignore news this week and just talk about Tears of the Kingdom and the Zelda series at large.

THINGS MENTIONED:

What's Next For Zelda from YouTuber ENDO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhWEiKkxQTY

Press START is NOT nor will it ever be AI-generated, and we're not currently on Threads (and we really don't want to be) so please don't blow it up. We really don't wanna be on Threads.

THINGS MENTIONED:

Here's the G/O Media Union statement about AI-generated content. You can follow this Twitter rabbit hole to find info on what the content was and how bad it was: https://twitter.com/gmgunion/status/1674535138883952640/photo/1

Willa Rowe from Inverse on the Annapurna Interactive games showcase: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/blade-runner-2033-annapurna-interactive-showcase

Polygon on the Overwatch anime: https://www.polygon.com/23785752/overwatch-2-animated-series-genesis-release-date

fortnitenews.com with the list of banned Fortnite emotes (for racist reasons): https://fortnitenews.com/fortnite-disables-26-emotes-in-competitive-tournaments/#:~:text=In%20a%20new%20hotfix%20released,Jugglin'%20Emote

Origin Story podcast interview with Hannah Nicklin: https://www.originstory.show/episodes/hannah-nicklin

Holy Week podcast: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/holy-week/

Rick Astley plays The Smiths at Glastonbury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMG5R9Bpd8k

Our special music guest for this episode was the band Honeythunder with their track Ghouls. You can find more of their music online at honeythunder.rocks and on Twitter and Instagram at @honeythunderphl.

Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod  and on tumblr at press-startpod.tumblr.com and you can email us about games or social media or whatever 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.

Find us on social media, and wherever else podcasts are found, here: linktr.ee/press_startpod.