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Nathaniel and Tori are pretty stoked about a lot of the stuff shown off at Nintendo's Not-E3 Direct this year. Lots of wonder-ous stuff, yeah? They're talking about the stuff they want to play from that and what they're playing on this week's episode.

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 Mario 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.

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Interlude music: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/elevatorstuck-2 (Don't judge Tori or Nathaniel, this was purely a Noah choice)

It's been a heck of a week, huh? A thousand more games were announced, Embracer Group shit the bed and Activision Blizzard is honoring Pride Month by telling weird homophobes to hit the bricks. Tune in to hear us talk about all of that as well as YouTube video essays, games we're playing and more.

THINGS MENTIONED:

The latest on what Persona 3: Reload is actually gonna have in it from IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/persona-3-reload-wont-include-content-from-fes-or-portable-including-the-female-protagonist

Not mentioned, but Willa Rowe (of Girl Mode and Inverse) on what makes the female main character route of Persona 3: Portable so special: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/persona-3-reload-femc-female-protagonist

Polygon on the latest kerfuffle at Embracer Group: https://www.polygon.com/23759179/embracer-tomb-raider-lotr-restructure-studio-closures-lay-offs

From Gayming, Activision Blizzard's weird situation with homophobic streamers: https://gaymingmag.com/2023/06/activision-removes-popular-streamer-bundles-from-call-of-duty-over-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric/

Jacob Geller on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JacobGeller

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 your favorite video essay 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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And we're off! The E3 that's not E3 has officially begun with Jeff Keighley's testosterone-fueled spectacular. We're talking about that, the newly-announced Persona 3 remake, rumors of a Zelda movie and lots more.

THINGS MENTIONED:

Polygon's Summer Games Fest recap: https://www.polygon.com/23752958/summer-game-fest-announcements-trailers-2023

Polygon's Day of the Devs recap: https://www.polygon.com/23755197/day-of-the-devs-2023-announcements-indie-game-showcase

Rumors about the new Zelda movie: https://consequence.net/2023/06/the-legend-of-zelda-movie/

The Girl Mode podcast: https://linktr.ee/girlmodepod

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 with suggestions for Noah's Magic: The Gathering Commander format deck 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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It's been a weird week for games media. Bobby Kotick got interviewed by Variety, the Disco Elysium dev studio is in the spotlight again and Vice is still falling apart, but its video game stars are moving on. We're talking about that stuff as well as Zelda, the new Spiderman movie and more.

THINGS MENTIONED:

Bobby Kotick's Variety interview.

People Make Games' ZA/UM documentary.

Remap Radio.

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 Zelda 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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We took some time out of our busy schedules of playing Zelda like it's our jobs to record a podcast about everything from the (reportedly) shitty new Gollum game to all of the highs and lows of the PlayStation Showcase last week.

THINGS MENTIONED:

An IGN article about how a playthrough of the Gollum game leaked early.

This incredible tweet about Gollum.

Naoki Yoshida floats removing Final Fantasy's numbers.

A rumored update on the Star Wars open world game Ubisoft is working on.

A late 3DS update is messing up modded consoles.

Kritiqal.com.

Special thanks to Nathalie for some gaming thoughts and for the use of her track it's the end of the world, i love you off of her recently released record "
before we hate each other." Listen to more at booitsnathanie.bandcamp.com and give her a follow on Twitter @booitsnathalie.

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 Zelda 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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Alright, look, this one is 90 minutes about Tears of the Kingdom. OK, An hour and ten about Zelda and then like 20 minutes at the end about Crocs when we started to get especially tired and loopy. Hope you enjoy.

Spoilers start at 13:30.

THINGS MENTIONED:

Eurogamer on the story behind some of TotK's new abilities.

Garage Sale on Steam. Add it to your wishlist, it looks cute.

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 Zelda 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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Alright, it's finally here. Gaming's latest Event. We recorded this episode on the eve of Tears of the Kingdom's launch, and while Noah had played it a bit, Tori was still in pre-game hype mode. Join us as we feel mega hype like all of the other Nintendo Gamers are.

THINGS MENTIONED:

The Verge's Ash Parrish's review of Tears of the Kingdom.

Polygon: Silk Song is officially delayed.

Homestuck Made this World.

Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery on itch.io.

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 favorite moon 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.

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Tori's out this week, so Nathaniel and Noah are catching up on news about unions, the media hellscape and more. Oh yeah, and Star Wars, as per usual.

THINGS MENTIONED:

From Polygon: Microsoft hits another snag in the Activision Blizzard acquisition.

Polygon's follow-up on why it's interesting that cloud gaming, specifically, is the hang up.

SEGA of America workers are unionizing (hell yeah).

The New Yorker's profile of WGA writers and why they're striking.

Kotaku's post-mortem of Waypoint, a good website.

Here's where you can buy Waypoint merch before it goes under. 15 percent off with the coupon code: FCGH.

Kotaku covering the Tears of the Kingdom leaks.

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 (especially if you're under 20 and have Star Wars hot takes that are generationally different than ours) 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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Tori and Noah are joined this week by Pokemon (and other games, of course) fan extraordinaire Noella Williams. They're a writer whose work has been featured in Vox, Alt Press, PAPER, the Washington Post and more. She's also an assistant editor at Apartment Therapy, where she occasionally gets to write about games, especially cozy ones.

We talk about our shared love for the Nintendo DS family of consoles, how adorable the Pokemon Shaymin is, seeing yourself in games and much more.

You can find more from Noella online:

On Instagram @noella.jpg

And on Twitter @yonoella

THINGS MENTIONED:

YouTuber Princess Weekes.

Culture writer Tai Gooden.

Resonant Arc’s Final Fantasy VI series on YouTube.

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 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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Put your phone down, put on your headphones and consume some media that isn't mindless sludge designed to get you to watch clips of old TV shows on Tiktok. Stop the sludge, baby.

Come for the video game news, stay for the very end for Noah's thoughts on the Taylor Swift Eras tour.

THINGS MENTIONED:

The Verge on Sega's strange decision to buy Rovio.

Hey, remember that time the Edward Snowden leak revealed that Angry Birds was one of the apps the NSA was using to spy on people?

Someone modded Kirby into Pokemon BDSP.

Hidetaka Miyazaki is one of Time Magazine's most influential people of 2023.

Nintendo Indie World.

The Powerful Responsibility of Twilight Princess from YouTuber Liam Triforce.

Everything Is Sludge: Art in the Post-Human Era from YouTuber Lily Alexandre.

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 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.