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Twitter's turning to absolute shit, but you know what isn't? That's right, baby. It's video games. Tori beat one of the routes of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Noah caught up on Doctor Who, and, as always, there's lots more to discuss.

THINGS MENTIONED:

The first official Press START video game gift exchange. Click on this hyperlink to get to the Google form. If you have questions, email us.

Nibellion is leaving Twitter.

This Nintendo Life article about SEGA's "super game."

The Weekly Planet podcast.

Gaming Alexandria's article about Sacred Pools, SEGA's lost erotic FMV game.

The band Pom Pom Squad on Bandcamp.

SPOILERS FOR FIRE EMBLEM: THREE HOUSES FROM 54:00 to 1:07:10.

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 you can email us questions about the gift exchange 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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Whoa! Final Fantasy IV's got real estate problems, Bayonetta's got voice acting problems and Silent Hill hasn't got any problems, at least not yet. We're also playing some cool stuff: Noah's playing a mobil game and Tori's reading a bunch of books, which is sort of like playing video games.

THINGS MENTIONED: 

This article on Inverse about some fans' misgivings about a Silent Hill 2 remake.

Video Game Podtimism's Silent Hill 2 episode.

This Bloomberg article about solving Final Fantasy XIV's housing crisis.

This Washington Post article about Microsoft laying people off.

And another Washington Post article about Microsoft's concerns with cloud gaming.

This Bloomberg investigation into whatever the hell is going on with Bayonetta 3.

This episode of Triple Click explaining the Xeno- series of games.

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 you can email us about who your favorite Webkinz pet 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.

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Tori's back and she played a whole bunch of Fire Emblem and we've gotta talk about it! We're also making fun of the Metaverse (as per usual) and talking about the newly unearthed Kingdom Hearts TV show pilot from 20 years ago.

THINGS MENTIONED:

This article on Futurism about Decentraland, a failing Metaverse project.

This Kotaku article about Facebook’s Metaverse.

This tweet from Meta about how legs are coming.

This Inverse article about the Kingdom Hearts pilot.

The link directly to the Kingdom Hearts pilot. 

The first of Ray Mona’s videos about Saban Moon, the American Sailor Moon that has been lost media forever.

Video Game Podtimism on Twitter.

The Asynchronous podcast on Twitter.

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 you can email us about your favorite roadtrip gaming memories 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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Chris Pratt's Mario voice is lame, but there's other gaming news to talk about this week, too. Nathaniel's playing some cool games, Noah's playing Overwatch. There's lots to discuss.

THINGS MENTIONED: 

GamesIndustry.biz on Fandom acquiring a ton of games websites.

This Washington Post article about the latest in the Activision Blizzard anti-union saga.

This Kotaku article about a Bush-era torture apologist working at Activision Blizzard.

Flight Reacts to the Dream face reveal.

This Polygon article about the Dream face reveal, if you give a shit about that.

Blizzard's blocking people from playing Overwatch because of their phone plans, from Kotaku.

And special thanks to musical guest Shake Onigiri for their voice and the use of their track Catfood.

Shake Onigiri on Tiktok.

Shake Onigiri on Bandcamp.

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 you can email us about your favorite Overwatch hero of choice 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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With Tori off tending to wedding stuff (and a hurricane) we couldn't let the podcast go unhosted, so friend of the show Nathaniel Wilson jumps into the co-host seat and talks about the games he loves, the "Metaverse" and Star Wars.

THINGS MENTIONED:

This story from Kotaku about Walmart's weird new venture into Roblox.

This Reddit thread about how a semi-credible leaker says Disney wants more Star Wars games.

This YouTube video from TripleJump ranking every Star Wars video game.

This video from BadEnd about how modern games are wasting our time.

Tom Rogers' odyssey of a YouTube video reviewing the PS1 classic Boku no Natsuyasumi.

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 you can email us about your favorite Fortnite skin or your go-to independent book publishing house 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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Dunkey's publishing games, Konami's actually making games and we're playing them, too. There's other gaming news, too, plus some updates on what we're playing and consuming.

THINGS MENTIONED:

Videogamedunkey’s video about his new publishing house, BigMode.

This article about Ted Woolsey’s weird translation choice in Final Fantasy IV.

Let’s Mosey, a slow translation of FFVII from Tim Rogers.

Jimmy Fallon is coming to Fortnite for some reason, from The Gamer.

A Polygon article about the weird, tone-deaf Fortnite MLK Jr. event.

This funny Tumblr post about the Mario movie.

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 you can email us about books you're reading or games you're playing 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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Boy, there sure were a bunch of game announcements last week. It was also a pretty shitty week for games media, too. We're tackling all of that and discussing our favorite sparkling water brands. 

THINGS MENTIONED:

This Kotaku article about Queen Lizzy's adoration for the Wii.

Vice on Keffals battle to take down Kiwi Farms.

This Waypoint article about SNES emulation juggernaut Near.

Kotaku on G4 layoffs.

And here's Kotaku on the layoffs at Fanbyte, too.

No Escape in response to the Fanbyte layoffs.

SPOILERS FOR SOUL HACKERS 2 FROM 1:00:2 — 1:00:6

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 you can email us about your favorite sparkling water (or, you know, video 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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Noah and Tori are joined this week by indie game developer Lucy Blundell. Blundell's first game, One Night Stand, is a certified indie game gem, and their next game, VIDEOVERSE, is on its way out in the coming months. We talk One Night Stand, her next game, and what inspires her. There's also a good bit of talk about our favorite Pokemon games, what makes Final Fantasy VII so special and why we love games we've never even played. 

You can find Lucy Blundell on: 

Twitter: @GamesByKinmoku

Instagram: @GamesByKinmoku

Tiktok: @GamesByKinmoku

Steam: @Kinmoku

And on Itch.io @Kinmoku.

You can also wishlist VIDEOVERSE on Steam HERE.

THINGS MENTIONED: 

Tim Rogers' review of Tokimeki Memorial.

The Ren'Py Engine.

The COMMNTD podcast.

The Asynchronous podcast.

Coyote Cocktail's video about video game intros.

Mark Haha on YouTube.

Radiohead's Idioteque in the Mario 64 sound font.

The Into the Aether podcast.

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 and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod and you can email us visual novel recommendations 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 finally finished Neon Genesis Evangelion and that is admittedly what most of this episode is about. We talk about games, too, of course, like some of the announcements out of Gamescom and how Sony wants some people to pay even more for PlayStation 5s because of *gestures at everything*. 

THINGS MENTIONED:

This Polygon article about Wyrdsong.

This Rock Paper Shotgun article about Lies of P, the Pinnochio Bloodborne-like.

This Flandrew video about the Phantom Menace game.

This IGN article the various Neon Genesis Evangelion endings.

This Cruncyroll video about the 37 different Evangelion timelines.

Spoilers for Evangelion from 46:47 to 1:06:00. Within that chunk there are mentions of gore and sexual assault.

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 and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_StartPod and you can email us dark sci-fi anime recommendations 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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