Radio Redux

With Kevin suffering from a head cold (bad news for his faulty nose) Urtheart and Turbo take over Radio Redux duties, although Turbo is reluctant to be taken away from the Ocarina of Time remake.

There’s definitely some things they want to talk about, for a start there’s the delays in getting some games to Steam, the situation with games being exacerbated by the so called ‘A.I. slop’ titles flooding the market. Turbo’s also upset about the recent controversy around Behaviour Interactive’s over the top support for a fair-weather streamer. Which ties everything back in to the nature of ‘supportive marketing’ versus ‘being buddy-buddy’. The pair pointing out the difference between what Behaviour – and indeed the mistakes SEGA have made in the recent past for Total War and Sonic, in comparison to the pains LMC itself goes through when dealing with Rebellion.

With Halloween in the rear view mirror, Urtheart discuses the most recent Castlevania game – Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse – but what continuity is it in? Some are suggesting that it might be the Netflix TV series, and Kevin sure as heck isn’t having any of that!

That and the upcoming titles they (or rather, Urth) are looking forward to, Atari’s stroke of merch genius – and would Kevin REALLY replace poor Urth with Invisigal from Dispatch?

Carrying on their previous recording session – because there was too much of SEGA shooting themselves in the foot for one episode. Kevin, Turbo, Urtheart and Luna Arcanos turn their sights towards the appropriately named Club Chaos event. Which only leads on to a debate as to the good and bad of using influencers within the games industry and how that has changed over time.

Urtheart explains how Rebellion once horrified a PlayStation office with a too-realistic cake. Kevin deals with some feedback that may prove impossible to implement. While resident Resident Evil fans Luna and Turbo get their critic on as they discuss the recent movie. A movie they have THOUGHTS about.

With everything that’s been going on the last week, there’s a slightly longer episode of Radio Redux, as we deal with the smouldering remains of SEGA’s last week.

From a CrossWorlds competition that didn’t do a heck of a lot to promote the different ways you can play CrossWorlds and a year two full of interesting plans, to a disastrous Discord launch. One that was 100% reaping what SEGA of America have spent the last decade sowing. Complete with the most obvious emergency damage control attempt the quartet has seen in some time!

Trapped in a room for 30 minutes as a task during their game of Big Walk, Kevin interviews his travelling companions from the NiGHTS fanbase on the origins of their fandom. Including Luna, Feniiku – and after a mere 17 YEARS, TRiPPY returns to the show. That, plus Turbo takes on Radio Redux‘s version of The Dark Room, and Kevin himself tells the story of how his introduction to Roger Craig Smith failed miserably – and through no fault of his own!

Already slightly irked by Crush 40 frontman Johnny Gioeli’s Speed of Sound tour’s insistence on using ‘S.O.S’ to blatantly co-opt some trust from Sonic fans, Kevin tunes in to their announcement stream on The Sonic Stadium‘s YouTube channel to react to what’s revealed. Which includes: vagueness about holograms, too much information about Johnny’s bladder control, ridiculous merchandise, disappearing countries, and the fanbase basically being responsible for all the creative. Plus the utter preposterousness of ‘the Ultimate Crush 40 Experience’.

With one week of an open-ended schedule on RadioSEGA left, Kevin has some tales to tell. Tales of meeting various people over the last few weeks.

There’s going to the MCM Expo to get a Funko POP signed by a Sonic voice actor… which didn’t happen because he took so damn long doing ANYTHING, leading into a really fun encounter with someone else. (And avoiding being harassed by creator of the Daleks, Davros, on the way.) Then there’s him taking himself off to see Mick Foley’s one-man-show for even more book signatures and a brief discussion with the man himself. Before lastly we head back to a break section during 2025’s end of year quiz, as ShadowFox takes on… The Dark Room!

With SEGA Mixer Drive still away, it’s a double length Radio Redux with Kevin is joined by both Urtheart and Turbo for this episode as they catch up on all the various gaming news.

With everything from GTA 6 leaks, TV adaptions, studios flying free from XBOX, why you should hire Psycho Mantis for your Marketing team, and yes… the Sonic x Fortnite nonsense. Plus did you know it’s possible to knock out a quick AAA Doom game over a weekend? All this and somehow more!

Sonic’s 35th anniversary is the topic and the time, as we wind back to June for a longer Radio Redux than normal. One taken from a recording during the related CrossWorlds festival. Kevin is joined by fellow ‘Team Terribad’ member Luna Arcanos, bubbly Scottish gremlin Ninten and mutual friend GuardEzio… who’s not really much of a Sonic fan so is bemused by most of what is going on.

Includes retellings of SEGA stories, character discussions and historical matters long forgotten – plus Kevin getting very angry at how SEGA have handled the health of the community in the years since!

On today’s Radio Redux show, Kevin winds the clock back to Nov 2025 as he and Feniiku catch up over some CrossWorlds. Fresh back from Sonic Con, there’s plenty of stories and laughs to share – as it turns out the more things change, the more they stay the same…