Bad (?) news, guys: there’s no Soda Shaq this week. It will make a triumphant return, certainly, but we needed a break. Instead, we talk about… video games? I guess? That’s usually where things end up, anyway.

Every Two Links:

Injustice: Gods Among Us

DuckTales Remastered

Remember Me

999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Pikmin 3

XCOM: The Bureau Declassified

Wii U gets a price drop and Zelda gets a release date

Uh…. 2DS?

SimCity has come to Macs

100 games are now on Steam Greenlight

Soul Calibur 2 HD online will have Spawn, but not Link

PS4 and Vita will have cross-platform party chat

Shadow of the Eternals kickstarter fails AGAIN, but gets Greenlit?

Doritos and Mountain Dew giving away XBox ONEs because LOL STEREOTYPES

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Also, remember that we have a Tumblr now? Well, we do: shitleahandelainesay.tumblr.com

I mean, really, who can say what the division of services will be like when the new consoles are released? Perhaps we will find ourselves in a land where mythical creatures finally get the respect they deserve. That’s how we think Peter Molyneux would see it, anyway. I wonder if he likes his sandwiches dry or moist?

Feral links:

Deadly Premonition

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Injustice: Gods Among Us

Resident Evil 5

Pikmin 3

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Disney Infinity

XBox One preorders will come with FIFA 14 in Europe

Ballmer is leaving MS

WiiU is getting a Wind Waker bundle, probably

PS4 release date is officially November 15

Vita and its memory cards both get some pretty good price drops

Rocksmith 2014 will work with electric ukuleles and violins

Rogue Legacy and a bunch of other awesome indies will be coming to the PS3, PS4, and the Vita

Borderlands 2 is coming to the Vita

We’re still drinking weird things. It will probably not stop. Help us! [email protected]!

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Link-based products:

Deadly Premonition

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Final Fantasy V

Pikmin 3

Plants vs. Zombies 2

XBox One no longer requires Kinect

XBox One can tell when it’s overheating and will shut itself down

GTA Online is a thing that is happening pretty soon

GameStop continues to be ultra-shady about their pricing practices

No more NFL Sunday ticket on PS3

For some reason, there might be a 12 gig PS3 launching soon? Why?

WiiU being sold at a loss

Iwata says that the WiiU doesn’t need a price cut, it needs games. Well, NO SHIT!

Soda Shaq is not a thing we made up

You can send your suggestions for the horrible things we should be drinking to [email protected]. We’re probably dumb enough to try them.

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I know this podcast was supposed to be about something, but it gets harder with each passing week to remember exactly what that is… it might be sandwiches, though. Or possibly sharks? I definitely remember something about sharks and spiders. Spider sharks? Oh GOD, I just horrified myself.

Scary, scary links:

Deadly Premonition

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Final Fantasy V

Pikmin 3

Earthbound

Dragon’s Crown

John Carmack is CTO of Oculus now, which makes sense

SEGA is a bidder for the Atlus parent company

Nintendo reveals some nifty numbers about ALL their hardware and software sales

XBox One will lock some things behind a pay wall

3DS removes need for pesky humans in order to street pass

Boy stops a speeding car with skills he learned from Mario Kart

PS4 will let you stream and record without Plus

EMAILS! ….can be sent to [email protected].

This week was ALL OF THE INTERESTING, and while much of that may not really have had a whole lot to do with video games, it seems like you guys are kind of into that. We do get around to talking about stuff that we’ve been playing eventually, though. I promise.

Links, sponsored by #dryvsmoist:

Deadly Premonition

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Final Fantasy V

Darksiders

Dragon’s Crown

Hotline Miami

New Super Luigi U

Some kind of Eternal Darkness something is probably happening…

Earthbound creator leaves a warm and squishy little message

Australia says no to Saints Row IV…again…

New Mortal Kombat game is in development

Take 2 is having a happy year financially

Bully  2??!?1?

WiiU is NOT selling, but Nintendo posts a profit anyway

All current headsets will work with XBox One

Bioshock Infinite DLC sounds pretty rad

For those of you who stuck around for all the outtakes…. cupcake before vs. cupcake after. 

To weigh in on important sandwich issues, please contact us at [email protected]. You can also ask about other stuff, I guess, but why would you?

Very important issues are discussed on this podcast, and we’re probably going to need help resolving it, so listen up, take notes, and choose a side! CHOOSE CAREFULLY.

Dry/Moist Links:

Dragon’s Crown

Darksiders

Darksiders 2

Deadly Premonition

Soul Calibur 2 coming to XBLA and PSN this fall

There’s a Persona 3 movie trailer, and we watched it

Indies can now self-publish on XBox One

JOHN MADDEN SAYS BOOM TO THIS LAWSUIT

XBox One records your last five minutes of gameplay

Saints Row 4 season pass includes Enter the Dominatrix

Activision splits from Vivendi for 8.2 billion dollars

Fez 2 cancelled over temper tantrums

You want to email us, right? Of course you do! You can do this thing at @[email protected].

We have lots of stories this week, which may or may not be related to video games. There’s a lot of talk about sandwiches and sunburns and people doing inappropriate things in cars, so you should probably just settle in and wait for the part where we get back on topic. Or, you know, as much “on topic” as we ever get. Come on, you guys know how this works by now!

Topical links:

Darksiders II

The Walking Dead: 400 Days

Final Fantasy V (here is the link to Leah’s Final Fantasy Project)

Animal Crossing: New Leaf

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Darksiders

Atlus parent company is set to auction off operations, leaving us scared about Persona 5

EarthBound is now on the WiiU Virtual Console, but you probably already knew that because you could hear Elaine squeeing wherever you are

Tons and tons of Animal Crossing sold

Oh, Japan; Resident Evil attraction looks kind of awesome

You can play games while they download on the XBox One, confirmed

Ultra Street Fighter IV coming in 2014 to current-gen consoles

Deadly Premonition on….Steam Greenlight? What?

Firefly game coming…. to iOS and Android? What?

Listener mail…. WHAT? [email protected], plzkthxbai!

We don’t get serious very often on this show, but we would both like to dedicate this episode to Ryan Davis, who served as an example and an inspiration to our show from day one. Thanks, duder. You will be missed.

Links:

The Last of Us

Muramasa Rebirth

Persona 3 FES

Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Don Mattrick going to Zynga

Final Fantasy VII is now on Steam

Limited edition Pokemon X & Y bundles that are gorgeous are coming to Japan

Atlus parent company registers Persona 5 domain

MS removes fee to patch games on XBLA

Rejected XBox One names

Want to send us email? Of course you do! [email protected] is where you do that.

We both finished The Last of Us recently, and we have things to say about it. Please note: this podcast contains MASSIVE STORY SPOILERS, so if you have not finished the game–and I do mean FINISHED it–please do not listen to this show. You can come back later. For now, just go play the game. We’ll wait for you to thank us.

Guys, we didn’t even need outtakes this week. Just listen to the first fifteen minutes or so and you will have everything you need. Also, @underballz. Seriously.

Links that are not balls:

Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow- Mirror of Fate

Muramasa Rebirth

The Last of Us

Hotline Miami

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Ellen Page is angry about characters that look like her

Saint’s Row anal probe causes it to be banned in Australia

Nintendo fans want 3DS and Wii U to be region free

Plants vs Zombies 2 has been delayed

Ouya backers still don’t have consoles, even though they are at retail

MS spending tons of money on their cloud stuff

EA claims they won’t bring back online passes

Mail! We love it! [email protected]! Thank you! Exclamation points!