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Brian and Corey discuss their PS5 woes, making game purchasing decisions based off of Twitch, the amazing Optimus Prime Transformer, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and Brian opines on Justice League Snyder Cut.

• Mass Effect Legendary Edition
• Little Devil Inside
• The Sony Bloomberg article

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With a longer-than-average ID@Xbox event, Brian and Corey spend a little extra time covering some of the games shown. They also discuss the majesty of the Dynasty Warriors movie trailer.

• Everything at ID@Xbox
• Dynasty Warriors movie

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Brian and Corey break down the Square Enix Presents including all the parts Brian skipped.  We also talk about the Magic Legends Open Beta, and Chris Metzen's Auroboros project.

• Square Enix Presents
• Auroboros
• Children of Morta DLC

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Brian and Corey are focused this week on having a disaster recovery plan, games, more stonks, and the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game.

• TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
• Rust recovery

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Brian and Corey are joined this week by Twitch streamer and photographer, Mike Bailey (akamikeb) to discuss the many aspects, joys, and countless hours spent in Valheim.

• akamikeb on Twitch
• akamikeb on Twitter
• Valheim PvP

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Brian and Corey are back after a week's absence due to weather and work. They're here to discuss Nintendo Direct, Mortal Kombat's red band trailer, and PlayStation's State of Play.

• Nintendo Direct
• Sony State of Play

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Brian and Corey have a bit of a long episode this week as we discuss Stadia's signposting, Ninja's latest meltdown, Crash on Battle dot Net, and all the demos we played in Steam's Festival.

• Ninja Threatens to Quit Fortnite

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Brian and Corey are joined this week by the Co-host and Producer of the Virtual Economy podcast, Amanda Farough, to discuss GameStonks - its effect on the industry and the stock market.  We also touch on financial tech as a sector and retail investing.  To the Moon!

• Amanda Farough on Twitter
• Hit Save!
• Virtual Economy Podcast
• Ready Player Mama on Twitch

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Brian and Corey are thrilled to have Starting Point's 2020 "eSports Coach of the Year" and resident historian, Professor John Harney back on the show to discuss History and Video Game Academia as well as the life of a college eSports program director and coach.

• Professor John Harney on Twitter
• Centre College eSports
• History Respawned

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Brian and Corey are discussing franchises making their comebacks either movie as a video game (Indiana Jones) or a video game as a movie (Mortal Kombat). Brian also shares some exciting news.

• Indiana Jones games
• Mortal Kombat movie

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