The Tangent

The Tangent - 126: 7 Minute Wiggle Room

Brian: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Pyre, Runbow

Justin: Metal Gear Solid 5

Gary: Blood & Bacon, The Surge

Anthony: Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star

Drunken News

• Report: Capcom Preparing More Switch Games After Ultra Street Fighter II Success
• Violent Video Games Don’t Increase Aggression, Says New Study
• Xbox One X Will Help Grow The Industry, Ubisoft CEO Says
• Mass Effect, Anthem Designer Corey Gaspur Passes Away
• Nintendo confirms SNES Classic Edition pre-orders will go live later this month
• First-Person Shooter 'BioShock Remastered' Coming to Mac This Year
• Take Two cancels plans to stop printing money via Grand Theft Auto Online
• WWE 2K18, Physical Copies Of NBA 2K18 For Switch Delayed
• Rockstar sued over Auntie Poulet from 15-year-old Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

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The Tangent - 125: Genital Stuff

Anthony: Splatoon 2, Hallow Knight

Brian: Crash Bandicoot Remastered, Pyre

Justin: Bulletstorm, Overwatch

Gary: Overwatch, Lawbreakers Beta, Destiny 2 Beta

Drunken News

• Pokémon GO Fest attendees to get refunds as technical issues break the event
• Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
• Xbox Games With Gold for August includes Bayonetta and Red Faction
• Nintendo Switch Sells 4.7 Million Units in First Four Months
• Walmart Cancels SNES Classic Edition Preorders
• August 2017 PlayStation Plus Games Announced
• Madden NFL 18 Ratings: Quarterbacks
• Random: Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. Fetches Over $30,000 On eBay

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The Tangent - 124: A Lumpy Log

Gary: Metal Gear Solid 5

Justin: Fallout: New Vegas

Anthony: Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC

Stephen: Marathon, Amazon Trail II, Nanosour, "Sports", and Yankai's Triangle.

Brian: Hidden Folk, The Flame in the Flood

Drunken News

• ATARI REVEALS FIRST IMAGES, MORE DETAILS OF ITS NEW ATARIBOX CONSOLE
• Wii U Receives First System Software Update In Eighteen Months
• Thank You For Everything
• Sony’s legal quest to remove its leaked developer’s kit from the Web
• Mario Kart director philosophical about need for the blue shell
• Windows XP, Vista buried by Blizzard

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The Tangent - 123: A Good Tip

Justin: Fallout: New Vegas achievements, Ketchup Summer Sports (iOS)

Stephen: illi (iOS)

Gary: Monkey Ropes (iOS)

Brian: Typoman, Submerged, Crash Bandicoot Remastered

Drunken News

• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Makes Switch Debut In September
• For Honor Creative Director Leaves Ubisoft
• Nioh’s Second Expansion Is Coming Soon
• Overwatch is getting a city-based e-sports league with Robert Kraft as an owner

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The Tangent - 122: A Humongous Fist

It's always a slog the first podcast after July 4th here in the Good OL' USA. We manage to get by, and the only way we know how is talking about some games. Well, that and our weeks...

Brian takes the reigns and lets us know about a 2D-puzzle platform called, Typoman. Yes, it involves letters. If you're anything like Brian you'll be trying all the dirty words. It's a very dark game, and you die quickly and brutally. Hopefully, it's even worse when you forget the oxford comma. What's really even worse is more Overwatch talk with Gary. He says he can't stop playing. Really? Could have fooled in. In all seriousness, there is a new character that Blizzard announced, Doom Fist. Guys, he doesn't look like Terry Crews. No, no at all. Gary's also got that Lawbreakers beta going. Played about four games, and can't wait for the game to come out. He picked up Left 4 Dead 2 and lets us know it feels "just right" on the PC. Can only imagine. Lastly, Justin is achievement hunting in Fallout 4. He's sunk 10 - 15 hours and has got four. Plenty left to get.

The Drunken News: Gameshow Edition is still here. Brian lets off a rant about Doom Fist. Sometimes 30 seconds is too short though... In the news we talk the Splatoon 2 Direct, top Xbox gamerscore, Jak and Daxter re-release, Linux gaming support, and more.

Drunken News

• Aftercharge, a new competitive FPS that should get Linux support sounds very interesting
• Report: Dragon Quest 11 Western Release Confirmed via Dutch PR
• After almost four months, and selling almost 500K units, NieR: Automata has not received any single patch
• Lords of the Fallen 2 Director Sacked, Project Size Reduced
• Jak and Daxter PS4 Release Outed?
• World’s Highest Gamerscore Record Passed By New Challenger
• Report: Xbox One X benchmarks detail 4K capabilities
• Splatoon 2 Direct Highlights New Features and First Splatfest

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The Tangent - 121: A King Named DJA

Up first this week is Justin. He's got a game we discussed before, Abzu. He played and beat it, and he really did enjoy it. Then, get this, Justin has a puzzle board game that's free on iOS called, Windin. Can't beat that. Plus, Uncharted 4, Breath of the Wild, and Overwatch (Woo!). Next up, Gary. Lawbreakers, the BETA. It's more polished since PAX and the first BETA. There's a few new characters too. Arrives in August for $40. Nice. There's also Devil Daggers. A Steam game he played that cost $.99. An arena shooter where you are surrounded by darkness. Aren't we all, though? Gary calls it a POS, I say MASTERPIECE. Who knows? I don't. Finally, Brian, and it's OXEN-FREE (Olly olly). It's got some Secret of Monkey Island in it. Not too bad.

Drunken News

• Single-player modding returns to GTA V after publisher takedown
• Super NES Classic Edition Announced, Includes Unreleased Star Fox 2
• Raphael Colantonio, creative director of Dishonored and Prey, is leaving Arkane
• New Splinter Cell Project Teased By Ubisoft CEO
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Coming to Xbox One This Year?
• PlayStation Plus Free Games for July 2017 Revealed
• E3 2017: SHIGERU MIYAMOTO AND THE LEGACY OF MARIO

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The Tangent - 120: The Future Of 2016

"Two can be as bad as one" Yet again, it's just Brian and Gary sitting at the table this week. It's the first full day of summer and some of us just have to hit the open ocean, even if one is the loneliest number.

Anyway, we talk about games, and the first one up is Wolfenstein, and Gary is still having fun. That's good, because I'm pretty sure that's the point of a game. In the past, anyway. Today, who knows? Then he talks some Overwatch. Somehow this is still happening. Brian also ranked out something in gold. I think. Speaking of Brian, his game this week, Ever Oasis, is a "Brian" game through and through. It's a third-person action RPG where you're building an oasis and all NPC's can be in the party. Neat. Lastly, Stephen corrects the record on the iOS game Beat Stomper. Plus, some Animal Crossing N64 talk. Put it in Japanese.

There's no Drunken News: Game Show Edition this week, again. We instead do a rapid fire of this week's news.

Drunken News

• Professional gamer gets banned in Neopets for being too good in mouse precision game
• 20,000 sign OpenIV petition as GTA 5 is hammered with negative Steam reviews
• Pokemon Go Gym and Raiding Update Detailed
• PaRappa, Elite Beat Agent Dev's New Game Fails To Reach Kickstarter Goal
• Diablo 3's Necromancer Class Pack Launches Next Week
• Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for 20+ major e-sports events
• Sony Announces 'PlayLink' With Synchronous Multiplayer Games Communicating Between PS4 and iOS
• Sega Forever brings retro games to iOS and Android for free

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The Tangent - 119: Filthy Nasty Love

Communication Breakdown. Zeppelin had it right all along. There's only two (well, three) this week, as we lose Justin to a vacation. Then again, it's better than being sunburnt.

First up is Gary, and he has Among The Sheep. It's a first-person horror game where you play as a 15 month-year-old child where doors lead to different worlds.  Stephen thinks The Chronicles of Narnia. The rest? I don't know if they ever read it... Moving on, it's more Overwatch talk. Honestly, it was competitive something, but all I wrote down was: BORING. Brian then lets us know that Marvel vs. Capcom is not as good as Injustice. I'm not sure if that was a surprise. However, if you enjoy cheesy writing, you might enjoy this. Lastly, is ARMS. Brian finds that it's a lot of fun. Hard, but a lot of fun. And bright and colorful, but that's what Nintendo has been going for lately. 

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The Tangent - E3 2017: Bethesda, Ubisoft, Sony, Nintnedo

Listen as the gang discusses the Bethesda, Ubisoft, Sony, and Nintendo 2017 E3 press conferences.

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The Tangent - E3 2017: Microsoft Press Conference

Listen as the gang discusses the Microsoft 2017 E3 press conference.

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