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For realsies this time!  After a super busy summer, things are have slowed down a little for Dan and Corey and we can get into a normal recording schedule again...likely on the weekend mornings.  But for now we get ya'll up to date on what we played over the summer, today's Nintendo Direct, and what the heck we did all summer.

Just as E3 rises from the ashes like a Phoenix so too does the TSA Podcast!  Though I guess ashes is too strong a word, more mismatched schedules and a general lack of time for us.....E3 has, however, risen from the ashes.  We cover the Ubisoft Forward event, since that's one of the few conferences that took place already, along with discussing some other miscellaneous announcements and some of the things we'd like to hear about from the other conferences.

During "What We Played" Fortnite Season 7, the new Ratchet and Clank, Stardew Valley, and a few others are discussed by Dan, Will, and Corey!

It's been a hot minute since we've had an episode so we take the opportunity to get you all caught up on the news, what we've been playing and what we've been up to!

We're back with an irregular episode release, this time covering Outriders.  Dan was unable to play due to the whole PC/XBOX Gamepass confusion issue, but played some Cozy Grove to make up for it.

What are some great games that got left behind on their old systems, and haven't made the leap yet to modern day consoles or PC?  This is the question Will and Dan discuss in this new (likely series) episode.  

We review the excellent addition onto the Super Mario 3D World, Bowser's Fury for this week's episode.  Spoilers...its pretty darn good and we hope they make a full Mario game in the same vein.  

I don't believe we talked too much about it when it first happened, so now that it's official we took the opportunity to talk about what it will mean for both companies and the studios involved.  Later on in the episode Will talks more about Days Gone and Dan played Fortnite Season 6.

While I had a pretty good main segment planned for this week's episode, it was derailed before it even started.  Graphics cards are so hard to buy right now that even pre-built gaming PC's are out of stock.  So most of the main segment this week was talking about the gpu shortage!

For this week we cover a few digital events that most gamers seem to not be too jazzed about.  Though Pokemon stuff is usually a hit, many were disappointed in the nature of the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl remakes.  The event was saved, however, by the announcement of Pokemon Legends: Arceus which appears to be a Breath of the Wild-esque Pokemon game.  Seems like it will be a safe bet.  On the PlayStation front, lots of things coming, but nothing really first party which is what everyone was hoping for, but some neat announcements nonetheless!  Dan and Will were not disappointed.  

During Nintendo's February 2021 Direct, a new game was announced that's very near and dear to the TSA Pod...and that game was Project Traingle Strategy.  Slated for release in 2022, PTS is a Final Fantasy Tactics-esque Strategy RPG with graphics very similar to Octopath Traveler.  Even better than the game announcement itself is the fact that they released a demo later that day!  So we played and share our thoughts.

 Later in the episode we cover the rest of the Nintendo Direct, with announcements about Splatoon 3, and Skyward Sword coming to the Switch and some of the Blizzcon announcements.