Virtually Lost

We had some big announcements from AX2022. Time to recap ~

Timestamps
0:00 Intro ~ Never mix Wienerschnitzel & Dutch Bros
3:17 The return to Smite
5:33 Panty & Stocking Anime Expo 2022 announcement
9:45 VShojo creating Japan Branch, with KSON And Nazuna Amemiya
15:37 E3 is back
17:29 New Robocop game trailer
19:22 God of War Ragnorak November release
20:01 Time to upgrade the PC
22:55 LilyPichu moves exclusively to Youtube Gaming

Anime Expo 2022 is this week! Julian & Robert cover the end of spring anime, Persona getting a Nintendo Switch port, and Robert recaps an odd story relating to last week's episode.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro ~ The Reach of VTuber collabs (VShojo, Hololive)
2:04 Twitch Metas (Subathon, AmongUs, Fall Guys, Chess, LSF, watch parties)
7:02 Persona & NieR Automata are getting a Switch port
9:04 Metroidvania games
10:47 Anime Expo 2022
15:45 Anime news recap (Spring 2022 Seasonals, Kaguya-Sama #1 on MyAnimeList, Kaguya-Sama manga ending in 14 chapters)
17:31 Robert’s manga updates (The Irregular at Magic High School, Bless, MARRIAGETOXIN)
23:12 Do we really need another season of Date a Live?
26:12 Sega planning to make live-adaptations of Persona games
29:22 Julian wants to get a racing game rig
31:46 Collective Conscience: MXC
33:02 Robert’s Suffering from Success gacha
35:05 100 Thieves Creator Colors Foundations line
36:26 4th Plans
37:04 Outro

throwback episode about a bunch of old shows, music, and games

Timestamps
0:00 Intro, Flyquest CEO Tricia Sugita steps down and joins Cloud9 as CMO
3:55 esports updates
5:53 Final Fantasy fans eating good recently (FF7 Rebirth, FF Crisis Core, FF7 Remake Steam port)
9:05 Dragon’s Dogma 2 Announcement
14:07 Xbox updated two classic Gamerpics
15:54 Games with surprisingly toxic communities
20:00 Universal Studios Super Nintendo World & New Drake Album
23:58 Music Goose Chase
25:19 John Wick First Impression
32:38 Squid’s Game Reality TV Show, ‘Endurance’, Old Spike Channel
38:47 Youth Robert’s Call of Duty experiences
41:03 Anime/Manga Guilty Pleasures
44:58 Chainsaw Man Coming Back Next Month
48:18 Outro

This week we cover the multiple game showcases recently, the lovely wedding of everyone's favorite anime couple, and Robert showcases a lack of intelligence with some stories.

Timestamps
0:00 Pre-Show “Body Training” Story
2:40 Intro
3:13 Pokemon & Lechonk
6:18 Julian's Super Mario Strikers Battle League experience
8:27 Playstation State of Play (FFXVI, RE4 Remake, SF6)
12:35 Robert goes Gacha-free
13:16 ‘Eternights’ Next-Gen Hand Holding
14:44 Diablo Immortal Pay-to-Win Controversy & Blizzard Brand Image over the years
17:32 Anime Expo
18:26 Everyone’s Favorite Anime Couple Got Married (Sydsnap x Gigguk)
22:50 TheAnimeMan released his Streetwear Brand “Nonsense”
25:44 Robert builds his D-Frag manga collection
27:52 Xbox Conference (Silksong, Persona 3/4/5 ports, Starfield, The Plucky Squire, Kojima announced game, The Callisto Protocol
34:32 Grammy’s adding the Video Game Score
36:31 The end of the figurine era
37:18 Sailor Moon x Vans collab
38:35 Berserk
39:24 Robert is an idiot at times
40:56 Ramona Park Broke My Heart
42:57 Outro

We got Julian & Robert diving back into their trashy first exposures to anime, Robert crowning Anime's Best Dressed Award, and highlighting multiple instances of marketing in the gaming industry. 

Timestamps
0:00 Intro , Warriors Game
1:41 Soda Summit Discussion
4:27 Products Associated with Gaming
6:08 Clothing in Gaming and Anime
8:26 Konosuba Season 3 & Megumin Spin-Off Announced
10:49 This Season of Anime
11:44 Subscription Services
12:58 Anime Origin Stories
14:29 Isekai Baseball
15:39 Outlandish Comments/Reviews on MyAnimeList
16:55 Atrioc Paper Mario
18:47 Embracer Group game preservation archive
20:42 Square Enix Shinji Hashimoto ~ Kingdom Hearts ~ Final Fantasy
24:15 RNG beats T1 in Finals to win MSI
26:28 Omori Art Exhibition
28:48 DONDA sports
33:09 Outro

It's a celebration, we're getting more HxH chapters after 4 years! is mahvel baybee!

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:16 Hunter x Hunter is back 
5:43 How Shonen Jump has changed since the last Hunter x Hunter chapter
11:10 QA department of Raven Software is unionizing
13:05 Battle Royale (Fortnite, Warzone, Apex Legends, PUBG)
14:55 Babylon’s Fall
17:02 Super Mario Strikers
17:49 NieR concert Blu-Ray purchase
19:24 Movies that are so bad that they’re good
20:04 Dr. Strange & the Marvel Cinematic Universe
28:12 Robert watching MSI
29:03 Closing

I can't. Not Again. I'm not...strong enough. The boys cover the FIFA / EA split, the video game hall of fame, and Robert talks about his time out partying.

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
2:18 Castle Party
8:01 Mob Psycho S3 announced; Anime Classics That We’ve Missed
11:52 Quintessential Quintuplets Epilogue
13:30 FIFA & EA split
19:43 Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees
26:44 “Mobile Needs To Die”
29:25 Square Enix Fiscal Reports
35:09 Robert’s Triangle Strategy Review
36:42 Unreal Engine 5
38:57 Super Mario 64
45:29 RIP Milwaukee Bucks
48:10 Closing

In a business email, Twitch misspelled Sykkuno's name, attributing to him swapping to YouTube TV. The boys cover that swap, ALGS Playoffs, and the big moves in the gaming industry.

Timestamp
0:00 Intro
3:48 Sykkuno swaps to exclusive YT Gaming contracts
8:57 Apex Legends ALGS Sweden
10:32 Square Enix sells off Tomb Raider, studios, and other IPs
13:54 huge gaming business moves over the last year
14:51 Triangle Strategy progress
18:17 Everything Everywhere All at Once: Robert’s review
20:00 Julian Corpa
20:35 Santa Monica trip reminiscence + future trip planning
23:11 Closing

This episode we have the boys covering Twitch's Partner Policy change, Robert's decline in age, and reflect on the state of anime in 2022.

Timestamp
0:00 Everything Everywhere all At Once
1:27 LCS Spring Playoffs
4:58 Super Smash Bros Pound 2022
9:15 Age within esports
10:08 Apex LAN Sweden
12:22 Robert’s Birthday
13:45 Elden Ring + Triangle Strategy
15:22 Twitch Changes to their Partner Program
18:10 Naruto x Jordan Zion Shoes
20:24 Overwatch 2 Beta
22:52 Newly Announced Playstation Preservation Team
25:23 Preference toward Physical Media
26:31 Barnes & Noble Resurgence due to Manga
28:14 Ranger Reject & Spring 2022 Anime
34:03 Anime is Becoming Too Mainstream
34:16 Closing

This week we have the boys covering Ninja's rebranding, the Fighting Game Community, and we see the beginning of Robert's further descent into degeneracy.

Timestamp
0:00 Start
1:52 Genesis 8
6:30 Smash Bros training arc
8:52 Fighting Game Community
11:52 Starcraft 
13:03 Battlefield 2042
14:14 Halo Infinite
16:15 Ninja Rebranding
19:01 Utada Hikaru at Coachella
19:48 Robert’s Birthday Gift
22:05 Uniqlo x Final Fantasy clothes
22:28 Xenoblade Chronices 3 release moved up
23:44 Super Mario Strikers
25:12 Recap of first 50 episodes of Virtually Lost
27:49 Robert's Top 3 Anime Songs of Spring 2022
28:51 Robert’s manga prediction