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Summer Game Fest 2025 with Ebrozo
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Tony is joined by Twitch Streamer Ebrozo and the two of them tackle everything Summer Game Fest had to offer this year! Including the main Livestream, PlayStations State of Play, Xbox's Showcase, Cozy Games Direct, Future Game Show, PC Game Show, Day of the Devs and More! They also talk about the Switch 2's Launch as the console officially drops! They also cover all the rest of your gaming news and upcoming game releases!
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Transcript
Guest Introduction and Gaming Preferences
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Disclaimer, all views expressed on this podcast represent the host and his guest and not the companies or agencies they are associated with.
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Welcome to Tony's Game Lounge, a bi-weekly podcast that covers everything in the world of video games, TCG, tabletop, and more. Here's your host, Tony14. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Tony's Game Lounge. I'm your host, as always, Tony14, and it's Summer Game Fest, which means we're in for all we're in for a heavy dose of games this week ladies and gentlemen and joining us this week to help us with all of this brand new guest to the podcast uh variety streamer currently playing some celeste on their channel uh a game that i could never i tried it once and i got mad uh let's just say that uh we got ebrozo evan welcome to the podcast
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Thank you, Tony. How's it going?
Hot Takes on Gaming Handhelds and Classics
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I'm glad you had me on. yeah Yeah. Glad to have found you. but yeah i I found you playing Tunic. i yeah like Right at the end of your Tunic playthrough that I discovered. Yeah. And I'm like, yo, I love Tunic to death is one of my favorite games of all time. Fantastic game. Yeah. It's such a fantastic game. And, yeah you know, I love seeing people play it. glad You enjoyed it too, ah from what I've gathered. Oh, it was so great. I have my notes and everything still on my shelf. I have like eight pages of notes I think I took during the game.
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that's That's awesome. I love to see that. Well, welcome to the Game Lounge. Because you are brand new here, we get to start off with the loading screen where you get to give us your favorite video game, video game character, and video game soundtrack.
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All right. You want them just just straight up right off the bat? Yeah, I know. it's it's It is the first question we ask all new guests. Because that it's
PlayStation State of Play: Upcoming Games
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how we found to find out what kind of gamer they really are.
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All right, so favorite game, i mean, and this is probably just the the most hours I've put into, it's probably going to be The Binding of Isaac. Oh, okay. I love me a roguelike and the infinite replayability and just how crazy you can make those runs go.
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and It's got to be Binding of Isaac for favorite game for me. Nice, nice. Either that or or followed up by Slay the Spire, which again, roguelike, you know, deck builder. It's the best of the best as far as that goes.
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Okay, what about game character? character Character has to be the the nostalgic one for me. ah So my first game console I had was the original PlayStation.
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um So it's got to go to Crash Bandicoot for character. Nice. That's a good choice. My first ever Crash game was ah The Wrath of Cortex. Okay, nice. Yep. Yeah. I didn't have the first Crash game, so I had Crash 2 and Crash 3, and I think I played the most i think i played Crash 3 warped the most out of the two of those.
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Nice. so Yeah. I love that character. He's so funny. um i don't necessarily love all the iterations of the character, but you know... ah We don't talk about what was it? rat Clash of the Titans. Yeah, we don't talk about but tribal tattoo crash and all that sort of stuff. god That was an era.
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yeah That was like like the ex the weird Xbox era of Crash that happened.
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Game Soundtrack.
Digimon Game Excitement
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Yeah, for OST, ah I would say Katana Zero. and It's just got the perfect ah like synth wave and like I don't know, something about that soundtrack gets me so locked in.
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I've listened to it so many times and it's like my go-to thing where if I'm at work, I put that soundtrack on and I'm just in it. It's so good. Nice. That's a really good choice. I have not played Katana Zero yet. I have a long list of games I still need to play. Of course, we all do yeah we all do i like and like it Even after playing games last year,
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i still there's still so many i still i Well, now's a good time, or soon at least, because they've got the ah new DLC coming. they We got a trailer for it after years and years of thinking we would never actually see the DLC come. so Just saying. There'll be more content when you if you do get around to it.
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Exciting. Okay. Well, we now get into Hot Takes, where our guest gives their hottest video game take. So Evan, what is your hottest video game take?
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PlayStation and Xbox don't need to be in the handheld market. Straight up. You know what that is? True. I just don't think it's necessary at all. I think it's a waste of time for both companies.
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Yeah, like, yeah. Okay, to be fair, I think PlayStation's first attempt in the portable market with the PSP was fine.
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i think with the portal, we don't need it. it's it's It's at this point, I just think like diversifying their product into the handheld market is just like watering down what they have to offer, you know?
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Give us
Industry Updates: Cancellations and Legal Issues
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the Vita 2. that I mean, I love my Vita, but you want to know what's funny? So I had i had the Vita pretty early on, yeah and there weren't a lot of games for it ever, right?
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so i ended up I ended up trading it to a guy for a ah Game Boy Advance SP. but i would know I was like, I can play the watered down versions of like Uncharted or Sly Cooper on here, or I'll just get an SP and play Game Boy games. Yeah. I got the watered down version of those at Persona 4 Golden.
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Right. Yeah. That's it. Wow. Yeah, no, that's pretty good. um My hottest video game take, because I do like sharing it because the people, think it's a good reaction.
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I think Mario 64 is a very bad game casually. You know what? the mo i say this as someone who relatively recently went back through and learned how to beat the game in like 30 minutes. Oh, nice.
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The movement when you learn how to do like play the game quickly is fantastic. yeah absolutely At least as a kid and like any other time I tried to play it, i did not get the movement. I did not get the camera.
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It was just kind of clunky and annoying, especially after going back after playing like some of the other like newer 3D Mario games. it's It is kind of rough. So I feel it. Yes. And now granted that is its age showing, but even still like when when it had, when its age was like lesser and like still kind of new, I still never cared for the movement of it. Now I did recently re replay it in a sense. I used the co-op 64 mod recently,
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and played with a couple friends. And that's one, it fixes the camera because it gives you a free cam mode, which fixes the camera, camera greatly and makes it a bit more better.
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And like, obviously years since I'm now a grown gamer,
Nintendo Switch 2 Launch and Game Pricing
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ah I was like, oh, yeah, I kind of understand how this movement is supposed to work. So it's not as bad. But there's still there were still some jank times in there where I was mad.
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Absolutely. Well, I mean, and you know, you can't discredit it because it was kind of the first game to do what it did. a pioneer as well for three platformers. Yeah, but especially now, I think i think its age ah for the the most casual of gamers makes it pretty rough.
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Yep. No, absolutely. And that's why I say casually and not overall because... correct Yeah, I feel it there. Speedrunners with this game make this game look incredible still. It's so fun. i i Yeah. i And granted, I wasn't doing like the fastest speedrun routes or anything. It was just like, can I beat the game quickly?
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So I got it under half an hour, which which which felt pretty good to pull off. I'll take it. That was like, what is it? freece Is it three stars? That is the minimum or is it one star or 16? No. like So the half an hour route I did, I think was over 10 stars. I can't remember how many I ended up getting into Okay, so it was probably 16 stars. It was like 15 or 16, yeah. Yeah, you see, I have a couple of Mario speedrunner friends.
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So it's like, I know the, I think it's like, there's a one star category, a zero star category. 16 star is the most common one. Yeah, so i didn care I think it was that. It was well, and it wasn't like i wasn't playing an actual route. It was and don't know if it was you know, this the streamer Northern Lion.
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he He got into it a few years ago. ah So I was just doing his route, which you called egg percent. ah And then the of So i don't know I don't know what the real routes are or anything, but it was fun nonetheless.
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yeah Cool. That's sick. yeah the My best speedrun achievement, because for those who don't know, I used to speedrun for a period of three months. Nice. And I got a sub-hour time in Sonic Adventure 2 Hero Story.
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That's pretty fun. is That's but that's but my claim to speedrunning fame. That's all I've done. it It was fun. It was, it's like, you know what? I like Sonic Adventure 2 a lot. After speed running that game, I don't like it as much anymore. ah my nostalgia goggles yeah My nostalgia goggles for that game really went off after learning speed run tricks, but fire no water I was able to get both of the boxes and that's at the end of the day, that's all that matters.
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Anyway, hey, I said it at the top. We've got a loaded show, folks. Summer Game Fest has happened. I have watched. I have consumed too much media, and I got i wrote it down on a piece of paper, and we're going talk about that. and Starting off, our headline of the week is the event that happened right before Summer Game Fest, but we still classify it as part of Summer Game Fest.
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The PlayStation State of Play, which dropped out of the blue as as of last we as of last episode, we were like, yeah, they're PlayStation, Nintendo, only groups that haven't announced a Nintendo Direct or a State of Play.
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And then PlayStation out here, like, hey, we're dropping it after Tony's podcast, like everything else big that happens. And I'm like, ah thanks play
Anticipated Game Releases and Launch Exclusivity
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PlayStation. That's a real, real kind of get to do.
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um So kicking it off with what was it now? It's during a state of play. Starting off, Lumine Arise. This is a brand new game from the creators of Tetris Effect. With full VR support, this drops sometime in the fall.
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Pragmata, which has not been seen since 2021 from Capcom, got a brand new trailer and has a new release date of 2026.
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A lot of people were happy about that to see that again. Still don't really know what it's about, but I'm sure we'll learn more as the year goes on. Romeo is a dead man. The brand new game from Suda 51, a trippy ultra violent sci-fi adventure hack and slash action game.
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This is coming out next year and I'm excited to see it. I'm also still hoping that they'll port no more heroes one and two onto the other consoles. Yeah. Cause, uh,
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yeah You know, I'd like to play the No More Heroes game, but No More Heroes 3 is the only one that's on PlayStation and stuff. And I'm like, I want to play other stuff. Yeah, that makes it pretty inaccessible. Yeah, I i want i want to... like Even if they just put ah No More Heroes 1 and 2 on the Switch, Switch 2, so I can jerk off my Joy-Cons. Like i write you could the Wiimote back in those games.
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Silent Hill F got a brand new whole-ass cinematic trailer. That's coming out September 25th with pre-orders available now. We'll be getting a little bit more into Silent Hill F later on as well. ah Bloodstained, the Scarlet Engagement was shown off. This is looking like a Metroidvania. type game.
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ah Then the hype is trailer for me. Digimon story time stranger releasing October 3rd confirming an English dub and showing off the pre-order bonuses.
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Oh, I am so ready. i am so excited for this. I recently just finished Digimon story cyber sleuth and I'll be playing hacker's memory very soon. and and i'm just I'm excited because I get to play three Digimon games in a single year.
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and i saw I saw that one get get announced and I said, you know what? I know Tony's excited for this one because I know you have been playing. Oh my God, you have like no idea. and for those yeah give the did youmon so Give Cyber Sleuth a chance, folks. If you want to get back into Digimon because you grew up watching the show here and there, play Cyber Sleuth.
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in Hacker's Memory because the nostalgia will hit you with all the Digimon and the Digivolution mechanic is a addicting. It's like crack. I kid you not.
00:12:58
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It is like crack and I like it. Then in Out of the Blue ah Final Fantasy Tactics The Evil East Chronicles got announced. This is a remaster of the OG FF tactics game, and it's being done by Creative Business Suite 3, a.k.a.
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the team behind Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XVI. Yoshi fucking P is back doing this. And you know what? Let's go. i am very excited for this as well. This drops September 30th.
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should this be my first Final Fantasy game I play? You know what? Honestly, it's a good starting point. is's very I love me
Event Highlights: New Announcements and Updates
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some tactics. I love me some tactics games over JRPGs, honestly. So it might it might be the way I have to get my get in.
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yeah Honestly, yeah. um It takes place in Ivalice, which is the same world where FF12 takes place. Except it's much further in the past than where FF12 is on like the timeline of things.
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um So if you will honestly, I've heard nothing but great things about the tactics game. So it's ah if you if you want to get into it and you know like tactics games like Fire Emblem or Advanced Wars, definitely give it a shot.
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All right. um We then got a couple of rapid fire titles. Baby Steps, which is that co-op like adventure game, ah is releasing September a Hero Gami, a origami action adventure game is releasing September 3rd.
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Everybody's Golf Hot Shots is releasing September 5th. And if you preorder the game, you can play as Pac-Man, which we love, which is, you know, you got to play it, which we love.
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Pac-Man is getting a lot of love recently. I feel like. Well, I mean, that's normal Pac-Man. We're getting edgy Pac-Man later this year. yeah Right, exactly. Which, i you know, that's a whole other conversation. That is a whole other conversation.
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Ninja Gaiden Ragebound got a release date for July 31st. I think this is the first time we're hearing about the 2D Ninja Gaiden's release date. Mm-hmm. Cairn, a survival climbing game, releases November 5th.
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Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection was announced, and that's coming out later this year. I believe it's consisting of Mortal Kombat's 1, 2, 3, all of their versions, and a bunch of other but wretch like older Mortal Kombat games. I don't remember the exact ones, but I know it's the first three for sure.
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Possibly more. I don't know when they went into 3D, but still all the 2D stuff. They also then announced that PlayStation isn't making an official fight stick. So if you really if you want an expensive fight stick for no reason, get the PlayStation one.
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For no reason, I mean, right? Yeah, exactly. It's going to cost like the same as the Switch 2. ah Yikes. I mean, what do you think? You know, it's got to be at least a couple hundred bucks, right? It might be. I might i don't know. I don't know how much fight sticks go for. I've never had to buy a fight stick. So yeah I don't really know.
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We got a new trailer for Metal Gear Solid Delta that drops August 28th. More on that later as well. Nioh 3 was revealed and that's coming early 2026. Thief VR Legacy of Shadow comes out this year for PlayStation VR 2 being set in the world of Thief 2014.
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The bad game that gave me Vertigo for some weird reason. That's coming. So now I can catch a Vertigo even more in VR because I have a PSVR 2. So I could I don't know. I might try it. I don't know.
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ah Tides of Tomorrow was announced releasing for February 24th, 2026.
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Astro Bot is getting five more challenge levels later this month. And an official Astro Bot controller is coming out later this year. And it looks super cute. And it is worth the money because I think Astro Bot is worth all the money in the world.
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Sea of Remnants was shown off and that's coming out 2026. Sword of the Sea, a brand new game from the Journey and Abzu devs. That's coming August nineteen and will be on PlayStation Plus.
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I believe they announced that as well. Nice. That's a yeah That's a big win. um FBC Firebreak is coming June 17th, and that will be on PlayStation Plus as well. This is the new co-op shooter um being set in the world as Control and Alan Wake.
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They also announced that there's some new PS Plus classics coming. Deus Ex and Twisted Metal 3 and 4 are coming. just Deus Ex is out now.
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And Twisted Metal 3 and 4 will be out when the new season of Twisted Metal premieres. And also, Myst and Riven are out, I think, later this week on PlayStation Plus when you're listening to the podcast.
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ah We then got into our final three things that they showed off. First off, a first the look at 007 First Light, the brand new IO Interactive James Bond game, which is set for 2026.
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Ghost of Yotei was briefly shown off. They basically announced, hey, we're doing a deep dive for the gameplay in July. And lastly, Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls, a brand new Arc System Works tag team fighting game 4v4. They're just coming out 2026. And that was everything from the PlayStation State of Play. Evan, do you have any final thoughts on what was shown off?
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You know, and i did watch this whole one. I think I watched most of the the showcases as they were coming. It's hard to say because a lot of the games that were showed off in general, I feel like not a lot of gameplay was shown off, if that's fair. Yeah.
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So without seeing that, it's really hard to say. um i am really excited for Sword of the Sea. I really love Journey and Abzu. and So I'm excited to see more of that. I think we had already gotten a trailer of that, though, if I'm not mistaken. We might have. i Honestly, don't know.
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don't remember simply because they've shown there's been there's a lot yeah yay yeah yeah um i think there was something from that earlier you know i'm i'm interested to see what happens with 007 just because that's a franchise that's not really tapped that much you know so that's an interesting thing yeah yeah yeah i don't know there i think there's a lot of cool stuff coming but until i see more gameplay of stuff it's really hard to say No, that's definitely fair.
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And now we're gonna dive into everything else that happened that wasn't Summer Game Fest related, because trust trust me, there was a lot of Summer Game Fest still to come. But let's look at the other stuff that, you know, we don't want to pass over. Here is what happened last two weeks within the week in review. Recapping the major stories of video games and the world of tabletop.
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Looking over recent releases and reports from the Game Lounge crew, it's the week in review. And kicking it off, starting with the last two weeks' major game releases, we had Bravely Default's Flying Fairy HD Remaster, Mario Kart World, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, Delta Rune chapters 1 through 4, Warhammer 40K Space Marine Master Crafted Edition, and Dune Awakening ah for just some of the games that came out in these past two weeks.
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both Some of those Switch 2 launch titles, which we'll get into in a little bit. um Warhammer 40k, the first is re getting a remaster. And Dune Awakening. People are excited for Dune Awakening.
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In the world of video game news, Black Myth Wukong is coming to Xbox on August twentieth In some Dungeons & Dragons news, Demio X Dungeons & Dragons Battlemarked dropped a recent trailer.
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ah This upcoming project based on the Demio action roleplaying system looks and feels a lot like another project that was shown off well that was cancelled by Wizards of the Coast, ah the VTT virtual tabletop sigil.
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While there is no correlation between the two products, it's still an interesting coincidence that one was canceled and now they dropped the trailer for this new thing. um So possibly it was a rebrand thing or who knows what it could have been.
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In movie news, Blumhouse is working on a phasmophobia movie now to add to their repertoire of horror and other stuff. I don't know how they're going to do a phasmophobia movie.
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yeah It'll be interesting to see what happens with that. Yeah. i like Are they going to do it like felt like a found footage thing where it's like, oh, the ghost hunters entered this house and they're all dead on the floor.
00:21:37
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Yeah, it might be something like that. It's so hard. Yeah, what what do you even pull out of that to to do for a movie? Yeah, I don't know. You just have them scream, it's an OD, it's an OD, as they're running back their truck or something like that. Exactly. Yeah.
00:21:51
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Elden Ring Night Raid will be adding a duos mode very soon. They announced made this announcement on X. Game director Stig Amison and a bunch of other Respawn Entertainment developers founded a new studio, Giant Skull, last year after EA canceled the Star Wars first-person shooter Respawn was working on.
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And now they've signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Wizards of the Coast to develop a brand new single-player action-adventure game set in the world of D&D. I'm excited for that. i hope it I hope it works out well.
00:22:22
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Also in EA, they canceled its Black Panther game and closed down Cliffhanger Games. What? EA closing down a game studio? Crazy, I know. Speaking of game shutdowns, ExDefiant has now officially shut down. We've known about this before. It was going to shut down soon.
00:22:41
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It's officially shut down, and the game's executive producer has left Ubisoft probably to go create his own game studio and make something groundbreaking and incredible like Cough Cough, the developers of exp Expedition 33 did.
00:22:53
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dead Yeah, Ubisoft taking an L there because X-Defy was pretty good when it launched. like I had a lot of people that praised that game pretty good and then it just they're just like, yeah, it's not staying. And we're like, what the fuck?
00:23:09
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Like, what the actual fuck? Anyways, prototype for Duke Nukem D-Day, which was supposed to be his first game on the PlayStation 2, has been leaked onto to the Internet Archive, and it features 12 playable levels.
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So if you want to go see what a prototype for Duke Nukem on the PlayStation 2 was, you can go check that out. ah No Man's Sky released its Beacon Update, which now allows players to manage settlements as space mayors.
00:23:35
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full Because and I've always wanted to be a space mayor. I haven't played No Man's Sky since like it first came out, and I know they've put so much work into that game, yeah and and people praise it now for devs sticking to their to their game, right? I haven't gone back and played it I will be playing it for the first time in December.
00:23:55
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Oh, hell yeah. nice or have to ti Every December we do. It used to be called seven days to die. decemberber It was a marathon all month following you play seven days to die. But we've done that for three years now of the time for something different.
00:24:09
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It's time for something new. So but I guess I right now officially announcing this December. No man's sky. Semper more details to come in the official game. I just scored.
00:24:21
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Forge Light 3 developer Extra Games is being closed down. This is after the studio was acquired four years ago by Zynga to work on moving to PC and console gaming.
00:24:32
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I guess it just never panned out. And they're just like, yeah, we don't need you anymore. Which is on bo unfortunate. In some legal news, a trial begins this week at France's Babidi Criminal Court for a trio of former Ubisoft executives, according to the French news service France Info.
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Former Chief Creative Officer Serge Hascoet former vice president of editorial and creative services, Tommy Francois, with former game director, uh, Guillaume Patrux, Patrux?
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Pardon me my French. Uh, they face allegations of moral and sexual harassment following rewards of systematic workplace abuse or systemic workplace abuse at Ubisoft that emerged in 2020. Yeah, not great.
00:25:26
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yeah not great but not Apple is willing to unveil a dedicated gaming app that will serve as a launcher for titles and centralized in-game achievements, leaderboards, communications, and other activity.
00:25:38
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Because let's be real, Apple Arcade is... they they got a lot of title They've got a lot of titles on there. it just I don't see a lot of people actually picking it up and playing, you know? Yeah, we're seeing titles leave Apple Arcade and be like, oh, hey, we should just release this on everything else. Like Fantasia, Neo Dimension was an Apple Arcade exclusive.
00:25:58
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Hello Kitty Island Adventure was on Apple Arcade for a year before it came for everything else. As an exclusive platform, I don't think it works. I think it makes sense for like, I don't know, they got Bellatro on there. They got Slay the Spire on there. They got, you know, a bunch of, I think, well, yeah, it feels like a bunch of indies on there that like, I think it makes sense for, but for exclusives, I just don't see it.
00:26:22
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Yeah, I feel the same way. ah casual casual yeah Casual audience just doesn't want to pay for subscription for that kind of stuff. I don't want to pay $2,000 to our MacBook to play these exclusive games. Surgeon Studios, the developers of Tales of Kinzara Zhao, revealed their new game, Dead Take.
00:26:41
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It's a first-person psychological horror game releasing sometime later this year. It's being published by Pocket Pair, though. yeah publishers of Palworld and the other game that rips off Legend of Zelda.
00:26:56
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sir So yeah, that's ah I don't know how I feel about that. Not gonna lie. I'm just not a fan of Pocket Pair. I also think of Palworld. It was the worst game that came out last year.
00:27:07
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Really? yeah that's Yeah. Strongly, huh? ah You see, it's not because of the whole, oh, yeah you like poked it's it's a bland survival crafting game. fair yeah it's bland and they're like oh let's try to unblend it by letting you capture all these creatures it just doesn't help but where the core mechanic is just bland not good yeah that's fair um In some studio up and running news, Tango Gameworks has reopened its Tokyo office after it was shut down and reacquired.
00:27:39
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They've launched a brand new website, unveiled their brand new company logo, and they're working on a brand new action game, which is super exciting to see. Can't wait to see what Tango works on next. And I hope that sometime in the future, they make a hi-fi rush too.
00:27:52
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That would be cool to see. In Nintendo news, Splatoon Raiders was announced on everything ah as the first spinoff game for the Splatoon franchise.
00:28:04
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And it will be an exclusive to the Switch too. And lastly with Nintendo, ah it's been revealed that Princess Peach's longtime voice actor, Samantha Kelly, was replaced But they didn't make it known to her until the day the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World dropped.
00:28:20
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That's rough. yeah i ah Yeah. I don't even know what to say on that. That sucks. What a way to break the news, right? Yeah, well, it's not it's not great, but I mean, we kind of figured that like it was a new voice for like the entire Mario cast. Yeah, yeah, it was bound to happen. Yeah, you know, and like I just thought you know they had already like told her and like this was already handled.
00:28:44
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yeah Yeah, no, that the the fact that she didn't find out until then, then yeah, y that's that's where the yikes is.
00:28:54
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Especially since, like, it seems like, you know, with with Charles Martinet, everything was handled well, where he left like on happy terms and is still doing stuff, whatever. even announced it during a Nintendo Direct that like, yeah, he's hiring... He was given the the reverence he deserves in that, right? Yeah. So, like, why not do that with, like, yeah some of the other VAs of, like, hey, you know, like...
00:29:18
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you know like at least like have like ah ah like a formal announcement right just something yeah yeah because like obviously like yeah all your cats like wario mother we i mean that was charles martin a2 i think right right yeah but like it's all the other vas that you use for that like why not at least do the same courtesy for that but uh-huh what are you gonna do that's nintendo yep uh As for your ongoing game news, only one thing with Final Fantasy XIV. The new live letter from the producer is set for June 20th to talk about the details for 7.3. In TCG news, starting with Pokemon, Black and Bolt and White Flare dropped July
00:30:00
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eight teeth And in TCG Pocket, the Ultra Beast drop event has just wrapped up. In Yu-Gi-Oh! Battle of the Legend Monster Mayhem is out now. Duelist Advance 3 drops the lot July 3rd. Justice Hunters on July 31st.
00:30:14
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And the 2025 Mega Back Bundle 10 released September fourth With Magic the Gathering, the Final Fantasy series is out right now. Edge of Eternities drops August 1st.
00:30:27
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Spider-Man on September 26th and Avatar The Last Airbender November 21st. In Lorcanna, Rayna Jafar is out now and Fabled drops September 5th. And in a brand new TCG that we're going starting to cover starting this week, the Digimon TCG.
00:30:44
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with the Digimon. Extra Booster vs. Monsters comes out. The Extra Booster vs. Monsters comes June 26th. Cyber Eden, which features some Cyber Sleuth cards on July 25th.
00:30:55
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The Extra Booster Sinister Order September 19th. Hackers Slumber, the Hacker's Memory TCG cards October 18th. Billion Bullet set for sometime in October.
00:31:07
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And the tamer Tamer's Evolution Box Rise Digimon releases in December. And in tabletop news, a brand new test class for D&D was revealed. The Scion! And it's part of Unearthed Arcana.
00:31:20
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um It's basically a reworked mystic. If you remember the mystic um from the earlier days in 5e. um So, yeah. New new ah psychic boy ah coming back.
00:31:36
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I think they also added in another class on D&D Beyond. they They brought over the Gunslinger class, which I think someone else had made previously, but I think they officially added in and like updated it to 2024 rule set. Oh, that's that's cool.
00:31:52
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I'll have to check that out too. And that's everything from the past two weeks that wasn't Summer Game Fest related. Any final thoughts on any of those, Evan? Um, I'm excited. You know, I think it's a, it's a good time for a bunch of new stuff. I i really am interested to see how Splatoon Raiders pulls out.
00:32:08
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Um, you know, I, my, my biggest thoughts lately have been with Nintendo. So I'm, I'm interested to see, um, cause I think it said, Well, I can't remember when they said that was coming out, but I know there's another update. don't think they gave a release date for it. Right. Yeah, they said there was that update coming to Splatoon 3. Yes, there is an update for Splatoon 3. That's like this month, right?
00:32:29
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Yes, and it's for the Switch 2. Yeah. Yeah. So, well, and then there's a content drop. I think that's for both, but then there's an update as well for Switch 2 for performance that sort of stuff, whatever. Cool.
00:32:40
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Yeah. Yeah. No, from the looks of what we've seen, it looks like it might be a hybrid of like survival. Yeah. It's really interesting. i mean, i I always thought that like that the single player aspect of Splatoon was done very well.
00:32:55
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Yeah. So I'm interested to see how that works in its own standalone kind of situation. yeah Yeah, it'll be interesting to see. um Maybe this might be the game that gets me into Splatoon as well, because I i never got into Splatoon.
00:33:07
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Yeah, it's that's totally fair. Yeah, I think it's a fun game franchise. I just think that like, I think the multiplayer is best either couch co-op or like, you know, online with friends, but like playing solo, it's kind of rough.
00:33:22
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No, definitely. ah Okay. Well, with that, it's time for us to dive into the games that are coming out in the next two weeks. Here's what should be on your radar from June 16th to 27th.
00:33:34
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From AAA titles, indie hits, hidden gems, and hot pieces of garbage, here are the games coming out that should be on your radar. And kicking it off, here we go. Rapid fire, folks.
00:33:46
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On the 16th, the Gex Trilogy releases on the PS5 Series X Switch and PC. On the 17th, Date Everything finally releases for the PS5 Series X Switch and PC, as does FVC Firebreak, Lost in Random, The Eternal, Die, and Tron Catalyst, and Maximum Football comes to the PS5 Series X and PC. All On the 18th, Crown Gambit comes to PC and Mac.
00:34:10
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On the 19th, Rido Remastered Mystery of the Soulless Army comes out on everything but the Xbox One. Rematch comes to PS5, Series X, and PC. Robots at Midnight to the Series X and PC.
00:34:22
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And Star Overdrive, PS5, Series X, and PC. No releases on the 20th. On the 23rd, Outrider Mako comes to the PC. On the 24th, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Slintered Fate comes to both Xbox systems.
00:34:38
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On the 25th, I Am Your Beast comes to the PS5 and Series X. Marvel Mystic Mayhem comes out on mobile devices. And What's Upon a Puppet comes to the Switch. On the 26th, Black Desert comes to the PS5 and Series X. Death Stranding 2 on the Beach comes out for the PS5.
00:34:56
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Persona 5, The Phantom X comes out on Steam and Mobile. Ruffy and the Riverside comes to the PS5 Series X Switch and PC and System Shock 2 the 25th anniversary edition comes out on everything but the Switch 2 and on the 27th and it's good I hate to say this but more trailers have come out where it's pronounced like this Tamagotchi Plaza they call it Tamagotchi?
00:35:23
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Tamagotchi since when? The official release trailer that was put out by Tamagotchi said Tamagotchi. I don't like that. i don't like that either.
00:35:35
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but it's We have to face the truth. Yep, okay. The western commercials lied to us. Those western commercials lied to us. Tamagotchi. It sounds so wrong.
00:35:49
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It does, but... Okay, but we have to do it. We have to do it, yep. We have to. we We have to. like you can like I understand like there's still the debate between Arceus and Arceus still, even though in all the trailer you with the trailers, they do say Legends Arceus.
00:36:05
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the Right, they do. I switched to saying Arceus because I'm like, look, the trailers are semi-official, but there's they're so where there still is media where they call it Arceus still. and so it's still like It's inconsistent. It's so inconsistent that you can go either way with it and it's fine.
00:36:22
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Yeah. But this one is like, oh, oh, oh. that's how We have to just accept it. Yeah. ah But yeah, so that's everything coming out in the next two weeks. Your big ones, starting off at the top, the Gex trilogy.
00:36:40
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yeah Gex, it stands for Golly. everything's X. I don't know. I I don't know where I was going to go with that. ah I love it. Hey, if you did order the limited run games, special edition, I came with a three foot Gex inflatable.
00:37:01
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Good for you. That's pretty cool. That's pretty sweet. What can I say? Yeah. Shame it has to be done through limited run games because they've got like, that it's not a great rep that they have for some things, but it's like, you know, at least it's like kind of cool to look at the stuff that they've done. for me Like, yeah. ah Date Everything, that's a big one that people are excited for. You can play, like, the demo out now. Or if you pre-purchase it, you can play it early, I think. That's what the case has been. And it's got, like, every voice actor on the planet in the game.
00:37:33
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ah Like, from Ben Star to Dante Bosco, Matt Mercer, I think Troy Baker is probably somewhere in there. That's crazy. Laura Bailey. I think the entire Critical Rolecast are in there somewhere.
00:37:47
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Like there's just so many voice actors. It's such a cool project. Definitely go check that you're into dating sims, I just want to see what your D20 would look like if it was hot. Uh, FEC fire rank. We've already talked about lost in randoms getting a sequel.
00:38:01
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This is a sequel lost in random. So if you remember a lost in random, even, I don't think so off top. Yeah, not a lot of people do. It kind of like it was like announced and then it kind of just faded into obscurity.
00:38:16
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I think it was from... I want to say it's an EA published project. If my memory serves. But yeah. Rido Remastered. a lot of people are excited about this one. It's a remaster of a very old S&T game.
00:38:33
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ah Seeing the new light of day. ah rematch is another big one. I'm looking forward to rematch. I'm probably going to pick up rematch when that drops. yeah It drops on my birthday, actually.
00:38:47
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Hey, that's cool. So you know what? I will probably pick up rematch. And happy early birthday to you, then. Hey, thank you. I still need a place i still need to play So I should probably do that too because it's from the same devs.
00:39:01
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Right. Yep. What else are the big ones? Death Stranding 2, arguably the biggest game coming out within this two-week span. I don't know how I feel about this one.
00:39:13
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Like, yeah, it's Kijin. Like, I don't know how I feel about this because I still don't know how I feel about the first first Death Stranding still. Yeah, that's fair.
00:39:24
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um i they're They're such experimental games, right? I feel like its they're made so that it's difficult to come to a conclusion on them, right? Yeah, I guess that's just Hideo Kojima in a nutshell, though.
00:39:35
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For some of vi the Phantom X, I'm excited for, but not like super excited for, because it again, it is a god shit game at the end of the day. But I'm going to play it and I'm going to try my best to do it free to play because according to what I've seen, you don't need to spend any money to... i mean like that is the thing That's what they always say, That's what they always say.
00:39:58
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Yeah, um so we'll see, but I'm going do my best to make like a free-to-play account on that and whatnot. And then, of course, Tamagotchi Plaza.
00:40:11
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like I think they said there's like 12 to 15 minigames to play where you play as your Tamagotchi. That's really all it is. That's pretty much it. Yeah, that's pretty much it.
00:40:22
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um Yeah, those are the games coming out. Let us know what you're looking forward to because there's a lot. It's only going to get more and more as the months go on. Well, with that, it's time for first us to get into the meat and potatoes. we got We got a small topic and we got a big topic, and you're not going to believe what the small topic is. Conversations of past and future games, the state of the gaming industry, how big decisions affect gamers, and anything else that's important to us. Here's what's going down this week in the Game Lounge.
00:40:51
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And our first topic of the day is the Nintendo Switch launch. It's out, it's happened, and it's our small topic. Which is crazy that it's the small topic, but it has to right? Which is crazy! But you know what? I would have... It kind of, in a sense, kicks off Summer Game Fest 2. Right.
00:41:09
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right Because, like, the following day was when Summer Game Fest happened. It's like, oh, Switch 2 is out and Summer Game Fest. like back-to-back crazy stuff, but the Switch 2 is out officially now.
00:41:22
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I have mine. Yours is on the way. mine Mine is going to be here maybe even while we're recording this. It'll show up. Wow. Which is great. Which is, you know, I mean, um it's a what it's been one week since it got launched. So I've only had to wait week.
00:41:39
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One week since Switching launched. Yeah. yeah but You Barry Dinkin' Ladies, they drop a song right now. they Actually, perfect. Release the sequel to One Week, call it Two Weeks.
00:41:50
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what did you ah Where'd you order your Switch 2 from? So I ordered my Switch 2. So ah ah flashback music. Doodaloo, doodaloo, doodaloo. I ordered my Switch 2 not on the day that the midnight release for the pre-orders happened because I knew that that was going to be hectic as hell. So I looked at like, okay, let's see. Well, there's Walmart.
00:42:14
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I'm not going to pre-order it from Walmart. There's Best Buy. I'm not going to pre-order it. I'm like, I could pre-order it from Best Buy, but I don't want to if I don't have to. The Nintendo official...
00:42:27
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pre-orders haven't sent out an email saying, hey, if you can email it through us. You can pre-order it through us yet. And actually, those have only just been sent out, apparently, for like... So so that's where I'm getting mine from. Oh, actually. and from Yeah, so I got... I want to say a week before the Switch 2 launch happened, I got an email that was like, don't worry, you're still in line.
00:42:51
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well We'll get you soon. And then ah I want to say... probably like five days ago, i got the email saying you're ready to pre-order or ra rather you're ready to order now. You're ready to order. Like, yeah, it's like at this point, it's not even a pre-order. It's just like, it pre if you still want to order with us, here you go.
00:43:12
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It might've even been on launch day actually. So a week ago, ah but you know, I don't know. I wasn't in a rush to get it day one or whatever. So I was like, you know, it'll, it'll be a good experiment to see how Nintendo's direct supply chain works.
00:43:27
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Yeah, no, definitely. Yeah, um I got it through GameStop because on the day of the next day, like after, like obviously, well, midnight launch, just 10 a.m.
00:43:38
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is when they said, hey, that's where we're going to open up our pre-orders. So I'm like, you know what? well I'll do that. I'll wake up. like an hour before pre-orders go live and I can, you know, wait in line then.
00:43:51
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I wake up like 10 minutes before pre-orders go live, log on to my computer, log into my GameStop account. And right as I log in, they're like, okay, you're in line. I'm like, oh, sweet.
00:44:03
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um And then about 20 minutes after the pre-orders officially started, I get in, I try to order the bundle, the bundle sold out. I just get a base switch too.
00:44:13
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And we're done. Fair enough. Yep. And then day June 5th comes. He's like, all right, he'll be here sometime today. And seven and it it arrives at 7 p.m.
00:44:26
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Okay. Yep. But you know what? It got here. It's all set up. It is. It is like the the size of it it is. it is like you can. It's such a difference with the size of the thing. Like it is like, wow, it's it's nice.
00:44:43
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yeah uh it's good you can definitely tell that it runs stuff much better than the first switch i'm sure yeah i like i've played i because uh i have my nso uh expansion pass uh i upgraded my breath of the wild copy to switch 2 edition and it's like night and day perfect love to hear it yeah like seeing it run at like a native 60 is nuts.
00:45:12
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Yeah. Yeah. I can't wait. It's so it's nuts. Did you now, of course, on June 5th, though, if you didn't, if you decided to not have it delivered to you, you could go to midnight releases slash camp out in front and wait for the store to open to get your switch to. Do you know anybody who did that?
00:45:31
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um Because I don't, sadly. I don't think I know anybody who did that directly. i There's a few YouTubers who live in the same state as me that I saw. They had gone out to like mid midnight releases at locations, I guess, i in theory, I could have gone to.
00:45:50
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ah there was some crazy stuff out there. ah and Seemed crazy busy. I don't know. like i don't know if you I'm sure you've seen videos like ive yeah just lines across like park like whole parking lots filled up kind of thing.
00:46:01
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Yeah, I haven't seen stuff like this since I think the Switch 1. Because I think that's the last thing we like, because I didn't really see a lot of people like camping out for a PlayStation 5 or a Series X. Console launches just aren't, it's not the same. i think I think, well, I don't know. And this is just another take that I've had recently. But I i think that just having cross-platform games being the norm just kind of kills ah console launch competition.
00:46:27
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Yeah, because like when you have exclusive titles and stuff like that, people are going to want to show up for the console. Right. But if you don't, then it's like, that's whatever. It doesn't really matter. I'll get them at some point.
00:46:39
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Yeah, no, that's actually very true. i do not disagree with you there, because when you look at like if you were look at a list of like five games that aren't directly published by Sony or Microsoft, they can probably be played on both systems.
00:46:57
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And PC. And PC too, yeah. yeah so so Yeah, so it's da yes so it's definitely... Nintendo knows how to do this, how to do a console, or their games at least.
00:47:10
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So what version of the Switch 2 did you get? I just got the base model. Base model. and And the reasoning for that is because my brother's going to get the bundle with Mario Kart and then we can just do the game share and then I don't have to buy it.
00:47:26
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That's fair. That's fair. Nice. ah Are you going to get any other games? Slash you to upgrade any games when you get your Switch too? Yeah, i'm I have NSO as well, so I'll be able to get the Zelda upgrades and stuff like that.
00:47:42
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ah I'm most looking forward to ah Bonanza when it comes out. Yes, we are about a month away. Yeah, I've been slowly chipping through all the Donkey Kong games, ah and so I've got to the point now where I'm ready to play the new one, which is exciting. Nice.
00:47:58
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Yeah, no, it looks it looks really good. I'm very excited for Bonanza to see what it does. ah And it makes me wonder like what the next Mario game will be as well, because with how this Donkey Kong game is looking, because it is the same team that did Odyssey, believe. I was like, okay, so they're cooking with this. What are they cooking for the next Mario, man?
00:48:20
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Well, and it's it's interesting, too, because we still don't have a November or December release, I don't think, from Nintendo lined up. True. I'm not mistaken. I mean, but to be fair, i the the November release, realistically, might be Metroid Prime 4.
00:48:35
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Oh, I guess that's true. yeah yeah Because it still technically doesn't have a release date yet. Yeah, you're right. So that could be the the the hot the holiday release.
00:48:46
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Yeah, and it's still slated for 2025, so I could see that happening. Well, you know what I could see them doing is having Prime 4 be like the November and then having another like big drop in January.
00:49:00
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Yeah, I can definitely see that too. think that would make sense. I also think that around the time Prime 4 releases... they either they're either they're going to do one of two things or they might do both.
00:49:12
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They might do they might a put both prime and prime to onto the GameCube NSO and a so her add or they'll take the trilogy because there is that the trilogy has been released as a trilogy. Right. Right. They get an HD HD HD trilogy. Right. And put it out like that.
00:49:31
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Because you have the first one, h eight the first H Prime in HD, so why not just do the whole trilogy of HD so you can play all four on the Switch? And it includes Federation Force. but and hunter And Hunters, too, if you want to put Metroid Prime Hunters on there, too. Because I feel like Hunters is an important game to play with Metroid Prime 4, considering the villain seems to be Psylocke, who debuted in Hunters.
00:49:57
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Yeah, I believe that's correct. So i feel like I feel like actually, if anything, Hunter should get the HD version of the game released on the Switch, too. who Just saying.
00:50:09
Speaker
Really quick, Tony. I think my package got here. you mind if I go bring it inside so it doesn't sit here? Yeah, you go go grab it. I'll be right back.
00:50:19
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You're getting ready for another night of adventuring with your friends and you realize, wow, I haven't leveled up and it's been two whole sessions. Well, I have the solution for you. Just ask your game master again.
00:50:32
Speaker
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00:50:47
Speaker
Asking your GM again is the tried and true solution but does not come across as annoying at all. So did you level up? Just ask your GM again.
00:50:59
Speaker
All right, I'm back. Hey, was it the Switch? Is it here? I do indeed now have the box for the Switch 2. Hey, yo, okay, we are making history here on the podcast, folks. Right as we were talking about the Switch 2, Evan's Switch 2 has officially arrived. That's crazy work, yeah.
00:51:19
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That is crazy. You know what? You talk, you rewilled it into the universe to arrive, and it's arrived. Thank you, Tony. That was all you. Yeah. We work miracles here in Tony's Game Lounge.
00:51:31
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Absolutely. yeah ah congratulation First, congratulations you on i getting it on having it arrived safely. Thank Unlike some of the people who had their receipts stapled to the box in New York City.
00:51:45
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um yeah that is like because what like i will say this. They packaged it Not how I was expecting it to be packaged. Like, obviously, the box looks nice and sleek. But the second you open it up, the screen is right there.
00:51:58
Speaker
And I was not expecting the screen to be right. that You would think, like, you know, they would, like, try to, like, put the screen, like, under something else for, you know, the most protection for it. But no, no, it's just right at the top right there. in do Wow.
00:52:12
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Not the greatest placement for that of, like, the entire packaging system for the Switch 2. Yeah, well, and and, you know, I think it was it was just like one store that was stapling the receipts, right, from what I saw.
00:52:24
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and And then, of course, media outlets were making it seem like it was happening at way more locations. but it was It was just one GameStop, I think. Yeah, I mean, that that still obviously sucks for those those people, but I'm sure they've figured it out and gotten...
00:52:39
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refunded or or switched back out again but yeah that especially for like day one like here you go here's your console you get home and it has a staple through it that's very frustrating that's yeah that's ah yeah ah bit uh it's a bit nostalgic to old game stop a little bit yeah ah No, a big thing about the Switch 2 that people are still kind of up in arms about are the prices for everything. yeah of course.
00:53:05
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But you know what? I think that's going to happen with every new game release or new game console or new thing because it's kind of just the way the world's kind of gone. Well, if you know, you see that with every game console launch. I feel like in general, the the price is always like, what? I can't believe it. And then people just accept that that's what it is. You know what mean? Yeah. And i guess what? 3.5 million people accepted what it is as that Nintendo did release after the first four days of sales.
00:53:34
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3.5 million Switch 2 units have been sold. Which is especially funny considering all the discourse or online before the launch where everyone was like, oh, we need to you know vote with our our wallets and don't buy it yet. And a huge launch. and so Huge launch. And it goes to show that no matter what you see on the internet, is the the vocal minority is the loudest.
00:54:03
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Absolutely. Yeah. And it's gone to show it once again. um Now, granted, I will say the price for Mario Kart World is definitely the most drastic compared to like everything else. Like, because again, hardware is whatever.
00:54:20
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um Accessories. Yeah, it's Nintendo. They always they've always upcharge their accessories. That's nothing new. Yeah, I think price for world, and I don't know if you feel the same way about this, but I feel like they understand this is a game they're going to have to support for the next 10 years, you know, in the same way that they did for 8 Deluxe.
00:54:39
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And so I think it's priced to... hopefully minimize like charges for DLC and stuff like that down the line. Yes. Like, absolutely. Like if this game comes with like two, one to two free updates every year over the next five to 10 years, I think we're going to get them. Then yes, we get our money's worth for that. Yeah. as I think it's just all you've done is you've paid 10 bucks per year of this game's content.
00:55:04
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Right. And i think that I think that because we don't have word from Nintendo yet that that is going to be the case, people are more frustrated. But that just seems very Nintendo to like not say anything about it. And then like in six months, they'll be like, hey, we got a bunch of new content coming. you know Yeah. know is absolutely We absolutely will be probably will be seeing new content. I've unlocked all the costumes right now.
00:55:26
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Nice. And Donkey Kong only has one costume. Yeah, which which clearly is like, okay, well, we have Bonanza coming out next month. What do you think is going to happen? I think we're going to get some Donkey Kong costumes and Diddy Kong.
00:55:38
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That's my prediction. Now, granted, we probably have two reasons why Diddy Kong isn't in the game right now. The first is because it's Donkey Kong Bonanza.
00:55:49
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They probably want to do a little tie in there. And the second is maybe P. Diddy. Yeah, i i don't I don't think that's the case. If that was the case, they wouldn't have like be updating all the you know all the stuff on on the website or have stuff in the parks, in the theme parks and stuff like that. which like like It's a good thing it we only had a Diddy Kong Racing spinoff game and not a Diddy Kong Party game.
00:56:15
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I don't know how it would be Nintendo had city parties here. That would be funny. That would have been a time, yeah. that would have been a time yeah ah It would have been, let know um but I will say, though, last thing regarding game prices, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is not worth the $10, $15, or however much it costs.
00:56:39
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I got it. I've played through it. I'm going to play it on my off time because you know the tech demo stuff for it is cool if you're really into that, but it's not worth that kind of money.
00:56:50
Speaker
Well, and I understand the frustration from people about it, but it doesn't seem like it's supposed to be a game, which is fine. yeah But they shouldn't have led the direct with that because it makes people go, that's something I should have because it's the first thing I'm seeing.
00:57:07
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And it's it's literally just like a nerdy tech spec. Yeah. Vomit fest, which is fine. And I think it's fine for it to be $10 even. I just don't think they should have marketed it as the first thing they show off for the console as like the packing you're supposed to buy.
00:57:24
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you know what I mean? You know what? yeah no i Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. And also, fun fact about that that tech demo, if you want to 100% You need three accessories.
00:57:36
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Now, granted, that's fine because obviously the new Switch 2 Pro Controller does come with the new paddle, the new grip buttons, um which is a key thing of that. So that's required.
00:57:49
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The Nintendo Switch 2 camera is required and 4K television. you You have to have a 4K screen. You need a 4K screen to 100% the game because there are there is a demo slash minigame that requires the 4K.
00:58:08
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ah And it's kind of, it's funny. It's absolutely hilarious. that It's a very Nintendo thing, yeah. It's a very Nintendo thing, but you can just watch it on YouTube because all it is is like, hey, we put the entire 1-1 from Classic Mario on this 4K monitor, so it's zoomed out entirely, but you can play the the whole level without it ah sliding left to right.
00:58:32
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It's just all there. That's that's crazy. That's yeah. Good old 4k monitor required. So, uh, Hey, if, if this is a game, you want a 100% and you don't have a TV, don't buy a 4k TV forehead.
00:58:48
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love um, how does this systems launch titles compared to launch titles of launch their console launches of the past?
00:58:59
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Because I got to, you know, my opinion, it's a little, it's a little lacking considering that there's only two games that are like brand spanking new and not like a remaster or a switch yeah port of something.
00:59:12
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Yeah, I think especially knowing how many other ports they probably have ready to go, it's a little odd, right? But i think I think the way I see it is if you get a Nintendo console, you are going to get Mario Kart, period, right? yeah And so they they like it's the perfect first game because they know, like at least financially for them, they know everyone's going to end up having it.
00:59:39
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Right. Yes. Where even if you put out like as much as I would have liked to see like a Zelda game or something like that, I don't think you get as many people installing Zelda as you do Mario Kart. So while that does make me feel like, you know, I would prefer to have a a more deep game like that.
01:00:00
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I think it's having a wide game as as like at least for our first month makes sense. But it is weird that there's only one, like basically one title, right? Yeah. yeah no it really It really is.
01:00:13
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um But but we we will be seeing more as the months go on, thankfully. um And that'll be exciting. I do have one gripe I do want to bring up about Mario Kart World. And it's with the open world's function the open world aspect or the free roam.
01:00:28
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The free driving thing. I wish... And Nintendo, please just make a small update just to do this so that way I can enjoy FreeWorld a little more. Please just add like a collectible list or like an itemized list so I can see what P-switches, what Peach Coins, what question block things I've hit.
01:00:49
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That's so weird that they don't because I feel like they have that in like any other collectible game, right? Yep, they do. They have it in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom where you're able to view, oh yeah, yeah you've collected this Korok scene and here's a little small thing. If you really zoom in on the map, you can see it.
01:01:05
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Right. um And they don't have it for Mario Kart World. And I'm a little disappointed in that because like if they had that, I would be all over that free roam mode because of my ADHD autism brain. what what Well, when you see list that's, you know, 70 something percent complete, you have to finish it. so Yeah.
01:01:25
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yeah But no, it instead it's just you're driving around aimlessly hoping you found something you haven't found yet. And it's like, I don't want to be checking the same areas over and over again, hoping that miss some, like, obviously, like, I could do a whole thing around the world blind, see my list, open up a guide online to see what I'm missing and go to that and enjoy it.
01:01:45
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And this is my one gripe with the game. Everything else about the game is great. Knockout Tour is definitely the new go-to mode within this game. ah The Grand Prix's are great. ah I you do they like that they each ah Grand Prix does have a character locked behind it. Oh, that's cool. Yeah.
01:02:04
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The Kamek orb on unlocking all the NPC characters is neat. i I'm missing three, and I've been grinding for a while to get them, and it's just really hard to get the Kamek orb because it's such a rare item.
01:02:19
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um But I need the Pianta. I need the the the fish, the skeleton fish, and I need the other mole. Not Monty. There's another one.
01:02:29
Speaker
There's another mole. The one that ah pops up from the grates and throws wrenches at you. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. but that's I need that one. Fair. Yeah. so But i missed it that's a little legit all I'm missing. I got my last vehicle yesterday.
01:02:44
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you know, the game is great. It's online really fun. Not a lot of issues online either, I think, finding. Hey, that's ah that's a good sign. like I experienced lag whatsoever. That's a really good sign. I don't know if that's just a sign of really good internet. Everybody everybody finally having good internet somehow, or if it's also just like the hardware being able to keep up now with it too.
01:03:05
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Yeah, yeah. So it's good, honestly. ah the console, you know what? If you want it now, get it now. If you want to wait for more games to come out, you can wait.
01:03:18
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you don't want to get it, don't get it. like it's At the end of the day, it's your decision. I don't think we're seeing a price drop on it anytime soon either. I know people are saying that we might, I mean, we're probably going to get more bundle stuff. yeah So we might see like a Bonanza bundle, but the console itself, I don't think so.
01:03:36
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Yeah. Realistically, I think we see a Bonanza bundle and I think we see a Pokemon bundle. Yeah. That has happen. ye Yeah. Yeah. I think those are the next bundles we see. We might see a Metroid bundle, but I don't know for sure.
01:03:50
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because Metroid slightly more niche on the scale of those three things. I could see them doing like special Joy-Cons for that, but maybe not a bundle. you know No, definitely. um are there What games looking forward to ah that are going to be coming out either later this year or next year that we know of slash don't know of yet?
01:04:10
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Yeah. um Well, I don't know if we, as far as, as far as stuff that's coming out, I think it's mainly like indies that I'm looking forward to. So Hades two, um I'm looking forward to the Katana zero DLC. Whenever that happens, I'm trying to think off top my head, Slay the Spire two is coming out as well. I'm excited for that, but these aren't Nintendo exclusive stuff. And you know, yeah as far as stuff specifically on the switch, and like I said, you know, everyone's hyped for Bonanza. I'm excited for that.
01:04:40
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um Yeah, we'll see. I still have to play through the the other the other Prime games, so I am really hoping that Prime Trilogy ends up happening um because I would feel kind of sad if I didn't get the opportunity to ah play through all of those first I'm looking forward to Tamagotchi Life 2 that comes out next year.
01:04:58
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Oh, yeah, that's true. I forgot that that was happening. And that's coming out. is that That's still coming out on the original Switch as well, right? yeah yeah yeah Yeah, it is. Yeah. I think that might be like their last big push for for original Switch, but we'll see. Next year is, realistically, next year is probably when we'll see the last of the games that are coming to Switch 1 and 2. Yeah.
01:05:20
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from like From Nintendo. From Nintendo directly. Yeah, people will still be supporting Switch for at least, i would think, a couple more years just because of the install base, right? Yeah, absolutely. can't wait to play another hentai girls game that's on both Switch 2. I mean, I'm hoping that we don't end up with that being the entirety of the Nintendo online store. Another thing I did immediately was I checked the eShop. eShop is much slicker. It opens up immediately now, too, which was so nice. I saw people going through that, and it doesn't take a minute to change tabs in there and everything now.
01:05:54
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that which is very nice, but it's like, oh boy, I wonder what all the games... Oh, it's still just the same Switch. Oh, great. yeah Everything's still there. It's still... I wish that Nintendo had done like one big purge for the Switch 2 specifically. You would think, especially for the launch, that, I mean, seriously, all they really need to do is there's a few key phrases and words that they could just filter out and everything would be fine.
01:06:22
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Yeah, but nope. all Nope. All that shovelware is still there. I expect to see that on like Steam, you know, but for Nintendo, it's it's it's rough to see on Nintendo on the eShop.
01:06:36
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but Who knows? Maybe one day they'll they'll they'll figure it out. Yeah. But yeah, I think that's a good place to call the Switch 2 talk because we got a lot to go over still Summer Game Fest 2025.
01:06:50
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it twenty a five Yep, it happens. So many live streams. Summer Game Fest, the Xbox show, Cozy Games Direct, Future Game Show, PC Game Show, the Konami Press Start event, games led by women, the Southeast Asia game dev thing, and so, so much more.
01:07:14
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I covered the main shows and I took notes on the shows that I personally watched. And then I went and got some notes from all the other stuff, ah stuff that looked interesting. We're going kick it off with the main summer game fest live stream to kick it off.
01:07:28
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And here's everything that was announced. Starting off, Mortal Shell 2 coming 2026. I have the first mor Mortal Shell because it was free on Epic once. I haven't played it yet. I know it's a Souls-like.
01:07:40
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Then they're like, hey, this is happening tomorrow, as in on the 7th. ah The Fortnite Death Star Sabotage Grand Event. where I think that was just that day, right? Yeah, it was just that day. It was like the big season ender, I think, sort of. I don't really know. I don't play Fortnite. but Yeah, i my chat just got me back into Fortnite, so I've been playing a lot. Oh, nice. I know it was like it was like sort of like episode six where it's like everybody against the Death Star, kind of. Yeah, I don't know. The window to get in there was really tight, and I didn't even bother and playing the event. so im yeah The new season started up, so I've been playing that, but i yeah, I have no idea how that event went.
01:08:20
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Death Stranding 2 had an exclusive clip shown off. Chronicles Medieval was shown. It's coming early 2026 and it's going to be narrated by Tom Hardy, which is kind of wild.
01:08:33
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um Then we got our trailer for Sonic Racing Cross Worlds where they showed off the rest of Team Babylon is joining the game from the Rider series. So not just Jet, we also have Storm and Wave, which is really nice to see them back in a Sonic game.
01:08:49
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ah And then they're like, also Hatsune Miku, Ichiban Tostada, and Joker. And then the developer came out, and he's like, and then look at this.
01:09:02
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Minecraft Steve! Perfect. Sonic Racing Crossroads, as well as Alex and the Creeper. And also, there was earlier the week, there was a leak for the game that showed SpongeBob, Patrick, and the paddy wagon.
01:09:21
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Yep. And i think I think I saw someone had found concept art for Avatar the Last Airbender stuff with play an older Aang, right? So yeah we're not sure about that one still, but it seems like they have a deal with with Nickelodeon set up.
01:09:34
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Yeah. Which, I mean, I'm excited. I'm going to play Crossroads when it comes out. So I'm very excited to see what this means. It comes out September 25th. um We got a trailer for Code Vein 2, which comes out 2026.
01:09:46
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um End of Abyss. This is a top-down horror game coming 2026. um We got a new look at Mouse PI for Hire, which I'm excited for. This game looks great. ah The voice of the lead mouse detective is Troy Baker.
01:10:01
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Surprise, surprise. He's in everything. Now he's the lead that. We got new RTS coming next year. Game of Thrones War for Westeros. um It looks like you could like they're doing what that Walking Dead game did where it's like, oh, what if Shane killed Rick or whatever? Well, you can. Okay.
01:10:19
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Sort of have like scenarios like what if like your own alternate timeline. Yeah. Yeah. Like what if Jon Snow lost to the Lightwalkers or stuff like that? Atomic Heart 2 was announced. No release date yet. And then the cube um was just set in the atomic universe. It's an MMORPG shooter within the atomic heart game. And you're just on a giant fucking cube in the sky, which I'm like, oh, that's kind of funny.
01:10:45
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Marvel Cosmic Invasion announced Rocket and She-Hulk are going to be playable in the game. We got a new trailer for Onimusha Way of the Sword, which still comes out next year. ah Then we got probably one of the weirdest looking games, but like I'm definitely going to play it.
01:11:00
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Felt that boxing. You play as a Muppet. And you're an orphan and you're like, I got save the orphanage. And he gets trained by this boxing coach and it looks like punch out, but puppets.
01:11:16
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It's, it's going to be nuts. And I'm looking forward to see what this game really gives us. Yeah. Graphically. it It looks really interesting. I don't know. I think the characters look pretty cool. Yeah. Killer Inn, this is a murder mystery action deception game that has 24 players.
01:11:32
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It looks just all right. ill I'll definitely want to see more about that one. um Arc Raiders is set for October 30th. Dude Awakening just got a new trailer before its release, which is on the set ah which is out now.
01:11:45
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Chrono Odyssey was shown off. This is getting a play test from June 20th to 22nd. ah We finally got new footage from Mio, Memories in Orbit, which we haven't seen since a Nintendo Direct last year. um This is a really cool hand-drawn Metroidvania-type game. There's a demo out for it now, and it's just cool that we get to see this game again because it looks really cool.
01:12:09
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ah Out of words, this is a stop-motion claymation co-op game where our protagonists have lost their mouth and they can't speak. um This is coming out next year in 2026.
LEGO Co-op Adventure Announcement
01:12:22
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We got another look at Mafia the Old Country ah Lego Voyagers a game being published by Anna Perna Interactive. This is a two-player co-op Lego adventure that looks absolutely adorable and really cool with what they're doing with Lego two little Lego bricks.
01:12:39
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It looks really cool.
Nicktoons Game Franchise Revival
01:12:41
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ah Then Carolyn Lawrence came out, the voice of Sandy Cheeks, and announced Nicktoons and the Dice of Destiny, a fall 2025 beat-em-up game.
01:12:53
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um This might see the return of the Nicktoon games, though, because we haven't seen one since Nicktoons Battle for Volcano Island. So hopefully this is good. i really hope it's
Stealth DLC and Creepy Game Announcements
01:13:05
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good. Lies of Pete Overture, was the DLC, was shown. and Then they shadow dropped it right there. And then Fractured Blooms.
01:13:15
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ah Jeff describes this game. If Doki Doki Literature Club was across with Silent Hill, it looks really creepy. um So if you're into that, definitely give that a look.
New Game Releases and Gacha Game Debate
01:13:27
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Then there's Blade and Soul Neo and Blade and Soul Heroes. Neo is out now. Heroes comes out in September. Seven Deadly Sins Origin. This does not look great.
01:13:40
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It looks like a gacha game a little bit. i don't know why they're doing a Seven Deadly Sins game based off the anime. Don't know why.
Upcoming Game Releases: October Announcements
01:13:47
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Jurassic World Evolution 3 was announced, and that's coming up October 21st.
01:13:51
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Then Yacht Club Games, the developers of of Shovel Knight, revealed their new IP, Mina the Hollower, which is releasing October 31st. That looks really cool.
01:14:03
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um Then they hijacked the Silksong announcement for Deadpool VR, which is coming out later this year, only on MetaQuest 3. And Neil Patrick Harris is the voice of Deadpool.
01:14:14
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And Ryan Reynolds did release a video trailer for the game saying he's not mad. He's just disappointed that it's not him.
Diverse Game Announcements for August and Beyond
01:14:23
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We got a new look at di likec the Dying Light and the Beast coming August 22nd.
01:14:28
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um We got to see Mixtape, this 80s teen coming-of-age game. No release date for it yet. Toa and the Guardians of the Sacred sacred Tree coming September 19th. This is a roguelite from Bandai Namco.
01:14:42
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Acts of Blood coming summer 2026.
Scott Pilgrim and Survival Game Announcements
01:14:45
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Scott Pilgrim EX, a brand new Scott Pilgrim game um also coming next year where you could play a Scott, Ramona, and I believe a couple of the evil X's are playable ah as well as like Aliens Invade Toronto and shit, which is really cool.
01:15:03
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Scum comes out June 17th. This is a survival crafting game, but nutty.
Mind's Eye Trailer and Hitman Collaboration
01:15:09
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Then we got chi a new trailer for Mind's Eye, which came out back on the 10th to reveal a new trailer in a Hitman collaboration.
01:15:17
Speaker
And the game came out, and it sucks. The game's not good. It's buggy. It's bad. That's rough. And the lead developer for the game, who was ex-Rockstar, said people who are giving it a bad review are being paid by Rockstar to do it. Oh, no.
01:15:34
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That sucks. That's what... Yeah.
Hitman Special Target: Le Chiffre
01:15:38
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ah We then got an announcement that Le Chiffre from the villain of Casino Royale, James Bond, because they showed off a bit of james but the new James Bond again.
01:15:48
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Well, Le Chiffre is coming to Hitman as a special target until July 6th. And then they brought up Mads Mikkelsen, who played him on the stage and had some words with him and whatnot, which is cool.
LEGO and Wildgate Game Announcements
01:16:00
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ah Then Lego came back and were like, hey, what if we gave you Mario Party but Lego? And they showed Lego Party, which is coming out later this year. Wildgate was shown. This is a 20-player team shooter.
01:16:13
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Blighted, this is coming from the developers of Guacamelee, Drinkbox Studios. um Ill, this is a first-person survival action horror game. Mecha Break was shown off with like a music video for what definitely sounds like Hiroyuki Sawano.
01:16:28
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um That comes out July 1st. In Fiend Estimals, I don't know if autocorrect did anything... and said Oh, infinite. Oh God. i don't even know how to, how, what happened to this word and a game coming out 2026.
Resident Evil Requiem Announcement
01:16:44
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And then ah the resident evil desk said, came out and said, Hey, we're celebrating 30 years of our resident evil next year. um Just be patient with us as we aren't announcing a new game at this time. like, okay, cool.
01:16:55
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ah Then they had Kenny Omega come out and ah basically cosplay as the next four characters who are coming to Street Fighter VI's next character pass.
01:17:07
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You got Alex from Street Fighter III, Sea Viper, Ingrid, and Sagat coming back. And Sagat will be the first character coming out of this character pass.
01:17:18
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um Last Flag was announced. This is an online capture the flag game set in the 70s.
Wu-Tang Clan's Surprise Game
01:17:24
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Wu Chang Fallen Feathers coming July 24th. Wu Tang Riot. And then Wu Tang Clan.
01:17:32
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That was a surprise. That was a big surprise. Wu-Tang Clan has a game coming out called Wu-Tang Rise of the Receiver. um i believe that there's like a little bit of gameplay that they showed not in that trailer, but after it released as well. So you can check that out.
01:17:48
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um Into
Splitgate 2 Introduction and Controversy
01:17:49
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the Unwell. This is a roguelike where you fight your own demons. It's very Looney Tunes. That's the vibe that I got from this. ah ah split And then, oh, embarrassing moment for Splitgate.
01:18:03
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The Splitgate 2 hat lead came out. He's like, I miss when shooters used to be good. and in the He's also wearing a Make Shooters Great Again hat.
01:18:16
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Yeah, that was rough. That was rough to begin with. It was a bad look. Yeah. um He's like, I i witness miss when things were great like Halo.
01:18:27
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I'm tired of like these yearly Call of Duty games but just like rehashing stuff. I wanted Titanfall 3. I'm like, you know what? Despite his hat, he's saying some alright things. was like, you know what? He's not absolutely wrong.
01:18:43
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But he pulled he did it where it's like, and then they showed up, and then he's like, how do you end that by announcing that Splitgate 2 is getting a Battle Royale mode? And then, yeah and a what and I can only be described as if you know that meme but where it's like, we're playing nothing but rock.
01:19:01
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in And like on like the radio station, hard rock, hard rock. And here's a Imagine Dragons. They literally did that as it played a Imagine Dragons as the song that they used to show off their Battle Royale mode.
01:19:17
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yeah not playing Splitgate 2. Yeah, that's that's rough. it It was just a little rough.
Stranger Than Heaven and Final Thoughts
01:19:24
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ah Then we got RGG's new game, Project Century, which now has an official title, Stranger Than Heaven, um now it taking place in 1943.
01:19:35
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Your ah protagonist is named Mako Daito. It looks really cool. I'm excited to see more when they do show more. And then the final game announcement for the...
01:19:46
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Summer Game Fest live stream Resident Evil Requiem aka RE9 coming out February 27, 2026. So when earlier they said we're not announcing it now, we're announcing it later. They just met at the end of the show.
01:20:00
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Right. What a surprise. They're funny. Yeah. um And that was the first ah direct. That was the main live stream.
01:20:11
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Any final thoughts on that one? Um, no, I mean, again, I think I just felt a lot of stuff not showing gameplay, you know? So, uh, don't know. I think, I think the most surprising things there, I agree with you. The split gate two thing was I did not appreciate the way that was presented and it sucks because like, I want to be excited for that game, but I just fell really short in my opinion.
01:20:41
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Yeah. No, it definitely did. ah Moving on to the Wholesome Games Direct. Here were all the games shown off on this one. Leaf Blower Co., a game about blowing leaves. There's a demo out now.
01:20:54
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Instance, this is a scrapbooking puzzle game out now. Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar comes August 27th. Gordlets Together, one of my lowest rated games from last year, is getting ah a multiplayer game. It's coming out 2025.
01:21:07
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Luma Island Pirates, June 20th. Is this seat taking a sorting people puzzle game coming out August? Make Room, an interior design furniture crafting game coming August 7th.
01:21:18
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Ambroise, Niflet, and the Gleaned Bell, a detective game where you where you're all like a wind-up toy. um Let's Build a Dungeon. This is from the people who gave us Let's Build a Zoo. This is building your own MMORPG with a co-op mode.
01:21:32
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ah There's a co-op mode in there. It looks really cool. Squeakros. It's Picros, but you're mice. That's out now. Volume and Value 3 finally has a release date of July twenty second Big Hops. This is a platform. We're coming out later this year.
01:21:46
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Little Kitty Big City is getting a free content update this summer. Vending Dokon Cozy Kiosk is right now. It's a vending machine business simulator.
01:21:58
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Winter Burrow, a now survival crafting game coming out later this year. Tales of the Shire, a Lord of the Rings game coming out July 29th. Haunted Paws, a co-op game where you're both dogs in a haunted mansion as a closed alpha.
01:22:11
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that started on June 7th. Guardian of Nature, episode one is out now. This is episodic game. Everdeep Aurora, July 10th. Seasonal Cemetery, this is out now and it's free.
01:22:25
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Camper Van, Make Home is out now. And then they showed off a thing for Link's Banner of the Spark, which was already out. Omelette You Cook. This is an omelette-making game that's out now.
01:22:36
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Milano's Job Collection. This is a game that was in Japan. This guy's first official release in the West now, coming later this year. Fireside Feelings, this is a game we two where two, this is basically therapy the game. but This is out now.
01:22:50
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um All Will Rise, a narrative cultural deck builder game coming 2026. Gecko Gods, are you playing as a gecko coming 2025? One Move Away, that moving packing game that i was shown off two State of Plays ago was shown off again. Still coming out later this year.
01:23:06
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uh heidi's legacy mountains calling was shown off hotel galactic comes out july 24th out and about has a play test live that's live right now this county was shown off again this is coming august 21st islanders new shores comes july 10th collector's cove demo out for that right now town to city coming summer 2025 and fishbowl which doesn't have a release date yet And then they add their rapid fire section. But as I'm looking at this, I'm not going to bother reading all of this because there's a lot.
01:23:36
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Yeah, that's fair. you can view that You can view the whole list at wholesomegames.com to see everything that was shown off in the show. Now we get into the Xbox showcase.
01:23:47
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And at the end of the show, I will state that they did show off um the Outer Worlds 2 in a lot more depth and also Grounded 2, which was shown off during the show as well, which also got a bit of a showcase at the end of the show.
01:24:01
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As for what they announced, they did start off with a new trailer for Outer Worlds 2, which comes October 22nd. High on Life 2 was announced for a winter 2025 release. Resonance, a Planketail Legacy, a prequel to the Planketail series coming in 2026.
01:24:16
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And then they announced their their mobile console, the Xbox Ally and Ally X. Yup. And this was also the only time during all Summer Game Fest that we got new details for Silksong.
01:24:32
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Because Silksong will be announced the same day that this get will be released the same day this releases, apparently. So, there is that. I pause now as I drink water and take a breath to continue this massive list.
01:24:46
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I think, well, I think because the whole thing is that Silksong's coming out on Game Pass day one. So yeah i don't know i don't know if it's actually tied with the ally drop, though. I don't think they've confirmed that.
01:24:59
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Yeah, I don't think they've really confirmed it. They want you to think that. Yeah, I think they want you to think that so you you buy the ally. But again, this is where I'm just like, does does it need to have the Xbox logo on it? Because you could already pick up ah an ally for like ah a couple of years, right?
01:25:17
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They just put their branding on it. So I don't know. Maybe it'll bring more people in. But who knows? yeah Blood of the Dawnwalker, a game where you're like half vampire, half human, comes out 2026. Super Meat Boy 3D coming early 2026. This is Meat Boy's jump to 3D platforming.
01:25:35
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Ninja Gaiden 4, given the release date of October 21st. um Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC, The Order of the Giants, coming out September 4th. Beast of Reincarnation. This is a game being developed by Game Freak.
01:25:50
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And it's coming out next year. Now granted, while Game Freak doesn't exclusively do Pokemon and they have had a couple other games, it's mostly been Nintendo stuff. Yeah, it's weird to see them show up at the da the Xbox Direct.
01:26:05
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have um Clockwork Revolution. This game looks like one of the coolest games that they showed they showed off this Direct. It's a steampunk world first person shooter that that gives you time control elements and stuff like that and it looks really fucking sick.
01:26:22
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um Grounded 2 releasing July 29th. Kronos The New Dawn is a 2025 release. Elder Scrolls Online The Seasons of the Worm Cult is coming June 18th.
01:26:33
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Aphelion coming 2026. There are no ghosts at the Grand. This is a puzzle Mystery game where you're like repairing a a hotel and like the world while solving a mystery about your father. This is coming next year. It looks really cool.
01:26:48
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Age of Mythology Retold. The Heavenly Spirit DLC is coming fall 2025. Mudank Two Hearts coming 2026. Planet of Lana 2 Children of the Leaf was announced for 2026.
01:27:00
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Fallout 76 is adding a fishing update. Solo Leveling Arise Overdrive is coming fall 2025, except it has co-op. So why why would you have co-op in a solo leveling game?
01:27:13
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Doesn't make sense. It's called Solo Leveling. Aren't you supposed to be solo? Animo. This is game coming out in 2026, which is looking like the most gotcha garbage game I've ever seen.
01:27:26
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Totally Hawk Pro Skater 3 and 4 got a new trailer and also showed that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are going to be playable. That comes July 11th. At Fate's End is new game from the Spiritfarer creators coming out in 2026.
01:27:41
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Gears of War Reloaded. um They showed that the game will have crossplay, story, and PvP and it comes out August 26th. Persona 4 Revival was shown off, announcing that the Persona 4 remake is in the works, and it will most likely come out next year, if not in two years from now, which is exciting. I'm excited to play that.
01:28:03
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Sea of Thieves, the Smuggler's Tide update coming in August. Invincible vs. a fighting game within the Invincible Universe. um And Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy XVI are both coming to Xbox. FF16 is out now on Xbox.
01:28:18
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Keeper, this is a game where you play as a sentient lighthouse from the Psychonauts developers. That's out October 17th. And then they ended the game, the showcase, with Call of Duty Black Ops VII.
01:28:31
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Yeah, I don't think I need to play Call of Duty. I can just get Splitgate 2, right? Yeah. yeah I don't think we need it anymore. no I'll just play Splitgate instead.
01:28:42
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Yeah. But we can play as Mason again. You know, Mason, the guy who sees all the numbers. But yeah, those were the big showcases. Now, that's just some other stuff that was announced at all the other showcases. At the State of Unreal, which had again happened just before Summer Game Fest started, um they showed off new footage for The Witcher 4 in a demo.
01:29:03
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um It was all just like cutscene stuff. No actual game-like. At Day of the Devs, Big Walk was shown off. This is House House's new game. The people who gave give us Untitled Goose game.
01:29:15
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um It got a new gameplay preview. It's about talking and walking. It has proxy chat, puzzle solving, and more. It looks absolutely like a banger of a time. It looks fantastic. I cannot wait. I'm definitely playing this one.
01:29:29
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but i think one of my one of my friends said this this game genre is friend slop. ah Yeah. because it's just Because it's literally just like hanging out in the game, wandering around with other people, which I think is i think it's great. I think it's a cool idea.
01:29:48
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Oh, absolutely. Then there's Relooted. This is Nyamakop's upcoming puzzle platformer. They are South African developer team where you'll be staging high-tech heists for 70 very real artifacts to return to the country. to Basically, um Robin Hooding um cultural artifacts from the rich white folk, which I'm all about. There's Snap and Snap. This is a ah heist game where you're a photographer, where you're snapping photos of the event to then plan your heists for later.
01:30:23
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um This is coming early 2026. Escape Academy 2 Back to School is shown off here. Dosa Divas, this is a new game from the developers of Thirsty Suitors, coming early 2026. A new trailer for Think of Thieves.
01:30:37
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Then there's Tire Boy, an open-world action-adventure platformer game where you're a boy in a tire. And Tolem 2 got shown off here too, which I did not expect to get a sequel, but I'm excited Tolem's getting a sequel.
01:30:49
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In the future game show, ah some of the highlights from that, The Expanse of Cyrus Reborn, which is based off the novel and series, Echoes of the End, a high fantasy brawler, Hurdling, which has a release date set for this summer, Sleep Awake, a psychological thriller from Corey Davis, who gave us Spec Ops The Line, and Robin Fink of The Nine Inch Nails.
01:31:09
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This is coming 2026. ah Constance, a Metroidvania coming twenty twenty November 24th. Call of the Elder Gods, a sequel to Call of the Sea, was announced. The Bureau of Fantastical and Arcade Affairs.
01:31:23
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This is a game where you get to audit villain lairs and make sure they're up to code, and it's coming out later this year. That sounds so funny. WTF, Waifu Tactical Shooter, coming 2026.
01:31:37
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And House Slipper 2 is getting Scooby-Doo DLC in October. Nice. And the Konami press start event happened literally today before recording this.
01:31:48
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And I'll get right into that here. They started with Metal Gear Solid Delta showing off more of that. And version exclusive stuff. In the PS5 version, you got Snake vs. Monkey, which is the Ape Escape stuff.
01:32:00
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But on the Xbox, you have Snake vs. Bomberman. So you get Bomberman-related stuff. The Secret Theater is returning, and Fox Hunt, their new multiplayer mode for online, is also going to be in this game.
01:32:14
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We got a new trailer to Darwin's Paradox, which is that game where you play as an octopus. E-Football, which is a free-to-play game out now. And then MLB Pro Spirit, a mobile baseball game, is out now as well.
01:32:25
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ah They gave the Yu-Gi-Oh! Worlds schedule, ah which for North America, July 11th to 13th. ah Sweet Coded 1 and 2 HD Remaster is coming to Switch 2. And Sweet Coded Starleap, a new mobile game, is coming out to Steam as well. It can be wishlisted.
01:32:42
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Gradius is celebrating its 40th anniversary in the Origins Collection. comes out August seventh Deliver at all costs was got a little bit of a feature. and The game is out now. Eden's Zero, the game based off of Hiro Mashima's third major project, his first being Grave Master and then Fairy Tail, is releasing July 15th.
01:33:03
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Survival Kids, which is out for the Switch 2, is out now. And then there was a feature on Silent Hill F, which at the end, they announced that Bloober Team, the people who gave us the Silent Hill 2 remaster, are remastering the first one.
01:33:15
Speaker
So we're getting a Silent Hill 1 remaster. That's pretty sweet. I think we saw that coming after, you know, we've been getting the remakes and stuff like that. It had to happen at some point, right? It did, and I'm glad that it's happening soon. and So, kudos.
01:33:29
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And that's everything that I thought was cool slash one of the major live streams of Summer Game Fest. What are your thoughts on that stuff, Evan? You know, ah i only have one game that I wanted to shout that I saw. I think it was during the ah the Southeast Asian Game Showcase.
01:33:44
Speaker
Go for it. There's a game ah called Tanuki Pond Summer where you play as this little Tanuki character ah and you basically go on little deliveries where you're you're like a ah delivering mail.
01:33:58
Speaker
I know that game because I showed it off. I can't remember when. I didn't know that it was at that one. Oh, because that game was sick. So because you're you you' it's basically like BMX tricking all over this like little cute neighborhood. i don't know. It looks super cute. And I'm a big sucker for like just deliver stuff back and forth like fetch quest.
01:34:16
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And if I can fetch quest on a BMX bike, that's pretty epic. Yeah. So overall, Summer Game Fest this year, so much shown off. So yeah it was it was a lot of content back to back and just like, i don't know, there were so many showcases to keep keep up with i mean hundreds of games, right?
01:34:36
Speaker
ah Across like four days to for like the majority of it. Plus, we had the Switch to launch at the same time. Like it's it's a busy week for gaming. is z week One of the busiest weeks for gaming is Summer Game Fest. It goes on all summer long with the final day of Summer Game Fest being Gamescom Opening Night Live, ah which happens in Europe somewhere. I can never remember where, but Jeff Keighley will have another game show for us then to reveal even more stuff.
01:35:05
Speaker
And then we won't see him again until the Game Awards, where most likely we will see Expedition 33 suite. Yeah. We have to assume that that's going to be the case. I don't think, I mean, it'll take a lot to, yeah, yeah that I think everyone will be understanding if that's the way things go.
01:35:23
Speaker
yeah I won't be mad. It's a banger game. Would recommend. um Is there any final thoughts you want to give on Summer Game Fest before you move on to the bonus level, Evan? No, I'm ready to go.
01:35:33
Speaker
All right. Well, now it's time for us to close things out in a nice, fun way. We're diving into the bonus level. Crazy lists, great deals, and recapping gaming history. It's all here in the bonus level. And to kick it off, we got our new segment of this season, the Game Clash, a small eight-entry tournament.
01:35:53
Speaker
randomly seated with different topics. that i figured why not go the switch to just launched. So why not put them all of the Nintendo physical consoles head to head? It's the Nintendo console game clash.
01:36:08
Speaker
And Evan, you're the one who decides the winner. Are you ready? I'm ready. All right. For match one, we got the n NES versus the switch. It's it's a switch on that one as you know,
01:36:18
Speaker
You can play all the and NES stuff on it. What do you want me to say? Importantly. Yeah. ah no No, you can take you get continue your thoughts. Well, I was just going to say, yeah you know, nostalgia nostalgia for it, but and NES controller.
01:36:33
Speaker
ah No, thanks. In today's advantage, I don't want a rectangle controller. I'm sorry. yeah The Switch 2 versus the we Now, see, this is difficult because i literally just but do i don't have any experience with Switch 2.
01:36:50
Speaker
I will say Wii is the aesthetic on the Wii is just something else. Plus the ability to play GameCube on the Wii. I think that gives it, at least for now, an edge in my mind. So um'm I'm going to choose Wii.
01:37:04
Speaker
Okay. Match three, the GameCube versus the SNES. I love the SNES. I have to go with it. Oh, okay.
01:37:15
Speaker
i I mean, don't get me wrong. there's ah There's great stuff on GameCube as well, but something about the SNES graphically, musically, ah have a i have a lot of nostalgia for that.
01:37:28
Speaker
hair Match four, the Wii U versus N64. That's going be the 64. Sorry, sorry we you uh, you finals, the switch versus the, we see. And I knew this was going to happen and this is where it's really difficult. Right.
01:37:43
Speaker
I, I honestly, I think I have to go with, with, Oh, man. I love the character of the Wii so much. I love all the the the menu music. I love that it has, you know, there's personality to the to the console, which I don't think the Switch has.
01:38:00
Speaker
But the fact that I can play the Switch and in bed, because I have to take the Switch. Okay, the Switch takes it. ah And the yes versus the n sixty four i'm um I'm picking SNES on that one. Wow.
01:38:18
Speaker
Okay. Grand finals, the Switch versus the SNES. It's got it. I mean, it has to be the Switch. they they I think ah sales numbers alone, whatever, but I just think it does everything I want from a Nintendo console.
01:38:33
Speaker
And, you know, as far as mass market pushing the handheld and docked kind of experience, I think that it obviously has put a strain on the gaming industry if now every other manufacturer is trying to figure out how to do something similar. Right.
01:38:49
Speaker
Yeah, no, definitely. Okay, well, congratulations, Nintendo Switch, for winning the Game. ah We move on to this week in gaming history. Here's what happened in the past from June 16th to 29th. Some major events to kick it off.
01:39:02
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On the 21st, June 21st, 2004, Nintendo begins releasing the Game Boy Advance video cartridges with up to 90 minutes of animated television shows. The first cartridges were for 30-minute Pokemon shows.
01:39:15
Speaker
On the 25th in 2007, the value of Nintendo stock hit $53.06 billion, dollars which was slightly higher than Sony at the time. And on June 28th, 1972, Atari Inc. is formed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
01:39:32
Speaker
As for some game birthdays, on the 17th, Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut turns 22. On the 18th, Resident Evil Dead turns 22. On the Sonic Adventure 2 turns 24. the ah the nineteenth sogaveer two turns twenty four On the 21st, Fear 3 turns 14. On the 22nd, Ape Escape turns 26.
01:39:51
Speaker
On the 23rd, Super Mario 64 in Japan turns 29. And Advance Wars 2, Black Hole Rising turns 22. On the 24th, Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem turns 23.
01:40:03
Speaker
On the 26th, Pokemon Battle Revolution turns 18. And on the 29th, Banjo-Kazooie turns 27. Feel feel old Yeah. Unfortunately, yeah. It's how it goes though, right?
01:40:18
Speaker
it is. um Moving on to Tony's game poll. This is a seasonal poll that we change up every season. Evan, what game franchise deserves a brand new game in 2025, 2026 that has not been announced yet?
01:40:32
Speaker
ah You know, I'm going to go back to ah at at the top at the top of recording for favorite character being Crash Bandicoot. I want more Crash. i I want a game that, duck granted, I think Crash 4 did a good job, ah but something still felt a little lacking to me. Give me Crash 5. Give me something slightly bigger.
01:40:55
Speaker
i don't know. i don't know what to expect, but I want it. Okay. That's a good choice. ah I think it'd be cool to see a new Crash game that wasn't, because the last Crash game was that Crash Team something.
01:41:09
Speaker
Crash, no, not Crash, multiplayer online Crash game. Yeah, I think so. I don't know. I didn't even check that one out, I don't think. Yeah. Which is unfortunate. I just think for like, for such an iconic, at least was, had you know, has been an iconic gaming character.
01:41:29
Speaker
it would be nice to see, i don't know, something a little bit grander than I think he's been given lately. Yeah. No, definitely. ah Your deals of the week on Epic. Your free game is Two Point Hospital until June 19th on Steam. There's some Steam sales going on. The Koi Tecmo publisher sale until the 23rd.
01:41:51
Speaker
Dying Light franchise sale until the 19th, as well as the Capcom publisher sale and the Hyper Strange publisher sale until the 18th. On PlayStation for sales, the Summer Game Fest sale is on until June 18th, and there's also a new retro ah sale, going remaster sale going on as well until sometime in a couple weeks from now.
01:42:12
Speaker
Your Achievement of the Week is in Deltarune. It's called Sword, which is to equip a weapon. um Your Game of the Week is Date Everything, and Evan, if there is a game older you that you would recommend to the listeners right now, what game would that be?
01:42:26
Speaker
um There's a demo out for this game right now. I can't remember when it's coming out, but I played it on stream last week or the week before. Easy Delivery Co. um Kind of PS1-inspired graphics. Again, and i said it with Tanuki, but but it's a it's a delivery game, right? So you're just going point-to-point making deliveries and stuff, but the the vibes on that game is so good. if You're like in the snow, everything's cloudy, it it it feels good.
01:42:53
Speaker
Nice! Alright! Well, with that, we have reached the end of the episode. Good work. ah Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.
01:43:04
Speaker
Thank you for joining us. Where can we find you on the internet? Yeah. um Best place, honestly, is ah just twitch.tv slash ebrozo. i I'm live there from 1030 p.m. to midnight every day Pacific time.
01:43:20
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Right now I'm playing through Celeste, ah slowly making progress there, and then we'll be playing Bonanza as soon as it comes out. So that's kind of at least what's going on there right now. Yeah.
01:43:31
Speaker
ice And of course, you can find me at 20sGamelodge everywhere. ah Twitter, Blue Sky, instagram to Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and YouTube. We've got some...
01:43:42
Speaker
As long as things don't break, we're going to doing some Skyrim with the Skyrim Together mod, which is Co-op Skyrim. As long as that doesn't break, we will be doing that next and before getting into Hacker's Memory.
01:43:55
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ah So look forward to that. And of course, new YouTube shorts of the highlights of this podcast on the Monday, Wednesday, Friday, after this episode releases um for the next two weeks.
01:44:07
Speaker
So we look forward to those as well. um Evan, thank you once again for coming on today. It was an absolute pleasure and blast to have you on. Yeah, thanks again, Tony. i I appreciate being asked to be on. It's been fun. So thank you.
01:44:20
Speaker
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01:44:32
Speaker
And until then, we'll see you next time right back here in the Game Lounge. Peace. Thanks for listening to this week's episode of Tony's Game Lounge. New episodes release every two weeks. Make sure to follow, like, and share the podcast on your streaming service and follow us on Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, and X.