Hello everyone! Happy October! We’ve got some fun shows this week and even more planned but not ready to put on the calendar yet. The Hitman racing continues, the ridiculousness of Ripper (hopefully) continues, and the games just keep on coming! Looking to be a fun and full week. Thanks for join us!
--Vinny
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Watch the archives here: 2021-10-04 22:33:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, and a happy spooky October to everyone who celebrates! This is the best month of the year, hands down. Autumn is fully on, leaves turning brown, hoodie appropriate temperatures, and of course, a healthy dollop of horror themed things. I don't usually do the 31 days of horror movies thing, mostly because my partner would go nuts if I tried to inflict that on her, but I've definitely got a handful of movies and shows lined up that I'm looking forward to checking out, as well as ...
2021-10-02 21:22:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Our third live Discord Q&A has concluded, and now we bring you the archive which features questions about our own personal Psychonauts levels, acceptable video game tattoos, coffee habits, airport horror stories, Alex's musical year-to-date-in-review, our favorite Beastie Boy, the origin of that spectrogram we use all over the place, some thoughts on where we're at four months after launch, and more!
2021-09-30 22:44:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This week Death Stranding has us in the grip of its madness once again, Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a delight, there's... a very good Hot Wheels game (?!), Actraiser is kinda-sorta back, Nintendo motion picture stunt casting is on everyone's mind, Japan is hoarding all the six-button Mega Drive pads, there's somehow yet another Activision Blizzard lawsuit, and more!
CHAPTERS
00:00:10 Intro
00:04:08 Death Stranding: Director’s Cut (PS5)
00:33:26 Kena: Bridge...
This week's ramble includes Alex's tales from the latest AEW event (plus an impromptu wrestling history lesson), Vinny's battle with the USPS over a lost Transformer, Brad's childhood adventures eating wild fruit, fulfilling the Jersey diner quota, a consideration of urban chicken coops, and more!
CHAPTERS
00:00:05 Intro
00:01:04 Let's Get Ready to Ramble...about wrestling
00:04:09 Movie Podcast:Red, White, and Viewed
00:07:55 Bringing it back to the wres...
It's tempting to start this poll with some "how in the world is September almost over" sort of business, because seriously, what is time these days, but instead I'm going to celebrate the imminent arrival of the spooky month! Yes, this Friday is the beginning of October, and it's also the day we thank all of you supporting us at the higher tiers during a patron's choice stream. And I can guarantee you this particular stream is going to be terrifying.
It's also going to be a lot...
2021-09-27 22:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe’ve got a packed week Nextlanders! There’s a new show this week as Brad and I (Vinny) get to work trying to be the fastest Hitman we can be! Alex and I will also be continuing with Life is Strange: True Colors, we’ll be holding our live Q&A Podcast on the Discord, then we'll be ripping with Ripper after that, and it’s also Patron’s Choice week for our Friday show! Whew!
--Vinny
Catch the live stuff here: 2021-09-27 18:38:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Sunday, everyone! Hope you're all having a relaxing/exciting/fulfilling weekend. Once again it is time to recap all the fun stuff we made last week! As a quick aside before I launch into that, just want to let folks know that we've got another patron Q&A coming up next week, so if you haven't had the chance to post a question into the Q&A discord yet, now's the time!
Break out the big pencils! This should be an interesting one and I'm very curious to see how this all shakes out. Scared, sure... a little bit. Excited though? You know it. Come join me for a hour-ish of chill, goof-sketching.
You can find the unlisted YouTube video embedded above or here if that's not working:
https://youtu.be/hrBo5ka1aTI
Alex is lost in Lost Judgment this week, Brad loves playing defense in Deathloop, we all brought back a photographic travelogue from Toem, Quantic Dream might be making a Star Wars game (?!?), and things just keep getting worse for Activision Blizzard. Plus: an interview with Outer Wilds creative director Alex Beachum!
CHAPTERS
00:00:09 Intro
00:00:36 The Education of Drivers
00:07:03 The early days of jumping into random cars
00:08:20 Do apps solve every...
This week we're rambling all over the place, considering whether Vinny's kids really need Christmas Lights or not, what might possess a person to direct a film adaptation of Ready Player one, whether French dressing is really just watered down ketchup, and how many of us might still own and use clock radios. The answers might surprise you!
CHAPTERS
00:00:05 Intro
00:00:41 Let's talk about Spielberg and his OEUVRE
00:09:09 The Direct Heir
00:15:42 That sub...
Hello everyone! This week we’re heading back to Scrap Mechanic, FMV-Town, and doing more Life is Strange. Also, don’t miss Friday’s show where we hopefully see the demise of Mother Brain in Metroid! It’s about time someone ended that menace.
--Vinny
All times Eastern
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Watch the archives here: 2021-09-20 18:43:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! It's time to return to the drawing board! Let's pick some fresh faces to immortalize in our gallery.
Stream details will go up later this week after the poll is done. Thanks everyone!
--Vinny
Hey everyone! It's another weekend, and therefore time to recap all the fun stuff we made over the course of last week.
Getting Deathloopy in Deathloop
You may be shocked to hear that Deathloop was the game that dominated our week, kicking off with thi...
2021-09-19 21:34:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, we'll keep this one short and sweet: the time has come once again to solicit your feedback on one of the next shows we tackle. We've got some other ideas besides these that we like enough to hold back from this poll, so we'll be looking at doing some other stuff soon besides the winner here. But whichever of these comes out on top--and this time around I sincerely can't guess which one it's going to be, because they all seem like bangers to me--will go into the rotation soon.
Would you believe we spent like half this episode talking about Deathloop? You'll just have to listen to find out, and in the course of doing so you'll also hear about the new WarioWare's co-op calamity, some reminiscing about KOTOR in light of the newly announced remake, our wish list for Insomniac's Wolverine game, the latest on the Epic/Apple slapfigh...uh, legal battle, and more!
CHAPTERS
00:00:09 Intro
00:02:04 Cleaning the Windows
00:14:09 Deathloop (P...
Ramblin' time is here again! Come for the tales of Vinny's family outing to... the dentist, stay for our obsessive dissection of the new Matrix trailer, our love of Laurence Fishburne, an attempt to discern our own individual Marvel numbers, our effort to define the one true Law & Order formula, and more!
CHAPTERS
00:00:05 Intro
00:00:40 Talking about keeping your teeth healthy
00:03:16 Hot Lunch Friday
00:06:54 Strap in for the Matrix!
00:27:16 Wh...
Oh yeah! This week we’re going to get loopy. We’ve got a livestream of Deathloop early in the week, and then we’ll be getting into it more during this week’s podcast along with a bunch of other stuff. This Thursday I’m going to jump into some Life is Strange:True Colors with Alex in the morning to get us in the right state of mind for Ripper later in the day. Normally, this would be a Tuesday stream but we’ve got the big family dentist visit to do that day so I’m moving it to th...
2021-09-13 14:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Hope you all had yourselves a good short week. It's time once again to recap all the stuff we made over the course of the last week.
Weekly Ramblecast 013: Be Not Here
The one and only Will Smith (of Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod fame) joins Brad and Alex to ra...
2021-09-11 21:22:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week! We're on a cosmic voyage in The Artful Escape, playing post-apocalyptic golf in Golf Club Wasteland, traversing a Midgar Metroidvania in F.I.S.T., and hanging out around a placid lake in, uh, Lake. Plus: the Tripwire kerfuffle, the Horizon pricing fiasco, Alan Wake remastered, and the most difficult game of all: keeping the small children in your family happy.
CHAPTERS
00:00:10 Intro
00:01:20 The dangers of Yes, and...
00:03:19 The rundown of the ...
With Vinny off roaming the earth, our friend Will Smith stops by for a quick ramble, and swaps some stories with Alex about working in game dev communications, regales us about the magical Safeway/drive-in movie theater combo, sells us on Star Trek animated series new and old, ponders the necessity of punching a Gorn, and more.
NOTE: The production process was a little different than usual this week; please let us know of any issues with the .mp3, especially the chapters!
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2021-09-07 21:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Alex here subbing in for Vinny, who still has one day of vacation left. After a long weekend, we're just about ready to turn the content production machines back on. Here's everything you can look forward to for the rest of this week.
Tuesday 09/07/2021
Ramblecast Posting in the Afternoon. The weekly not-about-video-games podcast will post as per usual later today!
**Audio posts on Patreon and RSS for Core Crew Patron Tiers and ...
2021-09-07 15:05:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Our monthly attempt to get a handle on the next several weeks' worth of games has come again, and... look, people act like 2021 has no games, and sure, plenty of them have been delayed, but you wouldn't know it looking at September. From WarioWare to Deathloop to birds on skateboards, listen on for our loose summary of what we're looking forward to during the next month in video games.
CHAPTERS
00:00:01 Intro
00:03:33 Lake (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC) – Se...
Vinny barely managed to finish doing battle with his house in time to record this podcast, which covers the actually good time loop game The Forgotten City, thoughts on the end of Psychonauts 2, this year's Madden mess, the latest socially conscious goings-on in Fortnite, hanging out with Rad Ghost, our Death Stranding 2 wish list, and more!
CHAPTERS
00:00:08 Intro
00:01:40 A tale about the dangers of doors
00:13:10 Getting stuck in places you're not suppose...
What lavish dwelling is Alex going to build with his newfound (imaginary) wealth? Why does Brad think Back to the Future poisoned the minds of a generation? Did Vinny really social-engineer his daughter's birthday party? The answers to these questions may or may not be truthful, but they sure are rambly. (Is that a word?)
CHAPTERS
00:00:08 Intro
00:00:47 A very confident Episode 13 declaration
00:02:15 Hold on, but it's the 12th Episode!
00:03:10 Let's ta...
August is drawing to a close but that just means September is on the way! A new month with a host of new possibilities. We’ve wrapped up some shows and we’ll be spinning up new ones soon so keep an eye out for that.
--Vinny
All times Eastern
Monday 08/30/2021
2PM The Trials of the Scrap: Based on our last adventure in Scrap Mechanic, it looks like we’re getting into some logic, rotors, and fingers? Can’t wait t...
2021-08-30 17:25:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Nextlanders! It's Sunday, and you know what that means: the recap post I always intend to write on Saturdays is being posted on Sunday again! Look, I don't have much of a social calendar these days, but somehow the last few weeks every Saturday has been my "do stuff" day. So here I am once again, on my non-doing stuff day, telling you about all the stuff we made last week. Your patience and support is always appreciated.
Anyway, onto the content!
2021-08-29 19:37:59 +0000 UTC
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This month's lengthy live Q&A session is here, and yields conversations about our memories of old computers and game rentals, our history with fistfights, cross-country moving strategies, how to forget someone's name gracefully, playing tabletop RPGs for an audience, a handful of questions about our thoughts and experiences running this company so far, and Vinny's... interesting relationship with onions.
2021-08-26 20:56:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Games! A lot of them--including Psychonauts 2, Recompile, Aliens Fireteam Elite, and Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut--are upon us, and we played and discussed them all this week, before turning our attention to the goings-on at Gamescom. This one is definitely a podcast about video games, folks.
CHAPTERS
00:00:10 Intro
00:00:47 Time for Baker Hacks
00:03:27 Can't spell fondant without Fon
00:04:58 Show rundown
00:06:02 Psychonauts 2 (Xbox, PS4, PC) Au...
In honor of my trip to the doctor on Monday we've got some professionals to sketch out this week. The Eggman himself and old Dr. Mario were the winners of this week's poll. This should be fun!
You can find the unlisted YouTube video embedded above or here if that's not working:
https://youtu.be/iJ7hfhd2XGc
As usual, this should also automatic...
2021-08-26 00:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post