On this week’s episode, we talk about the stuff that interested us at Gamescom 2024. But first, we have a bunch of news to discuss since we didn’t get to do a podcast last week. Also, Black Myth Wukong is out and is selling well and getting good reviews. So we talk briefly about that too!

[News of the Week]

• Borderlands movie flops and gets very bad reviews

• Back from the dead: PUBG publisher acquires Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP

• The Plucky Squire gets a release date of September 17

• Dragon Age The Veilguard gets a release date - Oct. 31

• Dredge DLC - The Iron Rig releases

• Update for Vampire Survivors

• Nintendo Museum

• Black Myth: Wukong breaks single-player Steam record on day one with 2 million concurrent users

• • Sells 10 million copies across all platforms within the first week of release

• Concord flops

[Features]

• Gamescom

• • Indiana Jones coming to PlayStation 5

  • Mafia The Old Country

  • Civ 7 stuff

  • Borderlands 4

  • inZOI

  • New Avowed Game Play

  • The Stone of Madness

  • Infinity Nikki

  • Reanimal

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Steam world heist 2

• Black Myth Wukong

• Monster Hunter

This week we talk about recent releases: “Thank Goodness You’re Here” and “SteamWorld Heist 2.” We also talk about the latest gameplay reveal trailer for the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and speculate on what’s to come for No Man’s Sky.

[News of the Week]

• Follow up on Bungie conversation

• Follow up on game Informer stuff

• • A GI staffer logged in and tweeted a real goodbye from the staff and Game Stop nuked the Game Informer Twitter account

  • MinnMax releases GI office tour from March 2024

• Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom gameplay showcase - Traversing Hyrule

• Details emerge about Wolfeye’s new RPG

• New Doom Dark Ages details revealed at Quake-Con

• No Man’s Sky speculation

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Thank Goodness You’re Here

• SteamWorld Heist 2

• Apex Legends Season 22

• The IT Crowd

It’s been a rough week in the games industry and for games media. We have to talk about Game Informer being shut down. We also have to talk about Bungie laying off more than 200 employees and all the details that have come out about the company’s mismanagement and financial struggles. After that, we have a few smaller news items, and we talk briefly about some games we’ve been playing and some things we’ve been watching lately.

[News of the Week]

• Game Informer closes, all employees laid off

• Bungie Lays Off Over 200 Employees, Announces Plans For Deeper Integration With Sony

• PlayStation announces limited edition Astro Bot Dual Sense controller

• Crypt Custodian gets a release date - August 27

• New Apex Legends season launching August 6th

• Helldivers 2’s biggest update yet coming August 6

• Gothic Remake Announced

• The Eternal Life of Goldman

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• No Man’s Sky

• IT Crowd

• Taskmaster New Zealand

This week is light on news items, but we’ve been playing games, so we have things to talk about anyway. Zach has been obsessed with No Man’s Sky after the Worlds Part 1 update and the release of the 14th Expedition - The Liquidators. And Aaron has been playing a 2022 game that many had as a Game of The Year Contender - The Case of the Golden Idol.

[News of the Week]

• Like a Dragon: Yakuza trailer

• Fallout London Mod is released

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• The Case of the Golden Idol

• No Man’s Sky

• The First Descendant

This week we follow up on Concord with some additional impressions from the open beta. We get into an impromptu discussion about Empire of Silence, the first book in the Sun Eater series. And we talk about No Man’s Sky’s Worlds Update Part 1.

[News of the Week]

• No Man’s Sky’s Worlds Update Part 1

• Pirates of the Caribbean X Fortnite crossover - The Cursed Sails

• Paramount cancels Halo series

• Splitgate 2 announced

• Factorio space age arrives in October

• Overwatch 2 new hero

[What We’re Playing/Watching/Reading]

• Concord

• No Man’s Sky

• Jaws

• Empire of Silence

This week, we talk about the beta for PlayStation’s new exclusive 5v5 PVP shooter Concord. Then we give a rundown of the games we’re looking forward to in the second half of the year.

[News of the Week]

• Palword signs with Sony to expand IP

• Starfy trilogy releases on Nintendo Online

• Apex Legends controversy

[Games out this week]

• Concord beta

[Features]

• Second half of the year?

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Luigi’s Mansion 2

• Empire of Silence

• Concord

This week, we return to talk about some of the latest gaming news, including some recent previews for Sony’s new hero shooter Concord. We also talk about how we’ve both been reading the first book in the Sun Eater series, “Empire of Silence,” and we talk about how bad “Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire” is.

[News of the Week]

• Concord previews

• New Crazy Taxi Game

• Watch Dogs movie starts filming

• Switch 2 might be easier to buy

• SGDQ 2024 - runs to check out

• • Morrowind

  • Animal Well

  • System Shock Remake

  • Enter the Gungeon

  • Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB by Peanut Butter the Dog

• Baldur’s Gate 3 Deluxe Edition arrives

[What We’re Playing/Watching/Reading]

• Empire of Silence

• The Boy and the Heron

• Luigi’s Mansion 2

• Dragon’s Dogma 2

• Animal Crossing New Horizons

• Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire

Recorded on 6/23/24

Published on 6/24/24

Show Notes:

That’s a wrap on the summer game showcase season, so we do a brief post-mortem on it. We talk about the Dragon Age: The Veilguard gameplay reveal showcase and the Nintendo Direct, as well as a couple of game previews. Then we get into what we’ve been playing and watching lately, including Steam World Heist and Dragon’s Dogma 2!

[News of the Week]

• PlayStation Portal getting sign in support for public Wi-Fi

• Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal

• Nintendo direct

• Pipsqueak! Kickstarter Trailer

• Minecraft 1.21

• Plucky Squire previews

• The Alters demo

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• After Party Season 2

• Steam World Heist

• Dragon’s Dogma 2