152: THEY'RE TAKING YOUR FUDDRUCKERS
With SGF approaching and the console wars heating up, this week we consider Sony's newly announced State of Play, Xbox's decision to put Call of Duty on Game Pass, and Atari's ruthless takeover of Intellivision, plus we catch up on all the recent games with more on Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, (the end of) Hellblade II, Animal Well, Hades II, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https...
2hr 6m May 30, 2024
2hr 6m
151: Cool Puzzle Wonderland
Head to https://www.squarespace.com/NEXTLANDER to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NEXTLANDER. This week we all dig into Hellblade II, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes impresses mightily, we ponder the state of both games media and arcade "cabinets," cat ownership is debated in its many aspects, Big Rigs gets a shocking amount of airtime, and a bunch of other stuff!...
2hr 3m May 23, 2024
2hr 3m
150: Indie-cent Proposal
A ton of interesting indies hit last week, and we picked Animal Well, Cryptmaster, and Crow Country to dig into this week. Also in the news, PlayStation's new leader(s) announced, a multiplatform future for Square Enix, our initial thoughts on Assassin's Creed Shadows, and a new Doom next month?! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast...
2hr 11m May 16, 2024
2hr 11m
149: Stylish Nun Action
It's been a week in the games industry with both Xbox's closures of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks and the Helldivers 2 account backlash, and we dig into the whole mess. On the upside, Hades 2 came out! Nintendo said the words "Switch successor!" We played Indika, Minishoot' Adventures, and the Balatro update! Podcast! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116...
2hr 16m May 09, 2024
2hr 16m
148: No Mall Katanas
We're thrilled to be joined by Remap Radio's Rob Zacny this week to talk about everything from Shogun: Total War to Qui-Gon Jinn's Force balls, Manor Lords, Another Crab's Treasure, the post-Embracer troika, strategies for truly unplugging, and plenty of other stuff! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audiob...
2hr 25m May 02, 2024
2hr 25m
Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 004: Snakes, Sneaks, and Stew Leonards
Head to https://www.squarespace.com/NEXTLANDER to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NEXTLANDER. We're taking a week off of the regular podcast, so in its place we offer an episode of our monthly reunion show, in which Dan Ryckert and Jeff Bakalar join us to talk about snakes in the basement, Stew Leonards, and cotton candy versus popcorn! Advertise on The Next...
1hr 23m Apr 25, 2024
1hr 23m
147: Ah, Yes, He Is Internet Boy?
Let's talk about such games this week as Harold Halibut, Life Eater (eater of life!), and Laysara: Summit Kingdom, plus news and sundries like the games of the Triple-I initiative, what "PS5 Pro Enhanced" is going to mean, $90,000 copies of Castlevania, awkward dining experiences in Japan, and plenty more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextland...
2hr 29m Apr 18, 2024
2hr 29m
146: I'm a Fan of Clothespins!
Head to https://www.squarespace.com/NEXTLANDER to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NEXTLANDER. This week we all bend bullets in Children of the Sun, Vinny parties at the Gold Saucer, Brad digs deep into the childhood archive, and we enjoy our new post-eclipse mutations. EA reassigns Motive to Battlefield (and kiboshes a Dead Space 2 remake?), Gears 6 appear to...
2hr 6m Apr 11, 2024
2hr 6m
145: The Game That Clips Well, Ships Well
This week we all dig (lol) into the indie drilling platformer Pepper Grinder, continue catching up with FF7 Rebirth and LAD: Infinite Wealth, and do battle with American air travel. Also: Embracer and Sega divest of Gearbox and Relic (respectively), a disc-less Xbox Series X is sighted in the wild, we think seriously about Krull and Willow and Ladyhawke, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander P...
1hr 59m Apr 04, 2024
1hr 59m
144: You Sparkled My Darkle!
Viiiiideo games on the show this week include Dragon's Dogma II, Princess Peach: Showtime, Open Roads, and the Stellar Blade demo, plus we talk about Phil Spencer's comments on an Xbox handheld and third-party stores on the Xbox, Larian moving on from D&D, a possible open-world Resident Evil, busting open your Switch, our dream game show appearances, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podca...
2hr 21m Mar 28, 2024
2hr 21m
143: Jean-Luc Godard's Dragon's Dogma II
We get our pawn on in Dragon's Dogma II this week and check out the new Outcast, even as we dutifully continue plowing through FF7 Rebirth and LAD: Infinite Wealth, plus we cover the latest on PlayStation 5 Pro, the state of PSVR 2, the new Marvel 1943 from Amy Hennig and team, international standards of measurement, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels...
2hr 21m Mar 21, 2024
2hr 21m
142: Private First Class Lance Bean
We're awash in new games this week, with Mars After Midnight, Contra: Operation Galuga, WWE 2K24, and more joining old favs like FF7 Rebirth. Also: the tragic loss of Akira Toriyama, the harassment campaign around Sweet Baby Inc., the mystery of the flying space bugs, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (htt...
1hr 50m Mar 14, 2024
1hr 50m
141: Whip Out Your CHAD Device
Games! FF7 Rebirth, Skull & Bones, Helskate, Balatro, Helldivers and more. News! The Nintendo/Yuzu settlement, Respawn's Star Wars cancellation, the Halo composer's congressional run, and a hypothetical Chrono Trigger remake (??). Also fleas! And humidity! It's a podcast! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://a...
2hr 14m Mar 07, 2024
2hr 14m
140: Black Mold From Space
Brad has played an astonishing amount of Final Fantasy this week, and it's time to talk for like an hour about Remake, Rebirth, Crisis Core, and a bunch of other stuff. Plus: updates on Pacific Drive, Balatro, Infinite Wealth's Animal Crossing thing, PlayStation layoffs and the closure of London Studio, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-n...
2hr 20m Feb 29, 2024
2hr 20m
139: No Law at the Port Authority
This week we discuss at great length: our strategically tactically strategic Helldivers play, like four different versions of Final Fantasy VII, the full release of Balatro, Enshrouded, the newest details on multiplatform Xbox games (and maybe a new Xbox?!), the rules and requirements for eating a whole pizza, and a bunch more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channel...
2hr 37m Feb 22, 2024
2hr 37m
138: Booing the Boo-er
Helldivers 2 is so good that it was tough not to stop this podcast and go play more of it, but we also managed to talk about demos for FF7 Rebirth and some Steam Next Fest fare like Balatro and Normal Fishing, Disney's $1.5 billion deal with Epic, the future of both PlayStation and Xbox, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcas...
2hr 18m Feb 15, 2024
2hr 18m
137: Phil Spencer Did Not See His Shadow
Microsoft might (might!) go multiplatform, Death Stranding 2 looks relatively bananas, Kojima is making a new espionage action game (!), Suicide Squad finally came out and isn't all bad, and all of it is discussed right here on this week's podcast. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audioboom.com/advertisers...
2hr 29m Feb 08, 2024
2hr 29m
136: Secret Swifties
Will Smith (of game development and Fortnite-streaming fame) joins us this week to unpack the mass Xbox/Activision/Blizzard layoffs and the general state of the games business, plus Tekken 8, more with Prince of Persia and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the secret language of grade schoolers, Taylor Swift's nation-state status, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom....
2hr 47m Feb 01, 2024
2hr 47m
135: He Who Smelted It
This week, the early hours of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, deeper into POP: The Lost Crown, plus Home Safety Hotline, all the goings on with Palworld, our thoughts on Xbox games like Indiana Jones and Avowed, replacing your anode rod, and plenty more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audioboom.com/adver...
2hr 32m Jan 25, 2024
2hr 32m
134: No Stars Upon Rs
They mixed some Metroid into the new Prince of Persia and it turns out we're all quite down with that. Plus: Brad digs into the new Last of Us Part II rogue-like mode, Rockstar and Remedy in a logo dust-up, Harmonix is finally ceasing Rock Band 4 DLC, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audioboom.co...
2hr 4m Jan 18, 2024
2hr 4m
133: The Other Dr. Dré
In this second week of 2024: The Finals, Among Us in Vampire Survivors, more Sea of Stars, Xbox maybe going multiplatform, layoffs at Twitch and Unity, another excuse to say "Switch 2," wrestlers acting badly, Twin Peaks merch we didn't know we wanted, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audioboom.c...
1hr 54m Jan 11, 2024
1hr 54m
132: Finding a Pea While Eating Poop
We've got plenty to catch up on in our first podcast of 2024 (not a real year), from holiday gaming with small children to basement cleaning strategies, some Game Awards highlights, the wild world of competitive NES Tetris, predictions for the Internet of 2034, and a bunch more! A great explainer about the Tetris story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU Brendan Sinclair's 2023 round...
2hr 14m Jan 04, 2024
2hr 14m
131: Game of the Year 2023, Part 2
It's our last podcast of 2023, and thus our last chance to celebrate many of our favs with some chill 'n friendly debate about categories like best storytelling, best remake, and most anticipated, plus our highly personalized list of top 10 games of the year! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audioboom.com/...
4hr 15m Dec 28, 2023
4hr 15m
130: Game of the Year 2023, Part 1
Can it be? Have we (almost) reached the end of this year? Is it finally time to talk about some of our favorite 2023 games, including the best looking game, the coolest gameplay hooks, the best game to play with friends, and the best FMV or point-and-click games to play if you want to be a cool person? Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-p...
2hr 57m Dec 21, 2023
2hr 57m
129: Suddenly, Klepek
With Brad and Alex unexpectedly out Patrick Klepek answers the call to chat about Fortnite and the kids, the end of E3, and The Game Awards! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audioboom.com/advertisers) , or support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/nextlander) ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecode...
1hr 34m Dec 14, 2023
1hr 34m
128: Hardcore Matinee
Well, now we definitely officially know what Grand Theft Auto VI looks like, so we dig into that trailer this week, as well as Harmonix's proper Fortnite debut, the early hours of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, earnings trouble at Bungie, and other stuff! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audioboom.com/adver...
2hr 5m Dec 07, 2023
2hr 5m
127: The Doom Runs
It's almost December, so it's time to take stock of the games we're currently catching up on, as well as the ones on our backlogs (with a break to talk about Steamworld Build), plus news of the day like details on Rockstar's long cancelled Agent, Game Awards announcement predictions, Unity's closure of Weta Digital, and some other stuff! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.c...
2hr 15m Nov 30, 2023
2hr 15m
126: Prove Your Stifmeister
As we roll into the Thanksgiving holiday, we dish up some piping hot discussion about our very timely experiences with Cyberpunk 2077, "beating" Vampire Survivors, 25 years of Half-Life (and other greatest hits of 1998), a questionable second Flashback, the long and storied American Pie franchise, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlan...
1hr 42m Nov 23, 2023
1hr 42m
125: Activate Your Dog
The year's end looms, so it's time to look over the Game Awards nominees, then gaze longingly at the OLED Steam Deck, then catch up on games like Thirsty Suitors, more Alan Wake II, and Risk of Rain Returns, then discuss a young man's first platinum, then more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audioboom.co...
2hr 1m Nov 16, 2023
2hr 1m
124: Serious Sam's Existential Crisis
This podcast contains discussion of topics such as: the new Like a Dragon Gaiden, The Invincible, Jusant, The Talos Principle II, Grand Theft Auto 6, Mass Effect 5, the live-action Zelda movie, and fish. A lot of fish. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://audioboom.com/advertisers) , or support us on Patreon (...
2hr 28m Nov 09, 2023
2hr 28m
123: Thumpin' and Rumpin'
We're pretty busy having our minds blown by Alan Wake II this week, but we also find time for a mini-Spider-spoilercast, news like the layoffs at Bungie, Atari's purchase of Digital Eclipse, updates on Remedy's other projects, Xbox's lockout of third-party accessories, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (ht...
2hr 8m Nov 02, 2023
2hr 8m
122: Pull That Frown Further Down!
On the show this week, we dig into the fifth? sixth? Super Mario Bros. game (y'know, Wonder), discuss the later parts of Spider-Man 2, cover news like the Animal Crossing-ish island builder in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and the first look at the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, think of ways to make video game consoles worse, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/c...
2hr 1m Oct 26, 2023
2hr 1m
121: Mahden Mahvel
Spider-Man 2 is here, and hey, it's extremely good! That's pretty much all we played this week, but also the Microsoft/Activision deal closed (and Bobby Kotick is on the way out), the other shoe has dropped for Bandcamp as it leaves Epic, one whole Wii U sold in September, we're awash in skincare tips, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-ne...
2hr 32m Oct 19, 2023
2hr 32m
120: Mark N. Execute
This week we ended up doing an impromptu dive into the past/present/future of Assassin's Creed in the wake of Mirage's release, talked (?) at length (??) about a new Robocop game (???), dabbled with Payday 3, considered the new PS5 design's place in the pantheon of PlayStations, pondered an AI Guitar hero and Disney's Electronic Arts, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audi...
2hr 23m Oct 12, 2023
2hr 23m
119: The Drivatar Classic
We're in it now, with games releasing fast and furious, and this week we get wrapped up in Cocoon, hit the track in the new Forza Motorsport, and head to Baghdad in Assassin's Creed Mirage. Also: Jim Ryan's Sony exit, mass layoffs at Epic, the end of 3DS and Wii U online, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom ...
1hr 58m Oct 05, 2023
1hr 58m
118: Jatz Hands
This week we've all finished Mortal Kombat 1 and it's time for a mini-spoilercast! Also, Brad played the impressive looking Alan Wake 2, Alex played the Remedy-esque El Paso, Elsewhere, Vinny's way into Chants of Sennaar, Unity has (kind of) cleaned up its mess, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://audioboom.com/channels/5116059-the-nextlander-podcast) at Audioboom (https://a...
2hr 12m Sep 28, 2023
2hr 12m
117: Sausalito Sunburn
Well, you know, probably not much happened while we were away, it'll just be a nice casual chat this week about the biggest leak of Xbox business operations maybe ever, Unity's ongoing destruction of its business model, a deep lore dive on the release of Mortal Kombat 1, the excellence of F-Zero 99, and maybe some other stuff?? Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-...
2hr 45m Sep 21, 2023
2hr 45m
Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 003: Like a Sippy Cup?
We're taking a pause on the regular show this week to bring you another banger from the Patreon archive, in which Abby Russell and Austin Walker join us to talk about pottery, Legally Blonde, and scrambled porn. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-nextlander-podcast/618eb4d45b7203d648c7f195) at Gumball.fm (https://gumball.fm) , or support us on Patreon (https://ww...
1hr 15m Sep 14, 2023
1hr 15m
116: Needs to Be Played
This here is a podcast about our further adventures in Starfield, Trine the Fifth, Shadow Gambit, the abrupt closure of Volition, the looming SAG-AFTRA video game industry strike, Charles Martinet's uncertain ambassadorship, and a bunch of other stuff. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-nextlander-podcast/618eb4d45b7203d648c7f195) at Gumball.fm (https://gumball.f...
1hr 58m Sep 07, 2023
1hr 58m
115: Oxygen Is the New Stamina
Yep, this is the one where we talk about Starfield for like 90 minutes. It's a pretty big game! The Making of Karateka is also just great, Armored Core VI has inspired some mech fever, PlayStation Plus is getting a big price increase, Baldur's Gate 3 isn't getting splitscreen on the series S, and more. Podcast! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-nextlander-podcas...
2hr 31m Aug 31, 2023
2hr 31m
114: Mario Emeritus
Games! Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Like a Dragon Gaiden, Persona 5 Tactica and the Persona 3 remake, the new Madden, Fort Solis, and more. News! The Xbox 360 Marketplace closure, remakes of 7th Guest, Star Wars: Dark Forces, and ray-traced Half-Life 2, the PlayStation Portal, and Charles Martinet's retirement. That's a lot of podcast! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-...
2hr 15m Aug 24, 2023
2hr 15m
113: User Reported for Gamerpic
This week, somehow we're all spending a lot of time with 2023's hottest game, Vampire Survivors (except together this time!?), Baldur's Gate 3 with friends is a high old time, the identity of the $2 billion Embracer partnership has been revealed, Bungie names a new Zavala, and plenty of other stuff! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-nextlander-podcast/618eb4d45b...
2hr 7m Aug 17, 2023
2hr 7m
112: Top-Ten Skeleton
It was hard to resist the dark urge to keep playing Baldur's Gate 3 long enough to go on this podcast and talk about Baldur's Gate 3, but we pulled it off, plus WrestleQuest, a long-overdue Red Dead Redemption rerelease, Final Fantasy XVI sales numbers, EVO impressions and a Killer Instinct blast from the past, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-nextlan...
2hr 8m Aug 10, 2023
2hr 8m
111: The Jedi Experience
Author Jordan Minor joins us this week to talk about charting the last 45 years of video game history in his new book Video Game of the Year, plus a bunch of other stuff including Disney Illusion Island, Venba, Telltale's new Expanse game, the case of the missing Transformers games, and finally (finally!!) some concrete details about the next Nintendo console. Advertise on The Nextlander Podca...
2hr 7m Aug 03, 2023
2hr 7m
110: Family-Appropriate Innuendo
It's a new podcast! about video games! and those video games include! Remnant II, Pikmin 4, The Banished Vault, Oxenfree 2, and Viewfinder, plus the news! about Tencent buying most of Techland, Ubisoft cancelling the Immortals sequel, and, uh, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart running on a Steam Deck? Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-nextlander-podcast/618eb4d45b7203...
1hr 59m Jul 27, 2023
1hr 59m
109: Some Definition of "Some"
You could just go play Viewfinder right now instead of listening to us tell you to go play Viewfinder... but you could also listen on for chatter about Exoprimal, Oxenfree 2, new Switch hunger, Blizzard putting their damn games on Steam, the end (?) of "Xbox Live," and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-nextlander-podcast/618eb4d45b7203d648c7f195) at Gumbal...
1hr 45m Jul 20, 2023
1hr 45m
108: WHAT'S ON THE TAPES??
Friend of the show Danny O'Dwyer joins us this week to talk about Noclip's new archival video project, the tricky nature of publishing old footage, and a bunch of other production reminiscing. Also, the budget F.E.A.R. action of Trepang2, Microsoft's victory over the FTC, Digital Eclipse's new interactive documentary, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-...
2hr 42m Jul 13, 2023
2hr 42m
Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 002: Balls Deep in the Space Elevator
We're out on break this week, so in lieu of our normal weekly show, we're back with another very special bonus episode, the original description of which was: We're joined by Abby Russell and Jeff Bakalar to talk all sorts of vehicles, space elevators, and the current status of Moonstruck. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-nextlander-podcast/618eb4d45b7203d648c7...
1hr 26m Jul 05, 2023
1hr 26m
107: Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch
The All-Elite Wrestling game is finally out and Alex has spent a bunch of time with it, Sludge Life 2 has oozed onto the scene, we're still playing Diablo and Final Fantasy, a ton of juicy details have emerged from the Microsoft/Activision FTC hearings, and Nintendo has pledged the unthinkable: carrying your online account over to their next console. Sounds like a video game podcast to me! Adv...
1hr 37m Jun 29, 2023
1hr 37m
106: There Were Fire Flowers Talking!
There's a new Final Fantasy out! They're making a new 2D Super Mario Bros.! Super Mario RPG is getting a remake! Someone cranked up the WarioWare machine again! Things are happening! Video games are happening! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast (https://gumball.fm/shows/the-nextlander-podcast/618eb4d45b7203d648c7f195) at Gumball.fm (https://gumball.fm) , or support us on Patreon (https://www....
1hr 50m Jun 22, 2023
1hr 50m