Alright, it's finally here. Gaming's latest Event. We recorded this episode on the eve of Tears of the Kingdom's launch, and while Noah had played it a bit, Tori was still in pre-game hype mode. Join us as we feel mega hype like all of the other Nintendo Gamers are. THINGS MENTIONED: The Verge's Ash Parrish's review of Tears of the Kingdom . Polygon: Silk Song is officially delayed . Homestuck Made this World . Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery on itch.io . Our cool sou...
May 14, 2023•58 min•Ep. 70
Tori's out this week, so Nathaniel and Noah are catching up on news about unions, the media hellscape and more. Oh yeah, and Star Wars, as per usual. THINGS MENTIONED: From Polygon: Microsoft hits another snag in the Activision Blizzard acquisition . Polygon's follow-up on why it's interesting that cloud gaming, specifically, is the hang up . SEGA of America workers are unionizing (hell yeah). The New Yorker's profile of WGA writers and why they're striking . Kotaku's pos...
May 08, 2023•55 min•Ep. 69
Tori and Noah are joined this week by Pokemon (and other games, of course) fan extraordinaire Noella Williams. They're a writer whose work has been featured in Vox, Alt Press, PAPER, the Washington Post and more. She's also an assistant editor at Apartment Therapy, where she occasionally gets to write about games, especially cozy ones. We talk about our shared love for the Nintendo DS family of consoles, how adorable the Pokemon Shaymin is, seeing yourself in games and much more. You can...
May 01, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 68
Put your phone down, put on your headphones and consume some media that isn't mindless sludge designed to get you to watch clips of old TV shows on Tiktok. Stop the sludge, baby. Come for the video game news, stay for the very end for Noah's thoughts on the Taylor Swift Eras tour. THINGS MENTIONED: The Verge on Sega's strange decision to buy Rovio . Hey, remember that time the Edward Snowden leak revealed that Angry Birds was one of the apps the NSA was using to spy on people? Someon...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 67
Noah's gone this week so Tori and Nathaniel are brushing up on some of the hot new video game trailers out this week. Nathaniel finally gets his chance to review the Mario movie. THINGS MENTIONED The new Zelda trailer seen around the world . Final Fantasy 16's newest trailer . Fortune on the insane amount of money the Mario movie is making . Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produce...
Apr 19, 2023•42 min•Ep. 66
Well, we did it, folks. We paid real U.S. dollars to go see the Mario movie. We share our thoughts, some news from this past week as well as updates on the media we're consuming. THINGS MENTIONED: YouTuber Nando v Movies on what he thinks is missing from the Mario movie . Polygon on the supposed Persona 3 remake leak . Insider Gaming on the PlayStation portable leak . Eurogamer on Quantum Break's removal from the XBOX marketplace . (Read this with a deep sigh) Destructoid on the Street F...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 65
Tori and Noah are joined this week by Robin Bea and Willa Rowe, the hosts of Girl Mode , another great gaming news podcast. We talk everything from the current state of games media to how much we adore the great games that are only really sevens out of 10 at the end of the day. You can find Girl Mode wherever you listen to podcasts and on twitter and cohost . THING MENTIONED: Check out the TTRPG for Trans Rights in Florida bundle on itch.io !! Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST a...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 64
Noah comes back to the show with gaming news, and Tori is finally digging into a modern classic. Oh yeah and the new 100 gecs album is great. THINGS MENTIONED Polygon: Fortnite expands its creative mode in neat ways . Brendon Bigley's video about F-Zero GX . SMT 4chan leak . Mixed feelings in the world about Disco Elysium's new photo mode . Anime girl tax filing simulator . Gamestop is doing better? Fight, Magic Items by Aidan Moher. Patrick Klepek from Waypoint on Metroid Prime and its ...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 63
Pour one out for the 3DS eshop, which closes March 27, far too soon. Nathaniel and Tori lament its demise, talk about weird, messed up chicken sandwiches and talk about, you guessed it, Persona 5. Special thanks to Nathaniel Wilson for co-hosting this week's episode. You can find him on twitter @nathanbased . THINGS MENTIONED: An IGN article explaining the Diablo 4 KFC collab . Cooking Mama and the Mama-verse from YouTuber Dream Jelly . This wasn't mentioned on the show, but here's a...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 62
I think we talked about Korean food more than video games this week. THINGS MENTIONED: The Vice Munchies video about Army Base Stew . Maangchi on YouTube . Saniya Ahmed's funny tweet . Polygon on Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4's announcement . A Kotaku article about Adam Sessler, Tarks Gauntlet and G4's weirdly racist past since some of those original tweets are gone . A GameSpot article about the proposed names for the XBOX . Saniya Ahmed's column for Unwinnable . Our cool sounds and intro/...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 61
Editor, author and now game designer Alanna Okun returns to the show to talk about her journey from gamer to amateur game designer. We talk some game news, Alanna's game design process, her inspirations, and, of course, we discuss what we've been playing. You can find Alanna Okun on Twitter @alanna , on substack at buttonmash.substack.com and on itch.io at alannabean.itch.io . THINGS MENTIONED: YouTuber Skill-Up's Final Fantasy 16 interview with Naoki Yoshida . The Verge’s FF16 inter...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 60
Whoa! We're back! We took it slow on the news this week, but we both played some games and the podcast has a new Wife Guy incoming. THINGS MENTIONED: Good Vibes Gaming's video about the Tales of Symphonia remaster . Video Game Podtimism . IGN: Mortal Kombat 12 accidentally announced, coming this week . Gameranx swears that the classic Metal Gear Solid games are coming to Steam . Tears of the Kingdom art book did leak, but I can't find a good link to the pictures due to copyright stri...
Feb 27, 2023•59 min•Ep. 59
Come for the Nintendo Direct news, stay for our Harvest Moon hot takes. THINGS MENTIONED: Nintendo Life's video about Direct announcements that weren't in the Direct . This Kotaku article on Keke Palmer's Twitch escapades . Gamerant on the latest live service deaths, including Rumbleverse . Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @Press_...
Feb 13, 2023•54 min•Ep. 58
None of the big dogs want to play with E3 anymore, Nintendo Direct rumors continue to buzz and The Sims does an inclusivity this week. Plus, the latest on Tori and Noah's 3DS quest and more. THINGS MENTIONED: IGN's exclusive report about how E3 ain't looking so good this year . r/gamingleaksandrumours PapaGenos on YouTube . Polygon on Jedi: Survivor getting pushed back a month . Kotaku on Sports Story's secret complaint room . From Kotaku: Modders have reverse engineered The Legend o...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 57
Boy, it's been another killing week for games media. On the bright side, Nathaniel is back for a special report at the top of the episode to share his compelling tale of buying a new 2DS XL on Facebook Marketplace. We've also got some Disco Elysium talk (Noah beat it), discussion about the Forspoken Discourse and Tori's update on Mario & Rabbids. THINGS MENTIONED: Into the Aether . The Verge on Proletariat's decision to not vote for a union . The New York Times: Unions and Video Games ...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 56
Noah's out this week but Nathaniel and Tori are picking up the slack and covering the news and what they're playing. Is it the season of the 3DS? We sure think so. THINGS MENTIONED: The Verge on the slew of layoffs at Microsoft . IGN's breakdown of what's different about the various 3DS models . Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news together and Noah produces the show. You can follow the show on Twitter @P...
Jan 23, 2023•52 min•Ep. 55
Whoa! Lots of video game news! Ubisoft's on the rocks, the QA workers who made Skyrim are organizing and lots more. Plus Tori's playing a J-pop game and Noah's playing Disco Elysium, which is decidedly not a J-pop game. THINGS MENTIONED: QA workers at ZeniMax Media organized from TechCrunch . Rumor has it that a Tears of the Kingdom OLED Switch is on its way . TheGamer asks whether the Breath of the Wild sequel will be the last major Switch game . This great tweet about Final Fantasy from ...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 54
It's a whole new year we live in, so Tori and Noah have some harebrained predictions for 2023. Also, we're going over last year's ill-informed predictions, what games we're looking forward to in the new year and, as always, the stuff we're playing. Special thanks to HeyKipp for sharing their favorite games of 2022 with us. You can find more of their stuff at twitch.tv/HeyKipp and twitter.com/heykipp . THINGS MENTIONED: The Axe of the Blood God podcast . The Triple Click p...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 53
It's that time of the year again; the end, that is. Join Tori, Noah and Nathaniel as we share everything we enjoyed in 2022. THINGS MENTIONED: The AGAB podcast's GOTY episode . Ciao Papa from Guillermo del Toro's Pinnochio . Special shout out to our guests from this year who jumped in to share their GOTYS. Emily Price . The COMMNTD podcast . Rae Paoletta . HeyKipp . Our cool sounds and intro/outro music are by GEIST and our show art is by Kai at Wisp Graphics. We curate your gaming news to...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 52
Nowadays, all you see is violence in video games and sex in ... video games. That's why Nathaniel and Noah are here to share some video game news about the Mario theme park in California and all of the holiday events in live service games. Nothing says holidays like Fortnite :) THINGS MENTIONED: USA Today on the Mario theme park article . Mario Kart 7 update from Nintendo Life . Gematsu on We Love Katamari ReRoll . Final Fantasy 1-6 pixel remasters rated on Switch, which have be...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 21 min
We've got a full slate of hosts this week to recap the Game Awards and dive into some news from the past week or so. There's a janky ultimate frisbee video game, there's more games unions and the Game Awards sure did happen. Special thanks to Nathaniel for joining us. THINGS MENTIONED: This article from The Verge about the FTC suing to prevent Microsoft’s purchase of Actiblizz . This article from PC Gamer about unionization efforts at Bethesda . Polygon’s pro-union zine ....
Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 50
It's just us this week, but there's some Hot video game news to cover, and we both finished Tunic! That plus we talk about some incredibly bad movies we used to watch as teenagers and how Star Wars is good (OK, that one's not really that outside the realm of normal stuff we talk about...). And for the final time, here's the link to sign up for our Video Game Gift Exchange: https://forms.gle/bDHidTovY6YDiJtX8 THINGS MENTIONED: Yuji Nika arrested for insider trading in Gematsu . New Ma...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 50
Holy crossover Batman! We took a digital trip this week to visit our friends AJ and Kim at the show Asynchronous for their end-of-the-year wrap up series, Synchronous. We had a great time and we figured we'd drop this show in the Press START feed. In the meantime, go listen to Asynchronous, a video game catch up show. Below is the original episode description from the folks over at Asynch with the episode chapter markers! Happy listening! // On this show we love talking about only video ga...
Dec 01, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 49
This episode goes a lot of places. From Tori's religious trauma to Noah's fascination with/review of Shenmue on the Dreamcast, we've got it all. THINGS MENTIONED: Game Awards nominees for this year . Sonic Frontiers Digital Foundry review . I am Jesus Christ from EW and from Vice . Maggie Mae Fish on the movie Fireproof . Matt Horton Tunic . This post about Tunic on Cohost . Noah’s cohost chost about Shenmue . The Girl Mode podcast. Willa Rowe on Persona 3's ending for Inverse . And ...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 48
Twitter's turning to absolute shit, but you know what isn't? That's right, baby. It's video games. Tori beat one of the routes of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Noah caught up on Doctor Who, and, as always, there's lots more to discuss. THINGS MENTIONED: The first official Press START video game gift exchange. Click on this hyperlink to get to the Google form. If you have questions, email us. Nibellion is leaving Twitter. This Nintendo Life article about SEGA's "super game." The Weekly Planet podcas...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 47
We're joined this week by Waypoint writer, producer and host Renata Price to talk about the hellscape that is modern games media, what got her into video games to begin with and much, much more. Spoiler warning for pretty much every Shin Megami Tensei video game once we start talking about them. You can find more of Renata at: Twitter.com/RenOrRaven. Twitch.tv/renorraven. And every week on Waypoint Radio. Special thanks to the band Winkler for the use of the track Mona in this week's episode. Yo...
Oct 31, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 46
Whoa! Final Fantasy IV's got real estate problems, Bayonetta's got voice acting problems and Silent Hill hasn't got any problems, at least not yet. We're also playing some cool stuff: Noah's playing a mobil game and Tori's reading a bunch of books, which is sort of like playing video games. THINGS MENTIONED: This article on Inverse about some fans' misgivings about a Silent Hill 2 remake . Video Game Podtimism's Silent Hill 2 episode . This Bloomberg article about solving Final Fantasy XIV...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 45
Tori's back and she played a whole bunch of Fire Emblem and we've gotta talk about it! We're also making fun of the Metaverse (as per usual) and talking about the newly unearthed Kingdom Hearts TV show pilot from 20 years ago. THINGS MENTIONED: This article on Futurism about Decentraland, a failing Metaverse project . This Kotaku article about Facebook’s Metaverse . This tweet from Meta about how legs are coming . This Inverse article about the Kingdom Hearts pilot . The link directly to the Kin...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Chris Pratt's Mario voice is lame, but there's other gaming news to talk about this week, too. Nathaniel's playing some cool games, Noah's playing Overwatch. There's lots to discuss. THINGS MENTIONED: GamesIndustry.biz on Fandom acquiring a ton of games websites . This Washington Post article about the latest in the Activision Blizzard anti-union saga . This Kotaku article about a Bush-era torture apologist working at Activision Blizzard . Flight Reacts to the Dream face reveal . This Poly...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 43
With Tori off tending to wedding stuff (and a hurricane) we couldn't let the podcast go unhosted, so friend of the show Nathaniel Wilson jumps into the co-host seat and talks about the games he loves, the "Metaverse" and Star Wars. THINGS MENTIONED: This story from Kotaku about Walmart's weird new venture into Roblox . This Reddit thread about how a semi-credible leaker says Disney wants more Star Wars games . This YouTube video from TripleJump ranking every Star Wars video game . This video fro...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 42
