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! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:09 Intro 00:00:36 The Education of Drivers 00:07:03 The early days of jumping into ra...
Sep 23, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 16
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! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:09 Intro 00:02:04 C...
Sep 16, 2021•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 15
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. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:01:20 The dangers of...
Sep 09, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Ep. 14
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! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:08 Intro 00:01:40 A tale about the dangers of doors 00:13:10 G...
Sep 02, 2021•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 13
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. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! 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:...
Aug 26, 2021•2 hr 43 min•Ep. 12
This week we spend more than 12 minutes talking about the fascinating adventure game Twelve Minutes, consider the necessity of eyebrows, check in on Axiom Verge 2 and Humankind, worry about Steve-O's middle-aged concussion, give the side-eye to Fortnite's very extremely Among Us-like new game mode, and wax poetic about Vinny and Jalad at Tanagra. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:09 Intro 00:00:41 I feel like Darmok-ing me. All of them....
Aug 19, 2021•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 11
With mere days till John Madden emerges from his slumber and the games truly begin, we dip into a few recent indie releases like Splitgate, Jupiter Hell, and Grime, discuss Vinny's brief INTERmission, talk about the exodus from indie darling Fullbright, run down all the games from Nintendo's Indie World Showcase, goggle at the Prisoners of the Ghostland trailer, ponder Nic Cage's dinosaur skull, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:...
Aug 12, 2021•2 hr 54 min•Ep. 10
This week, we try to distract ourselves from the arrival of Alex's new cat long enough to consider The Ascent, the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters, Horizon Forbidden West's potential delay, the great PS5 SSD calamity, our current GOTY lists, Outer Wilds DLC and other new Annapurna announcements, the latest updates from the Activision Blizzard situation, and a lot more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:00:55 Show Rundown 00:02...
Aug 05, 2021•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 9
This week we cover California's lawsuit against Blizzard for widespread discrimination and harassment, then move on to the Dead Space remake, Battlefield Portal, a spate of PS5 sales numbers, and hands-on time with Neo: The World Ends With You, Pokemon Unite, Old World, and the Xbox version of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:00:56 You know, Otto, from Beetlejuice 00:01:28 Nobody talks about A Fi...
Jul 29, 2021•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 8
Video games are still coming out, news is still breaking, and we're still here to discuss it all, including the Steam Deck and the portable-PC proposition, Death's Door, Skyward Sword HD, Ubisoft's Skull & Bones mess, Neill Blomkamp's upcoming video game career, Vinny's escape from FF7 Remake, video games in your Netflix app, and Tom Clancy... but with attitude. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:01:06 Human RESOURCES or ...
Jul 22, 2021•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 7
This week: we're very hot on Boomerang X, Vinny claws his way to the end of FF7 Remake, and we reflect on home meat delivery, the shaky future of the Judgment series, movies we should not have seen as children, the soaring prices of classic games, and the unlikely reappearance of Powdered Toast Man. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:57 Temple of Doom Talk 00:04:07 Keeping up with the Jones Movies 00:06:56 ANOTHER Indiana ...
Jul 15, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 6
Well, that new Switch model sure did get announced. It surrrrrre did. Assassin's Creed is going live-service, Dan Houser might make more video games, we're all giving Final Fantasy 7 Intergrade another shot, the xCloud beta seems pretty good, a three-wheeled car is a questionable purchase, and Vinny's running out of room for Transformers. All this and more, discussed within! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:36 Weather Re...
Jul 08, 2021•3 hr 38 min•Ep. 5
With the summer heat setting in, this week we're hunkering down and weighing in on Mario Golf: Super Rush, Scarlet Nexus, Lego Builder's Journey, Mortal Kombat: Fast and Furious, Alex's now-extensive river knowledge, a pair of Control sequels, Sony's Housemarque acquisition, Silent Hill fatigue, the rumored Ghost of Tsushima expansion, our personal dirty-dish thresholds, the current Hall and Oates frequency, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon !...
Jul 01, 2021•2 hr 22 min•Ep. 4
Our friend and #1 guest Mary Kish joins the podcast to talk about a crash course on the ins and outs of Twitch life, remembering how to socialize in 2021, eating peanuts dangerously on airplanes, the return of PAX West, Griftlands, Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance, Bear and Breakfast, the end of Ratchet and Clank, the curious tale of Hideo Kojima and Blue Box Games, chestbursting emotes, and more! CHAPTERS 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:10 Say hello to our guest! 0:04:21 How to Twitch 0:15:09 Travelling ...
Jun 24, 2021•2 hr•Ep. 3
The first fully virtual E3 has come and gone, so we spend most of this episode running down our favorite games and announcements, touching on Starfield, Breath of the Wild 2, Advance Wars, Stalker 2, WarioWare, Redfall, Replaced, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, Forza Horizon 5, Metroid Dread, Metal Slug Tactics, and more. Also, we played a bunch of Ratchet and Clank and Chicory. Also also, Alex saw F9! It's a podcast! About video games! Mostly! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm ...
Jun 17, 2021•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 2
Our first official episode coincides with the beginning of E3, and you know what that means: time to speculate! Are we getting a Starfield release date? Where the heck is Elden Ring? Is that bee in Vinny's basement going to stop this show before it starts? These questions and more, pondered! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 10, 2021•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 1
Who is Nextlander? What is Nextlander? Why is Nextlander? These questions and others you haven't even thought of yet are addressed in our very first episode of The Nextlander Podcast! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 07, 2021•29 min
