After dealing with an increasingly faulty monitor, I’ve replaced it! Let’s talk about the power of 360hz displays. Also: If the AI bubble pops, what will that mean for graphics cards? In the news: Bungie layoffs, the abrupt Game Informer shutdown, Peter Moore is doin’ fine, and another round of Half-Life rumor madness is upon us! Also: Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop for 3DS??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 06, 2024•3 hr•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast Jeff accidentally becomes one of those weird leverless controller zealots. Also: Kunitsu-gami: Path of the Goddess, the actors strike comes to video games, World of Warcraft becomes a union shop, skill-based matchmaking is (still) the way and the light, the future of Twitch, PSVR2 gets a price cut ahead of its PC debut, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 30, 2024•3 hr 10 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast Let’s talk about the dark and wonderful world of Clickolding. Oh, also the darker and also wonderful world of Warframe, NES World Championships, and the new release of SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom. In the news, someone at Capcom says “SNK” out loud, digital games dominate sales, the FTC talks mess about these Game Pass changes, Halo (the TV show) gets canned, and NetherRealm lays off its mobile team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 23, 2024•3 hr 6 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast Xbox raises prices and shuffles up their subscription offering in a crummy way while saying it’ll lead to a better service in the future. Also: thoughts on the Concord beta, the future of Driver, PlayStation’s list for ChinaJoy, WWE Superstars in Call of Duty, and more Banjo-Kazooie talk than you get most weeks. Subscribe now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 16, 2024•3 hr 13 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast If Nexon’s latest free-to-play shooter sticks around for a year or more, maybe I’ll remember the name of it. Maybe not. Let’s cover that, Zenless Zone Zero, A PS2 Game Called Rolling, as well as the news! PlayStation at TGS! The next Like A Dragon game will… surprise us? All that and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 09, 2024•3 hr 2 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast Capcom makes more zombie games, Nintendo intends to make more Switch 2s, and Xbox wants to make more cloud users. More Crazy Taxi reboot details! Also a discussion of Street Uni X, NeoSprint, Cosmic Smash VRS, FragPunk, that WCW documentary that Vice just ran, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 02, 2024•3 hr 9 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast Will anyone ever get to the bottom of this whole Banana thing? Jeff has been staring at it for awhile and has some further (final?) thoughts. Also: Atari 50 gets more games, Gamescom plans revealed, Matt Booty talks Tango, Dr. Disrespect says “no crimes were committed,” and we get to that Dipset email that was mentioned last week. Real rollercoaster of a show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 25, 2024•3 hr 3 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast Nintendo’s DIrect is over with, let’s pick up the pieces and discuss Metroid Prime 4, the new Legend Zelda Starring Zelda game, Capcom’s new Marvel collection, Starfield’s paid mods, the future of Fallout, and, via your emails, a long discussion of esports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 18, 2024•3 hr 37 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast The week-ish of new game news has come to an end. Let’s talk about everything that surfaced at the big press conferences, from Black Ops 6 to Perfect Dark, Gears of War: E-DAY to Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and more! Also: time spent with Bodycam, Destiny 2, Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, and more. Get ad-free episodes on Patreon! https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 11, 2024•3 hr 44 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast Let’s talk about Concord, Astro Bot, and the other stuff shown last week at PlayStation’s State of Play. Also: a preview of what to expect from Friday’s Summer Game Fest event, the Xbox showcase, and more. Let’s also cover some games, like Selaco, Arctic Eggs, and MultiVersus! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 04, 2024•3 hr 39 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast Arthur Gies from Wirecutter joins as we discuss this year’s Summer Game Fest, the Xbox Showcase, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, The Rogue Prince of Persia, the future of the non-Intellivision Amico, a supposed Doom prequel, the future of FIFA video games, the state of games media, and way, way more. Find Arthur online at https://twitch.tv/aegies today! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. V...
May 28, 2024•3 hr 46 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast Let’s talk all about Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, which is out now. Also: Diablo IV’s loot overhaul, Mullet Madjack, RetroArch on iOS, Ghost of Tsushima on PC, Sakurai’s Saga: Fast Start Times, Microsoft’s AI laptop ambitions and what that might mean for the future of Xbox, and a game that isn’t NBA Jam… but it sure looks like it wants to be NBA Jam. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. ...
May 21, 2024•3 hr 14 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast PlayStation gets not one but two CEOs! Square Enix forms a three-year plan! Animal Well! Xbox looks a little lost out there! Also: I must’ve entered some kind of fugue state and before I knew what was going on I had reinstalled Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint and played like seven hours of it? Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 14, 2024•3 hr 57 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast Hades II is out in Early Access, let’s talk about it! Also: Xbox shuts down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and more? The Helldivers 2 PSN fiasco gets recapped, XDefiant gets a launch date, and your emails! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 07, 2024•3 hr 49 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast We talk about hitting 33333333333 in Tekken 8, as well as Stellar Blade’s frustrating animation stuff, the absolute joy of playing Minishoot’ Adventures, and Xbox’s upcoming summer showcase event with Call of Duty, Gears of War, and more. Also Square’s out there canceling more games? I’ll also take your emails! And read them! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...
Apr 30, 2024•3 hr 35 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Embracer splits into three separate companies! Hades II Technical Test Talk Today! Horizon OS (no, not that one, the other one)! LittleBigPlanet pulls the plug! Dynowarz: Destuction of Sponylous on your iPhone? El Paso Elsewhere on the silver screen???? A wild week awaits you on this week’s installment of The Jeff Gerstmann Show! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...
Apr 23, 2024•3 hr 57 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast Keanu lands the role of a lifetime! Meanwhile Lawbreakers is back? Nintendo makes an enemy out of my daughter, Fallout 4 gets fixed after all these years, and a man gets arrested for hacking Pokemon games. Also: Clicker Arena isn’t enough of a clicker to be called a clicker and people are unhappy about it! Cheech & Chong Watch 2024 continues on this week’s installment of The Jeff Gerstmann Show Hosted By Jeff Gerstmann! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show...
Apr 16, 2024•3 hr 58 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast The 3DS and Wii U servers have been pulled offline for good, but Cheech & Chong are coming to Call of Duty, so everything is going to be juuuuust fiiiiiine. Also: the next Battlefield game gets more developers, Microsoft planning for more backwards compatibility, Roblox probably planning to media train more of its executives, and more of the week in video game news! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about ...
Apr 09, 2024•3 hr 55 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast Embracer sells Gearbox to Take-Two and says it’s done with its restructuring… does that mean they’re going to start buying stuff all over again? Also: Eddy Gordo hits Tekken 8, Guild Wars 3 officially confirmed, Jim Ryan retires, and a lot of talk about where all of this stuff is heading over the next few years. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 02, 2024•3 hr 57 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast The Atari 400 Mini is out this week and I’ve been messing around with it a bit, so let’s talk about the golden era of Atari’s 8-bit home computer products. Also: Are third-party publishers looking to ditch Xbox? How about a little Dragon’s Dogma 2 talk? Oh, and some Horizon Forbidden West since that’s out on PC now, along with a new Call of Duty release for phones. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about y...
Mar 26, 2024•3 hr 6 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast Let’s talk about the recently released Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story! Also these leaked PlayStation 5 Pro specs are apparently the real deal. Also: Sony Supposedly Pauses PSVR2 Production, Saber splits, South Korea notices a devkit, Denuvo: still bad, and more on this week’s installment of The Jeff Gerstmann Show! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice...
Mar 19, 2024•3 hr 59 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast Jeff sinks into Sixty Four’s world of big black cubes. Also, new Contra! MultiVersus makes its re-entry as Warner attempts to delist a bunch of other games! The future of consoles according to Peter Moore and Shawn Layden! EA’s flimsy-sounding plans for AI! And more! Get the show ad-free at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...
Mar 12, 2024•3 hr 3 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast Here’s the final analysis of the new GameScent device and its various smells. Also: Balatro, WWE2K24, EA’s latest round of layoffs, studios going indie, and Nintendo’s Yuzu lawsuit. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 05, 2024•3 hr 57 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast It’s time to dig deep into the Sir Mix-A-Lot catalog, but first we’ll get into some Skull & Bones, a little Last Epoch, the PlayStation layoffs, Ninja Five-0, those Xbox games coming to Switch and PS5, and more. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 27, 2024•3 hr•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast This week there are a ton of games to talk about, like Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, Helskate, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, and Mario vs. Donkey Kong. Let’s also talk about the far-flung future and the next-generation of consoles, from the latest PS5 Pro talk to whatever the heck Xbox is going to do next. Don’t wait for the Helldivers 2 servers to be up to listen to this one, you might never make it! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patre...
Feb 20, 2024•3 hr•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast The Xbox business update gets scheduled for later this week, so let’s talk about the few new developments in that whole thing that have happened over the last week. We’ll also cover the latest Switch 2 reports about backwards compatibility and custom hardware, Disney’s Fortnite-fueled metaverse, Helldivers 2, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and… at the end Jeff gets mad about Minecraft. Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Le...
Feb 13, 2024•3 hr 54 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast It’s starting to look a lot like Xbox games are going to appear on PlayStation and Switch. Let’s walk through what we do know, what we don’t know, and what we think we might know as we sit at the edge of next week’s Xbox “business update.” Also: Death Stranding 2, Kojima returns to action-espionage even if it isn’t Metal Gear Solid, new guitars, and more! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad cho...
Feb 06, 2024•3 hr 4 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast Tekken 8 is out, let’s talk about it! Suicide Squad was subject to a bunch of review-related shenanigans, let’s talk about that, too! Also: Microsoft lays off 1,900 people, Embracer cuts another 97 folks, and a lot of discussion of “Goku” and “Vegeta.” Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 30, 2024•3 hr 42 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast Let’s try to talk about Palworld without morphing into copyright cops or armchair lawyers in the process! Also: 2023 sales data, Riot’s layoffs, the future of the game industry, “two years of pain,” and much more! Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 23, 2024•3 hr 54 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast Foamstars gets a date, as does STALKER 2. Smite 2’s announced, Halo’s battle royale is (probably) canceled, GAME gets out of used GAMEs, and a brief review of Retro-Bit’s Saturn Pro controller, which Jeff bought to… play N64 games? Join the madness as SCART cables and scalers once again enter the conversation! Also your emails???? Get ad-free podcasts, bonus shows and more over on Patreon! Support the show at https://patreon.com/jeffgerstmann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoice...
Jan 16, 2024•3 hr 12 min•Ep 84•Transcript available on Metacast