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 at Audioboom , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please u...
Sep 28, 2023•2 hr 12 min•Ep 118•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:10) Intro (00:07:42) They are still broadcasting radio (00:21:29) Mortal Ko...
Sep 21, 2023•3 hr 46 min•Ep 117•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! IMAGES Abby's pottery: one , two Austin's Halloween image CHAPTERS (00:01:10) Intro (00:02:16) The fine art of pottery (00:11:06) When is the Giant Beast reunion? (00:13:42) Halloween around the world (00:14:5...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipp...
Sep 07, 2023•2 hr 59 min•Ep 116•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon versi...
Aug 31, 2023•3 hr 32 min•Ep 115•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-f...
Aug 24, 2023•2 hr 16 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dy...
Aug 17, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Pat...
Aug 10, 2023•2 hr 8 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate...
Aug 03, 2023•2 hr 8 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dy...
Jul 27, 2023•2 hr•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Plea...
Jul 20, 2023•2 hr 46 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-f...
Jul 13, 2023•3 hr 42 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) We're on vacation (00:01:00) Intro (00:02:35) Introducing the folks (though some info might already be out of ...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: So...
Jun 29, 2023•2 hr 37 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for li...
Jun 22, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast The Summer games announcement window has closed, and now it's time to sift through darn near everything that got announced to hash out what impressed us, what's coming out later this year, why November is still so empty (??), whether Starfield can really deliver, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:10) Intro (00:01:14) Show Rundown (00:02:19) Diablo IV [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series...
Jun 15, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast With the E3-ish window looming (and the skies darkening), this week we recap a bunch of the games we'd like to see during the coming showcases, Diablo IV has our clicking fingers awfully tired, Apple announced an extremely expensive AR headset for... someone, we try desperately to talk ourselves out of buying fight sticks, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the...
Jun 08, 2023•2 hr 8 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast It's Street Fighter 6 week and we've all been on a Metro City tour, the System Shock remake finally (!!) came out, Nvidia is leaning heavily into AI-assisted game development, Nintendo is stepping up its efforts against emulators, the Last of Us multiplayer game has been downscaled, and more. Lot going on this week! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon ...
Jun 01, 2023•2 hr 5 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast Sony's PlayStation Showcase happened right in the middle of this podcast, so we break down all the news 'n trailers about Bungie's new Marathon, Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, Assassin's Creed Mirage, and a stack of other games, plus a bunch more Zelda: TOTK talk, Warhammer 40k: Boltgun, Star Trek: Resurgence, another basement poop infiltration, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for vers...
May 25, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast You may have heard Tears of the Kingdom is upon us, so we spend a bunch of time on early impressions and BOTW comparisons this week before moving on to the delightful people-puzzling of Humanity, the Overwatch 2 PvE cancellation, some sure-to-be-timely speculation about the new Mortal Kombat, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to...
May 18, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast How else to mark the 100th-ish episode of this podcast than with a tribute to Sum 41, plus games like the end of Jedi Survivor, the Golden Idle DLC, Tape to Tape, and Touch Type Tale, Phil Spencer's comments on Redfall and the console race, Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Pl...
May 11, 2023•2 hr 10 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's show: Star Wars: Jedi Survivor and Redfall are out and we've played both, people are out there playing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in 4k right now, Vampire Survivors is somehow getting a TV show, a trailer dropped for the Gran Turismo motion picture, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Plea...
May 04, 2023•2 hr 13 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Alex played Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and the UK blocked the Microsoft/Activision merger, so you can imagine we devoted a lot of this episode to those subjects. But also: Advance Wars: Reboot Camp, Horizon: Burning Shores, Stranded: Alien Dawn, condiment strategies, and accidentally getting elected to office. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon versi...
Apr 27, 2023•2 hr 51 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast We're fresh off our break, and... where'd all these video games come from?? We dive into Dead Island 2, Horizon's Burning Shores DLC, Minecraft Legends, the new Vampire Survivors expansion, Cyberpunk's path tracing mode, the contents of the noble baseball, and a bunch of other stuff! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad inserti...
Apr 20, 2023•2 hr 48 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast We're mostly away from the mics this week, so here we present the inaugural ep of this patron-exclusive reunion podcast, in which Austin Walker and Dan Ryckert join Vinny and Alex as they talk about what makes a mech a mech, slipping and sliding, and of course porn. (If you like what you hear, check us out on Patron at the link below!) Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) We're on vacation! (00:01:10) Intro (00:03:34) Bidet all day (0...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hello and welcome to this video game podcast, in which Brad is deeper into RE4, Vinny has finished his sinister fishing in Dredge, and Alex is reclaiming the land in Terra Nil. Also, Sony's rumored PS5 streaming handheld, Asus' Steam Deck competitor, a new Street Fighter movie, living with Mario and Sonic (and Bonk), and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-fr...
Apr 06, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast This week we defy the laws of spacetime and causality to bring you discussion of games such as the Resident Evil 4 remake, Lunark, Crime Boss: Rockay City, and Hellgineer, plus impressions from the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom gameplay walkthrough, a live!! reaction to the cancellation of E3, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to ...
Mar 31, 2023•2 hr 54 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast This week we spent a bunch of time time on islands, both vampire (Brad played Redfall) and tropical (we all played Tchia), Alex seems to genuinely like the new WWE game, we pay respects to Lance Reddick, Counter-Strike 2 is actually a real thing, Ubisoft dabbles in AI development tools, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynam...
Mar 23, 2023•2 hr 5 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast This week Brad's getting into wrestling history just in time for Alex to talk about this year's interactive WWE product, we did some VR shooting in The Dark Pictures: Switchback, took Spin Rhythm XD for a... spin, Xbox games might stream on Switch someday, driverless cars are running amok, and more. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dy...
Mar 16, 2023•2 hr 57 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast This week: the Yellow Turban Rebellion has never been so up close and personal in Wo Long, Dead Cells completes its destiny and becomes a Castlevania game, Alex gets a Steam Deck, Starfield gets a release date, a new Counter-Strike of some sort might be on the way, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm , or support us on Patreon ! CHAPTERS (00:00:00) Some timecodes may be inaccurate in versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use ...
Mar 09, 2023•2 hr 49 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast 
