The boys have not yet started Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, so that’ll be next week. So this week, they talk about the latest PlayStation State of Play (or is it Sony State of Play? Who cares?) and some of the announcements that interested them from Tokyo Games Show.

Balatro is also now out on mobile, bringing the threat of taking over our lives to our own pockets! And Capo is still stuck in a Dr. Katz trance. It’s all ahead on this week’s episode of Starside Chat!

[News of the Week]

• Sony State of Play

• • Remaster of Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Soul Reaver remasters

  • Alan Wake: The Lake House DLC

  • Hell is Us

  • Ghost of Yotei

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• Tokyo Games Show

• • Threads of Time

  • We Love Katamario: Re-roll Plus (xbox and PC)

• Things to buy?

• • Ace of Spades nerf gun

  • Meta launches Quest 3S

  • Demolition Man 4k edition

[Games out this week]

• Zelda: Echos of Wisdom

• Balatro on mobile

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Dr. Katz

• Balatro

This week, we’re talking about the latest Nintendo Switch 2 leaks and rumors about the next console generations for Xbox and PlayStation. We also dive into new releases The Plucky Squire and UFO 50.

[News of the Week]

• PlayStation unveils 30th anniversary

• Nintendo sues Palworld developer

• Next Like a Dragon game announced and it's a pirate themed game

• Another Cyberpunk 2077 anime coming to netflix

• NEXT GEN RUMOR ROUND UP

• • Switch 2 leak?

  • Xbox next gen lineup includes a handheld

  • PS6 has two SOCs in development

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• The Plucky Squire

• UFO 50

This week we react to the reveal of the PS5 Pro, and we talk more about Astro Bot and Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2. Aaron also tells us about The Jackbox Naughty Pack, and we chat briefly about some of the latest gaming news!

[News of the Week]

• PS5 Pro revealed

• Astro Bot getting a free DLC

• Microsoft laying off another 650 employees from it's gaming division

• Everyone at Annapurna resigns

• Rumor suggests a mid-October reveal for the Switch 2

• A new Tony Hawk game on the way?

• Satisfactory 1.0 launches

• Stardew Valley recreated in Lego

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Dr. Katz

• The Jackbox Naughty Pack

• Astro Bot

• Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2

On this week’s podcast, we dive into Sony’s new hit platformer Astro Bot, the new indie metroidvania Crypt Custodian, and Aaron’s continuing adventures in Cyberpunk 2077. There’s also a bit of Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2 talk and some of the latest gaming-related news that caught our attention.

[News of the Week]

• Balatro getting a mobile release - Sept 26

• Concord shut down

• Minecraft Movie Trailer

• No man's sky Aquarius - adds fishing, new expedition

• PS5 Pro design revealed? - (Close up shot)

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[Games out this week]

• Astro Bot

• Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Astro Bot

• Crypt Custodian

• Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2

• Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty

• The Fall

This week, we go through the stuff that caught our attention during Nintendo’s latest direct. Aaron restarted Cyberpunk 2077 and Zach is still progressing in Steam World Heist 2 and Black Myth Wukong. So we talk about it all and some of the latest gaming news.

[News of the Week]

• Lost In Random: The Eternal Die announced

• Epic Mickey Rebrushed gets a demo

• New Zelda trailer (Sword)

• Cyberpunk 2 sequel Project Orion entering development soon, dev team to double across next year

• Remedy plans control-a-verse tv and movies

[Games out this week]

• Crypt Custodian

• Star Wars Outlaws

[Features]

• Nintendo Indie World + Partner Direct

• • Balatro collabs

  • Sea of Stars DLC

  • Morsels

  • Pizza Tower

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Steam World Heist 2

• Black Myth Wukong

• Mission Impossible Fallout

• Cyber movies

• Cyberpunk 2077

On this week’s episode, we talk about the stuff that interested us at Gamescom 2024. But first, we have a bunch of news to discuss since we didn’t get to do a podcast last week. Also, Black Myth Wukong is out and is selling well and getting good reviews. So we talk briefly about that too!

[News of the Week]

• Borderlands movie flops and gets very bad reviews

• Back from the dead: PUBG publisher acquires Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP

• The Plucky Squire gets a release date of September 17

• Dragon Age The Veilguard gets a release date - Oct. 31

• Dredge DLC - The Iron Rig releases

• Update for Vampire Survivors

• Nintendo Museum

• Black Myth: Wukong breaks single-player Steam record on day one with 2 million concurrent users

• • Sells 10 million copies across all platforms within the first week of release

• Concord flops

[Features]

• Gamescom

• • Indiana Jones coming to PlayStation 5

  • Mafia The Old Country

  • Civ 7 stuff

  • Borderlands 4

  • inZOI

  • New Avowed Game Play

  • The Stone of Madness

  • Infinity Nikki

  • Reanimal

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Steam world heist 2

• Black Myth Wukong

• Monster Hunter

This week we talk about recent releases: “Thank Goodness You’re Here” and “SteamWorld Heist 2.” We also talk about the latest gameplay reveal trailer for the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and speculate on what’s to come for No Man’s Sky.

[News of the Week]

• Follow up on Bungie conversation

• Follow up on game Informer stuff

• • A GI staffer logged in and tweeted a real goodbye from the staff and Game Stop nuked the Game Informer Twitter account

  • MinnMax releases GI office tour from March 2024

• Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom gameplay showcase - Traversing Hyrule

• Details emerge about Wolfeye’s new RPG

• New Doom Dark Ages details revealed at Quake-Con

• No Man’s Sky speculation

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Thank Goodness You’re Here

• SteamWorld Heist 2

• Apex Legends Season 22

• The IT Crowd

It’s been a rough week in the games industry and for games media. We have to talk about Game Informer being shut down. We also have to talk about Bungie laying off more than 200 employees and all the details that have come out about the company’s mismanagement and financial struggles. After that, we have a few smaller news items, and we talk briefly about some games we’ve been playing and some things we’ve been watching lately.

[News of the Week]

• Game Informer closes, all employees laid off

• Bungie Lays Off Over 200 Employees, Announces Plans For Deeper Integration With Sony

• PlayStation announces limited edition Astro Bot Dual Sense controller

• Crypt Custodian gets a release date - August 27

• New Apex Legends season launching August 6th

• Helldivers 2’s biggest update yet coming August 6

• Gothic Remake Announced

• The Eternal Life of Goldman

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• No Man’s Sky

• IT Crowd

• Taskmaster New Zealand