TGI 628 – Ryan Finished Laser Eyes
You read that episode title correctly, Ryan finished Lorelei and the Laser Eyes! Without delay Jocelyn and Ryan dive in to a spoiler filled discussion surrounding the game. Afterwards, they do a quick recap of Extra Life events from the past few weeks, while previewing what’s to come before the end of the year. In the news, Valve lays out some ground rules for how a season passes work on Steam, PlayStation brings game streaming to the Portal without a PS5 (and possibly has a handheld version of the PS5 in the works), video game corporations say the quiet part out loud when it comes to retro games, and Tencent’s homework looks a bit too close to Horizon.
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TGI 627 – Ryan Started Laser Eyes
We kick off the show with a chat surrounding the nominees for The Game Awards. Then Ryan travels back in time for the 20th anniversary of Half Life 2. But worry not, for Ryan did get some time in with Lorelei and the Laser Eyes much to Jocelyn’s relief. Over in the news, Secret Level gets a second trailer, Blizzard celebrates 30 years of Warcraft, Microsoft confirms an Xbox handheld is in the works, and Mythic Quest Season 4 confirmed for January 2025.
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TGI 626 – Doki Doki Bargaining Club
Jocelyn has come to bargain in exchange for Ryan playing Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, which oddly leads to Jocelyn possibly watching all of the Knuckles series for Extra Life? Anyways, Jocelyn keeps up her end by playing Doki Doki Literature Club and Slay the Princess. Ryan continues to delay Laser Eyes with a 20 year old book by Chris Kohler titled Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life and his continuing adventures in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In the news, Nintendo keeps their legal team busy by suing a content creator for streaming pirated content and an update on the Palworld lawsuit, while a Mass Effect television show is confirmed to be in the works at Amazon.
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TGI 625 – Extra Life Voyage Royale
With Extra Life Game Day 2024 behind us, it’s time to recap our awesome 12 hour stream! We go over our time in Fortnite, Dead by Daylight, and Sea of Thieves from our November 2nd event. After our Extra Life chatter, Ryan wraps up his time with Alan Wake II after completing The Lake House DLC (not to be confused with the movie). Plus, we kick off our Dragon Age: The Veilguard content as both Ryan and Jocelyn take their first steps in this new BioWare adventure. In the news, Microsoft says Call of Duty helped add a record number of subscribers to Game Pass, Nintendo continues to not announce the Switch 2 with the Nintendo Music app, and Nintendo teases a few details about the Switch Successor which is still set to be revealed before this end of fiscal (April 2025).
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TGI 624 – Exploring the Lake House
Extra Life Game Day is just around the corner, but we manage to squeeze in a new episode with our hype for the upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Ryan’s continuing adventures in Alan Wake II with the Lake House DLC. Over in the news, Ubisoft disbands the Lost Crown team and moves them to other projects, Sony closes Concord studio and cancels game, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp lives on, and Xenoblade Chronicles X may just be the sunset for Nintendo Switch.
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TGI 623 – Princesses of Spooky Season
After a false start, The Gamers’ Inn regains it’s footing a little later in the week to discuss Jocelyn’s new found obsession in Fortnite, while Ryan recaps his AvenDaDs Extra Life event and his descent into madness with Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut. Over in the news, Xbox hosted a Partner Showcase, Vampire Survivors says the quiet part out loud with it’s Ode to Castlevania DLC, that Nintendo play test leaked IMMEDIATELY, and Netflix shuts down it’s AAA game studio before it has a chance to release a game.
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TGI 622 – Returning to Sanctuary
Ryan returns to Diablo IV for the Vessel of Hatred expansion, with thoughts on completing the main campaign and first impressions on the new content including the Spiritborn class, Mercenaries and his first steps into Seasonal content. Over in the news, Nintendo announces an alarm clock, then a few days later sets up a mysterious Nintendo Switch Online test, Xbox will start selling Xbox games in their Xbox app on Android, and we have our first look at Sunderfolk from Secret Door and Dreamhaven.
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TGI 621 – Living That Utopia Life
We return to Frostpunk 2 and tackle the Utopia Mode, which is a form of a sandbox mode for the game. Moving into the news, filming on the Until Dawn film has wrapped, Halo Studios promises new Halo experiences, Ubisoft acknowledges buyout talks, and an Alien Isolation sequel is in the works.
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TGI 620 – Hordes of Not the Zerg
After some Game of the Year musings, we move into Space Marine 2 and all the Warhammer confusion (for us at least) that comes with it. Jocelyn has also returned to World of Warcraft raiding with The War Within expansion. In the news, Horizon 3 may be farther away than most hope, the next The Sims game is not the Project Rene we initially saw, Hi-Rez Studios lays off staff after less than stellar launch of Smite 2, and Nintendo shuts down another Switch emulator.
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TGI 619 – Get Along and Stay Warm
Jocelyn is back and helping her through recovery has been the soothing gameplay of Frostpunk 2! We’ve both been playing this highly anticipated sequel, so plenty of thoughts to share off the top of the show. In the news, we break down the latest State of Play from PlayStation and The Last of Us Season 2 has it’s first trailer.
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