TGI 553 – A Very Castlevania Dead Cells
After missing last week, we return to catch up on the games we’ve been playing and The Last of Us on HBO. Ryan tests out his new Steam Deck Dock from iVoler with the brand new DLC for Dead Cells, Return to Castlevania. Jocelyn returns to Coral Island and checks in on Graveyard Keeper. We then jump into our The Last of Us on HBO spoiler discussion. If you haven’t watched the entire season you may want to return to this segment after watching (check time codes below). Moving into the news, we’ve received our final Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer and Nintendo will be pricing games at $70 on a game by game basis.
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TGI 552 – Don’t Forget to Parry!
We have another Souls-like game for the Inn this week with Ryan playing Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty on Xbox Game Pass. Plus Jocelyn returns to Coral Island to continue her adventures of cleaning oceans, contributing to museums, and delving into mines. We also have a lot of video games news to cover, including The Olympics getting into Esports, Dead by Daylight is getting a movie, the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal is reported to be approved in the EU, Ghostcrawler is no longer at Riot, Cities: Skylines 2 is coming this year, while The Wolf Among Us 2 and Starfield see delays.
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TGI 551 – All The Coral, No Sharks
This week, Ryan digs into Dome Keeper on Steam, while Jocelyn checks in on the so far shark-less Coral Island in Early Access (Steam or PC Game Pass). Over in the news, Elden Ring fans will be happy to hear an expansion has been confirmed, PlayStation had a State of Play with a major focus on The Suicide Squad, Pokemon presented a bunch of new stuff, Mortal Kombat 12 receives the least exciting release confirmation, and Valve confirms all Steam sales for 2023.
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TGI 550 – Pushing Those Nostalgia Buttons
Jocelyn has returned to the Inn to discuss her time with The Witcher 3 during her time off. Plus Ryan returns to his early GameBoy days with the addition of GameBoy and GameBoy Advance games to Nintendo Switch Online. Moving into the news, the story of Tetris will be told on Apple TV+, Microsoft has signed a ten year deal for Call of Duty with Nintendo and Nvidia, and Blizzard staff aren’t very happy with Mike Ybarra after a recent Q&A session.
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TGI 549 – It’s The Kraken’s Ship Now
Joining Ryan this week is Nevermore, and we have a bit of a theme this week with Streaming Adventures! Nevermore kicks things off with Sea of Thieves, brings a new co-op madness game to the Inn with PlateUp, and wraps up her adventures with KeyWe. Ryan, thanks to his lovely Extra Life donors, played and streamed Elden Ring with Travis and LC. Moving into the news, we have a Chris Pratt-less Super Mario Movie ad, and Nintendo raises developers pay to strengthen the workforce.
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TGI 548 – The Season for Shadow Drops
This week Ryan is joined by returning guest host Travis, who has been on a bit of a Platinum Adventure with Avengers and Strangers of Paradise. Plus Ryan finally got a chance to boot up the excellent shadow drop of Hi-Fi Rush on Xbox Game Pass. After an update on TGI Game Club and our Extra Life Elden Ring stream (be sure to tune in Friday, February 10th at 8 PM ET for that), we move into the news! We have a Nintendo focused section this week thanks to a Mario Kart skit on SNL and all the announcements from the February Nintendo Direct.
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TGI 547 – Game Club… With Portals!
Jim returns to the podcast to discuss Fire Emblem Engage, plus we check in on TGI Game Club for Portal RTX and Portal 2. Moving into the news we get our first listen of Seth Rogen’s Donkey Kong, The Last of Us on HBO has been renewed for a second season, IGN reports that E3 2023 may not have the big three, Amazon may have purchased the Tomb Raider rights, and new details reported on what’s next for Halo.
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TGI 546 – It’s Time To… ENGAGE
Crofton from Dungeons & Diapers guests on the show this week to chat about the newly shadow dropped game, Hi-Fi Rush! Plus OF COURSE Ryan has early thoughts on Fire Emblem Engage to share. Finally, Crofton closes out the what we’re playing section with a point and click adventure throwback, The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, and a quick look at Deathloop. Moving into the news, we say goodbye to Marvel’s Avengers this year, 343 isn’t done with Halo, and all those announcements from the Xbox Developer Direct showcase.
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TGI 545 – Drop The Wrench
Ryan returns to The Witcher 3 with the brand new next generation update, bringing 60 frames per second, 4K, and some ray tracing to Geralt’s latest adventure. Plus Ryan and Jocelyn discuss the premiere episode for The Last of Us on HBO. Moving into the news, we have a few stories related to Ubisoft, highlighting recent game cancellations/delays and some not so great words from the CEO.
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TGI 544 – The Many Games of 2023
Jocelyn and Ryan return from the holidays to catch up on what they’ve been playing. Ryan continues his adventures in Marvel Midnight Suns and ventures into SPACE with Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope. Moving into the news, there’s a report that the Switch Pro is dead in favour of a Switch 2, and PlayStation unveils Project Leonardo. Wrapping up the show, we preview all the big games to look forward to in 2023!
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