On this week’s podcast we talk more about Animal Well now that we’ve had a chance to play more of it. Zach also gives his review of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. But before that, there’s a bunch of new gaming related news to talk about.

[News of the Week]

• Fortnite/Fallout collaboration

• Microsoft to launch this year’s Call of Duty on Game Pass

• Rockstar targeting Fall 2025 release window for GTA 6

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows reveal

• Mortal Kombat 2 coming to theaters October 24, 2025

• Majora’s Mask Recompiled

• New Information about DnD 5.5

• Deadlock

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Animal Well

• Asteroid City

On this week’s episode, we talk about the new indie puzzle-platformer Animal Well. But before that we have to talk about the latest update for Starfield, the latest on the successor to the Nintendo Switch, and the closure of four Microsoft studios.

[News of the Week]

• Starfield May update

• Switch successor to be announced this fiscal year (by March 2025) Nintendo to hold June direct to announce what's coming later this year but won't feature the switch successor

• Rumored Switch 2 spec

• Microsoft closes four studios, including Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda

• The Gaming Historian shuts down patreon and returns to “part-time” status

• Amazon Prime subscribers can claim a free PC copy of Fallout 3

• Sunset Devils

[Games out this week]

• Animal Well

• Little Kitty Big City

• Hades 2 early access

• Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns (DLC)

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Wes Anderson’s Montblanc commercial

• Animal Well

• Clarkson’s Farm

• Ponyo

This week we focus mainly on games, with discussion of two games we’ve been playing, including the recently released Rusty's Retirement. We also both brought five games each to recommend as great games to play while listening to podcasts - like this one!

[News of the Week]

• More Fallout TV show discussion?
• No BlizzCon this year

[Games out this week]

• Rusty’s Retirement (full release)
• Another Crab’s Treasure
• Sand Land

[Features]

• Rusty's Retirement (FULL RELEASE)
• Five podcast game recommendations

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Dune 2
• Monkey Man
• Toem
• Rusty’s Retirement
• Shogun