On this week’s episode of Starside Chat, we talk about the weekend of games showcases during Fake E3 2024! Including Summer Games Fest, Devolver Digital and the Xbox plus Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Showcase!

[News of the Week]

• Like A Dragon getting a live action adaptation on Amazon Prime

[Features - FAKE E3]

• Everything Shown at Summer Game Fest

• Everything from Devolver Digital Showcase

• Everything Shown at the Xbox Showcase

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Godzilla Minus One

• Ori and the Blind Forest

• Humanity

• Rusty’s Retirement

On this week’s episode of Starside Chat, Zach and Aaron talk through Sony’s May PlayStation State of Play, including the upcoming PvP game Concord and the upcoming action-platformer Astro Bot. After that, we talk about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth because Zach has finally finished it!

[News of the Week]

• Sony developing PlayStation Mobile platform

• Call of duty Black ops 6 showcase to follow Xbox games showcase on June 9

• The next doom game has leaked ahead of the microsoft press conference

• No Man’s Sky new Adrift mode

• Sony State of Play

• Pre-Fake E3 (Summer Games Fest) predictions?

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• FF7 Rebirth

• Ori and the Will of the Wisps

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

On this week’s episode, we do our spoiler talk about Amazon’s Fallout TV show. But before that, we go through everything shown during Nintendo’s latest Indie World Showcase!

[News of the Week]

• Nintendo Indie World Showcase (4/17/24)

• Digested

• Hades 2 Technical Test

• Keanu Reeves is Shadow the Hedgehog

[Games out this week]

• Harold Halibut

• No Rest for the Wicked

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Fallout TV Show

• Shogun

• Solo Leveling

• Shangri-La Frontier

Fallout TV Show early impressions, indies games showcase

On this week’s episode of Starside Chat, we talk about the first two episodes of Amazon’s Fallout TV show. But before that, we go through what games stood out to us in the Triple-i Initiative games showcase.

[News of the Week]

• Live action film adaptation of Dredge announced

• Star Wars Outlaws release date revealed

• Destiny: The Final Shape Dev Walkthrough

• Triple-i initiative Showcase

• Fallout 4 getting next gen upgrade

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Fallout

• Shogun

We’re back after a several weeks long break! And this week we’re getting caught up on what we’ve been playing, watching and reading. We also talk about a little bit of gaming news from the past week.

[News of the Week]

• Windblown gameplay trailer

• Silksong rated by ESRB

• Thoughts on Marvel Rivals reveal

• Jump Ship

• Mod shoutout - Minecraft Distant Horizons

[Games out this week]

• Pepper Grinder

• Princess Peach Showtime

• Rise of the Ronin

• Dragon’s Dogma 2

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• FF7 Rebirth

• Shogun

• 3 Body Problem

• Road House

• Beekeeper