We're close to the end of the year and we had a late surprise GOTY contender in Sony and Team Asobi's Astro Bot. A character and studio previously relegated to tech demos for Sony were finally given the reins to their own full game and they completely knocked it out of the park. We're obsessed with this little and I'm ready for the return of the mascot platformer. Sony, you've maybe won over a new crony...

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It's a U.S. Election Day spectacular as Hunter and game designer Cole Wehrle (Root, Oath, Arcs) sit down to talk about one of the foundational games of the RTS genre. Does it hold up? Did it see the future? How good is it? All will be answered this week!

Stay tuned after the discussion for the announced date of the Age of Empires 2 SMASHATHON and how we'll be changing the show for 2025.

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This week Matt and Hunter sit down to double up and talk about two exciting games from the before times! One is a Capcom platformer with real good art and the other is a pre-Warcraft Blizzard console game in the style of Another World. This one was recorded in person and has a real excited feel to it.

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This week we have two of our Game Dev friends from Leder Games: Cole Wehrle and Nick Brachmann and we're talkin' deep on some UFO 50. In this show four souls trade stories of their experiences with a bygone game studio that never was. I won't mince words, I love this game and I really think you should check it out.

Check out Cole and Nick over at ledergames.com

Buy UFO 50: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/

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This week Matt and Hunter commemorate a very special game that has been a white whale for this podcast from the beginning. Await with bated breath as we find out whether or not this JRPG is finally the one that Matt finds himself enjoying, will it score higher than FF7? The only way to find out is by listening!

Special thanks to Exothermic for joining in on this special episode.

Check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ExothermicPlaysGames

Check out his FF6 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwqRgDAiRhE

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We've got Hunter and Sun this week with a long overdue episode about the second part in the Final Fantasy 7 remake project: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth! We got pretty in-depth in this discussion and you should expect spoilers to happen but we do mention when it's spoiler time and be warned we do ruin the ending of the game so do not listen past that point if you don't want that! Thanks for being patient for this episode my friends, it's been a wild year full of changes.

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This week, Matt and Hunter sit down to talk about proto-immersive sim game System Shock. We also talk a bit about the 2023 remake by nightdive studios, also we talk about the immersive sim genre in general for a while! Those of you interested in the Age of Empires 2 tournament we'll be doing please hang out with the end of this episode for some good information!

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With October just around the corner we figured it was time to GET SPOOKY. We've invited our favorite spooky time guest Jenna Stoeber to come talk about this year's Crow Country, a fun nostalgic survival horror game by SFB games (snipperclips).

**We get into spoilers from 25:45 to 34:20** YOU BEEN WARNED

Find all Jenna's stuff at https://www.jennastoeber.com/

Additional music by Ockeroid

Buy the Crow Country soundtrack:

https://ockeroid.bandcamp.com/album/crow-country-original-soundtrack

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