Game Time With Manny

All the news this week was depressing so I started it off by talking about how much I hated the Street Fighter movie. Why was it so horny? Who knows!? Then we move on to Bioware's closure and the potential shutdown of Arkane. It all sucks! However, as per usual this year the games themselves are pretty good! I got down on some Casltvania: Belmont's Curse and Final Fantasy Resonance. Matt mostly got way into Blood Dungeon, but he also played a little bit of Gears of War E-day too.

Our podcast has emerged, much like the locusts on E-day! Are we getting a new Ape Escape, and Uncharted 5? The rumor mill suggests we are. We are also getting Godzilla and Hello Kitty in Sonic CrossWorlds! I beat Control Resonant, and then moved on to beat Toem 2 and Star Wars Galactic Racer. Let me tell you all about the Internet's newest favorite little freak Biddy Blas. Matt is going absolutely HAM on Monster Train 2, and he also played the first few hours of Gears of War E-Day. He thinks it's pretty good so far!

Sadly this week the only news was depressing...again! We talk about the Xbox re-org stuff like Halo going under Activision and all the other dumb and weird stuff they said. Also, Heart Machine laid off most of their employees and may not be able to continue going forward.... Despite the industry basically being a smoking crater at this point the video games themselves are pretty good! I completed Wolverine, played some Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, and played a whole ton of Control Resonant! Matt has transitioned to new games for the time being so he beat the Dave the Diver Jungle DLC, Mini Shoot Adventures, and Monster Train 2.

We return for another glorious episode. Nintendo had TWO directs and Sony had TWO state of plays! I only bothered to take notes on what Nintendo did, but that is irrelevant! We also discuss how Level-5 is so riddled with AI that it's kind of hard to get excited about anything they do going forward! In the games front I beat Star Wars: Zero Company and Onimusha: Way of the Sword and both were excellent. Then I started to play Crimson Desert and have been asking myself important questions like, is this fun? Matt is nearing the end of Ghost of Yotei and has still been spending a lot of time with Geometry Wars and Dead Space 2. Get in now!

As promised we return with news of Gamescom, but most of it wasn't that exciting! We also discuss the GTA VI reveal and leaks, 2XKO stopping development, and the future of DoubleFine! I played some Star Wars Zero company, but was mostly sucked in to transferring Pokemon from systems of old onto the Switch. Matt played more Sleeping Dogs, but hit a roadblock and pivoted into playing Ghost of Yotei and Dead Space 2.

We return again to bring you depressing news like layoffs at Halo Studio and Supermassive. Also, to the surprise of no one the EA buyout went through and now they will somehow find a way to be even more morally bankrupt! At least the Kindgom Hearts 4 D23 trailer was sick! I decided to play through all 4 mainline Klonoa games, and had a grand ol' time playing through Big Walk. Matt took some time to play NHL2K8 and Peter Jackson's King-Kong. In a twist that is somewhat rare nowadays we are also playing Sleeping Dogs AT THE SAME TIME!

With very little news we make fun of the fact that Blinx the Time Sweeper was one of Xboxs big pulls for backwards compatibility on PC and lament the loss of Double Fine's layoffs. A majority of the episode is us talking about games we played! I beat both Def Jam games on PS2 and then moved back into 2026 with Denshattack! and Splatoon Raiders. Matt started Super Paper Mario and has been digging his return to the first Ratchet and Clank for PS3.

The only real news this week was the continued enshitification of Xbox, so before getting to that I bring a bit of levity by talking about the early seasons of Game Center CX I have been watching. Lots of cool insight from the early 2000's. I played Stellar Blade and am on the cusp of beating Fantasian while Matt continued to learn about the world of FIFA.

This one is going up very late as I lost track of time and have been very busy lately. The news will be pretty outdated as we discuss the impending Xbox layoffs which have now happened.

We are back again to talk more about how the video game industry is crumbling into dust before our very eyes. Xbox specifically is digging their own grave in an attempt for Microsoft to get any value out of them! It sucks! Outside of that I chat about Lost and Found Co. and Matt continues his 7th generation journey!

SGF has descended upon the video game world once again. so we are flooded with news from the PlayStation State of Play, SGF proper, and the Xbox Showcase! So many new games and things to talk about! On top of that I am juggling 5 new releases with Forza Horizon 6, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Mina the Hollower, and 007: First Light! Then Matt played a ton of stuff to rank as well! It's a chunky one!

We go over the little news out there, but it's okay because we know next episode SGF will make way for video game news to wash over us once again. I played very little trying to save myself for the five upcoming releases I need to juggle while Matt played 4 million games on his continued journey through the PS3/360 era.

Episode 303 - New Boot Animation by Manny

Time marches on so that means more VIDEO GAMES! I played and beat Pragmata, which I found to be excellent. Matt started playing a JRPG and actually likes it enough to maybe finish it!? Find out all this and more on this hot new episode.

We return just days after the previous episode so there was literally no news to talk about. Instead I went way deep into my feelings on Screamer and People of Note!

Kept you waiting huh!? It's the 300th episode of the podcast! We had to wait a bit longer than usual due to Matt's internet sucking butt and some personal stuff, but we show up refreshed and ready to give you the definitive list of the best 150 games of all time. It's undisputable!

We start off with me telling the world about my most avid hater. They were posting on my decade old Babysitting Mama video for MULTIPLE DAYS in a row. The video game industry continues to crumble so we talk about the shutting down of highguard. To finish off I gush about Pokopia and Slay the Spire 2, and Matt continues on with Diablo 3.

The video game industry is crumbling around us, so I get a little upset and rant about how dumb Riot and Sony are while also talking about how Microsoft is having the roughest time of all. At least the State of Play was pretty good HUH? I continue to live on my own personal JRPG hell while Matt played Diablo 3 and watched the Olympics.

I don't even know what I'm naming these anymore. Anyways, there was a Nintendo Partner Direct and it was probably cool if you play the Switch 2 as a portable or haven't played games in the past 5-10 years. So we talk about that! I have become a citizen of Zumeria because I beat Trails Through Daybreak II and am now a decent ways into Trails Beyond the Horizon despite the fact that I said I wouldn't do them back to back. Big mistake!

It seems like we talk about how we don't understand what the hell is going on with major video game publishers ever week now and we repeat that here. Weird marketing by Nintendo. whatever the hell Xbox has going on, and Ubisoft restructuring. It's all weird! I decided playing an insanely long JRPG where nothing happens would be a good idea, and Matt continued his journey through the 7th generation of consoles with some Madden on the Wii!