Hey everyone look at this guy. He doesn't know who Miyamoto Musashi is. He doesn't even know about Ganryu! If you mention the Five Rings, he thinks you're talking about Tom Brady. And yet HE was worthy of the Onimusha: Way of the Sword review code? That's fine. We're not bitter. We have other games to play, like Super Mega Baseball, First Light, or Orbitals.

01:06 - The Sinking City 2 might be an Evil Within 2-like  

06:02 - 80% of Bit Reactor Furloughed    

18:22 - The DLSS5 Yassification Machine     

38:21 - De-listed games included in Xbox’s disc to digital initiative     

49:43 - Onimusha: Way of the Sword     

1:22:24 - Super Mega Baseball     

1:39:21 - 007: First Light     

1:54:27 - Orbitals     

2:09:26 - Question Bucket    

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2026 has been full of horrors, but it’s also been full of video games, too. With Grand Theft Auto VI coming later this year, though, there’s an avalanche of games coming throughout September and October. It felt like a good time to check in with Patrick, Chia, and Janet about their individual piles of shame, the games they plan to spend more time with before 2026 is over, and what games they’re looking forward to playing as the year rolls around. It’s, uh, a lot of games.

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Rob and Patrick have been digging into Zero Company and discuss the things they are getting from their vastly divergent contexts for it. The gang discuss Tim Curry's passing, Playdate's tariff generosity, and the Paradox founders' taxation takes. Then Janet has been digging Perfect Tides, Baldur's Gate 3, and Blood Dungeon, while Patrick is enjoying the a return to the grimness of A Plague Tale with Resonance. 

    01:17 - Star Wars Zero Company (Redux)   

      01:03:20 - Tim Curry's passing     

      01:05:49 - Doublefine's independent plans   

      01:09:29 - Xbox Discless Pivot      

      01:21:44 - Playdate refunds tariff money    

      01:26:46 - Paradox CEO complains about wealth taxes     

      01:48:25 - Perfect Tides: Station to Station     

      02:06:32 - Baldur’s Gate 3    

      02:15:01 - Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy   

      02:35:53 - Manual Transmission Games & Rally Car School   

      02:56:38 - Blood Dungeon  

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So far as we know, nobody is leaking clips from this podcast, but the same can’t be said for Grand Theft Auto VI. Join Patrick, Chia, and Janet as they reminisce about how their parents treated GTA growing up, Netflix’s latest signal they don’t know what to do with video games, and plenty of games talk, including impressions of Netflix’s (impressive!) Unhinged experiment, MiO: Memories in Orbit, Rogue Voltage, Mortal Shell II, and more. Plus, in The Question Bucket, we ponder why developers disable achievements when using options to tweak a game’s difficulty.

Links: GTA 6 Suffers Third Day of Leaks, Latest Video Suggests Leakers Have Access to a Build of the Game, Nightschool Shuttered by Netflix, Industry legend Warren Spector is retiring: 'I'm feeling like I've done what I set out to do', Matthew Karch Apologizes to Stella Sacco, School for Poetic Computing, Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox | exclusive

Discussed:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:12:19 - The GTA VI Leaks, the Worker's Union, and GTA Histories

00:16:32 - gameworkers.square.site 

00:34:31 - Night School Shuttered by Netflix 

00:38:37 - Unhinged

00:55:57 - Saber Interactive CEO Apologizes to Former Employee 

01:05:38 - Warren Spector Retires

01:09:58 - Harvey Smith starts a new company

01:11:10 - Arco recoups it's development costs

01:14:21 - MIO: Memories in Orbit

01:24:51 - Mortal Shell 2

01:42:28 - Rogue Voltage

01:52:21 - School for Poetic Computing

01:57:28 - Compulsion Games is now Independent

01:58:37 - Angel Essence

02:07:02 - Pin-Crawl

02:12:14 - Question Bucket 

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Patrick sits down with Nicole Carpenter to discuss her article on the prisoners at Rikers prison and their access to video games. Which games are provided to them, and who gets to make that decision? They also break down the biases people carry about who should have access to games, and how that access changes the prisoners' day to day life.

A Virtual Escape for Riker's Inmates by Nicole Carpenter

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Are you a down bad enough sicko to watch NFL pre-season football? That’s the question that Patrick poses to Rob as they kick off a new episode of Sports! We also discuss the state of sports journalism, the rise of analysis over journalism, what happened to The Athletic, the ongoing culture war in the WNBA, and much more. Plus, we strongly consider a trip to Detroit.

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It is with a heavy heart that we share that the XCOM and Star Wars mashup, Star Wars: Zero Company, seems pretty good. You have another video game to play this year. At least, that’s what Rob told Patrick and Chia on this episode of Remap Radio, where we chat about turn-based Clone Wars, Twitch’s shockingly honest admission about AI, why nobody should work at Saber Interactive, the great time Patrick’s having repairing electronics in ReStory, and more.

Links: Saber Interactive CEO Responds to Accusations, Twitch Makes AI Training Opt-Out. Stream Clip of Twitch Explaining Why it's Opt -Out. The Couchmaster

Discussed:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:55 - Star Wars Zero Company

00:56:20 - Saber Interactive accused of replacing writer with AI

01:16:24 - Twitch is Training AI on you

01:28:41 - The Normies and AI

02:05:30 - ReStory

02:22:58 - Big Walk

02:34:58 - Question Bucket

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There’s little evidence the Electronic Arts going private because it’s being bought by a Saudi Arabian-backed financial group is good for the industry, but who was expecting good news these days? Rob, Chia, and Patrick mull this latest development, news that Sony isn’t giving back any tariff money, and talk about a bunch of games, including Chia’s adventures at GenCon and Patrick finishing 007: First Light alongside dumping a whole bunch of hours into Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation. Oh, and how would we re-imagine a football video game?

Links: EA bought by Saudi Arabia, Sony recieves Tarrif Refund, Motherboards are getting more expensive

Discussed:

00:39 - Tyranny & Peter Molyneux

11:26 - The John Company Megagame

26:39 - EA purchased by Saudi Arabia

1:08:08 - Sony receives tariff refunds

1:15:30 - Motherboards are going to become more expensive

1:21:26 - Beast of Reincarnation

1:50:46 - Chia's Gen Con Adventures

2:11:42 - Theater of Idols

2:23:19 - 007: First Light

2:32:10 - Boreal Tenebrae Act 0: Sundowning

2:37:25 - The Question Bucket

2:48:26 - Outro

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This podcast episode was born under a bad sign as avian wildlife besmirch Rob's finest attire shortly before the recording. After surveying a grim landscape of games, news, the gang sits down to a pretty good summer of games with Janet digging Townfall and Incident at Galley House, Patrick playing some really cool platformers, and Rob catching Super Mega Baseball Fever.

• A Bird Hath Shat Upon Rob 0:01
• Microsoft Layoffs 0:18:56
• EA are Jerks and Going Private 0:45:28
• Passing of İpek Yavuz co-creator of Mount and Blade 0:54:07
• Vermila Studios Shutting Down 0:58:37
• Silent Hill: Townfall 1:11:53
• Rhythm Doggo & Slain 2: The Beast Within 1:27:29
• The Incident at Galley House 1:40:06
• Super Mega Baseball 1:55:14
• Splatoon Raiders 2:18:00
• Mailbag 2:30:26

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Samuel Horti joins Rob to talk about Super Mega Baseball. They discuss its brilliant “traits” system, never-to-be-beaten difficulty settings, delightfully slippery pitching and batting controls, and the “just-enough” franchise mode. They also discuss whether the game is truly an arcade baseball game, or if it’s occupying space that hardcore sims began from in the SNES and Pentium eras.

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You’re getting the Fallout and the Elder Scrolls you’ve been clamoring for, eventually, along with the option to stream games to your XBOX DEVICE with ads, but you’re going to love them. They’ll actually contribute to the experience! Chia and Rob are getting absolutely worked in Marathon’s new Vaultbreaker PvE mode, while Janet contemplates her delight in the Steam Machine and her seething disdain for life in Pokopia. Rob’s loving life behind the wheel thanks to his new H-Shifter, and a newfound love of Dirt Rally 2.0 and the weird and wonderful world of Assetto Corsa mods. Also a brief primer on Etymology, Entomology, Entemann’s.

Links: Bethesda's Fallout Announcement, ZA/UM Layoff Announcement, Joe Ziegler Leaves Bungie, Xbox;s New Streaming Announcement, Tiktok - Game Streaming with Ads, Rayman Legends Ocean's 12 Level, Rob's Ideal Racing Rig

Discussed:

01:07 - Bethesda's Fallout Announcement

47:50 - Layoffs at ZA/UM

51:28 - Game Director of Marathon Departs Bungie

1:02:09 - Marathon

1:35:43 - Xbox Game Streaming now with Ads

1:58:34 - Pokemon Pokopia

2:27:27 - Glyphica

2:36:15 - The Question Bucket

3:22:47 - Dirt Rally 2

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