Hi!
Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this week's episode of Sacred Symbols in this thread.
As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc. are politely ignored.
You have until Thursday, August 14th at noon ET to submit.
Talk to you soon!
2025-08-13 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-08-13 16:02:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This week the Punching Up crew discuss the new adorable My Mario products, Pokémon fans going nuts, Dragon Age Remakes being shutdown and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:21:03 - My Mario Products
0:38:15 - Dragon Age Remakes shutdown allegedly
0:52:50 - Pokémon Happy Meals pulled from Japan
1:04:16 - What we’re Playing
1:49:42 - Spoilers for War of the Worlds
1:52:55 - Last week's Indie world showcase recap
1:56:55 - Closing question...
2025-08-13 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's go back to the beginning, and analyze a quainter time.
2025-08-12 16:16:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-08-12 16:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This week Dustin joins Brad to discuss a variety of topics including Battlefield 6, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:32:04 - Battlefield 6 beta
0:54:57 - Metal Gear Sold 2 (Contains a few spoilers)
1:12:59 - Sort It Out/Keep It Up
1:37:17 - Game Recommendation
1:41:57 - Luto
1:50:26 - Closing ques...
2025-08-12 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 241 of Defining Duke.
Great ways to get your write-up used: Be pithy, be topical, and be insightful. Walls-of-text, posts littered with poor grammar and punctuation, etc., are promptly (though respectfully) ignored.
As this is an Xbox podcast, be sure your submission makes sense within that realm. You have until Wednesday, August 13th at 3 PM ET to...
2025-08-11 19:34:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Link to Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/live/3hBPvTZHg2M?si=knYai_bkwlJJECoA
Link to Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/live/-U6wxppSorw
Who could resist something so terrible?
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2025-08-10 16:01:38 +0000 UTC View Post
With the DK's glorious return in Donkey Kong Bananza, the Punching Up crew take a deep dive into every aspect of the game.
Note: Punching + Expansion Pack is not a new weekly show, but a bonus show for Nintendo spoilercasts as needed.
For your viewing pleasure.
2025-08-09 16:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Please welcome Tom from Moore's Law is Dead and the Broken Silicon podcast back to Sacred+. When we've had Tom on in the past, it's to leverage his deep knowledge of tech, and this time around, I (Colin) invited him back to Sacred+ for a similar reason. But now, Tom comes packing a series of explosive exclusives that he's recently broken on his shows, giving us the very first glimpse into just what PlayStation 6 is. Codenamed Orion, PS6 seems aimed to be a mass market machine that may somehow...
2025-08-09 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-08-08 16:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post
If Sony's recent fiscal report shows anything, it's that PlayStation is turning into a bona fide money printer. Yes, PS5 has surpassed 80 million units sold, and that in and of itself is a substantial figure. But the more interesting numbers reside in the financials, where the brand netted more in profit in a single three month period than it did for much of entire previous generations. That's completely insane. So let's discuss PlayStation's meteoric growth, what it means, and how Sony may b...
2025-08-08 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-08-07 21:03:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The year of the Ninja rages on! Fresh off Ninja Gaiden 2 Black and Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, we have more ninjas to talk about thanks to the new Shinobi demo alongside Ninja Gaiden 4. In a seemingly impossible move, Xbox brought together two legendary Japanese developers to reactivate a franchise that had laid dormant since 2012. There were still question marks even after a strong showing at this years Developer Direct. At the top of everyone's list following a ton of layoffs was simply: Does P...
2025-08-07 21:03:21 +0000 UTC View PostHello,
The roster for this week will be the Punching Up crew Brad, Gene, and Micah.
Please submit your questions or comments about the game down below!
The cutoff for submissions is Thursday at 10 AM PST. Please keep your entries brief and well-written.
Thanks!
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2025-08-06 16:01:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This week the Punching Up crew discusses the Switch US price hikes, Nintendo's recent survey, updated sales numbers, and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:20:04 - Switch Price Hike
0:31:03 - Nintendo Survey
0:43:04 - Last week's Partner Direct thoughts
0:55:39 - Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage
0:58:31 - Nintendo Sales Updates
1:08:02 - What we’re playing
1:24:30 - SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide coming this Novem...
2025-08-06 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Who will win? Only one way to find out.
2025-08-05 19:50:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-08-05 16:01:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This week Gene and Brad discuss Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, MindsEye and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:05:11 - Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
0:31:08 - Ninja Gaiden Master Collection
0:48:52 - The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (demo)
1:07:55 - Sort It Out/Keep It Up
1:31:19 - Game Recommendation
1:33:43 - AI LIMIT
1:40:15 - MindsEye
2:11:32 - Closing Questions
2025-08-05 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The day Sony changed gaming's trajectory forever.
Part II (we lost our connection): https://www.youtube.com/live/d5a0FlAb0sU
Hey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 240 of Defining Duke.
Great ways to get your write-up used: Be pithy, be topical, and be insightful. Walls-of-text, posts littered with poor grammar and punctuation, etc., are promptly (though respectfully) ignored.
As this is an Xbox podcast, be sure your submission makes sense within that realm. You have until Wednesday, August 6th at 3 PM ET to m...
2025-08-04 16:32:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-08-02 16:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
It's me, Colin! Please welcome lawyer, friend, and long-time collaborator Rick Hoeg back to Sacred+ for another journey through various legal happenings in and around our industry. Today, Rick and I spend most of our time digging through Sony's recently-filed lawsuit against Tencent, its Level Infinite publishing arm, and other entities, claiming that its Light of Motiram project is an obvious (and even intentional) copy of Horizon. And if what Sony claims throughout its lawsuit is true, Tenc...
2025-08-02 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The first new side-scrolling entry in the Ninja Gaiden series in more than three decades is finally here!
2025-08-01 18:07:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-08-01 16:02:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier this year, Chinese publisher Tencent revealed a new project so shameless that it belies belief. It's called Light of Motiram, and it's no exaggeration to say that it's a pound-for-pound carbon copy of PlayStation's vaunted Horizon franchise. It crossed the line to such an extent that Sony is suing Tencent over it, packing fascinating evidence that this title was likely intended to be Horizon all along. Is Tencent dead-to-rights? Other news this week includes likely massive overreactio...
2025-08-01 16:00:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-07-31 16:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post