This week Colin and Brad discuss Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Lunar Remastered Collection, Mega Man V and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:28:10 - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
1:05:57 - Mega Man V
1:26:16 - Sort It Out/Keep It Up
1:50:22 - Lunar Collection
2:09:16 - Metroid Prime 2 Echos
2:25:18 - Closing Comments
2025-04-22 16:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-21 19:56:11 +0000 UTC View Post
As widely expected, episode two of The Last of Us' second season on HBO brought with it the series' most notorious moment. Indeed, it's the event which resonates through The Last of Us: Part II video game in particular, driving forward its epic (and often challenging) narrative. But this episode brings with it quite a list of changes, too, some major and others more subtle. The result is an episode some of us loved, while others left feeling... well... a tad bit befuddled. Is HBO handling The...
2025-04-21 19:56:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-21 16:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post
People have been saying: "Hey Dagster, Colin and Chris, why not just use AI to write these episode descriptions?"
Our initial reaction to that is to scoff at the very suggestion, utterly rejecting AI and everything it stands for. Fists clenched in rage, screaming to the heavens that AI must be destroyed at all costs, hurled back into the fiery pit from which it came! Vowing revenge on a malevolent enemy that has cursed humanity with its deceitful and dishonest p...
2025-04-21 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-19 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Please welcome award-winning director and designer Thomas Mahler to Sacred Symbols+. Mahler is the co-founder of Moon Studios, the team behind the Xbox-aligned Ori series, and is currently championing their newest project, the ARPG No Rest For the Wicked. In a wide-ranging conversation, Thomas talked to me (Colin) about a variety of topics that will be fascinating to students of the industry. How has his emphasis on obsessiveness and hard work paid off in his career? Is crunch a natural bypro...
2025-04-19 16:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-18 16:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post
After years of hard work (and tons of external speculation), Sony-owned developer Bungie has finally revealed gameplay from and tons of details concerning its next project, Marathon. An extraction shooter that will be sold for a mid-range price ($40 seems to be the going guess), reactions to the project have been mixed. Does a large market for a game like this exist? Is the cost of entry too prohibitive? Is it DOA like Concord? Honestly, we feel like a lot of people are overreacting one way o...
2025-04-18 16:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-17 16:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I was born 87 years ago. For 65 years I ruled as Tamriel’s emperor. For all these years, I’ve never been the ruler of my own dreams. I have seen the Gates of Oblivion, beyond which no waking eye may see. Behold! In darkness, a doom sweeps the land. This is the 27th of Last Seed. The year of Akatosh 433. These are the closing days of the 3rd Era... and the final hours of my life.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:13:27 - Health Is Wealth
0:40:48 - Write Ins
0:...
2025-04-17 16:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Brad here.
Micah, Lock, and Cog will be joining me for a spoiler/review discussion of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Please post your questions and thoughts below for us to address on the show.
Thank you!
2025-04-16 23:28:30 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
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, April 17th at noon ET to submit.
Talk to you soon!
2025-04-16 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-16 16:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This week the Punching Up crew discuss the Zelda Notes App, Toys for Bob and Banjo, Shuhei Yoshida's thoughts on Nintendo and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:22:14 - Breath of the Wild Switch 2 Version Not Coming with DLC
0:29:22 - Zelda Note App Info
0:39:08 - Banjo Kazooie
0:51:01 - What we're playing
1:23:29 - Bafta
1:31:26 - No Download Code needed for Physical First Party Games
1:36:15 - The GameCube Controller will only work with...
2025-04-16 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-15 16:01:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, Lock and Jimmy join Brad to discuss The Last of Us Part II, South of Midnight, Ready or Not, and more!
Please note the Last of Us section contains some spoilers.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:06:45 - Marathon impressions
0:18:55 - The Last of Us Part 2 (CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS)
0:52:21 - Ready or Not
1:03:45 - South of Midnight
1:17:14 - Sort It Out/Keep It Up
1:41:19 - Uncharted 4
1:56:45 - Donkey Kong Countr...
2025-04-15 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostHey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 224 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, April 16th at 3 PM ET to ma...
2025-04-14 22:03:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-14 20:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post
After a borderline-ridiculous 2+ year wait, a truncated, seven-episode second season of HBO's The Last of Us has finally begun. The first episode reintroduces us to our key characters -- Joel, Ellie, Tommy, and so on -- and helps set the stage for the carnage that's about to be unleashed. It deviates from the game's story sometimes (well, quite a bit, in some cases), but overall, we liked it a lot, and we're eager to see where things go, and how the subject matter continues to be adapted. Joi...
2025-04-14 20:13:59 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Constellation time, welcome back!
Sit down, get comfy and grab a snack.
Four people, three topics - like we usually do;
Wait, correction! Two topics for this episode's crew.
Hoeg started us off, and we couldn't stop yappin;
It's not really our fault. Hey, it does tend to happen;
So we subtracted a topic, as it turns out;
But we'll do it next week, so there's no need to pout!
Dustin's topic was also extremely fun;
(With apo...
2025-04-14 16:00:47 +0000 UTC View PostHello fellow Punchers
Please submit your questions for this week's show. If there is any topic you'd like us to cover, let us know. Cutoff for submissions will be Monday at 4 PM PST. Please keep your entries brief and well-written.
Thank you!
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2025-04-12 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings! It's time to jump into another spoilercast, this time with Colin and Matty for Atomfall, the new post-apocalyptic survival-action game published and developed by Rebellion. Please enjoy!
2025-04-12 16:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-11 16:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
If something never goes away, you're never able to miss it. That's why there's an incredible amount of cynicism surrounding The Last of Us Complete, yet another re-release of the 2013 original and its 2020 sequel, a package that combines both games into something more accessible and affordable for PlayStation 5 owners. Naturally, this is heavily tied into the return of The Last of Us on HBO, and clearly this sort of thing isn't really aimed at us at all. In fact, it's likely very smart busine...
2025-04-11 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-04-10 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Following the delay of Fable, it was a coin toss on who would get the nod to follow up Xbox's 2025 summer showcase with a Developer Direct of their own. Now, we have the answer. No, it's not Gears Of War: E-Day and no it's not Halo. It's The Outer Worlds 2! Combined with this reveal, IGN posted over 10 minutes of Outer Worlds 2 gameplay! While it pops the bubble ahead of its full inflation, the Dukes were excited to lay eyes on the game following its December reveal. What has changed? What ha...
2025-04-10 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
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, April 10th at noon ET to submit.
Talk to you soon!
2025-04-09 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post