Defining Duke, Episode 221 | Xbox's Trojan Horse - How Will PlayStation Respond?! (Video)
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2025-03-27 16:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Defining Duke, Episode 221 | Xbox's Trojan Horse - How Will PlayStation Respond?!
A mere UI leak has given birth to many conspiracies on Xbox's potential gameplan to get PlayStation games on their hardware. With the inclusion of Steam tag on the Xbox PC App, it has opened the door for many to wonder if this all inclusive platform is part of Xbox's next generation vision. Naturally, Steam on a next generation Xbox device brings with it a lot of business related questions. How does Xbox make any money at all from Steam games purchased on their hardware? Do they even care abo...
2025-03-27 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostPlease Clap: "The RSS Situation" Should Be Fixed
Greetings and good evening, specifically to you and you alone.
As you no doubt recall, we made profound changes to our RSS feed structure last month. To sum things up in short, we joined an alpha test here on Patreon to deploy individual RSS feeds for our various shows, something we (well, I) had assumed for years was a major ask amongst our paying audience. But it wasn't a clearly tho...
Sacred Symbols+, Split Fiction Spoilercast and Review Discussion: The Thread
Hello!
This Friday, Rick Hoeg and I (Dustin) will be recording a Split Fiction spoilercast and we'd love for you to be a part of it. Write in your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts and ideas regarding the game below.
As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc. are politely ignored.
You have until Friday, March 28th at noon ET to submit.
2025-03-26 18:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostSummon Sign, Episode 65 | Assassins Creed Shadows is Aggressively Decent (Video)
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2025-03-25 16:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostSummon Sign, Episode 65 | Assassins Creed Shadows is Aggressively Decent
This week, Matty and Gene join Brad to discuss Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, Atomfall, Bleach: Rebirth of Souls, and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:10:07 - Assassins Creed Shadows
1:15:25 - Atomfall
1:31:51 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
1:45:58 - Sort it Out/Keep It Up
2:27:57 - Atelier Yumia
2:44:08 - Kingdom Come: Deliverance
3:06:47 - Bleach: Rebirth of Souls
3:17:39 - Closing Questions
2025-03-25 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostDefining Duke, Episode 221: The Thread
Hey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 221 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, March 26th at 3 PM ET&...
2025-03-24 16:31:37 +0000 UTC View PostConstellation, Episode 116 | Favorite LSM Moments, Being Remembered, What We'd Like to See Return (Video)
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2025-03-24 16:01:16 +0000 UTC View PostConstellation, Episode 116 | Favorite LSM Moments, Being Remembered, What We'd Like to See Return
Does anybody even read these things? I feel like I could fill this space with complete gibberish and nobody would even notice. Rumpelstiltskin. See? You don't even know it says that! Anyway, Col, Cog, Lock and Dag convene this week to talk about stuff. Also, flibbertygibbet, because you'll never see that either.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:34:00 - Top LSM moments
1:10:37 - Being Remembered
1:51:09 - What We'd Like to See Return
2025-03-24 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostSummon Sign Ep 65 Thread
Yo! This week, Matty and Gene will be joining me. The games on the docket are:
Brad: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Gene: Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Matty: Atomfall, Bleach: Rebirth of Souls, Atelier Yumia
Taking Sort It Out and Keep It Up submissions and any general questions. The submission cutoff is Sunday at 4 PM PST. Pleas...
2025-03-22 20:23:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Sacred Symbols+, Episode 441 | Ubisoft vs. Its Customers, Kotick vs. Kotaku, and SAG-AFTRA vs. AI (Video)
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2025-03-22 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSacred Symbols+, Episode 441 | Ubisoft vs. Its Customers, Kotick vs. Kotaku, and SAG-AFTRA vs. AI
Please give a warm welcome to returning guest Rick Hoeg, friend-of-the-show and lawyer extraordinaire. I (Colin) invited Hoeg back to Sacred+ for yet another chat about a series of legal and business happenings that concern our industry. For starters: What's going on with reporting around Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed Shadows, particularly in regard to protecting devs from abusive speech? Is this a way for the publisher to quell legitimate criticism, or are they pursuing a righteous path by ch...
2025-03-22 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostSacred Symbols, Episode 351 | Too Many Shadows, Whispering Voices (Video)
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2025-03-21 16:01:15 +0000 UTC View PostSacred Symbols, Episode 351 | Too Many Shadows, Whispering Voices
This week is one of revelations, as the once-unknown finally sees the light of day. For starters, we have exclusive information on WB San Diego's cancelled game, a never-before-discussed (until now) WB-infused kart racer codenamed Moonlight, in development for years before having the plug pulled. We give you all the details. Then: If you're a Sacred Symbols listener, you've known about Sony's secret LA-based studio for the better part of two years, one led by Call of Duty veteran Jason Blunde...
2025-03-21 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostToday, Last Stand Turns 8
Hello, and good day.
Eight years ago to the day -- on March 20, 2017 -- I launched Last Stand Media (known then as Colin’s Last Stand). Eight years. Eight years! I have no idea how so much time has elapsed. But it has, and here we are.
Now, I fully recognize that eight years isn’t much of an interesting anniversary number, so I won’t belabor the point too much, other than to say that I deeply appreciate everyone’s support over all of these years. Somehow, ...
2025-03-20 18:07:00 +0000 UTC View PostDefining Duke, Episode 220 | Bethesda Is Dropping Oblivion Remake NEXT MONTH?! (Video)
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2025-03-20 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostDefining Duke, Episode 220 | Bethesda Is Dropping Oblivion Remake NEXT MONTH?!
What's one more game in April? As Xbox plans to publish games like South Of Midnight, feed Game Pass with Clair Obscur and Towerborne, as well as moving their multiplatform push forward with Indy and Forza Horizon 5 all in the same month, there's more. Indeed, the rumor is that the long discussed Oblivion Remake on Unreal Engine 5 will not only be announced next month, but release then too. "When and where" are the immediate questions that rush to the minds of the Dukes! Also, does Bethesda h...
2025-03-20 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostPunching Up, Episode 55 | The 3DS Is Still AWESOME! (Video)
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2025-03-19 16:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostPunching Up, Episode 55 | The 3DS Is Still AWESOME!
The week Dustin reunites with the Punching Up crew and discuss the 3DS launch, Final Fantasy sales, the new Nintendo store, and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:47:43 - Looking back on the 3DS launch
1:20:46 - Yooka-Replaylee trailer
1:23:45 - Atelier Yumia Demo
1:32:09 - Final Fantasy series sales update
1:36:35 - New Nintendo Store
1:41:25 - What we're playing
1:56:02 - Life is Strange sales
2:00:28 - Famitsu game awards<...
2025-03-19 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostSummon Sign, Episode 64 | TOP 5 Nintendo 64 Games!
This week Micah, Hoeg, and Brad discuss their top 5 Nintendo 64 games, Onimusha: Warlords, Golden Sun, Split Fiction and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:05:41 - Top N64 Games
0:30:27 - This Is the Police
0:54:06 - Wanderstop
1:02:43 - Onimusha
1:14:45 - Sort It Out/Keep It Up
2:01:41 - Golden Sun
2:25:48 - Split Fiction
2:35:18 - Pokemon Y
2:48:58 - Ending Questions
2025-03-18 16:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostSummon Sign, Episode 64 | TOP 5 Nintendo 64 Games! (Video)
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2025-03-18 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostConstellation, Episode 115 | Toasters, The Things We're Surprised We Still Haven't Done, Puppets (Video)
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2025-03-17 16:23:04 +0000 UTC View PostConstellation, Episode 115 | Toasters, The Things We're Surprised We Still Haven't Done, Puppets
Welcome back to another looooooong episode of Constellation! Delivering the goods like this week in and week out requires deep concentration and a sharp attention span. On this episode, Colin, Chris, Micah and Dagster talk for countless hours about a variety of fun and thoughtful topics. The only downside to this whole thing is that all our focus goes into the conversations. I'm lucky to have enough attention span left now to finish writing this video descrip
Sacred Symbols+, Episode 440 | Monster Hunter Wilds Spoilercast and Review Discussion (Video)
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2025-03-15 16:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostSacred Symbols+, Episode 440 | Monster Hunter Wilds Spoilercast and Review Discussion
While the Monster Hunter series dates all the way back to the original in 2002 on the PlayStation 2, it wasn't until Monster Hunter World in 2018 that the series became a meteoric success, becoming Capcom's highest-selling game. The follow-up, Monster Hunter Rise, was a success in its own right, but wasn't quite the follow-up some Monster Hunter fans expected, originally releasing as a Switch and PC exclusive. Now with the release of Monster Hunter Wilds, fans have received a true successor t...
2025-03-15 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostSacred Symbols, Episode 350 | The Unending Sixth Extinction (Video)
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2025-03-14 16:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostSacred Symbols, Episode 350 | The Unending Sixth Extinction
This week, Sacred Symbols is a Kojima Fanboy Podcast... for a little while, anyway. Finally -- finally! -- we have a release date for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and it's fairly close, arriving on PlayStation 5 in late June. And as a deep love for Kojima is perhaps the biggest gaming stance all three Sacred hosts share, we thought we'd spend some time getting hyped up following an all-new 10 minute trailer, collector's edition and pre-order details, and so on. Other news this week includ...
2025-03-14 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostDefining Duke, Episode 219 | Xbox's Next Generation Plans LEAKED... (Video)
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2025-03-13 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostDefining Duke, Episode 219 | Xbox's Next Generation Plans LEAKED...
It's a big week for Xbox hardware fans. A report from Jez Corden has injected new, optimistic life into the conversation. In 2025, Xbox will deliver their first ever "partner device" in another team up with ASUS. It will be a handheld and likely symbolize the next step into what Xbox evisions as the future of their platform. That's no mere guesswork as we also have word that come 2027, a new generation of device will be in our hands. One, a powerful console built more like a PC, and another t...
2025-03-13 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post