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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 435 | No Red Lines With Jez Corden (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 435 | No Red Lines With Jez Corden

Please welcome journalist and podcaster Jez Corden back to Sacred Symbols+. Jez is the co-host of the popular Xbox Two podcast and the executive editor of Windows Central. He's also a well-known Xbox brand insider, and it's always fun for me (Colin) to talk shop with him. Through Bethesda, Activision Blizzard, Mojang, and even its own one-time exclusive first party studios, Microsoft has rapidly become the biggest third party publisher on PlayStation platforms. Obviously, there's a great deal...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 345 | You Keep It Copacetic (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 345 | You Keep It Copacetic

When truly great games are delivered, players tend to respond. The industry's newest sales success is the long-awaited Kingdom Come: Deliverance sequel, which immediately sold a million copies upon release. But it's hardly alone. And the rest of this long year is already shaping up to be something special, with Metal Gear Solid Delta's release date leaking, Death Stranding 2's newest trailer drawing nearer, and EA's Battlefield finally toying with a real comeback. Other news this week include...

Defining Duke, Episode 214 | The TRUTH On Avowed Is HERE... (We Interviewed The Director) (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 214 | The TRUTH On Avowed Is HERE... (We Interviewed The Director)

Joining this episode is Obsidian's very own Carrie Patel to tell us all we need to know going into Avowed! Everything from framerate and role-playing mechanics to the future of the Pillars franchise is covered in our deep dive with the game's director. Also, we get a bit into what's behind the secret sauce that allows a team like Obsidian to release so many games in a short period of time while the rest of the industry toils away on one-and-done projects. That's not the only news to come out ...

Punching Up, Episode 49 | The Numbers Are In! (Video)

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Punching Up, Episode 49 | The Numbers Are In!

This week the crew discusses new Nintendo's financials, new Xbox game rumors, new patents, and more!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:20:54 - Mega Man Sales

0:30:15 - New Patent

0:35:09 - Relying on popular Nintendo series

0:40:44 - Ridge Racer 64 Now on NSO

0:44:40 - What We're Playing

1:16:06 - Some Xbox Games Coming to Switch 2

1:20:15 - Switch sales

1:31:46 - Closing Comments

1:55:41 - Onimusha 2 remaster coming 2025

Summon Sign, Episode 58 | Can Nintendo Win Colin Back? (Video)

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Summon Sign, Episode 58 | Can Nintendo Win Colin Back?

This week Brad and Colin get intimate and discuss Mega Man 1-4, Phantom Fury, Dark Cloud, Switch 2 and more!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

00:19:44 - Colin's Switch 2 Thoughts

00:41:14 - Mega Man 1-4

01:41:04 - Phantom Fury

01:47:23 - Sort It Out/Keep It Up

02:31:00 - Arizona Sunshine Remake

02:41:16 - Dark Cloud

02:56:43 - Trepang 2

03:04:42 - Ending Questions

Constellation, Episode 109 | Lyrics That Define Us, Underwhelming Experiences, Calling Someone Out (Video)

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Constellation, Episode 109 | Lyrics That Define Us, Underwhelming Experiences, Calling Someone Out

Welcome back to Constellation! Would you kindly feast your optic orbs on this group of podcasting superstars? And of course, Dagan. Kicking off Side A, Jaffe punches the boys right in the feels with his topic about song lyrics. The gang waxes poetic as they break down the words in the tracks that speak to them most. Next, Chris wants to commiserate about underwhelming experiences. After all the lofty expectations, which places, people and events just didn't live up to the hype? Finally, Dagan...

Side Quest, Episode 94 | PlayStation GaaS Initiative: A Logical Idea, Horribly Executed

Sony couldn't help but notice it was making billions of dollars a year on others' games-as-a-service, and wondered: What if we pursued this more aggressively ourselves? That makes perfect sense. But how the company went around this pursuit? Well...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 434 | Sacred Symbols x Defining Duke: The Nexus of the Universe (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 434 | Sacred Symbols x Defining Duke: The Nexus of the Universe

Welcome back to another episode of Sacred Symbols x Defining Duke, our Sacred+ sub-program dedicated to an occasional meeting of the minds. As such, Colin, Dustin, and Chris are joined by Matty and Cog, and the approach this week is twofold. For starters, let's get into Xbox's ever-evolving market situation, its amazing software sales accompanying precipitously-declining hardware numbers. What's the future hold? Then, speaking of the future, it's time to then delve into PlayStation's games-as...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 344 | Illusion Never Changed Into Something Real (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 344 | Illusion Never Changed Into Something Real

Just last year, Sony had grand designs of a new PlayStation leadership structure executing on an exciting multi-pronged strategy, but only three fiscal quarters later, the plan has come undone. Hideaki Nishino and Hermen Hulst were bestowed co-CEO roles -- the former looking after hardware and services, the latter after software -- but now, Nishino will hold the CEO role alone, with Hulst demoted and now reporting directly to him. While Sony Corporation itself made some other changes as well,...

Defining Duke, Episode 213 | Xbox's Bold Risk Is FINALLY Paying Off...? (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 213 | Xbox's Bold Risk Is FINALLY Paying Off...?

After a strong financial performance in December 2024 and a non-disastrous Phil Spencer interview, gamers are seemingly starting to bite on Xbox's vision a bit. After managing to fund games like Kunitsu-Gami, Ninja Gaiden 4, and reportedly picking up the phone to talk about Ori 3, Xbox appears to be driving all of their capital into making the unlikely games actually exist. If Xbox's future as a third party publisher is looking like this, it means that excellent games are enroute and that is ...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 344: The Thread

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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, January 30th at noon ET to submit.

Talk to you soon!

Punching Up, Episode 48 | The Return of Some Old Classics? (Video)

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Punching Up, Episode 48 | The Return of Some Old Classics?

This week the crew discuss a variety of topics including new trademarks from Sega and Bandai Namco. More Xbox rumors for Switch 2, and more!

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro

0:33:49 - New Trademarks

0:42:50 - Sega account

0:49:09 - New NSO Games

0:52:18 - Phil Spencer Interview

1:00:01 - What We’re Playing

1:28:56 - US Physical Game Spending

1:36:08 - Astral Chain Director may have quit PlatinumGames

1:44:48 - Closing Questions/Comm...

Summon Sign, Episode 57 | Ninja Gaiden is Back! (Video)

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