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Punching Up, Episode 24 | Hail to the Peach (Video)

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Punching Up, Episode 24 | Hail to the Peach

Welcome back to Punching Up! Nintendo is eyeing the top spot for the best-selling console of all time, but the ex-CEO of PlayStation recently reported new sales data showing they’ve still got a significant way to go to claim the spot from PlayStation. Additionally, Nintendo's testing centers have been hit with layoffs just before the launch of a new console. Princess Peach Showtime is here, but is it for us?

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0:00:00 - Intro


0:03:22 - Dagan's new gig

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Summon Sign, Episode 14 | Stellar Dragons (Video)

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Summon Sign, Episode 14 | Stellar Dragons

This week Matty and Ben join Brad and talk Dragons Dogma 2, Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection and get up close and personal with the Stellar Blade demo.

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0:00:00 - Intro

00:23:01 - Dragon’s Dogma 2

00:55:17 - Stellar Blade Demo

01:20:44 - Sort It Out/Keep It Up

01:53:53 - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

02:14:18 - Star Wars Battlefront Collection

02:27:04 - Ending Questions

Constellation, Episode 65 | Feeling Better, Magazines, Transportation, Martial Arts (Video)

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Constellation, Episode 65 | Feeling Better, Magazines, Transportation, Martial Arts

Greeting Constellation faithful, and welcome back to your favorite LSM conversational podcast! This week, Lord Cognito wants to know how we recover when we're feeling under the weather. Which rituals and remedies tend to cure and comfort us whenever we're down for the count? Next, Micah takes us on a pleasant stroll down to the mailbox as we reflect on our favorite magazines, past and present. The landscape for periodicals has changed drastically over the last couple of decades, but which def...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 374 | Moriarty x Jaffe: A Long and Winding Trail (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 374 | Moriarty x Jaffe: A Long and Winding Trail

It's time for our first episode of Moriarty x Jaffe in more than two months, and as always, we deliver to you a doozy. Per our usual cadence, our conversation is kinetic (and even a little chaotic), and we touch on a ton of gaming topics: AAA publishing, Xbox's decline, subscription models, "anti-woke" gaming, industry griftting, and so on. We also grapple with lots of non-gaming topics, too, often interwoven with the aforementioned: Dreams, the economy, modern views on race an...

Summon Sign 14 Thread

Greetings everyone!

This week Matty and Ben will be joining me.

Games on the docket include Dragons Dogma 2, Star Wars: Battle Front Classic Collection, and the Steller Blade demo.

Looking for fun warmup questions and Sort it Out and Keep it Up submissions as always. Please also share any random thoughts or questions too.

Cutoff will be Sunday, March 31 at 5 PM PST.

Thank you!

Sacred Symbols, Episode 300 | We're Nothing If Not Consistent (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 300 | We're Nothing If Not Consistent

Somehow, some way, we've made it to our 300th episode, and we did so without missing a single, solitary week between the first show in 2018 and today. We celebrated our milestone this past weekend with 500 listeners at a sold-out live show in New York City, and we're eager to reflect on what the experience meant to us. But the news marches on, too, albeit somewhat softly, and we'd be loath to ignore it. So let's delve in. The once-leaked Stellar Blade demo is set to be properly released on PS...

Defining Duke, Episode 169 | The "Death Of Xbox" Rumors Are Swirling AGAIN... - What's Going On?

We're at the point in Xbox's lifespan where the sensitivity is at an all time high. By that, we mean that the reaction to certain pieces of news is heightened considerably and is leading to even a singular comment spiraling into chaos. That's just what happened this week when, once again, we hear how Xbox is struggling. This time, it hails from the EU region where Christopher Dring states that a major game publisher questions the support of the platform in general. Naturally, this has been sp...

Defining Duke, Episode 169 | The "Death Of Xbox" Rumors Are Swirling AGAIN... - What's Going On? (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 373 | Reflecting on Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 373 | Reflecting on Final Fantasy VII Remake

It's me, Colin. This episode was originally supposed to be a KnockBack; or, I should say, I replayed FFVIIR in preparation for that particular show. And maybe I over-prepared a bit, with 10 pages of typed notes amounting to 3,900 words. But here's the thing: Dagan doesn't have time to finish the game because he picked up a new animation gig, and yet, I don't want my unnecessarily thorough preparation to go to waste. So instead of KnockBack this week, you're getting a second Sacred+ episode, a...

Summon Sign, Episode 13 | Vanillaware Overlords (Video)

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Summon Sign, Episode 13 | Vanillaware Overlords

This episode Brad is joined by Micah and Jaffe to talk Unicorn Overlord, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Pentiment and more!

0:00:00 - Intro

0:15:36 - Unicorn Overlord

1:17:25 - Resident Evil 2 Remake

1:57:54 - Pentiment

2:19:18 - Sort It Out and Keep it Up

3:06:30 - Mickey Mania

3:20:56 - Return to Grace

3:32:30 - Questions

Defining Duke, Episode 169: The Thread

Hey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 169 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 27th at 2 PM ET to make your submissi...

Constellation, Episode 64 | Our Memories, Funniest Movies, Environmentalism, Pitch a Reality Show (Video)

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Constellation, Episode 64 | Our Memories, Funniest Movies, Environmentalism, Pitch a Reality Show

Welcome once again to Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast! This week's fearsome foursome bring a variety of fun and thought-provoking topics to discuss: Belgium's favorite son, the mighty Lockmort, gets things started with a bit of welcome nostalgia by inquiring about our earliest and happiest memories. Next, Dustin wants to talk about the movies that make us laugh. Which film comedies stand as our favorites and which ones do we think get overlooked? Colin takes a page ou...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 372 | The Final Word on Helldivers 2 (For Now) (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 372 | The Final Word on Helldivers 2 (For Now)

In Sacred Symbols' near-six year history, Helldivers 2 has been one of our single-most discussed games in the What We're Playing section of our show. But we never got around to dedicating an episode of Sacred+ to Arrowhead's critical and commercial smash-hit. Thus, I (Colin) gathered the Sacred boys -- Chris and Dustin -- along with our associate producer Ben, as we've by far spent the most time with Helldivers 2 within the walls of LSM. From there, we get into the nitty-gritty, espousin...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 299 | None of These Things Happen For Free

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 299 | None of These Things Happen For Free

Various leaks (and our own sources) have long-indicated the arrival of a so-called PlayStation 5 Pro console this calendar year, and now new reports have given us a great idea of what this yet-unannounced machine can do. Similar to 2016's PlayStation 4 Pro, PS5's Pro model largely keeps its CPU functionality in place, instead focusing on GPU-centric graphical boosts that promise to please the discerning eye. Combined with mysterious proprietary upscaling technologies and AI-related ...

Defining Duke, Episode 168 | Xbox Is Making A Handheld...? (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 168 | Xbox Is Making A Handheld...?

A new development kit has been certified for Xbox in South Korea! With leaks showing an all digital Series X on the way, this originally felt like a news story you brush by and not much else. That was the case until we learned a key bit of information that flipped the conversation on its head: This certification couldn't be for a digital Series X. So, what is it? The last certification seen for Xbox hardware was with the Series X around five months ahead of its launch. We know Sarah Bond rece...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 299: The Thread

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, March 21st at noon ET to submit.

Talk to you soon!

Punching Up, Episode 23 | Did MAR10 Day Deliver? (Video)

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Punching Up, Episode 23 | Did MAR10 Day Deliver?

Another March 10th has come and gone, bringing with it a slew of new Mario-related announcements from Nintendo. These include new NSO games, two release dates for upcoming titles, Lego sets, and confirmation of a sequel to the Super Mario Bros movie! Additionally, there is a plethora of new awards and nominations for Nintendo from both the BAFTAs and Famitsu. While Nintendo may be rounding out the end of the Switch era with some remasters and remakes, there's still a brand-new game on the hor...

Summon Sign 13 Thread

Hello everyone,

Since I made an error about episode 13 in the last post I decided to make a new one with the lineup now locked in. I kept submissions from the last thread too so don't worry about sending in the same question. You are free to submit something new though of course.

Micah and David Jaffe will be joining me.

Games on the docket included: Unicorn Overlord, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Pentiment, Mickey Mania, and possibly more.

Always looking for great warm-...