Welcome to Punching Up, a brand new Nintendo podcast from Last Stand Media! I (Dustin) am so excited to be doing this new show with an awesome lineup of co-hosts, including Gene Park, Dagan Moriarty, and Mama Micah! In our inaugural episode, we lay out what this show is all about, along with how it stays true to the Last Stand Media style while charting its own path. So, once all of the celebratory opening is done, we dive right into it. The Switch is dominating, having now become the third-b...
2023-05-16 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey All! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 124 of Defining Duke.
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2023-05-16 15:47:09 +0000 UTC
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Scheduling note: Some of our content is being released in a different order than usual this week due to a special episode. More details forthcoming.
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2023-05-15 16:01:59 +0000 UTC
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Scheduling note: Some of our content is being released in a different order than usual this week due to a special episode. More details forthcoming.
Greetings! Welcome, once more, to Constellation, Last Stand's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by Sacred Symbols co-host Chris Ray Gun and Defining Duke co-host Lord Cognito. Today, Cog wants to discuss phobias, the things that truly, really, and actually frighten and dist...
2023-05-15 16:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The Sacred Sons have returned for another call-in! We sat down for 90 minutes to take your calls on Discord, and we went off the rails quite a bit (in a good way). We discussed a range of topics, including canceled video games that we wished had come to fruition, how our "gamer credentials" have changed over the years, Sony's potential success in breaking into the mobile space, and even a scene from One Tree Hill involving a dog eating a heart. Please listen and enjoy!
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2023-05-13 16:05:48 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-13 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-12 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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A minor culling is underway at and around PlayStation, with a smaller first party studio going away and an in-production second party FPS seemingly cancelled. But it's unclear why this would necessarily be looked at as a bad thing. If teams and products aren't living up to their promise -- and if they presumably don't reach an ever-increasing quality bar internally -- shouldn't they be cut loose? Still, at a time when consolidation and headcount means anything, that Sony is taking these ...
2023-05-12 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-11 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Recently, Phil Spencer joined the Kinda Funny XCast to discuss everything from Redfall's disappointment and the Xbox Games Showcase to their stagnant pipeline and even their goals as a game publishing platform. This transparent look provided little for Xbox fans to feel confident about as the pressure continues to mount between Starfield needing to be an "11/10" experience and PlayStation's rumored showcase lingering just days ahead of Xbox. Indeed, there's no denying that if Xbox doesn't abs...
2023-05-11 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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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, May 11th at noon ET to submit.
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2023-05-10 19:00:02 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-10 16:01:03 +0000 UTC
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It's time -- once again! -- for a brand-new episode of Constellation, our off-topic conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by Last Stand's associate producer Ben Smith and coordinator Micah Watson. Ben gets into the deep mystery surrounding dreams, and prods us about what goes on behind our eyelids when we sleep. Micah laments celebrity deaths, wonders if they're worth getting upset about at all, and inquires about which prominent passings-away affected us most. I...
2023-05-10 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-09 23:10:21 +0000 UTC
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A couple of weeks ago on Constellation, me (Colin!) and friend-of-the-show David Jaffe (gaming luminary) got into a brief conversation that broached a popular topic: GamePass. As to not further sidetrack an already raucous episode, we said we'd 'deal' with that topic at another time and in another venue. Well, this is that other time and different venue. So, here's the rub: Instead of bombarding you with my arguments about Xbox's subscription service, which you all well-know, I thought I...
2023-05-09 23:10:15 +0000 UTC
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Hey All! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 123 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, 5/10 at 3 ET to...
2023-05-08 18:59:51 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-08 16:01:03 +0000 UTC
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The name of the game is rather fitting because today we are joining by another game's industry legend: Craig Leigh. Craig serves as Principal Design Director at Mojang where the team has just released Minecraft Legends! Recorded just ten days after the release of the game, we get to catch Craig in the thick its post-launch support and ask him all of our burning questions. With a 71 on Metacritic, how does a team respond to such reviews despite the game eclipsing 3 million players in its launc...
2023-05-08 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-06 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Wanna hear something wild? It's been more than a decade since PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale came to PS3 and Vita. Indeed, the name of the game wasn't considered particularly unusual then, but would be now, because it was no battle royale, but rather a Smash Bros.-like fighting game from now-defunct second party Sony partner SuperBot. While selling more than a million copies and finding a somewhat dedicated fanbase (at least for a short time), PSAS ultimately passed like a fart in the wi...
2023-05-06 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-05 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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In a recent interview, Hermen Hulst -- the head of PlayStation's first party studios -- spoke extensively about Sony's plans with its vaunted 10 in-development games-as-a-service. Through his words, we can begin to formulate a vision of a future where PlayStation first and second party games are both of the expected and unexpected variety, a marked change from a brand known first-and-foremost for marquee single player experiences. And in the wake of Xbox's disastrous launch of Redfall and the...
2023-05-05 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-04 16:01:09 +0000 UTC
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E3 2021 concluded with the "one more announcement" moment and that game was Redfall. Since then, Xbox has closely tied itself to the game as one of its big, AAA, premium exclusives. Following the vacancy of 2022, Xbox fans hoped to have their patience rewarded when the delay for Redfall released on May 2, 2023. Well, it's here and it has arrived unspectacular fashion. Redfall currently sits at a 62 on OpenCritic across 77 critic reviews and the brand has suffered yet another brutal, embarrass...
2023-05-04 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-03 19:40:06 +0000 UTC
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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, May 4th at noon ET to submit.
Talk to you soon!
2023-05-03 19:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Welcome one and all to another episode of Constellation. The Brothers Moriarty are joined this week by Sacred Symbols co-host Chris Ray Gun and LSM Executive Producer Dustin Furman. Chris gets into the nitty-gritty of his experience at Creator Clash 2, fielding questions from the boys about his boxing experience, and if he'll ever do something like that again. Dustin ponders the early days of the Internet, and wonders what we'd consider our formative experiences online, particularly...
2023-05-03 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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2023-05-02 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Despite the fact that Kingdom Hearts is now over 21 years old, describing it can still feel like a fever dream. Mixing Disney and Final Fantasy was already strange enough, but ironically, the most insane elements brought to the table are completely original to the series. That being said, millions of fans have come to love this beloved series due to its irresistible charm, characters, and gameplay. As a fan since the very beginning, I (Dustin) knew that I needed an outlet to discuss the serie...
2023-05-02 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey All! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 122 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, 5/3 at 3 PM ET to make ...
2023-05-02 00:00:13 +0000 UTC
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