With so many games in the pipeline, 2023 feels like the year that the pipe bursts and we get flooded with games. With big hitters such as Starfield, Spider-Man 2, and Tears Of The Kingdom set to arrive, it may be safe to suggest that 2023 could be one of gaming's very best. Given the Duke's enthusiasm for so many upcoming titles, we wanted to start the new year with the spirit of optimism as we look ahead at just a few of the many brilliant looking games coming out in 2023.
2023-01-04 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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2023-01-03 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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It's another call-in today, but with a special twist! In this episode, Last Stand producers Ben and I (Dustin) take your calls with a focus around production and other various topics. How do we handle editing pickups for our shows? What are our favorite tricks for being more efficient on the job? What game would we be interested in attempting a speed-run of? What developers are the best at being connected to their community? What's our favorite part of western Pennsylvania? This was a really ...
2023-01-03 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey All!
It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 105 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, 1/4 at 3 PM ET to make your submis...
2023-01-03 03:26:06 +0000 UTC
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2023-01-02 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Welcome one and all to the first-ever episode of Constellation, Last Stand Media's new conversational podcast. For each episode, Colin and Dagan are joined by two random guests from LSM's orbit to discuss four random topics, and this time around we're pleased to be joined by the other two-thirds of Sacred Symbols: Chris Ray Gun and Dustin Furman. Dustin wants to discuss the vaunted New Years Resolution with an eye towards whether they serve any function at all. Chris was recently captured by ...
2023-01-02 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-31 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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It's true: We're about seven years late on this one. But better late than never, as they say, for I (Colin) have recently experienced my very first Trails game and am eager to talk about it. To do so, I enlisted the help of the person who convinced me to give the game a go to begin with: MrMattyPlays. Together, we take a trip to Erebonia and delve deep into the life and times of Thors Military Academy's Class VII. And hey, don't let the anime aesthetic fool you, either. What's perha...
2022-12-31 17:00:01 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-30 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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2022 is but a fleeting memory. Thus, as the calendar turns over, we thought it would be best to look ahead. As is our tradition, it's time for Sacred Symbols to talk about our most-anticipated games of the next 12 months. 2023 is shaping up to be a far, far stronger year than 2022, an especially bold proclamation considering we know virtually nothing about what's coming from either first or second party. Indeed, none of our 15 selections are PlayStation-published games, but -- naturally -- al...
2022-12-30 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Our holiday tradition continues as Matty and Cog gather to discuss the very best and worst that Xbox's most popular service, Game Pass, had to offer. It was a year that saw strong improvement in the terms of quality as last year featured technical Day 1 duds such as Dark Alliance, Back 4 Blood, and even Outriders that painted a bleak picture of weak titles taking the bag. 2022 restored the confidence which left the Dukes with many good pickings, but even then we still had some stinkers. Indee...
2022-12-29 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-29 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-28 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Following 100 episodes of Defining Duke Ultimate, we felt it was time to finally get to know Matty and Cog a bit better! For those seeking crucial lore on our respective character arcs, look no further. From personal motivation all the way to missed job opportunities and even game series we missed out on, this episode serves as a nice deep dive on everything about the Dukes. Thanks for helping us reach this milestone and here's to another 100 great podcasts!
2022-12-28 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-27 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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As you're hopefully already familiar (and should go listen to or watch before proceeding), Episode 246 of + was the first of a two-part episode dedicated to ranking PlayStation's first party teams. In other words, a way to organize studios Sony owns outright through some loose metric. While we originally intended on doing this in a single podcast, the notion proved too unwieldy, and so today we offer our selections from numbers 10 through 1 (with 18-11 in the aforementioned previous epis...
2022-12-27 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-24 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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It's time once more for The Sacred League, our monthly game that pits Sacred Symbols' hosts against each other in nonsensical competition. As usual, we go down both subjective and objective routes, and this month's inquiries run the gamut from unremarkably normal to profoundly strange. Will Persona 4's early 2023 PS4 release score above or below a 90.5 on Metacritic? Which game best represents how 2022 felt? What studio do you believe audiences are way too hard on? Where would Phil Spencer an...
2022-12-24 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-23 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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It's time once more for our annual Sacred Symbols tradition: Recounting and discussing the most memorable and interesting moments from the last 12 months of PlayStation. The reality is, this year was quiet on the first and second party front, at least when it comes to news (the games were dope, as always). But much happened that's worth going over again: Sony's acquisition of Bungie, Haven's potential promise, PS+'s struggles, and more. Then, there's everything in orbit around PlayStation: Th...
2022-12-23 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-22 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Fallout is a series that is near and dear to our Duke hearts and undoubtedly one of the lead reasons behind Xbox's purchase of Zenimax Media. While Fallout 76 lives on, many wonder where the next mainline entry lies and with whom. You see, Xbox has a unique talent issue when it comes to this particular franchise as they happen to own all the teams with members that are responsible for what Fallout is today. Brian Fargo, Feargus Urquhart, Josh Sawyer, and Todd Howard all have left their mark o...
2022-12-22 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-21 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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The definition of "Pentiment" is the underlying image in a painting, especially one that has become visible when the top layer of paint has turned transparent with age, providing evidence of revision by the artist. Today, Matty and Cog finally peel back all those layers on murder mystery within Pentiment and see what truly happened. Join us as we comb through Acts 1 through 3 in both spoiler and non-spoiler fashion!
2022-12-21 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-20 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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It's time for another call-in episode of Sacred Symbols+, conducted (as always) via the Last Stand Discord. We went to six individual callers today, all with their own topic, which we of course didn't know beforehand. One person wanted to discuss the seeming fall of turn-based gaming, while another was curious if Jak & Daxter will ever have a future. One listener inquired about Last Stand's future, while another was inquisitive about content creation generally. Plus: Is Factions going to ...
2022-12-20 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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2022-12-17 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Gather 'round, nerds: It's time to make graphs and look at numbers. For the uninitiated, The Sacred Sales Saga is a metagame the Sacred crew plays amongst themselves, and Patrons can play along -- the exact same game we do -- at sacredsalessaga.com. The idea? To try and guess the 20 most-downloaded PlayStation 5 games on the PSN from the month before, a chart Sony itself actually releases every 30 days or so. Thus, each episo...
2022-12-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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It is with great relief that I write you this letter. (Sounds like I’m penning a dispatch during the Civil War.) Over the last month or so, Last Stand has been in overdrive with the intention of pre-recording all of our content for the holiday season, so that we might collectively get about three solid weeks off while not missing a beat for the audience. For the sixth consecutive year, I’m pleased to report that we’ve succeeded: Sacred Symbols, Sacred Symbols+, Defining Duk...
2022-12-16 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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