EXP Podcast #761: The Year Ahead 2025

A new year appears at the threshold like a wandering ronin.

It's the beginning of the year and it's nothing but endless possibilities stretching out before us!  This week we continue our tradition of looking at this year's scheduled (and perhaps not so scheduled) releases and call out what we're most looking forward to. 

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 38 min 10 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #760: 2024 Leftovers

2025 is looking bright too.

This week to take one last look backwards at 2024 and some of the amazing games that didn't quite make out Top 3. Happy near year everyone!

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 41 min 56 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #759: 2024 Game of the Year

Astro Bot, ready to duke it out for GOTY

We've made it around the sun once more and we have a handful of great games to prove it.  But which games will be our favorite of year?  And will Jorge and I maintain our drift compatibility and choose the same game as our GOTY?  All this, along with more Balatro pro tips, in this week's show.

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 41 min 56 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #758: The 2024 Gamey Awards

2024 Gamey Host

The most prestigious video game award show is back, celebrating once again not just the greatest bummers and mood lifters, but also the best Waifus/Husbandus, the most elegant games, and of course the gameyest. The 2024 Gameys are here!

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Show Notes:

• Music by Brad Sucks

 

 

EXP Podcast #757: Story Time with Shawn Layden

The look of a man who has seen many Hideo Kojima pitches.

Thanks to the recent 30th anniversary of the original PlayStation launch, there's been plenty of retrospectives about the system and the era it ushered in.  This week, we dig into Eurogamer's extended interview with Former Sony CEO Shawn Layden.  Layden's tenure at Sony spanned the pre-PlayStation era all the way through the PS4 and he offers some candid thoughts about the state of the industry, development costs, and why he may be the last of the console warriors.  Plus, he floats the concept of triple-A development being akin to building a massive cathedral and now I'm obsessed with the image of a stained-glass Dual Shock.

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 35 min 28 sec

- ""There comes a time when we all declare the war is over": Former PlayStation Studios boss Shawn Layden on the future of video game consoles," by Tom Phillips, via Eurogamer

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #756: This Is My Favorite Xbox on the Citadel

No. That's a phone.

According to Microsoft you probably have an Xbox in your pocket. So what's an Xbox again? This week on the podcast we chat Microsoft news and venture into the future... of television with the Mass Effect TV series.

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Show Notes:

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #755: Time to Face the Music

But is it strong enough to handle me smashing snooze?

Leave it to Nintendo: we turn our backs for just a couple of weeks and they exponentially increase their wackiness.  Well I can officially tell this to our favorite baffling company: Chill out, we're awake and we have ready access to the Internet!  Your clock and your music app is very cute, but shouldn't you be working on a new console or something?  Wake me up once you're ready to tell me what the Super Mario Odyssey team has been working on.

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 31 min 33 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks