On this week’s episode, we talk about the new indie puzzle-platformer Animal Well. But before that we have to talk about the latest update for Starfield, the latest on the successor to the Nintendo Switch, and the closure of four Microsoft studios.

[News of the Week]

• Starfield May update

• Switch successor to be announced this fiscal year (by March 2025) Nintendo to hold June direct to announce what's coming later this year but won't feature the switch successor

• Rumored Switch 2 spec

• Microsoft closes four studios, including Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda

• The Gaming Historian shuts down patreon and returns to “part-time” status

• Amazon Prime subscribers can claim a free PC copy of Fallout 3

• Sunset Devils

[Games out this week]

• Animal Well

• Little Kitty Big City

• Hades 2 early access

• Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns (DLC)

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Wes Anderson’s Montblanc commercial

• Animal Well

• Clarkson’s Farm

• Ponyo

This week we focus mainly on games, with discussion of two games we’ve been playing, including the recently released Rusty's Retirement. We also both brought five games each to recommend as great games to play while listening to podcasts - like this one!

[News of the Week]

• More Fallout TV show discussion?
• No BlizzCon this year

[Games out this week]

• Rusty’s Retirement (full release)
• Another Crab’s Treasure
• Sand Land

[Features]

• Rusty's Retirement (FULL RELEASE)
• Five podcast game recommendations

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Dune 2
• Monkey Man
• Toem
• Rusty’s Retirement
• Shogun

On this week’s episode, we do our spoiler talk about Amazon’s Fallout TV show. But before that, we go through everything shown during Nintendo’s latest Indie World Showcase!

[News of the Week]

• Nintendo Indie World Showcase (4/17/24)

• Digested

• Hades 2 Technical Test

• Keanu Reeves is Shadow the Hedgehog

[Games out this week]

• Harold Halibut

• No Rest for the Wicked

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Fallout TV Show

• Shogun

• Solo Leveling

• Shangri-La Frontier

Fallout TV Show early impressions, indies games showcase

On this week’s episode of Starside Chat, we talk about the first two episodes of Amazon’s Fallout TV show. But before that, we go through what games stood out to us in the Triple-i Initiative games showcase.

[News of the Week]

• Live action film adaptation of Dredge announced

• Star Wars Outlaws release date revealed

• Destiny: The Final Shape Dev Walkthrough

• Triple-i initiative Showcase

• Fallout 4 getting next gen upgrade

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Fallout

• Shogun

We’re back after a several weeks long break! And this week we’re getting caught up on what we’ve been playing, watching and reading. We also talk about a little bit of gaming news from the past week.

[News of the Week]

• Windblown gameplay trailer

• Silksong rated by ESRB

• Thoughts on Marvel Rivals reveal

• Jump Ship

• Mod shoutout - Minecraft Distant Horizons

[Games out this week]

• Pepper Grinder

• Princess Peach Showtime

• Rise of the Ronin

• Dragon’s Dogma 2

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• FF7 Rebirth

• Shogun

• 3 Body Problem

• Road House

• Beekeeper

This week we talk about Aaron’s early impressions with Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth and Zach’s early impressions of Deep Rock Galactic Survivor. We also talk briefly about the Jack Ryan movies and the 90’s Hercules TV show.

[News of the Week]

• Akira Toriyama has passed away

• Bioware reportedly confident Dragon Age Dreadwolf will release this year

• Mass Effect board game expected to come out later this year

• Mechs coming soon to Helldivers 2

• PlayStation secures FF7 Remake trilogy as a console exclusive

• New Fallout TV show trailer drop

• Apex Legends News

• Mario Day announcement from Nintendo

• A Watchdogs movie is maybe happening

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

• Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

• Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan movies

• The 90’s Hercules TV show

Zach has seen Dune Part 2 and finished Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth and started FF7 Rebirth. We keep the chatter about these things vague so as to not spoil anything, but we’ll circle back to them again soon. We also talk about layoffs impacting Sony and EA and the previews that came out about Moon Studio’s upcoming RPG No Rest for the Wicked.

[News of the Week]

• Sony rumored to release PS5 Pro this fall ahead of GTA6 launch

• Sony to layoff 900 people across multiple studios

• EA laying off670 employees and canceling Respawn’s Star Wars FPS

• No Rest for the Wicked previews

• Pokemon Presents Legends Z-A

• Stardew 1.6 has a release date!

• Next Fest: Mullet MadJack

• Next Fest: Nimrods

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Heroic Trio - Criterion Release

• Supernatural

• Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth

• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

• Dune 2

On this week’s episode, we talk about a bunch of new game trailers (and the trailer for the Borderlands movie), but we also talk about what stood out to us in the latest Nintendo Direct. We also briefly cover a bunch of new game releases (including the review roundup for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth). We also talk about what we’ve been playing lately, which includes the hit new rogue-like deck builder Balatro and more Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth.

[News of the Week]

• Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead adds AFK timer to prevent people staying logged in overnight so they can avoid queue times

• Harold Halibut gameplay overview (demo is available)

• No Rest For the Wicked looks great

• Kingmakers looks insane

• Xbox multiplatform reveals

• Nintendo Direct

• Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC

• Borderlands movie trailer

• Review roundup - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

• Stardew Valley update

[New Game Releases]

• Balatro

• Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior

• Last Epoch

• Penny’s Breakaway

• Nightingale

• Pacific Drive

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Balatro

• Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth

• Déjà vu