The Crossplay Cooperative

Welcome to The Crossplay Cooperative! We're sans Nate this week, but we plow on for this particularly grim episode! We talk about the death of physical media for PlayStation, huge layoff news and the culling of several Microsoft studio, my disappointment at GTA 6's performance on consoles and a whole lot more.   On the bright side, there are some killer games coming soon. SOCIALS https://www.faceb...

Welcome to The Crossplay Cooperative! We've hit episode 10, so of course it's our longest episode yet! Huge shout out to everyone who's downloaded, given us feedback and listened to us bang on. We massively appreciate it :) In this episode we have our first listener topic and chat about the role of narrative in video games. We also have a big dive into the concerning issues within Microsoft and mo...

Welcome to The Crossplay Cooperative Join us every second Friday (NZ) to keep up to date with our favourite bits of recent gaming news and thoughts. In this episode we attempt to go over all of the showcases over the past weekend and discuss announcements from Sony, Xbox, Nintendo and dozens of other publishers + dev. It's... a lot! We also talk about Friend-slop, AI controversy with one of these...

Welcome to The Crossplay Cooperative Join us every second Friday (NZ) to keep up to date with our favourite bits of recent gaming news and thoughts. In this episode we talk about wizards (some good, some bad), a whole lot of Warhammer, Sony mis-steps, the end of Destiny 2 and whole lot more. As always, this may just save your life. But probably not.   TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Cold open 00:06:48 - Int...

Welcome to The Crossplay Cooperative! In this episode we talk about leaky things, game perfume, GTA VI's crazy minimum expectations, gamers having sooks, among other riveting chat! We also get into what we've been jamming over the last two weeks, including my quick review of Mixtape, and get a bit vulny as we reminisce about games that punched us right in the feels! Massively important. xoxo   TIM...

Welcome to The Crossplay Cooperative! In this episode we talk about power animals, hype af game to film adaptations, some awesome xbox indies, Len's controversial take that Starfield is better than Fallout, Pragmata's dumpster fire of a subreddit, the new steam controller and so much more (sorry for the runtime, Dan!) As always, this is pretty vital stuff.  - Thanks for listening! Links NZ Drink D...

In part 2 of our episode from last week I talk about my initial experiences with the epic that is Crimson Desert, Dave regales us on his ongoing Slay the Spire 2 addiction, special guest Gareth talks relaxing with Silksong like an absolute psycho and Nate relives our shared trauma with As Dusk Falls.   Note: A few days before I published this Podcast, Black Ops 7 started working as intended on the...

Another week, another live sesh with the fellas and our first special guest! In this episode we talk about Marathon (again!), the cost of making a AAA game in hours, crypto gaming devs, Nintendo pokémon patent attempts, special glue, micro machines and much more! Disclaimer: Sorry for the huskiness. Was a bit of a night prior...  Also, this is part 1 of 2. Second half with our recent gaming experi...

Finally we are united and recording in the same room! In this episode we talk about Sony's PS5 price increases, Nintendo rumours, more Nvidia AI chat, some awkward Street Fighter 6 storylines, post-game completion depression and a whole lot more! Like a lot, a lot. We also dive into what we've been playing over the last two weeks, including a look at Slay The Spire II, Len's final thoughts after g...

In this episode we talk about Nvidia's controversial DLSS5 announcement, angry Nintendo, angry Jeff Kaplan, an angry Helldivers 2 community (seriously, chill-out), and happy Division 2 players. We also dive into what we've been playing over the last two weeks, including a look into the a few games from the Computer Worlds showcase and have a quick update on our Fantasy Critic standings. As per: Ex...

Welcome to the first ever episode of the Crossplay Cooperative! Three chaps from New Zealand discuss recent gaming news/trends and take a deeper dive into game concepts, mechanics and topics. It's really important stuff, honestly. In this episode, we talk about Sony shutting down Bluepoint, Phil Spencer's retirement, discuss several games from Steam's Next Fest and have a chat about extraction sho...