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We're home from an amazing Extra Life 2024 - where, with your love, support and donations, we CRUSHED our fundraising goal and raised over $10,000 for sick kids! Thanks so much. So let's just hang out, unwind for a bit and bask in the precious momes. ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carp...

I fear that... our trick-or-treat bag of spooky games on Switch this Halloween season... i-it's overflowing! There are so many good ones! What are YOU playing to get into the spirit? ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/...

Waiting on Nintendo to announce new hardware this year? I've got good news! They DID! It just... probably isn't exactly the hardware you had in mind. ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carp...

The new Zelda game released last week and now, more of the crew has had more time to spend with it and more thoughts to share. To, uh, varying degrees of sanity. Seth may have already 100%d the game and lost a bunch of sleep playing it over the past week. We'll find out. ★ LINKS ★ ► Donate to Extra Life 2024: https://extra-life.org/participant/carpoolgaming ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: htt...

Have you heard the good news? You can play as Zelda as the main protagonist of a Legend of Zelda game! In fact, we've done just that - if only for just a little. But we're still gonna talk about it. iS tHiS gAmE eVeN gOoD oR iS nInTeNdO wOkE nOw?! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invit...

Someday, we'll be able to stop talking about Switch 2. But that day is not today. Seems like this thing is starting to leak pretty thoroughly and we're all just kinda wondering - when is Nintendo just gonna announce it themselves? And are these leaks even real to begin with? I remember The Grinch Leak. #NeverForget ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolg...

An even longer title for this episode could've featured even more alliteration: "Predicting Switch 2's Price Point Post-PlayStation 5 Pro". Sony revealed their latest hardware this past week and after some sticker shock, it's got people wondering how much Nintendo is gonna want for their upcoming Switch successor. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon...

PlayStation has a great new 3D platformer in Astro Bot - and by all accounts, it's fantastic! But people seem hellbent on comparing the game to Mario. Should these two games be compared at all? Is there anything that Nintendo and Mario can learn from Astro Bot? ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord...

Nintendo held a DOUBLE DIRECT this week: Indie World immediately followed by a Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase. This is pretty unprecedented... but were they any good? Let's talk about it. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpoolg...

WITH SPECIAL GUEST CWAGGY! Nintendo properly unveiled the Nintendo Museum this week with a special Direct presentation, complete with Shiggy's adorable and somehow also intimidating energy. It looks like it may be worth the trip to Kyoto... ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9...

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS TONY BAKER AND JB! Recent rumors and reports seem to indicate that Switch 2 might be coming in April 2025 at the EARLIEST - but do we buy that? These things have been wrong many times in the past and Nintendo has proven impossible to reliably predict. When is this thing actually coming out?! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join...

Nintendo gave us a deeper look at the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom... and good grief, y'all. Does it look good. We're getting even more excited and September 26th can't get here soon enough. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gam...

Look, I know we've meme'd on Amanda's rage-inducing playthrough of Celeste before, but now she gets it. That game has real things to say and lessons to teach you about life in general. Video games are amazing, huh. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpo...

With Echoes of Wisdom coming soon and Zelda finally getting her own game, we can't help but wonder. What if the Triforce was completed? What if GANON was next up to get his own game? What would that even look like? ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gamin...

It's no Waffles vs. Pancakes vs. French Toast... but Nintendo has sent us into a real spiral with this upcoming Splatfest for Splatoon 3. The Battle of the Carbs. How can we possibly choose?! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpoo...

Nintendo is teasing some mysterious, M-rated horror game that they simply refer to as "Emio"... WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON HERE?! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://carpoolgaming.com/ ► Check us out on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/c...

Has there ever been a game that you were too harsh on when you first played it? Something that you went back to months or years later and said "...you know what"? Maybe your tastes changed, maybe you saw something there that you didn't see before, but whatever it is, it made you do a total 180. That's what we're gonna talk about this week on the show: those games that got the...

This week on the show, we're talking about our proudest accomplishments playing video games. None of us are teenage cyborgs anymore, but why not preen our feathers a bit and talk about those times where we were unironically *amazing* at video games? ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/...

That Nintendo Direct was... a lot! What were our favorite announcements? How did this Direct tee up the Nintendo Switch for the rest of the year? How did our predictions stack up? Spoilers: not well ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https://car...

The GameBoy Advance turned 23 this week and despite what Blink-182 says... plenty of people still like you when you're 23! So let's celebrate this awesome era in Nintendo's history and shout out some of our favorite GBA games! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Ge...

This week on the show, the crew is peering into their crystal ball and telling you everything that will absolutely 100% happen at this month's mysterious, upcoming Nintendo Direct. The only thing we can know for sure? #TheLightsWillDim ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► G...

The crew assembles to predict what they think we'll see during Friday's Summer Game Fest 2024 kickoff event! Be sure to watch the event live with us on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/CarpoolGamingLive ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your Carpool Gaming merch: https:...

With the recent remaster/remake/re-whatever of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, veterans and newcomers alike are able to either experience this GameCube classic again or for the very first time. But does the game still hold up 20 years later? Also, there's gonna be some chat about the 2013 3DS hit, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. What a show! ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming...

This week, for no reason in particular, we want to celebrate the Nintendo 3DS. Remember that thing? It was awesome! This one's for you, glasses-free 3D. We salute you, StreetPass. Requiescat in pace, dual screen dedicated handheld gaming. We'll always love you. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://dis...

What makes an indie game a masterpiece? Which games rise above the rest? The answer to that question will certainly be different for everybody that it's asked to. This week, it's been asked of us. So let's dig into it. ★ LINKS ★ ► Support Carpool Gaming on Patreon: https://patreon.com/carpoolgaming ► Join our amazing Discord community: https://discord.com/invite/WR3qcXJq9n ► Get your C...