Dropped Frames

It's award season this weekend as we discuss the first (annual?) Streamer Awards, but also the Video Game Accessibility Awards & the SXSW Game Awards all on the same day. Sony had a short State of Play this week and Capcom is making a not-Dino Crisis co-op game. The Domina dev took too much of something. Then in the back half we have a discussion around FOMO in Lost Ark as well as Zeke's Indies! S...

We take an even longer time discussing our further adventures in the world of Elden Ring and still come away gushing about most aspects of the game, though we do have some criticisms. Then in the second half we talk about the troubled launch of Babylon's Fall, how ELEX 2 fairs in 2022 & much more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week JP & Zeke are joined by DansGaming & Kahlief Adams from Spawn On Me to chat all about male pattern baldness and White Castle. Then we get into some news with the DICE Awards, Street Fighter 6, a new Pokemon game already? In the second half it's nothing but our love of Elden Ring with a very LONG discussion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Cohh moved into his new office which leads into a very technical discussion about streaming. Then we get into the news! Which are a bunch of patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, No Man's Sky and the future of Final Fantasy XIV! After the break we go ALL in on the new Horizon: Forbidden West. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A large Nintendo Direct happened this week and we discuss mouthful mode as well as a new Xenoblade Chronicles game (!!!) Then Cohh rants for about 40 minutes on the ending to Dying Light 2. After the break we go in-depth on Lost Ark: What is it? Is it pay-to-win? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're in the hectic month of February, with multiple games releasing every week! We've all played Dying Light 2, how does it fare against DL1 and other open world games? Then in the Second half we give our early impressions of Sifu, a very technical fighter roguelite getting mixed reviews for its difficulty... We also try to find time to check out the newest Path of Exile league & more! See omnyst...

BurkeBlack joins us this week to show us his amazing stream setup and their crazy in depth Eco roleplay server they setup this month. But first we check our hype for the games of February including Total Warhammer 3. Atari destroying the brand with NFT lootboxes. Ubisoft says nobody understands Ubisoft Quartz. Zeke chases his white whale. JP tries Pokemon & Cohh refreshes for the upcoming gaming o...

Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard for an astronomical sum of cash. We go through what we're excited for and what we're worried about from the industry shaking news. Is E3 canceled forever? How are Tifa's poll numbers in Italy? Then we get into some games: Expedition: Rome, Project: Zomboid and... GEX? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rami joins us this week as we take a trip down memory lane and take a look back at the 299 episodes that came prior to this one. Then we get into some news such as Take-Two buying Zynga, Inscryption doing VERY well, a revealing Phil Spencer interview. AGDQ breaking records. The continued NFT discourse. Cohh's thoughts on God of War PC and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We weigh in on the current TV and Anime meta ongoing on Twitch after Pokimane got banned and Hasan got a DMCA strike. Why it's happening and how it affects everyone on the platform. CES 2022 also happened this week where the Playstation VR 2 was announced! Then we get into Cohh's cozy game streams featuring Noita and Wasteland 3 as well as Zeke's on-going CD-Rom-A-Thon! See omnystudio.com/listener...

Our first show of 2022 and what better way to celebrate 2022 then to rank our favorite games of 2021! What surprises await in Zeke's list? How highly will Cohh rate Pathfinder? Will Endwalker end JP? Let's find out together! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We get deep into the NFT hole after S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 announces and then quickly rolled back their NFT announcement meanwhile Ubisoft doubles down. Tencent acquires Back4Blood devs Turtle Rock Studio. Hades wins a Hugo Award & The hunt for an Elden Ring CE. JP and Cohh have a spoiler discussion of Halo: Infinite. Heavenly Bodies is stupid fun. Cohh's continued journey through Endwalker. Zeke sings...

We made an executive decision on the spot and decided that Sundays will be our new show day! We then lock down our Game of the Year categories for our GOTY show on January 2, 2022 @1PM ET before moving on to the depressing news of the week such as ABK still on fire after a walk-out and a union busting e-mail, Sony exec fired after a sting operation exposed him and more. Then we spend the rest of t...

We have an announcement: We're moving to Sundays 1PM ET starting January 2, 2022 with our GOTY episode! The big news this week in the streamer world is Ludwig leaving Twitch for YouTube! What does that mean for the two competing streaming platforms and for other streamers and even viewers? Meanwhile Twitch is rolling out new tools to combat ban evasions. On the gaming side Zeke has been addicted t...

Cohh returns to catch us up on the life of a chicken owner, and also being a father. Then we weird story of Streamlabs as well as the bombshell investigation into Activision Blizzard & Bobby Kotick by the Wall Street Journal. We predict the winners of The Game Awards 2021 that are 100% correct. Then we talk about League of Legends lore, the surprise drop of Halo Infinite multiplayer and much more!...

The Elden Ring embargos are up so Maximilian joins us this week to chat all about it! What's different about Elden Ring compared to previous FROM Software souls games? What's the same? What's the deep lore on beach crabs? All that and more! Then in the back half we get in to the news of the week, streaming tech, as well as some of the other games we've been playing! See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Reporting in from England, GassyMexican joins JP and Zeke to contrast and compare various regional upscale supermarkets and convenience stores. Then we talk about the unexpectedly great Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy as well as the recently-released-into-early-access: Darkest Dungeon 2 and much more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Skinnedteen & Devolver Digital's SeriouslyClara join Zeke and JP to have a show all about indie games like the recently released Inscryption from Pony Island dev: Daniel Mullins. But first Elden Ring is delayed, God of War announced for PC, Persona 5 Royal rumors for Switch & Steam?! We also have lengthy discussions over the word "influencer" and what defines an Indie game in 2021. See omnystudio....

Maximilian_DOOD & JERICHO join us this week to talk about the Twitch leak that was all the rage last week. Then we get into a more in-depth review of New World and if it can last passed the initial release. Maximilian GUSHES over Metroid Dread and might be a GOTY contender for him, then lots of talk of Battlefield 2042 and the FPS competition this winter with CoD: Vanguard & Halo Infinite + more!...

Rami and Dodger join us this week to get right to the bottom of Hello Kitty. We then react to the ridiculous casting for the upcoming animated Mario movie & have a competition over IGN's GOAT tournament. Then we talk about Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Deathloop, and our first impressions of the MMO New World + more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cohh is out on baby watch for a few weeks but we tagged in some ringers as JERICHO and GassyMexican join JP and Zeke for a catch-up on last week's Playstation Showcase. A bunch of rumored upcoming game delays are on the horizon, but which ones? Let the speculation begin! Then we get into our impressions on Deathloop, Life is Strange: True Colors, the Icarus beta, Tales of Arise and much more! See...

The big Playstation Showcase happens tomorrow (from the time of this upload) and there are surprisingly very little credible leaks coming out of the event. We try to make some educated guesses on what could possibly be shown (or not shown) before getting into how great Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We explain why Twitch streamers are in protest and how Twitch is failing them. Meanwhile, large Twitch streamers: Dr. Lupo and TimTheTatMan leave the platform for YouTube Gaming. After that we get into our glowing reviews of Psychonauts 2, our thoughts on the betas for Riders Republic & Icarus and much more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DansGaming joins us again for a stacked episode of games! But first Cohh has a lot of thoughts on the new Cyberpunk 2077 patch. Outriders devs don't know how much the game sold, our reactions to Pokemon Legends! We've been playing Voidtrain, Humankind, a bunch of mobile games (???) as well and much more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every few hours there seems to be another damning story about the work environment surrounding Activision Blizzard, we go through the timeline of events and wonder if they could even recover. New World delayed (again) and we go over the EA Play & Annapurna recent announcements. Then the games we've been playing! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.