Active Reload: A Video Game Podcast

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James, Grant, and Steven open up the show with the unfortunate passing of video game legend Vince Zampella. The guys discuss the impact his work had on them personally and overall on the industry as a whole. After that, there was some Rainbow Six Siege hack that made some players rich in R6 credits, then the guys talk about Rainbow Six Mobile. Ark 2 got another...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James and Grant open the show giving their good, bad, and ugly of all the Game Awards reveal trailers! Next, Marathon got a re-reveal from Bungie with a 23-minute inside look into the development of the upcoming extraction shooter. The guys discuss if the new look, price point, and release date is enough to attract players. Finally, Nvidia is reportedly plannin...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James, Grant, and Steve open up the show talking about the purchase Warner Brothers purchase by Netflix (or Paramount). It could have big impacts on a bunch of IP gamers are familiar with. The "future" of the Tomb Raider franchise will be revealed at the Game Awards according to host Geoff Keighley, the guys discuss what to expect from the next entry in the gam...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James and Grant are joined by a special guest, and they speculate more on the price of the upcoming Steam Machine, could it be priced up to $1,000? What can Valve do to try to pull appeal towards it from other consoles? After that, Grant breaks down his most underrated games of the year so far. Finally, the gang wraps up breaking down the games releasing this w...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week James, Grant, and Steven open up the show going over the Game Awards nominations! Grant is really pining for Arc Raiders even though it literally can't be game of the year. They break down specific nominations and their descriptions, such as what does Art Direction even mean? Plus, their picks for specific categories! After that, there are some very reputable le...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James, Grant, and Steve discuss the biggest news of the week: That's right, Pigeon Simulator is OUT!!! Just kidding, Grand Theft Auto 6 was delayed again, this time to November 2026. The guys debate whether we could see it on new consoles next year, or will it be the same thing that happened to Grand Theft Auto 5 with the previous generation of consoles. Plus,...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week James, Grant, and Steven break down the new trailer and gameplay reveal of Halo Campaign Evolved, the remake to Halo Combat Evolved. James and Grant both have some mixed feelings about it, and they share their pros and cons! Next, Valve pushed out one seemingly tiny update that wiped three billion dollars out of the Counter Strike skin marketplace overnight! The...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James, Grant, and Steve talk more about Battlefield 6 and the massive success it is having with it reaching over 7 million copies sold in the first three days! ARC Raiders also saw insane success, reaching 189,668 concurrent players on Steam during its Server Slam, which would make it the biggest extraction shooter in the platform's history, and it's not even o...

Welcome to Active Relaod! This week, James and Grant (mainly Grant) open the episode by talking about Battlefield 6! Grant gives his good, bad, and ugly after his time with it. Then, the guys discuss Remedy's profit warning to investors due to "weak sales" from FBC: Firebreak. The show was wondering who this game was for when it was first announced and Remedy seemingly never got an answer to that...

Welcome to Active Reload! On this week's episode, James and Grant open the giving their Borderlands 4 impressions, as well as reacting to Randy Pitchford seemingly getting flustered by fans who are upset with the performance issues of the game. Even though the game is fun, has this been kind of a mess for Gearbox? Next, the Wolverine game there has been one single trailer for, lives! A report has...

Welcome to Active Reload! On this week's episode, James and Grant go over MachineGames studio head Jerk Gustafson's comments regarding the possibility of a third installment in the mainline Wolfenstein series. Could a third game be on the horizon? It has officially been one year since the Concord release that shook the industry with it's subsequent shuttering. Has Sony learned anything from the de...

Welcome to Active Reload! It's a slow news week, but there are some items that slipped through. Bungie is looking for play testers to play Marathon for 30 days straight, and they're willing to pay $500 for them to do it! The guys discuss if they've ever seen anything like this before. Also, CD Projekt Red is teasing something in Cyberpunk with some in game statements being issued by a character on...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James, Grant, and Steve open the show talking about the announcement of longtime Bungie CEO Pete Parsons leaving the company. What is Parsons legacy given the much more recent struggles at the company? Next, Skate got an early access release date with a new trailer. There is some negative discourse around it, but both the James and Grant are excited to see it i...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James, Grant, and Steve go over the announcements at opening night of Gamescom 2025. A new Call of Duty Black Ops 7 gets a full reveal, Silksong is finally playable for the first time, and Lego Batman steals the show! Plus, Halo is officially partnering with Halo for a new warbond that is exclusively Halo ODST themed. Delta Force is coming to console and Black...

Welcome to Active Reload! On this week's episode, after a long hiatus, the guys can finally talk about the Battlefield 6 beta! They give their loves, likes, dislikes, and hates, as well as what they want to see in the next beta test! Next, Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox later this month and with the release the Arrowhead Game Studios team is teasing a massive collaboration with Halo (seemingly ODS...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week James and Grant open up the show discussing the new Battlefield reveal coming this week as well as the leak of the game officially getting its title, Battlefield 6 (wow!). Saber Interactive released a pretty cool trailer for their upcoming Hellraiser game with partnership from Clive Barker. Microsoft quietly revealed they removed the movies and TV section from t...

Welcome to Active Reload! After a two-week hiatus, James and Grant are back, and they open the show talking about the big announcement of Helldivers 2 officially making its way over to Xbox. The guys discuss the impact it should have on Xbox and how Microsoft was using the announcement to kind of sneak the other recent news of more layoffs under the rug. Also, there is some VERY juicy and interest...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James and Grant open the show talking about the small amount of news that there has been this week, mainly some news regarding a new college basketball game from EA and 2K. However, the main entrée for this week is not one, but TWO top 5's from each of our hosts. Grant gives his top five favorite games that other people seem to dislike. And in honor of a big fo...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James and Grant open the show talking about even more layoffs hitting the industry at Xbox, 1047 Games, Chinese Room, and Build a Rocket Boy. Some despite the release of solid products! After that depressing news, the guys get into some better news: Rematch! The new game from Sloclap is a blast to play, even with some technical issues, and both the James and Gr...

Welcome to Active Reload! It was a slower news week this week in the games world, but then on Tuesday a bunch of breaking news dropped. Bungie announced they would be delaying Marathon, James and Grant talk about what felt like an inevitability for the extraction shooter. Microsoft also confirmed that they are working on new first party hardware in partnership with AMD, something that sounded like...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James and Grant give their full reactions and takeaways from everything shown at this year's Summer Game Fest! They'll break down their favorite trailers from 007 First Light to ILL to Stranger Than Heaven and everything in between! It's also a pretty big week in releases! Mindseye is getting the bad end of steam reviews, Dune Awakening looks to be a solid Dune...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James and Grant start off the episode discussing the upcoming release of the Switch 2 and why there feels like a lack of the hype over the new console from Nintendo. It's also time for Summer Games Fest, the guys talk about what to expect from the event, could Arc Raiders and SplitGate 2 be shadow dropped? Are we going to see more from The Witcher 4? How much w...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week, James and Grant mainly discuss the big story of the week: Bungie getting caught red-handed stealing more artwork from a smaller artist that was put in their upcoming game Marathon. It is not their first time doing this (or their second, or their third) having been caught stealing other artists work in previous games as well. That came out on top of a Forbes rep...

Welcome to Active Reload! This week James and Grant, (from a brand-new studio!) discuss the Mafia: The Old Country gameplay trailer that was released, but more importantly the price point at release of $50! An attempt to seemingly undercut the competition. Then, the guys discuss the new co-op multiplayer shooter from Remedy, FBC: FireBreak, it got a trailer and release date and James wonders who t...

Welcome to Active Reload! On this week's episode James and Grant breakdown the new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer, they point out details they caught from multiple watches such as: New wildlife, new vehicles, more hurricane references, and maybe a fight club? The guys also touch on some of the new screenshots Rockstar posted of the new game, as well as some of the character bios that were dropped as w...