Breakout

Sony has revealed their the new PlayStation Plus model with updated tiers to compete with Microsoft's Game Pass, but we're wondering if they're making a mistake to not include their first party games at launch on the service through any tier. Oh, and the sequel to Breath of the Wild 2 got delayed again, so we'll talk about that.

We've seen the first two episodes of Halo on Paramount+ and it's weird. We've also been playing Ghostwire: Tokyo and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and have full impressions for you.

We've gotten some hands-on time with Ghostwire: Tokyo and Marty is pretty jazzed about it.

Xbox ended 2021 on a strong note with a lot of momentum, but due to troubles with Halo Infinite's multiplayer, and a lack of updates on new games three months into the new year, a lot of that momentum has slowed down. What's going on?

This week on Breakout we discuss Elden Ring, our continued impressions from it and whether or not it's a good starting place for newcomers to the Soulslike genre.

This week on Breakout we discuss our thoughts on Elden Ring, the next game from From Software which takes the "Souls" formula into a new open world setting. We've spent dozens of hours playing the game over the past week and are ready to share our thoughts on it.

This week on Breakout we discuss our thoughts about the upcoming The Rings of Power TV series and just how rough it's gotten in the media space to cover adaptions that bank on nostalgia while also going in new directions.

This week on Breakout we candidly discuss our thoughts on difficulty in video games and how it relates to Sifu.

This week on Breakout we candidly discuss our impressions on Dying Light 2, Pokémon Legends: Arceus and take a look at Sony's acquisition of Bungie.

This week on Breakout we candidly discuss what we like, don't like and what we'd like to see change in games media, as people in games media.

This week on Breakout we discuss the massive $70B acquisition of Activision by Microsoft.

This week on Breakout we discuss the current landscape of media where a lot of companies are relying on nostalgia-baiting to capture audiences attention...some people like this, and others don't.

This week on Breakout we discuss the current controversy surrounding Ghost Story Games and Ken Levine following the recent Bloomberg article which has the industry talking a lot about auteurs in games.

This week on Breakout we discuss the past year of The Escapist, our favorite moments from 2021, and what we’ve got coming up in 2022.

This week's episode of Breakout is sponsored by MTN DEW. This week we discuss our favorite games of 2021.

This week on Breakout we discuss Halo Infinite's campaign and predict what 343 Industries will be doing for the live service element of the game.

This week on Breakout we discuss the Halo Infinite battle pass controversy and the larger trade-offs of taking premium games to the free to play model.

Starting today, we're turning Breakout into a LIVE podcast. Featuring Nick Calandra, Marty Sliva and KC Nwosu, the freeform podcast dives into a bit of our daily lives, the latest games, movies, tv shows and books, the occasional craft beer review and random topics we find interesting.  New episodes every Wednesday morning from 9 AM to 10:00 AM CT.

This week on Breakout, Nick talks about Halo again, KC finally plays Jedi: Fallen Order, and Marty wants to talk about multiverses and metaverses. 

This week on Breakout the crew talks about Guardians of the Galaxy, Midnight Mass, Halo Infinite and we talk about our Halloween traditions.

This week on Breakout, we debate meat mixing and ketchup on eggs...and then talk all about Squid Game (spoiler-free), Nickelodeon All-Stars and more thoughts on Far Cry 6 now that Marty and KC have gotten to play it.

Nick's not sure how he feels about Far Cry 6, Marty played the new Outer Wilds DLC and KC's playing with toy cars like a child.

This week on Breakout, Nick's reading Star Wars books, Marty's playing Deathloop, and KC made a bunch of people mad on Twitter.

This week on Breakout, Nick talks all about Deathloop, Marty doesn't like Tails of Arise's DLC model and KC's all over the indies. Then we move onto the range of expectations of games media by both readers and other colleagues when it comes to expertise. 

This week on Breakout, we laugh at Nick, we talk about Psychonauts 2 and Apple+ has a surprising amount of good shows on it you're probably not watching.