Garrett Gage

Here Comes a New Challenger

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A podcast about fighting games whether it be about the fight games themselves or more broad things such as training modes and music.

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Garrett Gage

Episodes

Combo Breaker 2025 (Episode 156) 31.05.2025 2:01:39

C-c-c-c-c-combo breaker! We go over Combo Breaker as an event and the news that happened at and around it!

Threat of an Intro (Episode 155) 22.05.2025 1:21:11

News! It's a shorter episode as something came up for Austin while recording so we go over news and weeks for a smaller episode.

Evo Japan 2025 (Episode 154) 19.05.2025 1:46:44

Garrett talks about COTW! The gang also goes over the Arc System Works leak, COTW sales numbers, and EVO Japan

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (Episode 153) 10.05.2025 1:18:32

Troy and Austin got a week of Fatal Fury experience, what did they think about the game? Shorter episode due to real life events needing to cut it short, there will be more to say about COTW next episode.

Sicko Mode News Week (Episode 152) 20.04.2025 1:38:24

Everyone is here while we go over a bunch of topics, ranging from Tekken 8 Season 2 to all the news from Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.

Arc World Tour (Episode 151) 08.04.2025 2:04:15

We go over Arc World Tour as an event from Garrett and Austin's POV, while shouting out friends for doing well in Texas Showdown and going over Ronaldo being added Fatal Fury: into City of the Wolves

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Open Beta (Episode 150) 05.03.2025 1:57:03

We celebrate 150 episodes, and go over the City of the Wolves open beta that happened recently, along with Sandalphon. Apologies for audio on this one, we had issues during recording.

Guess the Tier List: Touhou Edition (Episode 149) 22.02.2025 1:40:52

For Brandon's blated birthday, the gang guesses the tier list of one of the Touhou fighting games while Brandon tells us what the real list is and how close we were Our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P

Punch-Out! Tier List (Episode 148) 15.02.2025 1:22:24

What says love quite like Punch-Out? Austin and Garrett go over the cast of the 2010 Punch-Out and see which ones are champions and which ones are chumps Our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P

Evo Awards Nominees (Episode 147) 07.02.2025 1:59:23

(Brandon's audio cuts out at the end and is missing ~20 minutes and could not be recovered. I cut the big pauses in between Austin and if it still feels like someone is missing in the convo that is why) We go over the EVO Award Nominees and we talk about why most of us aren't big fans of them.

Frosty Faustings XVI (Episode 146) 01.02.2025 1:43:10

Troy is back, and he goes over Frosty Faustings XVI including his bracket run, Sandalphon, and more! We also go over all the news we've been missing.

EVO 2025 Lineup Reaction (Episode 145) 18.01.2025 1:53:43

Garrett, Austin and Brandon watch the lineup stream for EVO 2025 and react to the reveals and have a discussion about the throwback title. Support victims of the LA Fires: https://www.latimes.com/00000194-4945-dbaa-a9be-5fcd08250000-123 Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P

The Airing of Grievences (Episode 144) 17.01.2025 2:10:03

A cathartic episode where Austin and Garrett are joined by Q and talk about grifters in the scene. Apologies for the quality on Q's audio, I've edited as much as I could to make it sound somewhat decent.

Virtua Fighter is Back (Episode 143) 31.12.2024 1:23:37

Austin, Garrett, Brandon and Q go over The Game Awards and the Virtua Fighter 5 beta

Our Wrapped 2024 (Episode 142) 12.12.2024 2:03:31

Austin, Brandon and Garrett go over news, and their Spotify 2024 Wrapped for the podcast! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P Our Blusky: https://bsky.app/profile newchallengerpod.bsky.social

VGAs Kinda Suck for Fighting Games (Episode 141) 01.12.2024 1:46:46

In this episode it's a duo as Austin and Garrett talk about the new Virtua Fighter, more Bleach characters, and also the nominations for Best Fighting Game

Should Players Create Balance Patches? (Episode 140) 11.11.2024 1:58:30

In this episode, we talk about news and we try to do scattershot, where we do mini discussions before just having time for one which is "Should players create balance patches?" Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P

Fighting Game Protagonist Bracket (Episode 139) 01.11.2024 2:03:03

The boys do a Tier List on the best fighting game protagnists from Ryu to Ragna! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P

Here Comes Next Challenger On The Left Super Turbo Friends (Episode 138) 26.10.2024 1:57:09

We talk a whole lot about news to get caught back up! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P

Marvel VS Capcom Fighting Collection (Episode 137) 29.09.2024 2:07:34

CAPCOM PRESENTS... Join our discord! https://discord.gg/BaeZPy6VVV

EVO 2024 (Episode 135) 03.08.2024 2:27:15

The boys talk about EVO 2024 with the announcements, the good, the bad, and the games they played like 2XKO, City of the Wolves and HxH Nen Impact! Brandon also offers his thoughts on EVO as a spectator watching from home

EVO Predicitons (Episode 134) 17.07.2024 2:01:57

The boys are back with their yearly tradition of predicting what we will see and hear at EVO 2024 this weekend but with a twist

Brandon is in Kombat Pack 2 (Episode 133) 27.06.2024 1:49:59

It's Marvel, baby! We talk about all the news from the past week including the new Marvel VS Capcom collection!

But for Me it was Year 2 (Episode 132) 14.06.2024 1:50:32

Join our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P We talk about all the news around Summer Games Fest and finally get caught up on news. This includes Year 2 of SF6 and plenty of Fatal Fury news

Most Greed is Very Incompetent (Episode 131) 08.06.2024 2:21:18

We talk about Combo Breaker 2024, Dreamhack Dallas and all the news in between. Join our discord server and play ape war with us: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P