Norderlanders: A Gaming Podcast

Cyberpunk is back with the long awaited Patch 1.2. Can we move on from Cyberpunk now? Give them a break maybe? Well CD Project Red has also announced that they are going to work on two new games simultaneously in the Witcher and Cyberpunk franchises. Is that really the way to go? I guess we'll find out. Also Cyberpunk multiplayer component is most likely cancelled. That okay in our opinion. Sony h...

Hey you, do you care about your PS3, PSP or the underated PSVITA? Well it's about to end. It's reported that Sony is planning to shut down the digital stores for the consoles. Why? Well, everthing has to end sometime, but still. It's important to make the purchased games available. We don't know what's going on, so hopefully we get the official word from Sony, Nintendo Switch (Pro?) is sounding re...

IT'S SPRING TIME And you know what that means? Playing some Borderlands. Well some of us does and the other hasn't played anything at all this week. Well, it is what it is. Devotion (Not Division) is back on sale, after much trouble being banned by China and GOG respectively. What is up with that game? Well now it's back, so hurray! Activision/Blizzard lays of several employees while the CEO is da...

Since we didn't cover news last week, we talk about the big ones! Elden Ring and New Switch is real after all?  Well, Elden Ring was suppose to be shown soon, but due to leaks, this will be postponed. Switch (Pro?) will be a more realistic upgrade than the insane mockups shown on the interwebs. Then back to news for this week!  Microsoft is making the Xbox the best overall console ever.&...

Hello there! This episode will be a special episode due to we will not be able to record a normal episode because of busy schedule. So enjoy this episode where we talk about our gaming backlog! Why makes a game end in a backlog? Well we have various reasons, everything from time consumption, distractions and well, sometimes we don't really know why. Anyways let's talk about this and just to make s...

PlayStation State of Play was this week, showing off stuff we already know about. Gameplay trailers, showcases and more. But we got some surprises! Sifu and Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Intergrade. Pretty cool. Nvidia trying to please everyone with their upcoming RTX 3060 and new cryptocurrency cards, CMP. Will this really help with the shortages? Or are they doing it just for the money? God damn. EA c...

Finally a new traditional Nintendo Direct this week! And it was... pretty underwhelming? Well, some cool stuff was announced but where were the big guns? Nintendo, please give us updates. Skyward Sword is coming to Switch with optimazed controls. Will people be more forgiving of this game now? Don't worry, you can still play it the old motion control way. Live-service games, hate them or love them...

Can we move on from CD Project Red? Well, someone definitely can't and have sadly hacked the company, stealing source code from their games. CDPR did not meet the demands from the hackers, and now the source code has been sold on the dark web for 7 million dollars. Oh well. Borderlands 3 Director's Cut has been revealed and it's not much new with it? Some stuff makes the game more like BL2, but is...

Google Stadia was doing fine we thought, but no. Google has shutted down two of their exclusive Stadia game studios. Luckily Google has been nice and making sure the employees gets a new job somewhere else within Google. Is Stadia ahead of it's time? Gearbox has been acquired by someone, and it's not Microsoft. Embracer, parent company of THQ Nordic, acquired Gearbox for 1.3 billion dollars (WOW)....

Last week there were a Resident Evil event that we totally missed, so let's talk about it now! Resident Evil Village (or 8?) was shown, with a demo available now on PS5 and release. Coming in May. The game looks so good that we are considering playing it, even though we don't like horror. But that Re:Verse multiplayer game looks a bit of... Cyberpunk 2077 (yes, again) finally got it's first offici...

Does CDPR ever get a break? Apparently not, with an article from Blomberg confirming a bunch of info of the troubled development of Cyberpunk 2077. Is there ever a limit of info from this? No, but this article covers most of it. On another note, the development of S.T.A.L.K.A.R. 2 is going well! The long awaited sequel is going to have all the nooks and crannies that you expect from a game nowaday...

LucasArts is back! EA is out (well not really) and Ubisoft and Bethesda are in! New Indiana Jones game and an open world Star Wars game has been announced. And, with more announcements coming soon through 2021. Everyone one of them, under the brand new banner, Lucasfilm Games. Black PS5 is no longer available, and not for the reasons you may think! The company behind this has been recieving threat...

First semi-normal episode of 2021! News are still in short, so we decided to do a mix of news episode and special episode. Let's talk about five of our most anticipated games of 2021! Emil & Jens has different tastes, but that is not a bad thing. Right? On the news front, Cyberpunk 2077 DLC is free , which yeah, that's probably the right call. Ubisoft subscription service a part of Xbox Game P...

Happy New Years Everybody! We continue with our special episodes during the holidays. This time around we talk about our special connection to the Borderlands franchise. The reason we became friends and why this Norderlanders exists today. Take a listen as we dive into the franchise and talk about our pros and cons with the games. What makes Borderlands appeal to us and what do we want to see in t...

Merry Christmas Everybody! Since it is the holidays we decided to make a special episode this week. In this episode we are going to talk about hidden gems and games close to our heart! (Yeah I know, two topics?) Both Emil and Jens have made a list containing the games and we go through them in a messy way. On the news front , Cyberpunk 2077 is not available on Playstation Store and CDPR is getting...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 51. Cyberpunk 2077! Oh man, someone fucked up. The game is full of glithces and bugs, but not only that it's unplayable on base PS4 and Xbox One. Framerate issues, texture loadings, crashes, you name it! Cyberpunk has it all! We talk about all of them.  Game streaming rising up?  Apparently this is the case, now being the best wa...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 50. Game Awards 2020! New announcements, small ones but two big ones; New Mass Effect and a new Dragon Age! Hopefully Bioware will rise up to the reputation they had in the past. Also, big congrats to Naughty Dog for winning Game of the Year with their higly controversial Last of Us Part 2. Cyperpunk 2077 is finally out, does it live up to...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 49. Xbox Gamepass is getting bigger, but it comes with a cost.  More games coming and leaving the subscription service. We are starting to see the Bethesda games now with more to come! Nintendo is getting a quality of life update to it's system.  Things that you expect a gaming console to have, but hey it's Nintendo. They have be...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 48. We caught up on some last weeks news, Project 007!  IO Interactive is behind this new game and after the Hitman 3 details, we really think IO is going to be a good fit for this project. In IO we trust.  Cyperpunk 2077 again  (every week man) is going to be a long ass game. But that's not bad. You can choice to loose your...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 47. First time we Norderlanders record in the same room! How about that? Sadly it brought along some problems, so the quality of this episode will not be good. Sorry about that. Anyway, Capcom has been hacked. Lots of information on upcoming games, sales, and other stuff that surely Capcom doesn't want to be out there in the wild. But, let...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 46. Week of the next generations of consoles! Did you pre-order? Do you already have it? If so, let's talk about some of the information about them, especially their storage expansion cabilities. Good to know stuff. No one wants to mess with Cyperpunk 2077. That game is standing it's ground, with it's ray-tracing functions and having the r...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 45. A week before the next-gen starts, bunch of games get delayed and a bunch of people gets sued. EA may need to change their loot box strategy,  especially in the Netherlands, but they don't wanna be play nice. Is the world such a cruel place? Well take a look around, everything is crap right now. Anywho, Black ops Cold War gets som...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 44. Damn AMD,  Nvidia better hide. New cards upcoming, and they sound too good to be true. Should you get an all AMD rig for your next pc? Maaaybe. Hey Facebook!  Stop messing with my games. Stick to sosial media! Let people play in peace! Poor Cyperpunk 2077,  you don't want to play nicely with the current consoles, only wi...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 43. Since we missed it last week, let's talk about the PS5 UI. Will it stay smooth, can you customize it? I sure hope so! Xbox lord Phil Spencer talked in a interview (I know right?!) about the possibility to make Bethesda games exlusive to Xbox. He doesn't want to prevent player to play the games, but hey where is he gonna get 7.5 billion...

This week we go through the game news and releases of week 42. Damn, we make mistakes sometimes,  and we have started a three strike system. Let's hope we improve! Anyways,  right after the recording of this episode, Sony showed off  the Playstation 5 UI. It looks sleek, but kinda cluttered?  Xbox just viping, while Sony  is having a little of a hard time. Lot's of stuff h...