NPC Gaming Podcast

E3 may be dead, but June is still the time for big game announcements, and we have A LOT to talk about. We break down Summer Game Fest, Xbox's big showcase, and Ubisoft's plans for the next year. Can 2024 follow up the insane gaming year that was 2023? How will titles like Doom: The Dark Ages and Fable shape 2025? We got takes!

This week the team gets early Summer Games Fest and Xbox Showcase rumors, reviews a very mid Playstation State of Play, and covers the botched re-launch of MultiVersus!  But most importantly, we get our Nintendo remakes on with a look back at Mario RPG and a look forward at Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door on Switch (one of our most hyped games since the show's inception). Alex is out this w...

Boy was that a week in gaming, eh? Xbox goes full Thrones as multiple studios receive the axe fit for a Stark, EA is attempting to put the "Ad" in the adventure genre, along with many others, and we even got a full Switch 2 spec leak. Oh, and full Fallout TV SPOILER thoughts, for our caught-up listeners (after the news, of course).  We'll be back in a couple of weeks in the lead-up to Summer Gamef...

Fallout is more popular than ever, Cordova finally finished season one, and we are all on that next gen update.... We got thoughts (along with some info on Fallout 5)! In other news, Nintendo ninjas target beloved modders, Bobby KOTICK is somehow back in the news, and Far Cry 7 rumors get messy. ENJOY!

Did Bethesda and Amazon get it right with the new Fallout series? We talk Keanu Reeves as Shadow the Hedgehog in Sonic 3, more Ubisoft madness (with Star Wars), and a whole lot more in this week's very packed episode!  Go ahead and give us a vault boy style thumbs up on Apple and Spotify, yeah?

Resident Evil 1 is getting ANOTHER Remake and Resident Evil 9 is going open world? Find out what we know while we dog on, well Dragon's Dogma 2 in a VERY Capcom-centric episode. Juicy quick bits await as well as a Mario Top 10 list (Wendy's approved, not kidding).  Listen, rate, enjoy!

We got one of the biggest launch crashes of 2024... So far! This week we breakdown the Battlefront Remaster woes, check out some major announcements from Mar10 Day (new movie, Paper Mario Remaster... all that good stuff), and actually get a legit scoop on the PS5 Pro (hold on to your wallets ladies and gentlemen).  The new Fallout TV show trailer shows us promise as does the antics of the Florida...

Is the gaming industry about to crash? Has Nintendo destroyed emulation as we know it? WTF is a Pokemon Z-A anyway? The team celebrates two big Star Wars game announcements and breaks down the new Borderlands movie trailer in this week's episode! Give it a listen, and Krossplay with the other shows on The Horrorble People's Network

Helldivers 2, Prince of Persia, Suicide Squad still sucks... your team is putting in some WORK! We talk about the upcoming Sonic 3 movie, Xbox potentially going 3rd party for real this time, heck divers, and news that brings at tear to James' eye... you'll have to wait and see what provokes it! ENJOY!

Your boys are back in full force with A LOT to talk about, including: Record-breaking Palworld numbers... has Pokemon met its match? State of Play with some big announcements and an absurd Death Stranding 2 trailer (only Kojima could get away with this). And an absolutely terrible Star Wars game tier list.  This is a supersized one for a lot of supersized announcements. Enjoy!

We got hard on Microsoft this episode as we talk about the new Indiana Jones game and the Developer Direct in general, a canceled Halo game, the possible return of Gears of War, and an Xbox Series Toaster (Yes, it's real). Also, some Switch 2 stuff and Last of Us season 2 casting for good measure. January already starting big!

Welcome to our first episode of 2024! The chaos starts as the Florida Joker ferociously (or futilely) goes after Rockstar for GTA 6 😂 We take a deep dive into the big leak from Insomniac, a potential Smash Bros Universe, and even MORE remaster leaks. Big start to the new year, enjoy!

The Game Awards may be over but the REAL Game Awards begin right now... NPC style! After some not-so-quick quick bits that cover the last major stories of 2023 we're giving your a HUGE awards extravaganza with hot takes from your hosts! Who was the most out of touch CEO? Most absurd headline? Oh yeah and Game of the Year?! Check out our nominees, winners, and predictions for 2024 in our last episo...

GTA 6 trailer has premiered, after some chaos in the lead-up, and we have THOUGHTS. Our usual host Alex takes a break this week to joust through the Middle Ages (we'll explain) but we have guest host Ruben of Turning Tables pod to fill in!  We talk the new Fallout TV series, Nintendo World's insane new addition (terrifying really), major closures from Embracer Group, Spider-man 2's missing scenes,...

An extra large episode just for you this Thanksgiving week! We make major predictions for the upcoming Game Awards, speculate how The Legend of Zelda movie is going to turn out (complete with casting), review the latest meltdowns in live service games, HUGE leaks for the Assassins Creed franchise, and hype ourselves for the new Steam Deck OLED... try this one on your Thanksgiving commute cause we...

James loses it over IGN's Spider-man 2 review, Nintendo spikes the Smash Bros Community yet again, Microsoft employees almost lose a big employee perk, and Shadow Moses Cologne is on the way! The gaming industry is just straight WEIRD this week, and we got a lot to say!

This week we give a well-deserved goodbye to Activision's own Bobby KOTICK and lament the inevitable death of physical media (Thanks, Best Buy). We judge whether IG's latest list is accurate or clickbait in a brand new segment, and we find the best Star Wars game deal around. A lot more trash talk throughout, it is a KOTICK-centric episode after all!

Layoffs are hitting the gaming industry right before its most profitable time of the year... sound familiar? We take a look at the massive layoffs at Epic, Jim Ryan riding off into the sunset, Sony's hilarious free movie selection (it's pretty bad), and nerds rioting at the Van Gogh museum for Pokemon merch. Yeah, it's a weird one. ENJOY!

We're back after a long break and woke up to Phill Spencer's nightmare! Microsoft accidentally leaks their entire playbook, Nintendo goes wild with remakes to send off the Switch's lifecycle, and Sony's State of Play shows just why they win. We also look at Mortal Kombat's hilariously bad Switch port, our updated thoughts on Starfield, and we break down the Unity fiasco that nearly upended game de...

Playstation Price Hikes hit the boys hard, Call of Duty is trying AI voice moderation and we speculate how it'll fail, and rumors of multiple Nintendo remasters are abound. Also, major Mortal Kombat 1 reveals and more! The episode will be early this week since Anthony will be on vacation, but we'll be back in a couple of weeks to run through September's biggest news and the hype going into the hol...

We say goodbye to the legendary Charles Martinet, explore the early controversies for Starfield, wonder just who in the hell the PlayStation Portal is designed for, and send off the Xbox 360 store, the latest in digital game casualties. It's a big one!

So Read Dead "Remaster" was way worse than we thought, right? Cause we dig into this conversion pretty hard. In other news, the Last of Us show may have found its next major character, Activision's latest moves actually make sense and we don't know how to handle it, and James is protesting Diablo 4 by fighting alongside a rooster named Chicharron. It makes sense, trust us!

Wait, Twisted Metal is actually good? Yeah... we're surprised too! This week we take a look at some HUGE updates for the Nintendo Switch 2, Catch up on all the news from James' trip to Comic-Con, new leaks from Ubisoft and Rockstar, and much more! We also discover the 44th President's Smash Bros main, so you know we gotta talk about it. ENJOY!

Microsoft did it! Is that good news for gamers? We try to answer as we take a deep dive into their first steps post-Activision acquisition. We say goodbye to Xbox Live Gold, hello the recently revived classic Call of Duty servers, and run through our seemingly weekly Ubisoft leaks! 

Microsoft reveals the Playstation 5 Slim and Next Gen Switch? AND the remake-athon continues with the likes of Red Dead Redemption, Assassin's Creed Black Flag, and... GTA IV?! What a week! The team tears down the new Twisted Metal trailer, explores the future of Bethesda with new Fallout 5 news, and more!  Lot of rumors in this one, but guess who's got a good track record? YEAH.