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Neal is out fighting a war he cannot possibly hope to win against an army with superior numbers. Meanwhile Alex and John get real hyped for Metroid Dread, Breath of the Wild 2, Advance Wars, and WarioWare. We also check in to see if Alex has bought a copy of Star X yet for his GBA collection. Connectivity has joined Twitter, so be sure to follow @ConnectivityNWR to be up to date on any announcemen...

Neal has one more child now than he did in the last episode. Alex de Freitas joins John and Neal to talk about what E3 was and may never be again. The gang discusses the origins of the ESA and the future of the concept of trade shows in general. Neal ponders how he will explain to future generations what an E3 was. Next the fellas discuss the Playdate, the odd lo-fi handheld that has captured our...

If you remember a world with Big Bertha, the Boom Boom Bar, and E3 2020, then you'll love this week's episode of Connectivity. John and Neal kick things off by talking about the restored version of the Super Mario Bros. movie before diving into some listener mail about video game books, early RPGs, and more. A handful of sure-to-be-wrong Nintendo E3 2021 predictions later and the duo gaze back at...

Dinosaur afficinado Zach Miller joins to talk about some video games and make John and Neal's brain wrinkle with some Jeopardy. Thankfully, our Switch Pro talk didn't become woefully outdated before the episode went live, but the rest should be decently timeless. Zach has been playing Robot Dinosaur Zelda (aka Horizon: Zero Dawn) while John's been spending time with the recent release BioMutant an...

Jordan Rudek returns to talk about his time with the remastered Mass Effect Trilogy but before we get to that, we have to collectively throw down about Nintendo Switch Online. Is John right that we'd largely just play 15 minutes of whatever notable games get added? Is Neal right that it's like a '90s Blockbuster rental lineup? Is Jordan right that Square Enix needs to figure it out and get the Qui...

After a great disturbance in the force, Blockade Runner co-host Ryan Grove joins us again to talk Star Wars, but before then, we get to hear Ryan's thoughts on Resident Evil Village and the series at large, then we go move on to Subnautica before following a wild ride that starts with Zombies Ate My Neighbors and takes a sizable detour through PSP collecting and Chrono Cross sealed copies on Amazo...

Game Builder Garage was announced hours before recording, so John and Neal open by talking about Nintendo's upcoming game-making game. Then, Neal talks through his conflicted feelings of EA buying Super Mega Baseball developers Metalhead Software as well as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2's Switch release date bringing the end of Vicarious Visions closer to reality. The duo talk more about Star Fox bec...

Budding photographer John Rairdin sits down with Neal Ronaghan to talk about New Pokemon Snap. John reviewed it for Nintendo World Report and both hosts have things to say about the sequel 22 years in the making. But before that, Neal sings the praises of Fly Together and the pair dive into the bucket of listener mail. We even gave away a game! And the recipient...like Balan Wonderworld? Man alive...

The year was 2016. After a delay, Star Fox Zero came out on the Wii U. Rumors of what would eventually become the Switch were swirling. Everyone wanted to know what was up with that new Zelda game. John Rairdin and Neal Ronaghan were too busy enjoying the crap out of Star Fox Zero, though. Join John and Neal as they recount the origins of the heavy GamePad-using title from its origins as a Miyamot...

Nintendo timed their latest Indie World well as John and Neal get to talk about the new announcements and games featured in the April 14, 2021 Indie World with guest (and former co-host) Zach Miller. They touch on what they're excited for, including OlliOlli World, Labyrinth City, Aztech, and so much more. As always, they veer off topic but circle back around to talk about Zach's experiences with...

We got 99 problems and winning in Pac-Man 99 ain't one. After John shares his Pac-Man 99 strats, he tells Neal all about Star Wars: Republic Commando and the pitfalls of the Switch port. A few digressions take us everywhere from Satoru Iwata to Resident Evil books and then Neal finally gets to unfurl his thoughts on Fantasian, as well as how ridiculous the bevy of new Apple Arcade additions last w...

High-tiered Mario Kart Tour player Justin Berube joins John and Neal to talk about Mario Kart Tour (in loose honor of its 1.5 year anniversary?). But before we get there, we have a lot of planned and unplanned stops along the way. We cover the recent previews of New Pokemon Snap while diverging into a meditation on Pokemon spinoffs and the potential of increasing the voting populace in America wit...

To celebrate the launch of Balan Wonderworld (I guess?), John and Neal try to give color to the history of Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima - the two Sonic the Hedgehog creators who are teaming up to make whatever the heck Balan is. But before we talk about Blinx the Timesweeper and Let's Catch and Rodea, we answer some listener mail about dreaming of a world where Star Fox Adventures was a smash hit....

A quieter week in the world of Nintendo gives John the time to talk about a crappy Robotech GBA game that's now on Switch. More importantly, Alex Orona joins to talk about his experiences with Apex Legends on Switch. Neal finds out, live on air, how much money he's spent on Mario Kart Tour, and then we all wrap up with talk about that new TMNT beat-'em-up, Monster Hunter, and dream Nintendo battle...

NWR's Reviews Editor Jordan Rudek stops by so that way he and Neal can bore John to tears by talking about Bravely Default 2 and Fantasian. However, right before recording, some Switch Pro rumors broke so the trio talks about the potential specs and wonders how Nintendo will market their way out of this one. Also, we talk about Mass Effect Andromeda and loosely make a plan to play/replay Mass Effe...

We used to do game shows and hey, maybe we'll do them again? Old co-host Zach Miller joins John and Neal to put them to task in console-related trivia. Before then, Neal talks about the just-announced Stonefly, John emerges from Star Fox fandom to go over the latest in the Dinosaur Planet world, and then Zach talks about why he loves Control. Connectivity has joined Twitter, so be sure to follow @...

We had big, big plans to talk about third-party Switch controllers, but then a Nintendo Direct happened. So Joel DeWitte joins us to talk about the big show this week. Join us as John, Neal, and Joel talk about Splatoon 3, Skyward Sword HD, Project Triangle Strategy, and that new Nintendo-published game Super DC Girls or whatever. Connectivity has joined Twitter, so be sure to follow @Connectivity...

Before we dive into more spoiler-y talk of Bowser's Fury, first we have to eat our vegetables. Neal got a bunch of Crash Bandicoot-flavored cookies in the mail while John started a TikTok for Nintendo World Report. After that talk goes on for way longer than expected, the pair cover the upcoming slates of Nintendo Switch Online games (one of them is directed by the co-founder of Skip, Ltd.!) as we...

We welcome Alex de Freitas - who has been the man behind the scenes editing the show - in his NWR podcast debut. Alex tells John and Neal about his upcoming and ambitious history of Bravely Default feature (coming to a YouTube channel near you) and then the gang leans back and goes "wow" as they recap some Switch sales numbers. After Xenoblade digression, they switch gears to talk about their hope...

It's time to get down and dirty with Super Mario 3D World on Switch. Both John and Neal have played some amount of Nintendo's upcoming release, including some time with Bowser's Fury. But before you can have dessert, you need to eat your veggies. Before the Mario talk, Neal drifts off into the land of Fantasian hype before being rudely awoken by the Balan Wonderworld demo. John talks about a Star...

John and Neal focused on just one thing this week (or tried to) and talked about the Nintendo career and influence of Takaya Imamura, who recently retired from Nintendo after 32 years of service. He's an artist who created the designs of the Star Fox team, various F-Zero characters, and the man, the myth, the legend Tingle. If you want to know, well, we got 45 minutes talking about this dude. Join...

Xander Morningstar came by and we all got really furious with excitement for Bowser's Fury before diving more into the announcement of Lucasfilm Games working with Bethesda and Ubisoft (because we always gotta touch on Star Wars), tossing out hopes and dreams and ideas for future Switch revisions, and then rounding out the talk by going into the NWR Hype Meter and putting John to sleep by talking...

In an effort to stay sane, Joe DeVader joins John and Neal to talk some video games. Neal leads the charge on talking about Next Level Games and what we want to see now that they're soon to be under Nintendo's umbrella officially while John shares his experiences with the new Monster Hunter Rise demo. Joe chimes in to talk Ring Fit Adventure and Paradise Killer and John closes the show finding out...

To close out 2020 - or start it off since this is coming out in 2021 despite the fact we recorded in 2020 - John and Neal go through their Game of the Year lists for 2020. Neal, uh, went overboard with a meticulous 30-game ranked list while John, um, looked at his OpenCritic page before we recorded and used that as a guide. We cover everything from Nintendo's first-party games to indies, and even...

Is this the way? We don't know, but we'll follow this path anyway, even if it leads to the dark side. This week on the show, Ryan Grove (of NWR contributing and Blockade Runner podcast fame) joins John and Neal to talk about what we'd like to see from Star Wars video games, the onslaught of new Star Wars movies and shows news, and also we do sometimes touch on Nintendo video games, most importantl...