Ready Press Play: A Video Game Podcast

Luis and Dan meet to discuss all the games they played in 2025 and come to a consensus as to what Ready Press Play's Game of the Year for 2025 will be. The nominees for Ready Press Play's Game of the Year 2025 are: Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Donkey Kong Bananza Ghost of Yotei Metroid Prime 4 Who will win? Timestamps: (Coming Soon) For more Dan and Luis in the future, subscribe to the  One...

Dan and Luis met live on Twitch immediately following The Game Awards to discuss all the announcements, the awards, and the show overall. Timecodes: 00:00 Intro / Revealing the prediction winner 09:33 Recapping the announcements 53:46 Thoughts on the award winners 1:18:22 Thoughts on Game of the Year 1:23:30 Thoughts on the show overall 1:26:20 Outro/RPP Theme For more Dan and Luis in the future s...

This episode was recorded live on November 19th, 2025, on the Ready Press Play ⁠Twitch channel⁠ .

This episode was recorded live on June 5th, 2025, on the Ready Press Play Twitch channel .

Luis calls for a meeting with Dan to discuss the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct and all the news that came after, the good, the bad, and the ugly. All this and not much more!  For more Dan and Luis in the future subscribe to the  One Game at a Time  podcast feed Time Stamps: 00:00 - Intro / Housekeeping 22:39 - Switch 2 Topic Begins 1:54:30 - Outro/RPP Theme If you like our intro and would like to suppo...

Dan and Luis meet one more time in 2024 to talk about their PlayStation stats for the year and talk about all things The Game Awards, from the announcements, the controversies, and the winners. All this and more!  For more Dan and Luis in the future subscribe to the  One Game at a Time  podcast feed Time Stamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:11 - Luis' mini life update/secret stash 06:47 - PlayStations 2024 Wr...

Dan and Luis meet for the first time in 2024 to talk life updates, gaming stories, predictions of who's winning The Game Awards, and what new announcements they're expecting for next week. TIME CODES PENDING

Dan and Luis meet up to talk about the death of E3, their video game stats recap on all platforms, and reveal who won The Game Awards predictions game as well as give their overall thoughts on the show in general. 00:00 - Intro 04:45 - RIP E3 30:29 - Xbox, PlayStation, Twitch Wrapped 51:48 - The Game Awards 2023 Recap 1:44:30 - Outro

Dan and Luis meet for the first time on camera in 9 months! They are so out of practice that they had technical difficulties with the audio (a rookie mistake)! They catch up and predict the winners of The Game Awards.   For more Dan and Luis in the future subscribe to the One Game at a Time podcast feed 00:00 - Intro 01:12 - Luis talks about why he is not at LV1 Gaming 02:12 - Talking about Ep 150...

Dan and Luis meet for the last time to send the show off in the longest podcast they have ever done!  Clocking in at over 4 hours they reminisced on the life of the show, the future of the games industry, they got sentimental and closed the book on this chapter of their lives.  In addition, they cover the news of the week including E3 getting cancelled, the last purchases they did on the Wii U and...

Dan and Luis meet to talk about the upcoming finale of the show, go back through the Temple of Time for the last time, chat (once again) about the end of the 3DS and WiiU eShops, reports of a PS5 Pro around the corner, game delays, The Last of Us HBO show, and much more. 00:00 - Intro / end of the podcast discussion 16:15 - Temple of Time 52:25 - Reminder: The 3DS and WiiU eShops will close on Mar...

Dan and Luis meet to talk about how they titled the last few episodes, talk about their favorite games they played in 2022 and award Ready Press Play’s Game of the Year!, all this and much more. 00:00 - Intro 06:12 - Game of the Year Discussion Begins 09:38 - The Best Video Game Adaptation to Another Medium Award (Dan) 12:20 - The Most Japanese As Fuck Award (Luis) 14:40 - The Best Game from Anoth...

Dan and Luis meet to talk about anxious dads, Super Bowl trailers, January’s NPD results, Game Pass affecting game sales, the Tetris movie, and much more. 00:00 - Intro 06:25 - The Flash trailer and the DC Cinematic Universe 12:30 - Microsoft confirms Game Pass cannibalizes sales via GI.biz 22:50 - January 2023 NPD via GI.biz 29:35 - Check this out: Tetris — Official Trailer 32:45 - Check this out...

In the longest episode of Ready Press Play Dan and Luis are hit with the realization that the theme for today’s episode is sadness.  Dan and Luis give personal life updates, talk about a sad set of video game anniversaries, realize that their best predictions favor negativity, and were a little bummed about the latest Nintendo Direct. All this and more. 00:00 - Intro 05:22 - Luis’ life update...

Dan and Luis meet to talk about The Last of Us' HBO show, layoffs at Microsoft, Ubisoft canceling multiple games, and end of year NPD results. 00:00 - Intro / SteamDeck / Xbox controllers 07:56 - Reminder! RPP ends on #150 10:41 - HBO’s The Last of Us Pilot Impressions 23:57 - Temple of Time (January video game anniversaries) 53:20 - Microsoft layoffs confirmed to affect Bethesda and Xbox via VGC...

On the 3rd anniversary of Ready Press Play, Dan and Luis meet up to discuss their plans for the future of the podcast and catch up on what they were up to during the holiday break.  Overall the episode was a chill laid back show where they eventually get around to talk about game news somewhere in there. 00:00 - Intro 02:30 - New Year Resolutions 15:30 - God of War Ragnarok Impressions 20:08...

Happy holidays! On this unique episode of Ready Press Play, our crew unites to discuss and rank their favorite original games released between 1980 and 1989. This DLC was originally recorded on July 2022, and therefore won’t include updated news, releases, or other traditional segments of the show. Check back in two weeks for a more timely episode. Enjoy! Every Friday, Dan Lima ( @thedanlima ) and...

Dan and Luis deep dive into South Park: The Stick of Truth developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. Spoilers start at 17:18 Once a month, Dan Lima (@PowerUpDan) and Luis Menchaca (@Chacalaca88) deep dive on a game from their backlog. If you want to play along with our hosts, next month’s game will be God of War: Ragnarok. Please subscribe to the feed so you can get every new s...

On the last traditional episode of the year, Dan and Luis meet to talk about everything announced at Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards, compare who got most predictions right, discuss newer updates on Microsoft’s big acquisition of the year, and go through flagship video game anniversaries in the month of December. 00:00 - Intro / World Cup 04:20 - FTC sues to block Microsoft’s acquisition via The Wall...

Dan and Luis meet for a bonus episode where they make predictions on what's going to get announced and who's going to take the trophy home at this year's Game Awards. Heads up: Episode 142 will drop on Saturday instead of Friday this week. 00:00 - Intro / Shenanigans 09:25 - The Game Awards topic starts 12:54 - Announcement predictions 31:55 - Winners predictions 1:13:10 - Recommendations: The Wor...

Dan and Luis are enjoying their Thanksgiving holiday but they did manage to get together to pre-record a show for you guys.  On today’s show, they dig up old topics that they forgot to revisit and left pending. So for today’s show, Dan and Luis figure out who won the Summer of Gaming predictions and who has the lead on their release date predictions.  All this and nothing more! 00:00 - I...

Now that God of War: Ragnarok is out, Dan and Luis don’t even mention it.  Instead, they allude to it and move on to talk about PSVR2, PS Plus subscriber base decreasing, Street Fighter 6’s new controls, and more. 00:00 - Intro / Happy birthday to Luis / feeling old 05:40 - Temple of Time (video game anniversaries) 51:31 - PSVR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99 via TheVerge 1:02:46 - PSP...

Dan and Luis talk about the Bayonetta 3 voice acting controversy, new Silent Hill announcements, Xbox Game Pass, September NPD results, and more. 00:00 - Intro / Housekeeping Stray Spoilercast out now, next one South Park: The Stick of Truth 07:16 - Bayonetta 3 voice acting controversy via Bounding Into Comics 21:54 - Phil Spencer talks Game Pass growth, profitability, pricing via The Verge 31:30...

Dan and Luis deep dive into BlueTwelve Studio’s debut adventure game from 2022, "Stray". 00:00 - Intro / “Slums” 00:51 - Off-Topic 09:15 - Non-Spoiler Review 25:41 - Game Facts / Trophies 36:20 - “Inside The Wall” / Spoilercast Starts! 59:47 - Outro / “Last Night” Once a month, Dan Lima ( @PowerUpDan ) and Luis Menchaca ( @Chacalaca88 ) deep dive on a game from their backlog. If you want to play a...

Dan and Luis talk about video game anniversaries, Google Stadia shutting down, The Mario Movie trailer reactions, a new Oculus headset, August NPD, and plenty more. 00:00 - Intro 04:35 - LV1 Gaming Updates 08:30 - Streamer seriously injured at TwitchCon via Twitter 12:08 - Overwatch 2 launch 17:53 - Temple of Time 1:03:05 - Check This Out: Super Mario Bros. Movie Trailer via Youtube / IGN Mario's...