This week, we go through the stuff that caught our attention during Nintendo’s latest direct. Aaron restarted Cyberpunk 2077 and Zach is still progressing in Steam World Heist 2 and Black Myth Wukong. So we talk about it all and some of the latest gaming news.

[News of the Week]

• Lost In Random: The Eternal Die announced

• Epic Mickey Rebrushed gets a demo

• New Zelda trailer (Sword)

• Cyberpunk 2 sequel Project Orion entering development soon, dev team to double across next year

• Remedy plans control-a-verse tv and movies

[Games out this week]

• Crypt Custodian

• Star Wars Outlaws

[Features]

• Nintendo Indie World + Partner Direct

• • Balatro collabs

  • Sea of Stars DLC

  • Morsels

  • Pizza Tower

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Steam World Heist 2

• Black Myth Wukong

• Mission Impossible Fallout

• Cyber movies

• Cyberpunk 2077

On this week’s episode, we talk about the stuff that interested us at Gamescom 2024. But first, we have a bunch of news to discuss since we didn’t get to do a podcast last week. Also, Black Myth Wukong is out and is selling well and getting good reviews. So we talk briefly about that too!

[News of the Week]

• Borderlands movie flops and gets very bad reviews

• Back from the dead: PUBG publisher acquires Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP

• The Plucky Squire gets a release date of September 17

• Dragon Age The Veilguard gets a release date - Oct. 31

• Dredge DLC - The Iron Rig releases

• Update for Vampire Survivors

• Nintendo Museum

• Black Myth: Wukong breaks single-player Steam record on day one with 2 million concurrent users

• • Sells 10 million copies across all platforms within the first week of release

• Concord flops

[Features]

• Gamescom

• • Indiana Jones coming to PlayStation 5

  • Mafia The Old Country

  • Civ 7 stuff

  • Borderlands 4

  • inZOI

  • New Avowed Game Play

  • The Stone of Madness

  • Infinity Nikki

  • Reanimal

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Steam world heist 2

• Black Myth Wukong

• Monster Hunter

This week we talk about recent releases: “Thank Goodness You’re Here” and “SteamWorld Heist 2.” We also talk about the latest gameplay reveal trailer for the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and speculate on what’s to come for No Man’s Sky.

[News of the Week]

• Follow up on Bungie conversation

• Follow up on game Informer stuff

• • A GI staffer logged in and tweeted a real goodbye from the staff and Game Stop nuked the Game Informer Twitter account

  • MinnMax releases GI office tour from March 2024

• Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom gameplay showcase - Traversing Hyrule

• Details emerge about Wolfeye’s new RPG

• New Doom Dark Ages details revealed at Quake-Con

• No Man’s Sky speculation

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Thank Goodness You’re Here

• SteamWorld Heist 2

• Apex Legends Season 22

• The IT Crowd