This week is light on news items, but we’ve been playing games, so we have things to talk about anyway. Zach has been obsessed with No Man’s Sky after the Worlds Part 1 update and the release of the 14th Expedition - The Liquidators. And Aaron has been playing a 2022 game that many had as a Game of The Year Contender - The Case of the Golden Idol.

[News of the Week]

• Like a Dragon: Yakuza trailer

• Fallout London Mod is released

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• The Case of the Golden Idol

• No Man’s Sky

• The First Descendant

This week we follow up on Concord with some additional impressions from the open beta. We get into an impromptu discussion about Empire of Silence, the first book in the Sun Eater series. And we talk about No Man’s Sky’s Worlds Update Part 1.

[News of the Week]

• No Man’s Sky’s Worlds Update Part 1

• Pirates of the Caribbean X Fortnite crossover - The Cursed Sails

• Paramount cancels Halo series

• Splitgate 2 announced

• Factorio space age arrives in October

• Overwatch 2 new hero

[What We’re Playing/Watching/Reading]

• Concord

• No Man’s Sky

• Jaws

• Empire of Silence

This week, we talk about the beta for PlayStation’s new exclusive 5v5 PVP shooter Concord. Then we give a rundown of the games we’re looking forward to in the second half of the year.

[News of the Week]

• Palword signs with Sony to expand IP

• Starfy trilogy releases on Nintendo Online

• Apex Legends controversy

[Games out this week]

• Concord beta

[Features]

• Second half of the year?

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Luigi’s Mansion 2

• Empire of Silence

• Concord

This week, we return to talk about some of the latest gaming news, including some recent previews for Sony’s new hero shooter Concord. We also talk about how we’ve both been reading the first book in the Sun Eater series, “Empire of Silence,” and we talk about how bad “Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire” is.

[News of the Week]

• Concord previews

• New Crazy Taxi Game

• Watch Dogs movie starts filming

• Switch 2 might be easier to buy

• SGDQ 2024 - runs to check out

• • Morrowind

  • Animal Well

  • System Shock Remake

  • Enter the Gungeon

  • Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB by Peanut Butter the Dog

• Baldur’s Gate 3 Deluxe Edition arrives

[What We’re Playing/Watching/Reading]

• Empire of Silence

• The Boy and the Heron

• Luigi’s Mansion 2

• Dragon’s Dogma 2

• Animal Crossing New Horizons

• Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire

Recorded on 6/23/24

Published on 6/24/24

Show Notes:

That’s a wrap on the summer game showcase season, so we do a brief post-mortem on it. We talk about the Dragon Age: The Veilguard gameplay reveal showcase and the Nintendo Direct, as well as a couple of game previews. Then we get into what we’ve been playing and watching lately, including Steam World Heist and Dragon’s Dogma 2!

[News of the Week]

• PlayStation Portal getting sign in support for public Wi-Fi

• Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal

• Nintendo direct

• Pipsqueak! Kickstarter Trailer

• Minecraft 1.21

• Plucky Squire previews

• The Alters demo

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• After Party Season 2

• Steam World Heist

• Dragon’s Dogma 2

On this week’s episode of Starside Chat, we talk about the weekend of games showcases during Fake E3 2024! Including Summer Games Fest, Devolver Digital and the Xbox plus Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Showcase!

[News of the Week]

• Like A Dragon getting a live action adaptation on Amazon Prime

[Features - FAKE E3]

• Everything Shown at Summer Game Fest

• Everything from Devolver Digital Showcase

• Everything Shown at the Xbox Showcase

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Godzilla Minus One

• Ori and the Blind Forest

• Humanity

• Rusty’s Retirement

On this week’s episode of Starside Chat, Zach and Aaron talk through Sony’s May PlayStation State of Play, including the upcoming PvP game Concord and the upcoming action-platformer Astro Bot. After that, we talk about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth because Zach has finally finished it!

[News of the Week]

• Sony developing PlayStation Mobile platform

• Call of duty Black ops 6 showcase to follow Xbox games showcase on June 9

• The next doom game has leaked ahead of the microsoft press conference

• No Man’s Sky new Adrift mode

• Sony State of Play

• Pre-Fake E3 (Summer Games Fest) predictions?

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• FF7 Rebirth

• Ori and the Will of the Wisps

On this week’s podcast we talk more about Animal Well now that we’ve had a chance to play more of it. Zach also gives his review of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. But before that, there’s a bunch of new gaming related news to talk about.

[News of the Week]

• Fortnite/Fallout collaboration

• Microsoft to launch this year’s Call of Duty on Game Pass

• Rockstar targeting Fall 2025 release window for GTA 6

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows reveal

• Mortal Kombat 2 coming to theaters October 24, 2025

• Majora’s Mask Recompiled

• New Information about DnD 5.5

• Deadlock

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Animal Well

• Asteroid City