The Nextlander Podcast The Nextlander Podcast
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Longtime friends and games media colleagues Vinny Caravella, Brad Shoemaker, and Alex Navarro share their combined decades of knowledge, expertise, and passion for games with weekly discussions about what they're playing, what's happening in the industry, and whatever else they're up to.
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Private First Class Lance Bean
We're awash in new games this week, with Mars After Midnight, Contra: Operation Galuga, WWE 2K24, and more joining old favs like FF7 Rebirth. Also: the tragic loss of Akira Toriyama, the harassment campaign around Sweet Baby Inc., the mystery of the flying space bugs, and more.
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CHAPTERS
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(00:00:09) Intro
(00:00:36) Daylight Saving Time is here again
(00:03:17) Vermont and Casey Jones have the freshest powder?
(00:10:14) Show rundown
(00:10:58) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth [PlayStation 5] on Feb 29, 2024
(00:25:21) WWE 2K24 [PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)] on Mar 08, 2024
(00:33:00) Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch] on Mar 13, 2024
(00:41:47) Mars After Midnight [Playdate] on Mar 12, 2024
(00:48:39) Contra: Operation Galuga [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows)] on Mar 12, 2024
(00:54:51) Top Racer Collection [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] on Mar 07, 2024
(00:58:52) Balatro [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox One] on Feb 20, 2024
(00:59:55) Akira Toriyama has passed away
(01:10:00) Sweet Baby, what's going on here?
(01:23:32) Summer Game Fest gets a date
(01:27:30) MultiVersus is coming back
(01:35:13) Stig Asmussen has a new studio
(01:37:34) Helldivers 2 continues to be pretty cool
(01:41:44) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:46:02) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(01:47:29) Nextlander content updates
(01:50:34) See ya! -
Whip Out Your CHAD Device
Games! FF7 Rebirth, Skull & Bones, Helskate, Balatro, Helldivers and more. News! The Nintendo/Yuzu settlement, Respawn's Star Wars cancellation, the Halo composer's congressional run, and a hypothetical Chrono Trigger remake (??). Also fleas! And humidity! It's a podcast!
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CHAPTERS
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:01:11) I would own an elaborate sword display and I'm ok with that
(00:04:23) We need more month rhymes before the corpos get them
(00:06:21) Live while I'm alive sleep when my body (or cat) lets me
(00:08:42) Show rundown
(00:09:02) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth [PlayStation 5] on Feb 29, 2024
(00:45:25) Helskate [PC (Microsoft Windows)] on Feb 15, 2024
(00:51:35) Skull and Bones [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] on Feb 16, 2024
(01:01:04) Helldivers 2 [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] on Feb 08, 2024
(01:05:52) Balatro [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox One] on Feb 20, 2024
(01:09:07) Nintendo and Yuzu Settle for $2.4M
(01:21:04) EA layoffs and cancellations
(01:26:33) Embracer looking to sell Saber and Gearbox?
(01:31:22) Toys for Bob leaving Microsoft
(01:35:33) Composer for Halo running for office?
(01:39:35) Exosuits (mechs) coming to Helldivers 2 soon
(01:43:57) What's in your Chrono Trigger remake?
(01:50:44) Capcom giving some raises?
(01:58:58) Emails
(02:07:35) Nextlander Content Updates
(02:12:07) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:13:05) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:13:24) Come join us at PAX East
(02:14:31) See ya! -
Black Mold From Space
Brad has played an astonishing amount of Final Fantasy this week, and it's time to talk for like an hour about Remake, Rebirth, Crisis Core, and a bunch of other stuff. Plus: updates on Pacific Drive, Balatro, Infinite Wealth's Animal Crossing thing, PlayStation layoffs and the closure of London Studio, and more.
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CHAPTERS
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:01:07) Prepare for the Final Fantasy talk
(00:01:59) First, let's talk about bonding with our pets
(00:05:44) [Spoiler Warning] Final Fantasy 7 and Remake talk
(00:06:31) Brad, let's talk about Final Fantasy 7
(00:34:02) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth [PlayStation 5] on Feb 29, 2024
(01:08:54) Balatro [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch] on Feb 20, 2024
(01:12:05) Pacific Drive [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] on Feb 22, 2024
(01:17:53) Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] on Jan 26, 2024
(01:23:41) News
(01:23:55) Sony to layoff 900 people and closes London Studio
(01:26:49) How do we make this a healthy and profitable industry?
(01:46:51) Remedy buys Control rights back from 505 Games
(01:49:54) Helldivers 2 servers seem to be working
(01:53:58) Nintendo sues open-source Switch emulator Yuzu
(02:00:32) PSVR 2 coming to a PC near you?
(02:05:28) Emails
(02:09:14) Come join us for a heroic Watchcast
(02:10:52) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:11:24) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:12:36) Nextlander content updates
(02:18:47) Come join us at PAX East!
(02:20:18) See Ya! -
No Law at the Port Authority
This week we discuss at great length: our strategically tactically strategic Helldivers play, like four different versions of Final Fantasy VII, the full release of Balatro, Enshrouded, the newest details on multiplatform Xbox games (and maybe a new Xbox?!), the rules and requirements for eating a whole pizza, and a bunch more!
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CHAPTERS
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:01:06) How's Zeke doing?
(00:02:44) Finally, sharing the Port Authority fun with friends
(00:06:48) Checking in with Brad's flapping cable
(00:08:58) Helldivers 2 [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] on Feb 08, 2024
(00:47:57) Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth [Demo]
(01:13:55) Balatro [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch] on Feb 20, 2024
(01:19:21) Enshrouded [PC (Microsoft Windows)] on Jan 24, 2024 [Early Access]
(01:28:50) News
(01:29:05) Brad Shoemaker is breaking original FF7 news!
(01:30:26) Nintendo Switch 2 is releasing in 2025?
(01:36:27) Biggest news from the Nintendo Direct?
(01:37:34) The first wave of those Xbox games coming to other platforms
(01:43:47) Future Xbox hardware
(01:57:25) Sony's stock goes down after lower margins
(02:08:55) Elden Ring: Shadows of the Erdtree Trailer
(02:15:16) Bandai Namco reveals some cancellations
(02:16:02) Ebracer has also cancelled a lot of projects
(02:18:34) Post Malone is curating a WWE soundtrack?
(02:24:00) Emails
(02:29:31) Nextlander content updates
(02:31:40) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:33:00) Coming up this week
(02:34:29) We're going to PAX East!
(02:36:36) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:36:51) See ya! -
Booing the Boo-er
Helldivers 2 is so good that it was tough not to stop this podcast and go play more of it, but we also managed to talk about demos for FF7 Rebirth and some Steam Next Fest fare like Balatro and Normal Fishing, Disney's $1.5 billion deal with Epic, the future of both PlayStation and Xbox, and more!
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CHAPTERS
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:03:38) You're only as clever as your last idiotic move
(00:05:47) Helldivers 2 [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] on Feb 08, 2024
(00:42:33) Palworld [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] on Jan 19, 2024
(00:51:25) The Steam Next Fest Demos
(00:52:55) Pacific Drive [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] on Feb 22, 2024
(00:54:27) Indika [PC (Microsoft Windows)] Q1 2024
(00:55:24) Normal Fishing [PC (Microsoft Windows)] Q4 2024
(00:56:49) Balatro [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch] on Feb 20, 2024
(01:00:01) Dystopika [PC (Microsoft Windows)] 2024
(01:00:25) Final Fantasy 7 Remake / Rebirth (demo)
(01:20:58) Reports and speculation about Microsoft's next business moves
(01:39:35) Disney invest 1.5 billion with Epic
(01:49:47) Sony says no 'existing major franchise' games before April 2025
(02:01:48) Emails
(02:11:20) Nextlander content updates
(02:15:13) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:16:15) Thanks and wrapping up
(02:16:54) Nextlander upcoming content
(02:18:15) See ya! -
Phil Spencer Did Not See His Shadow
Microsoft might (might!) go multiplatform, Death Stranding 2 looks relatively bananas, Kojima is making a new espionage action game (!), Suicide Squad finally came out and isn't all bad, and all of it is discussed right here on this week's podcast.
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CHAPTERS
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:05:40) Life, death, taxes, and changing your primary care physician
(00:15:57) Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] on Feb 02, 2024
(00:44:01) Silent Hill: The Short Message [PlayStation 5] on Jan 31, 2024
(00:56:32) [Easter Egg Spoilers?] Sea of Stars [Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] on Aug 29, 2023
(00:59:31) Indika [PC (Microsoft Windows)] in Q1 2024
(01:05:55) Tekken 8 [PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] on Jan 26, 2024
(01:08:22) Final Fantasy 7: Remake and Rebirth
(01:09:56) The end of the Xbox console?!
(01:11:27) Ohhh, listen to that mic bump.
(01:36:06) Sony's State of Play
(02:06:52) When will we see The Last of Us Part 3?
(02:12:15) Emails
(02:22:23) Corrections?
(02:23:44) Nextlander Content Updates
(02:26:16) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:26:51) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:28:26) Things are always moving and shaking at NXL
(02:29:34) See ya!
Customer Reviews
The podcast I look most forward to
I was very sad to hear that these guys were leaving Giant Bomb, but Nextlander has been great from the start and I’m grateful that they have been able to keep talking about games on the internet. Alex, Brad, and Vinny come across as some of the most thoughtful and engaging voices in games media.
Rubbish
So negative and so radically woke now. Sad…
Great team!
Vinny, Alex, and Brad make a great team with deep knowledge of video games and a great take on so many topics!