Somehow, The Funcast has returned. And just in time for Game of The Year season! A totally normal check in with friends old and new about what gosh dang video games we've been playin.

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Another year has gone missing, and the Fungineer gang is on the case! We go over the whole first half of 2023 in Video Games to see what we remember. We remember a lot as it turns out, cause boy howdy did some real bangers release early and often.

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A great video about MyHouse.WAD from Power Pak (that I hopefully remembered to mention in the show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAo54DHDY0

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It's TGA Season, the most important holiday season of the year! What will take home the coveted prize of Best E-Sports Event? Which giant company will win for Best Indie Game? Can there only be one winner of Best Game Direction? What the hell even is an Action Adventure game in 2023? All these questions - and more! - are totally not going to be answered here in this podcast. Sorry. You'll need to wait for the TGAs to air for that.

In the meantime, enjoy our ramblin' about it!

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The spooky season means an unholy return to life!

It's a good thing that nothing happened, and no new video games came out in the summer months everyone got busy with life stuff in. What's that? Way too many video games came out?

Oh.

Oh, no.

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Nintendo Direct! Announced the night before it aired, it turned out to be something of a banger, with games both new and old. Andrew loses himself in the music from a Mario RPG remake, Daniel is very excited about Pikmin 4, and Dean watches the trailer for the new Mario game live! Oh, we also have all been playing Diablo 4, so we talk about that a bit too!

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Video Game Announcement Month has commenced, and today we take a look at the incredibly long and incredibly dense Xbox conference! Mostly, because some of it did spill over into the Ubisoft event, and carried forward from the Summer Games Fest show. So really it's only a mostly Xbox/Microsoft episode. But boy, what a conference - and that doesn't even count the near hour long deep dive into the upcoming Everything and Forever game Starfield! Buckle up your space pants for blast off!

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Our unplanned break ended up being a great boon, because it gave us, like, two whole weeks to play the new Zelda! We have a lot to say, but for your benefit, we kept it to only 80 minutes, almost entirely focused on things as they are in the world before you do a dungeon. There are some minor spoilers for that stuff, and for a couple of the things outside this scope (but they are pretty contextless I think, so it's fine!!!) but otherwise is just some friends chatting up a storm about a really fantastic adventure.

Games Discussed: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. That's it, that's the one.

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Nintendo did us a favour by dropping an incredibly dense indie direct on us, so now we have *a lot* to talk about! Cat Games, Farming Games, Weird Puzzle Games, Cool Puzzle Games, Cozy Puzzle Games with Cats, and the Store Brand Jet Set Radio that daddy Sega won't give you. Then it's on to the news, where Halo keeps dying, Daddy Sega buys Angry Birds, NDAs become suggestions, Dreams are dead, and a studio (allegedly) goes full pirate.

Dean played nothing but Deceive Inc., a cross between Hitman and Assassins Creed multiplayer, Andrew tried to chase the hell demon high in Path of Exile, and Daniel convinces Andrew to buy a game mid-podcast because he cannot stop gushing about a deck building roguelite called Wildfrost.

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Welcome to what is a surprisingly Movie And/Or TV Show focused episode of the Funcast. Weird how that worked out, but someone we managed to unearth some truly terrifying horrors from the deep dark. Daniel also played Dredge for a bit, and It's really quite good.

No Mario movie, but how about some Dungeons and Dragons instead? Or perhaps the two weeks of Stuff Getting Cancelled? Been rough out there for "open betas" and "game sequels", and "huge gaming conferences". Tears of the Kingdom had a whole gameplay video, Torchlight 2 (?) got played (??), and yet more almost literally DnD was played in Solasta!

A really full episode!

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It's the reached the point where putting your social security number into a random piece of software with a Waifu in it seems like not the worst idea.

Things that actually seem like bad ideas include: EA delisting a bunch of gold games, Atari buying studios, Asset Packs filled with stolen goods, and making mobile phone only semi-sequels to Persona 5.

Good Ideas include listening to us talk about Diablo 4, Sun Haven, and having Daniel (sort of poorly I'm sorry it was a long night and I was tired) explain SPIN RHYTHM XD.

Its a five star runtime for this episode, buckle up!

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Its episode fifty! Five Zero! That's kind of a lot, so first up, thanks for listening <3

Second of all, holy cow, we have some news! And by news, we *mostly* mean companies stepping on rakes for our enjoyment(?). Square Enix's president is going to go join his Apes, Starfield has a release date, Suicide Squad might not be killing the Justice League anytime soon, GameStop can't sell games, and Konami remembers us!

Andrew finished up that Final Fantasy music game and played a lot of Wo Long, Tim's got the Gungrave G.O.R.E, Dean and Daniel are all up in Destiny 2s latest expansion, and somehow there is even time to get the newest entry in the Xeno Clash series in here.

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It is happening again. Tim's back! And we've got a bit of a light load of news because of a kinda bland Playstation State of Play, which just means more time to speak about matters of the heart, of both the Atomic and Wild varieties. Tim is going to tell us all about the newest entry in the modern 360 B-Game Genre, Wanted: Dead, and gets to contrast it with Hi-Fi Rush. Daniel is all about Wild Hearts, Dean and friends are not so wild for Atomic Heart, Destiny 2 expansion prep is back, Dead Space and Metroid Prime remakes are wonderful and *deep breath* I think that's it? Man, so many games all of a sudden. 

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A long show is the only way to do justice to a frankly incredibly dense Nintendo Direct! Its literally made just for me, with all the hottest hits like Gameboy Games and Baten Kaitos, and I guess Metroid Prime and stuff too. 

Seriously, it was so much *stuff* that I don't really want to list it all out here in the description, so you better listen to us break it all down, ok?

Oh, and then we went super deep into the new Freelancer mode in HITMAN: World Of Assassination. We have mixed opinions! Oops!

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January is drawing to a close, which means that holy cow, it's time for the news machine to kick off its cobwebs and get to work. Dungeons and Dragons (And Coastal Wizards), Blizzard hoists themselves by their own petard *again*, and Microsoft announced some video games?

Huh, yeah they sure did, that's a new one. One of them even came out right away, and Daniel seems pretty freaking in to it! Andrew went delving into his 52 game multicart to see what pixel ninjas jumped out, Colegate-Chan makes their appearance, and an extremely complicated slot machine destroys our capitalist institutions, finally ushering in the revolution and setting us free to podcast. Enjoy it!

Games Discussed: DnD, Minecraft Legends, Forza Motorsport, The Elder Scrolls Online, RedFall, Hi-Fi Rush, Luck Be A Landlord, Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider, Fire Emblem: Engage, Chess 2

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It's pretty amazing to be here in an entirely new year, completely unburdened by the past.... except for a bunch of games we played at some point during our seasonal break that all came out last year. Old games, soon to be replaced with new games! Hopefully!!

Games Discussed: Infernax, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, High on Life,  Gunner, HEAT, PC!, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Ready or Not. 

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It's the dwarfiest time of the year here at Funcast HQ, and we built an entire gallery to fill with wondrous video games of the future! A whole lot of games have totally real release dates in the totally real year of 2023, at least up until June. After that, I think there are no more games. Which is good, because there are *so many to talk about*. Like Dwarf Fortress! And the new World of Warcraft Expansion! And others that we will get to at some point I promise <3

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Sure was a lot of the VG and As huh? Probably more than we needed considering how much stuff was hurrie-WORLD PREMIER

It's our full coverage of the E3 Extension/Awards show today, and yeah, we have some stuff to say! From winners to the losers to the stuff in between, wWORLD PREMIER

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It's Awards Season! Which means it's also time for an Exxtra Thicc podcast about all the categories in the upcoming Keighlies. Yes, all the categories. All *five* E-Sports ones, the four or five Indie Game categories that really could be three different ones, the bizarre choices and infuriating exclusions, all here! For some reason.

We even find some time to get in some thoughts about the much analyzed and much derided Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Turns out, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, even when it can't see very well.

Games Discussed: All of them, seriously.

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We're back! And its a real normal episode! Finally. Greeting us this normal day is a lot of back and forth industry drama, a feast of little guy vs big guys. Old games get working again after a long hiatus, and sequels get really, finally, truly, announced! Andrew brings back his 7/10 gameshow, and then tells us about his first bit of time with the new God of War. Daniel finally gets to talk about SIGNALIS, the Resident Evil/Silent Hill hybrid, and Deans gots thems real cool sounding indie multiplayer PVPVE experience Hell is Others!

Games Discussed: Signalis, God of War Ragnarök, Hell is Others, FAITH, Disco Elysium, Doom Eternal, Dark Souls Remastered, Control, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.

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A grave misfortune wiped out the first half-ish of the original recording, so enjoy an abbreviated episode! We finally get to talk about how great Yakuza: Like A Dragon is, Dean talks about how not great Gotham Knights is, and a new GamePass GameClub game is chosen, that everyone might have played already! How different will it be years later? Find out in a couple of weeks!

Games Discussed: Gotham Knights, Yakuza: Like A Dragon

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