Plenty of horror to go around in this spooky edition of the show!

This week’s segments are as follows:

• (0:03:41) Inside Baseball: Horror Video Games
  • Jon wonders whether or not Supermassive games are the epitome of horror video games…
• (0:21:32) Leaderboards
  • Bryan has selected his top 5 immersive sims!
• (0:45:20) Patch Notes
  • Alex wanted to talk about the recent Resident Evil Showcase!

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The game nerds are back! Jon’s spent some time in the backlog, Bryan wants to talk news, and Alex has some inside baseball…

This week’s segments are as follows:

• (0:02:39) The Backlog: God of War (2018) and Cyberpunk 2077
  • Jon is revisiting God of War ahead of the release of Ragnarok and also has spent some time back in Cyberpunk 2077!
• (0:22:40) Patch Notes
  • Bryan selected two recent stories to talk about in game news:
    • CD Projekt Red has announced literally everything they’re working on
    • Google is shutting down Stadia in January 2023
• (0:40:22) Inside Baseball: Memory Leak Edition
  • Alex stumbled upon a fun post on Reddit with Todd Howard explaining how Morrowind dealt with memory leaks on the original Xbox
  • References:
    • The wikipedia page on memory leaks
    • Zeldamods.org on the blood moon mechanic in Breath of the Wild
    • A page with a few more fun coding tricks
    • More info about the NBA Jam TE flash module 

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The game nerds are back! Alex and Bryan have both played some recent releases and Jon’s fingers are on the pulse of the gaming industry. This week’s segments are as follows:

• (0:02:05) Listener Feedback
• (0:17:16) Patch Notes
  • Jon selected two recent stories to talk about in game news:
    • Tom’s Hardware: Nvidia DLSS 3 Only Works With GeForce RTX 40-Series GPUs — For Now
    • Polygon: PSVR2 isn’t compatible with PSVR games, Sony says
• (0:37:34) Retro Recall: The Monkey Island Series
  • Bryan takes us through a brief history of the Monkey Island series, leading up to and including the most recent release, Return to Monkey Island which is out now on PC and Nintendo Switch.
• (0:57:28) Whatcha Been Playin’: Immortality
  • Alex talks about the latest game from indie darling Sam Barlow, best known for Her Story and Telling Lies.

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After a brief hiatus, the Midwest Game Nerds are back with an all new format to the show! This week’s three segments are as follows:

• (0:04:40) Retro Recall: Collection of SaGa | Final Fantasy Legend
  • Jon picked up this collection of retro GameBoy games and we wax nostalgic about a complete lack of tutorialization in video games!
• (0:26:17) Sound Test
  • Alex has put together a game for Jon and Bryan to guess what game franchises some sound effects are from and — if they dare, for a bonus point — explain when you’d hear the sound.
• (0:48:18) The Backlog: Elden Ring
  • Bryan’s finally had some time to really lay into Elden Ring so we once again talk about how great it is!

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Bryan is getting back into Valheim and is starting Elden Ring in earnest! Jon is checking out Grim Dawn. Alex has fallen down a Triple Triad shaped hole. All of that and some release date announcements, plus the resurrection of E3!

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We’re now less of a podcast about video games and more of a podcast about buying games we wish we had the time to play and then never playing them anyway…

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