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The Nextlander Podcast

The Nextlander Podcast

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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31: Alex Narrativaro

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2022/01/06

Our retrospective on the games of 2021 comes to a close (OR DOES IT??) with a long consideration of the best stories of the year, a perhaps longer effort to arrive at the 10 best games of the year, then a quick rundown of the games we're looking forward to in the coming months. Thanks to everyone for supporting us last year and into the future! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS (00:00:10) Intro (00:02:25) Game of the Year recap so far (00:05:43)

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30: Zestiest Joie de Vivre

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/12/30

Our chill and agreeable consideration of 2021's best games continues this week (and may or may not conclude), with categories like Best Music, Best Time Loop, the "I Wish I Liked It More" award, the games with the most positive zeal for life, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS (00:00:10) Intro (00:02:33) Categories that are left (00:04:18) Best Music (00:53:46) Best Character (01:33:10) Break (01:33:13) Zestiest Joie de Vivre (01:54:46)

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29: Twenty Twenty-Fun's Game of the Weird

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/12/23

It's GOTY (pronounced GOAT-Y) time, y'all! We kick things off for 2021 by taking you through all of our personal games of the year from 2011 to 2020, and then we tackle our first handful of categories, including Best Looking Game, and Best Hitman 3 map! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS (00:00:09) Intro (00:02:05) The GOTY Setup (00:04:15) The last 10 years of GOTY (00:04:54) 2011 (00:08:53) 2012 (00:14:35) 2013 (00:17:47) 2014 (00:24:44)

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28: Idris Elba as Knuckles

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/12/16

In the wake of the Game Awards, this week we run through a list of our favorite reveals like Arc Raiders, Thirsty Suitors, Rumbleverse (?), Slitterhead (??), and Alan Wake II (???), then get into early impressions of THE GUNK, more of our time with Halo Infinite, that Matrix/Unreal Engine 5 tech demo, Vinny's mental infrastructure week, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS (00:00:10) Intro (00:00:34) Chock full o'Nuts is coffee, right

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27: The Grapple Kerflapple

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/12/09

Halo Infinite is no longer delayed! Now it's released, and we grapple our way through the first few hours, plus some questing (and whispering) in space with Chorus, Sony's rumored Game Pass competitor, the Battlefield/Respawn shakeup, Vinny's adventure with home COVID tests, Ubisoft's alarmingly quick foray into an actual NFT business, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:01:17 We don't actually have an office. Just our

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26: Caravella's Caffeine Clothing

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/12/02

We've entered the December doldrums, but there's no need to fret! We've got Solar Ash to talk about, alongside the 1.0 release of Fights in Tight Spaces and a little more on Guardians of the Galaxy. Plus, all the news you can use, and probably then some! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:02:07 A little tale about caffeine 00:07:09 The part where we make both unsubstantiated and substantiated claims about caffeine 00:10:00 I

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25: Three Kinds of Foul

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/11/25

This week we're feeling thankful for many and varied kinds of bird flesh, the interstellar skateboarding of Exo One, building real rockets to conquer fake YouTube in Next Space Rebels, more Halo Infinite multiplayer, a quick recap of our year so far in games and some loose GOTY planning, the Harmonix/Epic buyout, the coming year two of Hitman 3, something something Mass Effect TV show, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:09

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24: Alex's Over-the-Hill Pills

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/11/18

New releases from Halo, Battlefield, and Grand Theft Auto have us feeling a bit like it's 2002 this week, the latest revelations about Activision misconduct might just spell the end for Bobby Kotick, Panic's Playdate is delayed by the battery gremlins, Xbox has over 70 new back-compat games (and maybe a 1 Vs. 100 revival), and Alex schemes to hang onto his 30s eternally. All that and more, in this here podcast! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on

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23: A Five-Dog Spread

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/11/11

This week's jumbo-sized episode features chatter about everything from our time with the Elden Ring network test to the Horizon festival's gentrification of the world, a full spoilercast on Inscryption, our guesses about the next Mass Effect, musings on open-world Mario (and open-world Sonic), an interview with Jett: The Far Shore developer Craig Adams, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:02:06 Alex shares a moment with

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22: Big Kahuna Bunger

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/11/04

This week, we find Unpacking delightfully earnest and Inscryption delightfully bizarre, get into more Guardians of the Galaxy and Darkest Dungeon II, talk through another of our trademark Blizzard Blocks, say the words "NFT" and "metaverse" more than anyone needs to hear, speculate about a Quake reboot, think longingly about bugsnax of immense size, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:09 Intro 00:00:35 Key-Gens and Greets to the

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21: Ready to Flark Scrat Up

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/10/28

This week! Guardians of the Galaxy makes a surprise positive showing, Age of Empires IV gives us strong History Channel vibes, spoilers for Inscryption and Metroid Dread fly left and right, Warner Bros. makes a Smash Bros., the Switch's N64 games leave something to be desired, "Wu-Tang Clan RPG in the works at Microsoft" is a phrase said aloud, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:00:46 Creepy kids or creepy

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20: The Worst West

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/10/21

Indie games rule the roost around here this week, with Inscryption clutching us in its sinister grip, and The Riftbreaker, Into the Pit, and The Good Life filling out the roster. Also: more Metroid Dread, Kratos on Steam, Nintendo's Expansion Pack, Rocksteady's Suicide Squad reveal, the current whereabouts of Maurice Rocca and Samuel Fisher, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:02:01 You're just getting more screen for

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19: Across the Shyamalaniverse

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/10/14

This humdinger of an ep features a long chat about Metroid Dread (and Switch emulation), thoughts on our time with Sable and Back 4 Blood, more on Jett and the Outer Wilds DLC, and discussion of the four-day game dev work week, the right to repair Xboxes, EA's FIFA faceoff, the future of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:01:56 Free Brad from his meat prison 00:04:00 Was the movie Signs a real

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18: Handcuffed to a Desk

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/10/07

This week we consider the rocket backpacks and guerrilla spirit of Far Cry 6, the meditative sci-fi mood of Jett: The Far Shore, the [redacted] and [redacted] of the Outer Wilds DLC, that big ol' Twitch hack, Windows the Eleventh, some good Battlefield news for the Caravellas, a home for Dinobots, keyholes that may need sealing, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:02:19 News about the big package 00:04:57 What is Alex

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17: 017: The Prototypical Hoth Level

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/09/30

This week Death Stranding has us in the grip of its madness once again, Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a delight, there's... a very good Hot Wheels game (?!), Actraiser is kinda-sorta back, Nintendo motion picture stunt casting is on everyone's mind, Japan is hoarding all the six-button Mega Drive pads, there's somehow yet another Activision Blizzard lawsuit, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:04:08 Death Stranding:

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16: A Gun That Shoots Yagamis

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/09/23

Alex is lost in Lost Judgment this week, Brad loves playing defense in Deathloop, we all brought back a photographic travelogue from Toem, Quantic Dream might be making a Star Wars game (?!?), and things just keep getting worse for Activision Blizzard. Plus: an interview with Outer Wilds creative director Alex Beachum! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:09 Intro 00:00:36 The Education of Drivers 00:07:03 The early days of jumping into

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15: Pairer Beware

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/09/16

Would you believe we spent like half this episode talking about Deathloop? You'll just have to listen to find out, and in the course of doing so you'll also hear about the new WarioWare's co-op calamity, some reminiscing about KOTOR in light of the newly announced remake, our wish list for Insomniac's Wolverine game, the latest on the Epic/Apple slapfigh...uh, legal battle, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:09 Intro 00:02:04

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14: The Unhappy-Kid Exclusion Zone

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/09/09

This week! We're on a cosmic voyage in The Artful Escape, playing post-apocalyptic golf in Golf Club Wasteland, traversing a Midgar Metroidvania in F.I.S.T., and hanging out around a placid lake in, uh, Lake. Plus: the Tripwire kerfuffle, the Horizon pricing fiasco, Alan Wake remastered, and the most difficult game of all: keeping the small children in your family happy. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:01:20 The dangers of

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13: Free Mom From the Bathroom

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/09/02

Vinny barely managed to finish doing battle with his house in time to record this podcast, which covers the actually good time loop game The Forgotten City, thoughts on the end of Psychonauts 2, this year's Madden mess, the latest socially conscious goings-on in Fortnite, hanging out with Rad Ghost, our Death Stranding 2 wish list, and more! Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:08 Intro 00:01:40 A tale about the dangers of doors 00:13:10

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12: A Xeno Named Matilda

The Nextlander Podcast ·

2021/08/26

Games! A lot of them--including Psychonauts 2, Recompile, Aliens Fireteam Elite, and Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut--are upon us, and we played and discussed them all this week, before turning our attention to the goings-on at Gamescom. This one is definitely a podcast about video games, folks. Advertise on The Nextlander Podcast at Gumball.fm, or support us on Patreon! CHAPTERS 00:00:10 Intro 00:00:47 Time for Baker Hacks 00:03:27 Can't spell fondant without Fon 00:04:58 Show rundown 00:06:02

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