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Here Comes a New Challenger
A podcast about fighting games whether it be about the fight games themselves or more broad things such as training modes and music.
Episodes
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Street Fighter Movie Review (Episode 192)
Austin and Garrett review the Street Fighter movie, and move on to some missed news throughout the past few weeks with Brandon.
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EVO France News (Episode 191)
News has come to interrupt the book club! EVO France has come and gone, and with it a lot of news for 2XKO, Arc System Works games, Tekken, and more. We go…
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First-to-10 DNF Duel (Episode 190)
Troy and Brandon battle it out in a first-to-10 matchup in DNF Duel! Austin hosts a casual episode of matches and conversation before we give our full…
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Shortie (Episode 189)
In this episode, the boys go over the news stories that have happened recently, along with announcing their new book club game!
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The "Death" of 2XKO (Episode 187)
The FGIS (Fighting Game Investigation Squad) are back to talk about 2XKO ending development at the end of the year, talking about what went right and what went…
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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls (Episode 186)
We talk about the newest game released by Arc System Works, what we like about it, what we don't, and the massive issue that is the PC port.
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Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game (Episode 185)
In this chunky episode, the boys talk about Melty Blood: Twi Lumina gameplay reveal, Tokon Open Beta, and mostly about the release of Avatar Legends: The…
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Throw Your Baby For Oki (Episode 183)
We go over the Avatar beta this week!
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Traveling to Saudi Arabia for Nen Impact (Episode 182)
Did we go to EVO this year? No. Did we watch it at home? Kinda. We go over the news at EVO, what we saw, and our issues with watching it at home.
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Tekken Cartoon Review (Episode 184)
Austin and Garrett do a duo episode to cover some news topics like Season 3 of City of the Wolves, the Tekken Cartoon, and new Avatar characters. (Episode is…
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Barnaby, Pabst, and Bill (Episode 181)
The newcomers talk about their weeks and get into a large amount of fighting game news that includes, Virtua Fighter Crossroads, Avatar, Tokon, 2XKO, and…
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Combo Breaker 2026 Breakdown (Episode 180)
The boys are back from traveling and they brought a friend! Ben is one of Garrett's and Austin's friends, and he decided to come down to Chicago to go to Combo…
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First to 10: Brandon VS Troy (Episode 179)
We do a first to ten with Brandon and Troy in Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising in preparation for Combo Breaker! This episode is meant to be paired with video of…
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EVO Japan News (Episode 178)
Evo Japan just happened and with it, a floodgate of news! Garrett also saw Mortal Kombat II in theaters and talks about his thoughts on it
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Combos! (Episode 177)
We tackle the topic of combos, what we like, what we don't like about them, and what our favorite system of combos are!
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Once a Buttercreamer (Episode 176)
In this rambly episode, the boys talk about a little bit of news, such as Goku Daima in Fighterz, and the buttercream gang!
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Guilty Gear 2.0 and Invincible Beta (Episode 175)
We talk about the newest Guilty Gear Strive patch, the Invincible VS Open Beta, and Garrett tries to sell the gang on Pokemon Champions
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Texas Showdown! (Episode 174)
We have Troy/Prodeus and Sean on, who went to Texas Showdown recently, where Prodeus got 5th at! We talk to him about his bracket run and the event in general…
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Alex No! (Episode 173)
Austin, Brandon and Garrett go into news overdrive as they cover Arc World Tour, Capcom Cup woes, along with other smaller but just as interesting news pieces.
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Casper and his Uncles for Tokon (Episode 172)
We don't save the FGC this week but we do talk about recent news like the 2XKO patch and Strive 2.0 hopes. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P
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Layoffs and Unbreakable X-Men (Episode 171)
The gang is all here to talk about all the news and just the news (since Garrett has a bedtime), we talk about the 2XKO layoffs and the news after, Tokon's…
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News and Favorite Costumes (Episode 170)
It's a lokey episode, as Garrett and Austin go over the little bit of news that came out this past week including Tekken Season 3, Garrett goes on a rant about…
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"Hey Grok, Add Wolves to the City" (Episode 169)
Due to a really rough news day this past week, we decided to do another news episode! We talk about 2XKO, early access and the ever so terrible AI use in the…
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News Blitz (Episode 168)
Austin and Garrett talk about the huge amount of news the past month has had including EVO and 2XKO console release
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Secret Santa (Episode 167)
Austin, Brandon, and Garrett do their fighting game secret santa, where each person gets two fighting game characters or games to try out and learn!
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Avatar and Tokon Betas (Episode 166)
Austin and Garrett talk about the two new alphas and betas of Avatar the Fighting Game, and Marvel: Tokon Fighting Souls, and their thoughts on watching them.
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Unnamed Lizard League Member 1 (Episode 165)
Austin and Garrett talk about their weeks, as well as the Invincible VS Alpha, and end by talking about the dumbest characters they found to be added to the…
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Salvaged News (Episode 164)
Short and sweet news episode with Austin and Garrett to salvage a recording session gone wrong
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The Trial of 2XKO (Episode 163)
All rise, Defense Attorney Troy is here to defend 2XKO against the prosecution team of Garrett, Austin, and Brandon. Have their opinions changed at all, or is…
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Here Comes a New Chapter (With Story Time!) (Episode 162)
Crossover event of the summer! Garrett, Austin, and Brandon are joined by David and Michael from Story Time as they talk about crossovers, arcades, Injustice…
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Belated EVO Breakdown (Episode 161)
With everyone finally back on pod the four of us get into our EVO experience, what worked and what didn't
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Bubsy (Episode 160)
In this episode we talk about the news from EVO and around it, as well as Bubsy. EVO thoughts will be the next episode, we wanted everyone here for that
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Air Bud Goes 0-2 (Episode 159)
Pre EVO podcast! We go over all the 2XKO news, complain about Invincible VS, and talk about our Nostradamus ass predictions
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EVO Numbers (Episode 158)
We go over the past month of news, catch up, and talk about the numbers for all the EVO games.
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What About 8? (Episode 157)
We talk about all the new team VS games coming out, including Invincible, HxH Demo, and Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls!
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Combo Breaker 2025 (Episode 156)
C-c-c-c-c-combo breaker! We go over Combo Breaker as an event and the news that happened at and around it!
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Threat of an Intro (Episode 155)
News! It's a shorter episode as something came up for Austin while recording so we go over news and weeks for a smaller episode.
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Evo Japan 2025 (Episode 154)
Garrett talks about COTW! The gang also goes over the Arc System Works leak, COTW sales numbers, and EVO Japan
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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (Episode 153)
Troy and Austin got a week of Fatal Fury experience, what did they think about the game? Shorter episode due to real life events needing to cut it short, there…
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Sicko Mode News Week (Episode 152)
Everyone is here while we go over a bunch of topics, ranging from Tekken 8 Season 2 to all the news from Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.
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Arc World Tour (Episode 151)
We go over Arc World Tour as an event from Garrett and Austin's POV, while shouting out friends for doing well in Texas Showdown and going over Ronaldo being…
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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Open Beta (Episode 150)
We celebrate 150 episodes, and go over the City of the Wolves open beta that happened recently, along with Sandalphon. Apologies for audio on this one, we had…
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Guess the Tier List: Touhou Edition (Episode 149)
For Brandon's blated birthday, the gang guesses the tier list of one of the Touhou fighting games while Brandon tells us what the real list is and how close we…
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Punch-Out! Tier List (Episode 148)
What says love quite like Punch-Out? Austin and Garrett go over the cast of the 2010 Punch-Out and see which ones are champions and which ones are chumps Our…
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Evo Awards Nominees (Episode 147)
(Brandon's audio cuts out at the end and is missing ~20 minutes and could not be recovered. I cut the big pauses in between Austin and if it still feels like…
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Frosty Faustings XVI (Episode 146)
Troy is back, and he goes over Frosty Faustings XVI including his bracket run, Sandalphon, and more! We also go over all the news we've been missing.
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EVO 2025 Lineup Reaction (Episode 145)
Garrett, Austin and Brandon watch the lineup stream for EVO 2025 and react to the reveals and have a discussion about the throwback title. Support victims of…
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The Airing of Grievences (Episode 144)
A cathartic episode where Austin and Garrett are joined by Q and talk about grifters in the scene. Apologies for the quality on Q's audio, I've edited as much…
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Virtua Fighter is Back (Episode 143)
Austin, Garrett, Brandon and Q go over The Game Awards and the Virtua Fighter 5 beta
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Our Wrapped 2024 (Episode 142)
Austin, Brandon and Garrett go over news, and their Spotify 2024 Wrapped for the podcast! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P Our Blusky…
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VGAs Kinda Suck for Fighting Games (Episode 141)
In this episode it's a duo as Austin and Garrett talk about the new Virtua Fighter, more Bleach characters, and also the nominations for Best Fighting Game
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Should Players Create Balance Patches? (Episode 140)
In this episode, we talk about news and we try to do scattershot, where we do mini discussions before just having time for one which is "Should players create…
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Fighting Game Protagonist Bracket (Episode 139)
The boys do a Tier List on the best fighting game protagnists from Ryu to Ragna! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P
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Here Comes Next Challenger On The Left Super Turbo Friends (Episode 138)
We talk a whole lot about news to get caught back up! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P
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Marvel VS Capcom Fighting Collection (Episode 137)
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EVO 2024 (Episode 135)
The boys talk about EVO 2024 with the announcements, the good, the bad, and the games they played like 2XKO, City of the Wolves and HxH Nen Impact! Brandon…
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EVO Predicitons (Episode 134)
The boys are back with their yearly tradition of predicting what we will see and hear at EVO 2024 this weekend but with a twist
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Brandon is in Kombat Pack 2 (Episode 133)
It's Marvel, baby! We talk about all the news from the past week including the new Marvel VS Capcom collection!
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But for Me it was Year 2 (Episode 132)
Join our Discord server! https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P We talk about all the news around Summer Games Fest and finally get caught up on news. This includes…
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Most Greed is Very Incompetent (Episode 131)
We talk about Combo Breaker 2024, Dreamhack Dallas and all the news in between. Join our discord server and play ape war with us: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P