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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.
Episodes
The Nextlander Podcast158: Orbital Yakuza Laser
This week, Alex bought a new (plastic) guitar, Brad's turning RTS esports pro, Vinny is way into the latest D&D patch notes, Game Pass is fracturing and…
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157: Saving in a Bathroom
This week Brad dishes on the last of his SGF fare, including Steamworld Heist 2, Hyper Light Breaker, Phantom Blade Zero and Chainstaff, Vinny finishes Harold…
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156: The Premium Wheel Lifestyle
We're right about at the midpoint of 2024, so how's about a rundown of everything we've played, are playing, and will play for the year? Also, in the news…
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155: She's Got a Great Mario!
Nintendo has dropped one of their better Directs in recent memory, so it's time to dig into Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, and Metroid…
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154: Tights in Fight Spaces
Summer Game Fest is over, Brad's back from LA, and it's time to talk three hours of upcoming video games, among them firsthand impressions of AstroBot, Monster…
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153: Standard at The Standard
Head to https://www.squarespace.com/NEXTLANDER to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NEXTLANDER. Summer Game Fest is here, so…
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152: THEY'RE TAKING YOUR FUDDRUCKERS
With SGF approaching and the console wars heating up, this week we consider Sony's newly announced State of Play, Xbox's decision to put Call of Duty on Game…
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151: Cool Puzzle Wonderland
Head to https://www.squarespace.com/NEXTLANDER to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NEXTLANDER. This week we all dig into…
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150: Indie-cent Proposal
A ton of interesting indies hit last week, and we picked Animal Well, Cryptmaster, and Crow Country to dig into this week. Also in the news, PlayStation's new…
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149: Stylish Nun Action
It's been a week in the games industry with both Xbox's closures of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks and the Helldivers 2 account backlash, and we dig into…
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148: No Mall Katanas
We're thrilled to be joined by Remap Radio's Rob Zacny this week to talk about everything from Shogun: Total War to Qui-Gon Jinn's Force balls, Manor Lords…
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Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 004: Snakes, Sneaks, and Stew Leonards
Head to https://www.squarespace.com/NEXTLANDER to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NEXTLANDER. We're taking a week off of the…
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147: Ah, Yes, He Is Internet Boy?
Let's talk about such games this week as Harold Halibut, Life Eater (eater of life!), and Laysara: Summit Kingdom, plus news and sundries like the games of the…
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146: I'm a Fan of Clothespins!
Head to https://www.squarespace.com/NEXTLANDER to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code NEXTLANDER. This week we all bend bullets…
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145: The Game That Clips Well, Ships Well
This week we all dig (lol) into the indie drilling platformer Pepper Grinder, continue catching up with FF7 Rebirth and LAD: Infinite Wealth, and do battle…
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144: You Sparkled My Darkle!
Viiiiideo games on the show this week include Dragon's Dogma II, Princess Peach: Showtime, Open Roads, and the Stellar Blade demo, plus we talk about Phil…
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143: Jean-Luc Godard's Dragon's Dogma II
We get our pawn on in Dragon's Dogma II this week and check out the new Outcast, even as we dutifully continue plowing through FF7 Rebirth and LAD: Infinite…
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142: 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…
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141: 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…
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140: 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…
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139: 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…
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138: 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…
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137: 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…
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136: Secret Swifties
Will Smith (of game development and Fortnite-streaming fame) joins us this week to unpack the mass Xbox/Activision/Blizzard layoffs and the general state of…
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135: He Who Smelted It
This week, the early hours of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, deeper into POP: The Lost Crown, plus Home Safety Hotline, all the goings on with Palworld, our…
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134: No Stars Upon Rs
They mixed some Metroid into the new Prince of Persia and it turns out we're all quite down with that. Plus: Brad digs into the new Last of Us Part II…
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133: The Other Dr. Dré
In this second week of 2024: The Finals, Among Us in Vampire Survivors, more Sea of Stars, Xbox maybe going multiplatform, layoffs at Twitch and Unity, another…
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132: Finding a Pea While Eating Poop
We've got plenty to catch up on in our first podcast of 2024 (not a real year), from holiday gaming with small children to basement cleaning strategies, some…
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131: Game of the Year 2023, Part 2
It's our last podcast of 2023, and thus our last chance to celebrate many of our favs with some chill 'n friendly debate about categories like best…
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130: Game of the Year 2023, Part 1
Can it be? Have we (almost) reached the end of this year? Is it finally time to talk about some of our favorite 2023 games, including the best looking game…
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129: Suddenly, Klepek
With Brad and Alex unexpectedly out Patrick Klepek answers the call to chat about Fortnite and the kids, the end of E3, and The Game Awards! Advertise on The…
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128: Hardcore Matinee
Well, now we definitely officially know what Grand Theft Auto VI looks like, so we dig into that trailer this week, as well as Harmonix's proper Fortnite…
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127: The Doom Runs
It's almost December, so it's time to take stock of the games we're currently catching up on, as well as the ones on our backlogs (with a break to talk about…
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126: Prove Your Stifmeister
As we roll into the Thanksgiving holiday, we dish up some piping hot discussion about our very timely experiences with Cyberpunk 2077, "beating" Vampire…
The Nextlander Podcast125: Activate Your Dog
The year's end looms, so it's time to look over the Game Awards nominees, then gaze longingly at the OLED Steam Deck, then catch up on games like Thirsty…
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124: Serious Sam's Existential Crisis
This podcast contains discussion of topics such as: the new Like a Dragon Gaiden, The Invincible, Jusant, The Talos Principle II, Grand Theft Auto 6, Mass…
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123: Thumpin' and Rumpin'
We're pretty busy having our minds blown by Alan Wake II this week, but we also find time for a mini-Spider-spoilercast, news like the layoffs at Bungie…
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122: Pull That Frown Further Down!
On the show this week, we dig into the fifth? sixth? Super Mario Bros. game (y'know, Wonder), discuss the later parts of Spider-Man 2, cover news like the…
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121: Mahden Mahvel
Spider-Man 2 is here, and hey, it's extremely good! That's pretty much all we played this week, but also the Microsoft/Activision deal closed (and Bobby Kotick…
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120: Mark N. Execute
This week we ended up doing an impromptu dive into the past/present/future of Assassin's Creed in the wake of Mirage's release, talked (?) at length (??) about…
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119: The Drivatar Classic
We're in it now, with games releasing fast and furious, and this week we get wrapped up in Cocoon, hit the track in the new Forza Motorsport, and head to…
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118: Jatz Hands
This week we've all finished Mortal Kombat 1 and it's time for a mini-spoilercast! Also, Brad played the impressive looking Alan Wake 2, Alex played the…
The Nextlander Podcast117: Sausalito Sunburn
Well, you know, probably not much happened while we were away, it'll just be a nice casual chat this week about the biggest leak of Xbox business operations…
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Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 003: Like a Sippy Cup?
We're taking a pause on the regular show this week to bring you another banger from the Patreon archive, in which Abby Russell and Austin Walker join us to…
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116: Needs to Be Played
This here is a podcast about our further adventures in Starfield, Trine the Fifth, Shadow Gambit, the abrupt closure of Volition, the looming SAG-AFTRA video…
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115: Oxygen Is the New Stamina
Yep, this is the one where we talk about Starfield for like 90 minutes. It's a pretty big game! The Making of Karateka is also just great, Armored Core VI has…
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114: Mario Emeritus
Games! Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Like a Dragon Gaiden, Persona 5 Tactica and the Persona 3 remake, the new Madden, Fort Solis, and more. News! The Xbox 360…
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113: User Reported for Gamerpic
This week, somehow we're all spending a lot of time with 2023's hottest game, Vampire Survivors (except together this time!?), Baldur's Gate 3 with friends is…
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112: Top-Ten Skeleton
It was hard to resist the dark urge to keep playing Baldur's Gate 3 long enough to go on this podcast and talk about Baldur's Gate 3, but we pulled it off…
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111: The Jedi Experience
Author Jordan Minor joins us this week to talk about charting the last 45 years of video game history in his new book Video Game of the Year, plus a bunch of…
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110: Family-Appropriate Innuendo
It's a new podcast! about video games! and those video games include! Remnant II, Pikmin 4, The Banished Vault, Oxenfree 2, and Viewfinder, plus the news!…
The Nextlander Podcast109: Some Definition of "Some"
You could just go play Viewfinder right now instead of listening to us tell you to go play Viewfinder... but you could also listen on for chatter about…
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108: WHAT'S ON THE TAPES??
Friend of the show Danny O'Dwyer joins us this week to talk about Noclip's new archival video project, the tricky nature of publishing old footage, and a bunch…
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Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 002: Balls Deep in the Space Elevator
We're out on break this week, so in lieu of our normal weekly show, we're back with another very special bonus episode, the original description of which was…
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107: Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch
The All-Elite Wrestling game is finally out and Alex has spent a bunch of time with it, Sludge Life 2 has oozed onto the scene, we're still playing Diablo and…
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106: There Were Fire Flowers Talking!
There's a new Final Fantasy out! They're making a new 2D Super Mario Bros.! Super Mario RPG is getting a remake! Someone cranked up the WarioWare machine…
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105: The One With All the Video Games
The Summer games announcement window has closed, and now it's time to sift through darn near everything that got announced to hash out what impressed us…
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104: Welcome to Wrong World
With the E3-ish window looming (and the skies darkening), this week we recap a bunch of the games we'd like to see during the coming showcases, Diablo IV has…
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103: It's MY Summer
It's Street Fighter 6 week and we've all been on a Metro City tour, the System Shock remake finally (!!) came out, Nvidia is leaning heavily into AI-assisted…
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102: SUFFER NOT THE HERETICS TO LIVE
Sony's PlayStation Showcase happened right in the middle of this podcast, so we break down all the news 'n trailers about Bungie's new Marathon, Spider-Man 2…