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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 Podcast42: With Whom Are You Going?
We’ve all gotten into Ghostwire Tokyo this week and thus we dissect our time in slightly spooky Shibuya, Vinny finished Tunic and has Thoughts (!), Alex and…
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41: SOPFFO the Clown
The coming of March has blessed us with an end-of-fiscal bounty of games, as we spend a bunch of this week’s episode digging deep into Ghostwire: Tokyo, Tunic…
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40: Battle of the Beats
Alex does double duty this week with Gran Turismo 7 and WWE 2K22, our weekly progress checks with Elden Ring and Horizon continue, the Xbox leaves a tiny…
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39: My Grandfather's Golden Axe
VIDEO GAMES! There are a lot of them out, and we check in with our progress through Horizon and Elden Ring, plus Shadow Warrior 3, Far: Changing Tides, and…
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38: Reach out and Touch Grace
Elden Ring is out this week, and we have gotten drawn into, chewed up by, and spat out of its gaping open-world maw. Plus: some later-game thoughts on Horizon…
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37: A Wack Back Rack
This week's show is all about our evolving thoughts on Horizon: Forbidden West, from art and visual design to combat and gear, the continuation of Zero Dawn's…
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36: Microsoft Robert
It's a busy week on this ol' podcast as we get into Sifu, our recent Ghostwire: Tokyo demo, more OlliOlli World, an extensive recap of this week's Nintendo…
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35: Spicoli on the Brain
The game industry continues to contract as we ponder Sony's big ol' acquisition of Bungie and, uh, the New York Times snatching up Wordle, we spent time…
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34: I Love it Because I Hate It
This week: a little trip to yesteryear with Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves, Brad and Vinny finished RE Village and just have to talk about it, Windjammers 2 and…
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33: Behind the Green Curtain
At least half of this podcast is about Microsoft buying Activision, because, well, you know, but we also find time for Nobody Saves the World, OlliOlli World…
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32: Iulian Was Right
We've emerged from the Game of the Year mines ready to tackle 2022's games, starting with... Resident Evil Village! Also: the psychedelic space sheen of The…
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31: Alex Narrativaro
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…
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30: Zestiest Joie de Vivre
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…
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29: Twenty Twenty-Fun's Game of the Weird
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…
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28: Idris Elba as Knuckles
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 (??)…
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27: The Grapple Kerflapple
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…
The Nextlander Podcast26: Caravella's Caffeine Clothing
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…
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25: Three Kinds of Foul
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…
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24: Alex's Over-the-Hill Pills
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…
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23: A Five-Dog Spread
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…
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22: Big Kahuna Bunger
This week, we find Unpacking delightfully earnest and Inscryption delightfully bizarre, get into more Guardians of the Galaxy and Darkest Dungeon II, talk…
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21: Ready to Flark Scrat Up
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…
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20: The Worst West
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…
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19: Across the Shyamalaniverse
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…
The Nextlander Podcast18: Handcuffed to a Desk
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]…
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17: The Prototypical Hoth Level
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 (?!)…
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16: A Gun That Shoots Yagamis
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…
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15: Pairer Beware
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…
The Nextlander Podcast14: The Unhappy-Kid Exclusion Zone
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…
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13: Free Mom From the Bathroom
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…
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12: A Xeno Named Matilda
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…
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11: Piles of Memetic Excrement
This week we spend more than 12 minutes talking about the fascinating adventure game Twelve Minutes, consider the necessity of eyebrows, check in on Axiom…
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10: Quality Value Convenience
With mere days till John Madden emerges from his slumber and the games truly begin, we dip into a few recent indie releases like Splitgate, Jupiter Hell, and…
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9: Kneading Biscuits in Your Brain
This week, we try to distract ourselves from the arrival of Alex's new cat long enough to consider The Ascent, the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters, Horizon…
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8: Episode Otho
This week we cover California's lawsuit against Blizzard for widespread discrimination and harassment, then move on to the Dead Space remake, Battlefield…
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7: Tom Clancy's Punk Rock Mosh Pit
Video games are still coming out, news is still breaking, and we're still here to discuss it all, including the Steam Deck and the portable-PC proposition…
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6: Ham to the Home
This week: we're very hot on Boomerang X, Vinny claws his way to the end of FF7 Remake, and we reflect on home meat delivery, the shaky future of the Judgment…
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5: Shinra Switches Get What They Deserve
Well, that new Switch model sure did get announced. It surrrrrre did. Assassin's Creed is going live-service, Dan Houser might make more video games, we're all…
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4: Chargin' Chuck and the Boo in the Mornings
With the summer heat setting in, this week we're hunkering down and weighing in on Mario Golf: Super Rush, Scarlet Nexus, Lego Builder's Journey, Mortal…
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3: I Need a Moment!
Our friend and #1 guest Mary Kish joins the podcast to talk about a crash course on the ins and outs of Twitch life, remembering how to socialize in 2021…
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2: Metroid vs. Predator
The first fully virtual E3 has come and gone, so we spend most of this episode running down our favorite games and announcements, touching on Starfield, Breath…
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1: Welcome to Bee3
Our first official episode coincides with the beginning of E3, and you know what that means: time to speculate! Are we getting a Starfield release date? Where…
The Nextlander PodcastReady to Launch!
Who is Nextlander? What is Nextlander? Why is Nextlander? These questions and others you haven't even thought of yet are addressed in our very first episode of…