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Nick is trying to convince Chris to buy a Playdate. How has Nick enjoyed his Playdate? What games are grabbing him? What's he cranking on? Also: There's now VR in Chris' home.

Topics:

• (00:24) - Welcome back
• (01:17) - Why are we recording now?
• (02:27) - Who makes the Playdate?
• (04:36) - What is the Playdate?
• (10:28) - Who's buying the Playdate?
• (14:23) - What does the Playdate sound like?
• (16:37) - Is the cover necessary?
• (17:35) - How is charging handled?
• (18:40) - The Playdate as a nice screen device without all the apps
• (21:08) - Can you play Fortnite on the Playdate?
• (22:23) - How much is the crank used?
• (25:26) - Eww Dad, it looks old!
• (27:06) - Learning to make games with Pulp
• (31:55) - Is Chris ordering a Playdate?
• (32:45) - What we've been playing

Links:* Play.date * Podcast.Play.date * Playdate SDK * Playdate Pulp * Playdate game collection * Catalog Update #1 * Playdate - $199 starting April 7 * Pre-Order for late 2023 + Cover? * Playdate Pulp * Recommendation Dog * GameDev Journal by Dave Rupert * Scratch * The Murderbot Diaries * Meta Quest 2 * Gorilla Tag * Lego Star Wars * Minecraft * Mario Party * Pokemon Scarlet * Castle Crumble Apple Arcade * It Takes Two

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Console Corner

• MarioKart Expansion Pack
• Halo TV series
• Supposedly separate timeline? I assumed prequel
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Lego Star Wars?

Apple Corner

• Crossy Road Castle
• Zen Pinball Party
• Frogger in Toy Town
• Alto’s Adventure - The Spirit of the Mountain
• Globle
• Heardle
• Murdle

Tabletop Corner

• Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza

Book Corner

• The Bone Orchard

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Console Corner

• Siracusa on Bungie acquisition by sony
• Nintendo WiiU and 3DS eShop EOL
• Mario Kart Wheel (available at Costco)
• Nintendo Direct 2022-02-09 Raw Notes
• Chrono Cross
• Radical Dreamers text adventure from Satellaview!
• No Man’s Sky
• Portal: Companion Collection
• Earthbound and Earthbound Beginnings
• Lego Brawls
• MarioKart Deluxe Booster Course Pass
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Mario Strikers Battle League
• Nintendo Switch Sports

PC Corner

• Political Arena covered in NYT
• Dad games
• A Little to the Left
• Aperture Desk Job
• Jean and Jorts the cats added to Stardew Valley

Apple Corner

• Crosswordle — Solve backwards
• Wordie Bird — Golf style scoring
• Prattle — Shakespeare word list, variable length
• Worldle — Guess country shape
• Polydle — Play 2-2315 boards at once.
• Mathler
• Risk: Game of Thrones Edition
• Battleship
• Pokemon TCG
• Race for the Galaxy

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Console Corner

• Sony buys Bungie
• Star Trek: Resurgence trailer
• Found via Transporter Lock
• https://www.startrek-resurgence.com

Star Trek Corner

• Takeover! Amok Time battle music
• List of Star Trek Games
• Begin (maybe Begin 2?) (1991)
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1992)
• Later had MacPlay CD-ROM version (with actual character dialogue)
• Star Trek: Judgement Rites (1993)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: Future’s Past (1994)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Harbinger (1996)
• Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force (2000)
• Eventually played expansion pack
• Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force II (2003)
• Star Trek: Conquest (2007)
• Star Trek Online (2010)
• Star Trek Rivals (2013)
• Star Trek Trexels (2014)
• Star Trek Timelines (2016)
• Star Trek: Legends (2021)
• Apple Arcade, covered in episode 29

Tabletop games

• Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game — A Klingon Challenge (1993)
• Star Trek Customizable Card Game (1994)
• Way Too Seriously

Apple Corner

• Hidden Folks
• Bridge Constructor+
• Reminiscent of Poly Bridge
• Crashlands+
• Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis
• Wordle acquired
• Quordle
• Starwordle

Tabletop Corner

• Asmodee purchase by Embracer Group
• Restoration Games

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Console Corner

• Hades wins Best Video Game Hugo
• Power Up graphic novel
• Square Enix looking into NFTs
• Castlevania NFTs
• Axie Infinity NFT rentals 🤮
• Playdate Pulp game maker in public beta
• Bitsy
• Forza Horizons 5
• Skywalker Saga gameplay overview

PC Corner

• Riot Games settles discrimination lawsuit
• Microsoft buys Activison-Blizzard
• Warcraft 3 Reforged

Apple Corner

• A Starting Point
• Jackbox games
• A Five Letter Word for Ripoff
• Hearts+
• Spades+
• Wingspan
• Wordle
• Townscaper converter
• Absurdle
• Primel
• Dordle
• Sweardle
• Lewdle

Tabletop Corner

Skipped this week!

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Console Corner

• PlayStation subscription service
• Sonic 2 movie updates

PC Corner

• Star Wars Eclipse cinematic trailer
• Downstream episode 4

Apple Corner

• Apple's 2021 App Store Award winners
• Apple TV Game of the Year: Space Marshals 3, from Pixelbite.
• Apple Arcade Game of the Year: Fantasian, from Mistwalker.
• Mac Game of the Year: Myst, from Cyan.
• Apple's most downloaded iOS Apps and Games of 2021
• Builderment

Tabletop Corner

• Scorekeeper
• Gin
• Canasta
• MattRix - trainyard developer

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• Nick: Hades if they haven't played it yet (all three consoles)
• Chris: Halo Infinite (Xbox)
• Nick: Civ VI Anthology (if it's still on sale)
• Chris: Dorfromantik
• Nick: iTunes Gift Card (for Apple Arcade)
• Nick: Villainous.
• Chris: Sleeping Queens.
• Halo TV series teaser
• Download on Relay.fm
• Game Awards
• Star Citizen still not out
• Five formative games meme
  • Nick: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Sim City 2000, Escape Velocity, Myst, Tetris
  • Chris: Space Quest, Doom, Warcraft series, Age of Empires, Diablo 2
• Epic buys Harmonix
• Lego Star Wars Castaways
• Netflix Games: Teeter
• The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
• Pitch

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Console Corner

• Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal
• Niantic opens Lightship platform
• MGS games removed due to archival footage licensing
• Unpacking players don't know what a GameCube is
• KotOR available for Switch $15
• Playdate update
• Xbox's 20th Anniversary - adds 70 new backward compatible games
• Ted Lasso car in Forza

PC Corner

• Chris played Civilization 6 for an hour
• Extra Life Game Day - Nick streamed on Twitch
• Political Arena kickstarter
• Mass Effect Teaser

Apple Corner

• Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls
  • Small amounts of action platformer trapped in character/item upgrade menu system
  • Auto attack makes game more accessible
  • This was an IAP powered Android game launched in 2019
  • Worked well with controller
• The Oregon Trail
  • Getting back into it. Many game updates (about 20 onboarding screens!): new trails (California, Mormon), fishing mini game, more story quests (eg bring nitroglycerin to mine without blowing up), more challenges ("contracts" to complete a trail segment with added difficulty)
  • Menus work with controller okay, but definitely touch first
• Galaga Wars+
  • Never played previous release
  • Weird hold to unpause mechanic, bad RSI scenario
  • Fun progression, pretty high difficulty
• Netflix Games
  • First on Android, now on iOS
  • One app per game to follow App Store guidelines
  • not streaming like Luna or xCloud
• Listener Andrew
  • "You and Chris were great entertainment on my way to and from getting cat supplies."
  • Tiny Wings developer wanted to transfer achievements
• 🍋 HomePod mini
• Fraggle Rock TV+ show
• Marathon series / Marathon emulator
  • Friend of the show Angela
  • Gabe wants multiplayer

Tabletop Corner

• MegaCity
• Rating bias towards new games

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Console Corner

• Playdate order update
• Tetris and similar games can help with PTSD
• Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack 10/25
• Nintendo's Online Expansion Pack Trailer Is Now Its Most Disliked Video On YouTube
• Happy Home Paradise DLC also out Nov 5th on it's own
• Hades Halloween costumes
• Sega + Microsoft

PC Corner

• Steam banning NFT and blockchain games
• NFT and gaming Twitter thread
• NFT game using Mario NFTs
• Bloomberg article
• Scalzi quote

Apple Corner

• Crossy Road+
• Tiny Wings+
• Mini Motorways update
• M1 Pro/Max Macs Impressive GPU performance close to gaming laptops
• Upgrade #379: They Feed on Memory Bandwidth - Relay FM
• Townscaper out for mobile
• Fun comic
• GoodSudoku+
• In-game events listed in App Store
• Crayola Create and Play+
• Tsuro - The Game of the Path on the App Store

Tabletop Corner

• Tsuro: Phoenix Rising
• Suspend

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Console Corner

• NBA 2K22 transaction hell
• N64 / Sega Genesis on Nintendo Online
• Animated Mario Bros casting

PC Corner

• Prime Gaming loot

Apple Corner

• Missed game content: Star Wars Hunters
• iPad Mini review for gaming
• Lego Star Wars Battles
• Castlevania Grimoire of Souls

Tabletop Corner

• Returning favorites: Star Trek: Catan

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Console Corner

• Nintendo Switch Bluetooth
• Chris' quarterly attempts at Breath of the Wild

PC Corner

• IKEA Gamer Furniture

Apple Corner

• New game features
• iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8 security update
• Zookeeper World
• Grindstone
• Listening to soundtrack
• Grindstone Volume 2

Tabletop Corner

• D&D Musical
• Ingenious Challenges

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Chris tries Hades before his GamePass expires, Nick tries Fortnite and is old-man confused, new Apple Arcade Games are tried - Do-Don-Pachi, Masterchef, Zen Pinball, Baldo - and Catan beer is found.

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Console Corner

• Chris plays Hades for the first time on YouTube
• Not going to PAX West for obvious reasons

PC Corner

• Diablo II: Remastered review
• Myst remastered

Apple Corner

• The Surprise Chain
• Do-Don-Pachi Resurrection HD+
• MasterChef: Let’s Cook
• Zen Pinball Party
• Baldo
• Learn to code at any age
• Among Us tips

Tabletop Corner

• CATAN beer
• Found a copy of King of Tokyo in nearby Little Free Library

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Be sure to check out Goodstuff’s newest show, Click and Flick! On this episode we’re talking Pokemon, Mario and Sonic at the Oympics, Fortnite’s Among Us rip off, and some Dutch Blitz.

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Console Corner

• Click and Flick
• Mass Effect review
• Cozy Grove (our first overlap)
• The Goodstuff Morning Show
• Mario and Sonic at the Tokyo Olympic Games
• Console Wars
• Pokémon Presents 25th Anniversary
• Playdate iFixit Teardown

PC Corner

• Fortnite ripping off Among Us
• Quake Remaster on Game Pass

Apple Corner

• Listener Andrew: Why can I play Jetpack Joyride but not Jetpack Joyride+ on Apple TV?
• Good Sudoku+
• wurdweb
• Tetris Beat

Tabletop Corner

• Kiddo beating me at Dominion, learning Race for the Galaxy
• Dutch Blitz makes a comeback
• Settlers of Catan

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Nick got his Playdate pre-order, we talk Blizzard toxicity and gaming, new additions to Apple Arcade, and Exploding Kittens and Villainous.

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Console Corner

• Playdate

PC Corner

• Dorfromantik
• Inside Blizzard Developers’ Infamous Bill ‘Cosby Suite’
• Former guild mate Xantia talking about her old question video going viral
• A Starting Point
• Mythic Quest on Apple TV+
• Fullbright toxic founder stepping down while working on Open Road
• Accenture presentation on gaming
• Steamdeck hands on and size comparison

Apple Corner

• Alto’s Odyssey: Lost City follow up
• On Upgrade and Six Colors
• JetPack Joyride+
• Sudoku Simple+
• Good Sudoku+ much better

Tabletop Corner

• Villainous expansion “Evil Comes Prepared”
• Dominion
• 7 Wonders Duel
• Patchwork
• Exploding Kittens and it’s various expansions were popular while camping
• The best board game of 2020 is a poster-sized hidden object game

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Did you pre-order a Steam Deck? Nick takes in PAX East, Chris tackles Roblox fascism, and we chill out with Alto’s Odyssey Lost Cities.

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• Super MIDI Pak
• Video game auction 💰
• Steam Deck
• Roblox Playground for Fascists
• Indie Showcase
• Indie Megabooth indefinitely on hold during COVID
• Demon Turf and 3D platformers generally
• Tunche
• Midnight Protocol
• Peglin
• Skatebird
• Sky Fleet
• Gas Station Simulator
• Lawn Mower Simulator

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We debrief the new Nintendo Switch OLED upgrade, talk Gang Beasts stupidity and hilarity, Nick builds a gaming empire in Game Dev Story+, and Chris is introduced to the Villainous board game series.

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• New Kotaku EIC Patricia Hernandez: “Games are human, and so are we.”
• New Nintendo Switch announced in a tweet
• Comparison chart on Nintendo.com
• Gang Beasts on Xbox Game Pass
• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate available on iOS devices and Windows PC browsers
• Game Dev Story+
• Solitaire Stories
• Leo’s Fortune+
• A few recurring games: Flinch, Villainous, Cloud City

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We catch up on the latest Nintendo Direct, Hades on Xbox, Final Fantasy, and Wholesome Games Direct. Recent Apple Arcade games include Legends of Kingdom Rush, Frenzic, and GameDev Story+, and ponder the future of streaming games from the cloud.

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• Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster
  • From Square Enix E3 presentation
• Hades on Xbox GamePass and PlayStation
• Mario Golf: Super Rush out this Friday
• Wholesome Games
• Builder’s Journey
• Unpacking — tried beta during PAX
• SkateBIRD
• Power Wash Simulator
• Legends of Kingdom Rush
• Frenzic: Overtime
• GameDev Story+
• Crossy Road Castle
• Scattergories
• Exploding Kittens
• SongPop Party
• Quiplash

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We talk about the Playdate announcement, and what we felt was relevant or interesting to Arcade and mobile gaming coming out of WWDC 2021.

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• Play.date - pre-orders in July
• The biggest gaming platform is already in your pocket
• Cut the Rope Remastered
• Sayonara Wild Hearts
• CHVRCHES
• The Incomparable Recently Played
• Next Stop Nowhere
• Tiny Crossword+ - only iPhone and iPad, no Apple TV or macOS option
• Mini Motorways not available for macOS, Mini Metro+ is availabe for everything except Apple TV?
• Joe has more review follow up on Unjustly Maligned
• Guildlings has primary user problem and can’t start a new game until you start one on another device!
• WWDC
• Apple Design Awards
• Screen Time API is now available to third-party developers
• Face ID or Touch ID can be used to authenticate on tvOS 15
• Game Center improvements
• In game events, recurring leaderboards
• Swift Playgrounds

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We review the new Apple TV 4K that arrived in both our homes this past weekend and don’t actually get to even reviewing the remote. Next time! Also: Fortnite updates and the gluttony of too many games to play.

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• Simon’s Cat - Story Time
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition
• Unboxing Apple TV 4K photos
• Joe Rosensteel’s review
• Hogwash
• Pac-Man Party Royale
• Crossy Road Castle
• SongPopParty
• Mini Motorways
• tvOS 14.6 out already
• Legends of Kingdom Rush & Frenzic (Iconfactory) coming soon
• “I love Wonderbox!”
• Oregon Trail with Prof. John Harney of History Respawned on A Starting Point

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We’re talking about Nintendo Switch Game Builder Garage, Simon’s Cat Story Time, Apple building a Switch, and Hard Wired Island.

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• Simon’s Cat - Story Time
• Sketch Rumor Claims Apple developing a Switch-like console
• Apple Pippin
• Hard Wired Island
• Lost Cities

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New Apple TV hardware, petting the dog in games, MLB The Show, Fortnite Vaccine Victories, and Cloud City / Sushi Go!

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• You can pet the baba
• New Ratchet and Clank
• Scripulous Fingore
• MLB 21 the show’s uncanny valley
• Vaccine powered Fortnite victory
• Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat
• The Last Campfire
• Sushi Go
• Cloud City

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We talk Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase, bitcoin video cards, Apple Arcade dump of great new games, and chess gets pulled out again.

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• BoardGameArena
• Apple Arcade App Store Greats
• Haul
• Song Pop Party
• Wonderbox
• The Oregon Trail
• Star Trek: Legends

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FOMO on Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Fortnite Gets Dinosaurs, No Man’s Sky Amazing Race, and Nick DM’s a D&D Campaign.

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• NW Hades won a BAFTA
• Super Mario 3D All-Stars off the online store - physical copies still available
• Conduct Together
• Fortnite adds dinosaurs and the ability to upgrade your weapons with animal parts?
• No Man’s Sky (Xbox or PC) adds an Amazing Race style update
• Tried out Star Wars Squadrons
• Descent 2
• Cozy Grove
• Avrae Discord bot for D&D

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In Console corner we’re talking Super Mario Bros U Deluxe, Ring Fit, Nintendo vaulting games, and Fifa ‘20. In Apple Corner it’s Fitness+ and Sp!ng. And Nick’s returning to D&D, while Chris is returning to Fortnite.

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• New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe
• Nintendo Vault
• Fitness+ Studio tour “this isn’t just a hobby for us”
• Sp!ng
• Action_Jay on Twitch
• The Dungeon Run on YouTube
• Season 6 Update

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We’re talking Fall Guys, Apple blocking local multiplayer for kids, RIP to Nick’s Dad’s Apple TV, and Tabletop Corner updates.

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• Starship Catan
• Dos, Dominion, Star Trek Catan, and broke out new kickstarted game Fossilis
• Rivals for Catan is next

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Minecraft is back, Breath of the Wild reviews from 2017, Nintendo Direct updates, and BlizzConline thoughts.

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• Kotaku Review of Breath of the Wild
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We chat about the Mass Effect reissue, Chris plays Breath of the Wild for his kids, Apple Arcade updates, and Rummoli?

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• Wii logos
• Switch beats out 3DS to become Nintendo’s all time best seller
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition
• Spire Blast
• Marble It Up Mayhem
• Explottens
• Super Mega Mini Party
• Nuts
• New MacBook Pro Models
• Airplay doesn’t work! Supposedly fixed in 14.5
• GenCon Spring Showcase
• Rummoli
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Catching up on holiday games and gifts - Pokémon, Hades, Minecraft Dungeons, Ring Fit, Nuts, and TableTopia! Oh My!

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• Bulbapedia
• Hades
• Star Wars: Squadrons sounds amazing in VR
• Memoir out
• He is playing Overland right now
• https://tabletopia.com/
• https://www.boardgamearena.com/
• Terraforming Mars
• Board Game Arena
• Orcs, Britons, And The Martial Race Myth, Part I: A Species Built For Racial Terror

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We’re talking Apple’s event as it relate to video games, the Apple Watch, whether we’re ordering a Playstation or Xbox, and playing board games in the time of a Pandemic.

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• Nintendo Partner Direct
• RTX 3080 Order Problems
• Ted Lasso on Apple TV+
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2
• Star Trek Catan
• Pandemic
• Forbidden Island

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Chris skates up a storm, Nicolas dreams of Star Trek in VR, and we preview what might be coming from next week’s Apple event.

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• Smoke Alert!
• Apple donating to relief fund
• US Charity ratings
• Hyrule Warriors
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2
• Scott Pilgrim
• Apple Event 9/15
• Game streaming policies
• Grindstone
• Hearthstone

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If we’re waiting until 2021 for an Apple TV, should Chris build a gaming PC? We talk Nintendo Direct, Tabletop Simulator, Creak, Last Campfire, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2 is out.

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• Table Top Simulator
• Tabletopia
• Settlers of Catan
• Carcassone
• Nintendo Direct for Super Mario 35th Anniversary Direct
• Super Mario 3D All Stars
• Mario Kart Live Home Circuit
• Clockwise on Relay.fm
• Pilgrim on 25c Episode 9
• Little Orpheus
• Creaks
• Last Campfire
• Chris’ PC Part Picker Build
• Star Trek Online
• Got A Tale of Crows
• Grindstone
• Hearthstone
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2
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We catch up after a few weeks away to talk camping, Paper Mario, Beyond a Steel Sky, Decoherence, GoT Tale of Crows, Fortnite and Marvel vs Apple, and what’s to come.

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• Evo Land 2
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• Nintendo Indie World Showcase
• Beyond a Steel Sky
• Discoherence
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Bad graphs, cancelled trips, screen time getting enabled, and Apple Arcade contracts getting cancelled. The good news is we talk about Animal Crossing?

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• Apple Arcade contracts cancelled
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• Grintstone
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• Over the Alps
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We talk about the games offered in the Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, Just Dance and Animal Crossing on the Switch, Apple’s WWDC announcements, and Grindstone still grinding.

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• Star Wars Battlefront 2
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• Winding Worlds
• Grintstone
• Over the Alps

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• Whatever you want it to be!

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While recording the previous episode, we went on a long enough tangent discussion around Disney+, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, and all the ways to watch TV and movies in 2020. So we broke it off into it’s own special bonus episode. Enjoy!

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We’re talking about Minecraft Dungeons, when should kids start Minecraft, Obduction, Winding Worlds, and Towers of Everland.

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• Minecraft
• Small World Warcraft Coming in 2020
• Obduction

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• Hearthstone
• Breath of the Wild

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We’ve been playing Star Wars Pinball, Untitled Goose Game, Legend of the Skyfish 2, The Other Side, and Hearthstone. And so we talk about those games - and more!

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• Switch: Paper Mario - The Origami King
• Apple Arcade: The Other Side
• Unreal Engine 5 for iOS and Mac Announcement
• Skyweaver

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• Legend of the Skyfish 2
• Hearthstone

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Nick tries a whole bunch of Arcade games, Chris has a confession to make.

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• Jackbox Games
• SimLife
• Beyond Blue
• A Fold Apart
• Legend of the Skyfish 2
• Tokaido
• Conducting Together
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Drawful 2 for Switch

Games We Keep Going Back To

• Grindstone on App Store

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• Whatever you want it to be!

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We’re taking a break from playing one specific game and just talking about the games we’re playing as we isolate in home with kids and family. And definitely not buying Animal Crossing.

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• Conducting Together
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Oceanhorn 2
• Roundguard
• Drawful 2 for Switch

Games We Keep Going Back To

• Grindstone on App Store
• Roundguard
• Spyder

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• Whatever you want it to be!

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Life is crazy right now but we still have video games. What have we been playing while we’re under quarantine and isolation?

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• Good Job for Switch
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Games We Keep Going Back To

• Grindstone on App Store
• Cross Road Castle
• Roundguard
• Spyder

Next Episode’s Game:

• Mutazione

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We - well not all of the we - review Over the Alps, and Kids Corner officially gets a Switch added to it.

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• Apple TV Gen X showing up
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Game We Played Last Week:

• Over the Alps

Games We Keep Going Back To

• Grindstone on App Store

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• Mutazione

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We review Pilgrims from Amanita Design, publisher of other popular games like Machinarium, & Samorost. Grindstone gets a gore update, Nick’s progress in Enchanted Worlds, and preview the game we’re playing next.

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Games We Keep Going Back To

• Grindstone on App Store
• 25c Ep7 The Enchanted World

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• Over the Alps

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We’re reviewing Grindstone - a game that Nick calls a near perfect mobile game.

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• Threes
• Trism

Game We Played Last Week:

• GrindstoneGame.com
• Grindstone on App Store

Apple TV Corner

• Apple TV Hardware Appears to be Close to Launching

Next Episode’s Game:

• Pilgrims

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We review Enchanted World, talk about a Mac mini gaming TV, and preview next episode’s game.

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• Overcooked 2
• The Short Game
• Overcooked on The Short Game
• Using Apple TV on a Mac
• Butter Royale on Apple Arcade

Game We Played Last Week:

• The Enchanted World

Games We Keep Going Back To:

Next Episode’s Game:

• Grindstone

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Was it doomsday for Doomsday Vault? What are we playing next week? Do we mention Dear Reader… again?

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• Starting Point
• MacStories Arcade Highlights articles
• No Way Home
• Mutazione

Game We Played Last Week:

• Doomsday Vault

Games We Keep Going Back To:

• Dear Reader
• Grindstone

Next Episode’s Game:

• The Enchanted World

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We return from a holiday break and catch up on What the Golf, a new Switch, city building games, and tracking kids screen time.

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• Pocket City
• Megacity Oceania

Game We Played Last Week:

• What the Golf trailer
• What the Golf

Games We Keep Going Back To:

• Dear Reader

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• Doomsday Vault

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We’re reviewing Ultimate Rivals: The Rink, Apple announces annual subscription option, Dear Reader updates, and the game we’re playing over the holidays.

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• Macrumors: Apple Arcade Now Available With $49.99/Year Subscription Option

Game We Played Last Week:

• Ultimate Rivals: The Rink

Games We Keep Going Back To:

• Dear Reader

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• What the Golf trailer
• What the Golf

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We’re reviewing Lego Brawls, a Smash Bros style game set in the Lego universe, talk a bit about genres and styles for kids in Apple Arcade, and preview next episode’s game.

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• Minecraft Earth

Game We Played Last Week:

• Lego Brawls

Games We Keep Going Back To:

• Grindstone
• What the Golf
• Dear Reader

Trailer React - Next Episode’s Game:

• Ultimate Rivals: The Rink trailer
• Ultimate Rivals: The Rink

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We’re reviewing Inmost, talking family screen time restrictions, Fortnite, and what to do with weirdos playing with your kids.

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• Microsoft Family account settings
• Apple Screen Time on iOS
• The Best Games and Apps of 2019

Game We Played Last Week:

• Inmost

Games We Keep Going Back To:

• Grindstone
• What the Golf

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• Lego Brawls trailer
• Lego Brawls

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Nicolas and Chris talk about the Apple Arcade games they’ve tried, what isn’t working, and what they’re playing next.

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• Assemble with Care
• Discolored
• Guildlings
• Neo Cab
• Word Laces
• Tales of Memo
• Battlesky Brigade Harpooner
• Operator 41
• Bleak Sword
• Monomals
• Mini Motorways

Games We Keep Going Back To

• Grindstone
• Dear Reader
• Spell Drifter
• Mini Motorways

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