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So, about that write up last week… I think I mentioned that Borderlands 4 would be a test for that $80 third party gaming pricing. Turns out, it won't. Since they are basically pricing it as pretty much any other current gen triple A game. I don't know what game will eventually be that test, […]

We've circled back around to the price of our hobby again. Not so much the consoles and PC components, those will always run a premium. But the games. Nintendo is testing those waters with their first party titles. So, it's their exclusives. If you want to play them you'll have to pay those prices. Microsoft […]

“Too much is not enough” Actually, yeah. Yeah, I kinda think too much is more than enough. They need to space these things out. The Summer Game Fest video alone is 3.5 hours long. And it is back to back to back titles over and over again. The next day had SEVEN more events of […]

“You cannot f___ the future, sir. The future f____ you.” So, we're back to the discussion of $80 games, and to get right to the core of it—this is happening. It was probably always going to happen. Inflation affects everything—food, materials, consumer goods—prices inevitably rise, and video games are no exception. The same goes for […]

How do you solve a problem like GTA 6? What I mean by that is that when you have a game like GTA 6 it sort of dominates the store shelves – it dominates the topic of conversation. And getting back to the store shelves that's the problem. When you release a game like this, […]

We might be done for a while talking about the Switch 2 (but not for very long), but in its place we now have GTA 6. Just swapping one evil for another. And no, they aren't really evil, but those prices sure are. Oddly enough, prior to like a month ago, GTA 6 was the […]

So, maybe for a while we might be done talking about the Switch 2? Pre-orders are out (some oddly still available) and now it's just the waiting game until June 5th. I was able to get in a pre-order myself, but I'll be on the fence for either keeping it or canceling. And if I'm […]

We're finally getting to order our Switch 2's. Well, pre-order them. We're also finally settled on a price and, as it turned out, it was the price we knew all along anyway. So, for now, it's the $450/$500 situation. That price won't change through the release on July 5th. Although given how quickly things have […]

It's been two weeks and I'm past the point of being tired of talking about tariffs. At least where Nintendo is concerned. And, I guess, where our gaming hobby is concerned. PC components, consoles, games, digital or otherwise, just tired of talking about it and speculating on it. At this point I'm of the mind […]

You'd think around an hour would be enough time to really go over everything going on with Nintendo, but apparently not with the way we do it. But yeah, this is what we're talking about for the whole second hour of the show. We didn't finish the conversation and we're likely to have it again […]

I had forgotten what it means to be on the cusp of a GTA release. I admit, my memory isn't at all what it used to be, but you might also forget that the last time we were here was 2013. I'd forgotten not about the build up to release as far as hype is […]

“Listen to the thunder…” This is probably one of the more unusual episodes we've done. And we've done a lot of unusual episodes before, but this one dealt with some pretty severe weather coming into our area and, as such, we had to cover it. Not something we mind at all, by the way. We […]

“I hope that somethin' better comes along…” By now you should know that when I like a game, it's probably on the simplistic side of things. We always referred to Destiny as a “my first mmo” kind of thing. And so it seems with Avowed. It's beginning to click for me but the more I […]

“The next best thing to the enjoyment of a good time is the recollection of it.” We're two months in for the year and currently sitting around 1200 job losses in the gaming industry. A number that will only go higher, of course, as the year goes on. This week, among other studios, we lost […]

“Patience is a virtue” A virtue I'm well acquainted with – except for when the internet is down. It was a weird weekend. After this show wrapped we had bad weather come through and that required me to put on my day job pants and monitor things for where I work. That got me in […]

“You couldn't live with your own failure, where did that bring you?” Back to Batman. I get the need to want to work on something else. I understand how tiring it is to keep doing, mostly, the same thing over and over again. As well as trying to bring more to the table to keep […]

“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it as it runs by.” I'm still putting in time with AstroBot. It's a great little game to come home to, if that makes any sense. Like, it's a comfortable TV show. A feel good book. Something to take away the worries of the […]

Snap back to reality… So, this time last week I was wondering what had happened to Marvel Snap. Turns out they're owned by a company the US Government doesn't want operating in the US. Anyway, that lasted all of maybe two days or so. Everything is somewhat back to normal. And players will be seeing […]

Just as a note, I'm writing this the day after we recorded this episode. Yeah, some things have happened since then and we're absolutely going to talk about it on the NEXT episode. For now, I want to keep this content relevant to the episode it's attached to, even though it does have to do […]

New Year. New Switch…Too. I can't remember the last time I've seen a leak for a console like this. It's almost like how new phone products get leaked because of all the third party manufactures – but this is for a new console. And I'm surprised that Nintendo has said NOTHING about it. They also […]

As always, thank you for listening and continuing to support us here at In-Game Chat. Another season comes to close and along with it another year as well. We don't really look back on the year in this episode so I'll try to do so here in this post. From kicking off this year with […]

These things take time… And it seems that 10 years is about the time it takes to iron out the kinks of The Game Awards. I can't tell if maybe I'm just not as critical or that they actually fixed their problems but I have very little in the way of notes about this year's […]

“I'm listening…” If you're looking to hear someone over analyze themselves as to how they play or buy video games…well, you've come to the right place. After all that back and forth I sometimes boil it down to the great words of a TV show theme song: “It's just a game, I should really just […]

What a bargain! It's sales week/month. Not sure how long this goes for, because while this is the big sale day of Black Friday later on this week you'll actually see sales from now until the end of the year. And yeah, some of those will be better/worse than what we're getting this week. Currently, […]

The future feels uncertain. Well, duh. It is the future and it will always be uncertain. Still, it doesn't mean I can't wonder what will come of it. And while you might think this is some existential pondering on my part, it's far more…well, actually it's far less than that. I'm once again talking about […]

The mid-gen refresh for Sony is now out in the wild and we'll see how a $700 console holds up out there. Let me be a bit more specific there and say a $700 digital-only console holds up out there. It'll be fine, really. It's an option for people who can afford that option and […]

It's kind of strange how it now feels like we're done with the year, gaming wise. And I mean as far as releases go. I know there's likely plenty to fill the shelves in the coming weeks and that Indiana Jones game in December, but…what else? That whole thing about “the coming weeks” is just […]

Sometimes time is all we need. Listen, that line works on a lot of things a whole lot better than I'm using it here, but let's discuss it in the terms of video games. I'm a massive fan of the Burnout series and in 2008 Burnout Paradise was released. Played it a ton. Online and […]

Just a show note: No new episode next week. We kind of covered a lot in this episode. And not necessarily the news aspect, but just our general gaming habits. For one, I'm looking for a narrative game to play. Currently, I've just been dabbling in demos or Burnout games. No common thread or anything, […]

We're still over here on our classic game kick. And let me say how grateful I am for emulators and the communities of people who maintain them and grow them. It's the reason that when you see me stream Burnout 3, it looks amazing for a 20 year old game. The community did that. And […]

I know video game showcases, such as Sony's “State Of Play” earlier this week, are supposed to have something for everyone. And I can only imagine that Sony's showcase absolutely nailed that since I only came away with excitement for about a little less than half of what they showed off. I'm kind of okay […]

I've recently been on a nostalgia trip playing two games I probably haven't touched in nearly 20 years. The Burnout series has been one of my favorites since the sequel. A game I picked up on a rental just to check it out and completely fell in love with it immediately. And I got other […]

One really quick note before I get into the show post today: If you can emulate your games, do it. Being able to play Burnout 3 on my PC or Steam Deck has been amazing and fun as all hell. I plan to start grabbing a lot of my favorites from the past and get […]

It's never really good when a game fails. Now, there's good reasons FOR a game failing, but, I mean, that's people, with lives and families. And when a game fails now, it's almost one and done for a studio in that regard. Rocksteady failed with Suicide Squad, but they have 3 pretty big bangers in […]

I know interviews exist with the people at Microsoft. I know there's people with more info on the subject than I, but it's not gonna stop me from trying to figure out Microsoft's idea for buying a studio and releasing on multiple platforms. We've looked at this before and it really just comes down to […]

Is it really time to upgrade? I don't know if it's my weird sense of time, but it seems way too soon for me to be thinking about getting a new graphics card. But now I'm realizing how LONG it took before I moved onto the 3080 that I currently have. Due to the inability […]

Just a head's up that we won't be doing a show next week. If I paint the state of Destiny 2 in some uncertain light as far as the future is concerned, that wasn't my intention. That game will be fine to an extent. The die-hards and long termers, as I once was, will still […]

There's a few times in the year where, really, nothing is going on in gaming. This is one of those times. I mean, sure, things are happening but announcements and rumors and the like kinda dry up at this point as we move into the bigger release months. Outlaws in August then…whatever comes in September, […]

I really like watching the EVO tournament. I was really just going to leave it at that. I absolutely love watching the professionals and amateurs battle it out in this competition. I don't know their names or their histories for the most part. Even some of the games I watch them play are unknown to […]

What goes up… We kind of expected there would be some sort of change to the whole Gamepass thing once we knew the Activision stuff would start showing up on Gamepass for day-one releases. Maybe a price hike, or an extra tier type of subscription to add onto it. Had to be something when you […]

Just a heads up that we'll be taking off next weekend so no show again until July 13th. The days between shows didn't really afford me as much time with gaming as I would have liked so there isn't much I've played lately. Still, the current Steam Summer Sale happening now is making me all […]

Well, the demos start coming and they don't stop coming. I didn't think we'd spend more than half of the show going over demos I've been playing but then again I ramble horribly so, maybe that isn't so surprising to you. But man, those demos. Plus, I revisit a game from NINE years ago that […]

Still drowning in demos over here. A week removed from Summer Game Fest and getting close to the end of Steam Next Fest and I've still got around 30 or so demos left to play. I probably won't make it through all of them but that's okay. I never expected I would. I do wish […]

Throw a drowning man a line… I am covered in games. I don't ever want to go back to the old E3 if this is what it means to lose that. I'm perfectly fine with it. I think I've likely added close to a hundred of them to my Steam Wishlist and that has been […]

I enjoy games that want you to experience them. That's a bit of a broad stroke so let me be a bit more specific about what I mean. Hellblade 2 wants you to experience the game. Ninja Theory was so adamant about this that there's even a setting to let the game automatically control combat. […]

Thy cup runneth over… This month has been a killer for Indie games. Just hit after hit after hit getting released. And that's already on top of a pretty good year so far for indie titles. I mean, for me, it started with Balatro in February and there's probably been one release per month that […]

Three blind mice… It's mostly just two though. Let's get Nintendo out of the way first since it seems in this episode we covered all three consoles. Nintendo basically just told us the next Switch is coming and we're gonna talk about it soon. That was it. Sony reversed their stance on requiring a PSN […]

I've got a bad feeling about this… Well, I had to tie it into Star Wars Day somehow. Still, that bad feeling is sitting around the people who are about to be unable to enjoy a game they bought. I'm speaking of Sony and the Helldivers 2 situation. We discussed it in this episode but […]

I feel like there was a time when I was younger that I could play all manner of games and pretty much at any time I wanted. Well, let me explain a bit. Currently, and in this case that means for like the last 5 years or more, I really can only stick to one […]

Nothing lasts forever. I probably don't talk about peripherals enough. Or maybe there isn't a need to? Either way, I'm very picky with my gaming headsets. So much so I kept a stock of a specific model of them from Turtle Beach. I can't remember the name of it now but I still have them […]

It's good to see more and more video game stories making the jump into television series stories. Obviously I'm talking about both Fallout and The Last Of Us. I haven't finished Fallout yet, but it really is quite enjoyable and I'm only 4 episodes in so far. It'll be interesting to see what the success […]