Party Invite is a gaming community primarily located in Kansas City that promotes inclusiveness and positivity from rookie gamers to pros and industry enthusiasts. Our Party Leaders Chairman Mow, Sovereign Syd, Tegan, and Vilos find valuable topics to educate and entertain, occasionally grabbing industry guests and community members along the way for in-depth discussion.
The PI gang's latest Now Playing episode, where we each talk about one of the games we're playing (June 2024)! Tegan - Skald: Against the Black Priory Obsydianyte - Marvel Rivals Vilos - 33 Immortals The podcast is currently on hiatus, but you can always check out partyinvite.games or our Discord (https://discord.gg/7znnAEbVR8) to keep up with our community and join games with friends!
It's Now Playing feat. Gigantic, Planet of Lana and Content Warning! It's pretty cool to enjoy games in a safe online space. Discord.gg/PartyInviteShow
Gamers are playing more 2+ year old games than ever before! Join Tegan, Vilos and Obsydianyte for a chat about the world's most played games, speculation as to why and where our own habits fall on the timeline. It's pretty cool to enjoy games in a safe online space. Join the party to play, chat or lurk. Discord.gg/PartyInviteShow
It's a Now Playing episode!Vilos goes on a road trip, Obsydianyte battles their way through a beta and Tegan teams up with Vilos for a surprisingly smooth Cowboy vs Vampire schlockfest! Tell us in the comments what you've been playing lately - new, old or in between! 00:00 Intro 00:30 Blissen Up 14:23 Open Roads 25:58 Battlecrush 38:20 Evil West 53:36 Outro Thanks for watching! We've been trying out prerecorded shows. How are we doing? Watch our premieres on Twitch Thursday nights at 7:00pm Central.Twitch.tv/PartyInviteShow Youtube and Spotify uploads on Friday mornings. It's pretty cool to enjoy games in a safe online space. Join the party to play, chat or lurk.Discord.gg/PartyInviteShow
Top Tracks, live in concert and growing beyond the medium. We sure do love some game tunes. This is nearly an annual tradition. Support the show by telling us one of your favorite game soundtracks! Watch the premiere on Twitch Thursday nights at 7:00pm Central.Twitch.tv/PartyInviteShow Youtube and Spotify upoads on Friday mornings. We've been trying out prerecorded shows. How are we doing? It's pretty cool to enjoy games in a safe online space. Join the party to play, chat or lurk. Discord.gg/PartyInviteShow
It's a Now Playing Episode! We're trying something new! We're prerecording episodes for the first time. This allows us to stick to our weekly schedule and bring you episodes at a more consistent length. Fun! 0:00 Intro Blissen Up 1:40 Hiking! 3:08 Unicorn Overlord 10:45 Side Order Now Playing 16:44 Foamstars w/ Syd 26:50 Helldivers 2 w/ Tegan 39:45 A Little To The Left w/ Vilos 50:45 Outro It's pretty cool to enjoy games in a safe online space. Join the party to play, chat or lurk. Discord.gg/PartyInviteShow
In this week's episode of The Party Invite Show, Xbox has a Definitely-Not-Showcase about sharing their exclusives and calming the rumor mill. The Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase shared a whole bunch of games! And we found a cool name for one of our standout genres. 0:00 - Xbox Definitely-Not-Showcase 25:25 - Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase Catch the premiere on Thursdays @ 7pm Central. Twitch.tv/partyinviteshow It's pretty cool to enjoy games in a safe online space. Join the party to play, chat or lurk. Discord.gg/PartyInviteShow
Whoa! It's about time we talked about the games we've been playing! Indie discoveries, coop multiplayer and revisiting a character creator. We bet you've never heard of at least one of these! 00:48 ~Blissen Up. 11:50 - Poison Control. 21:56 - Naraka Bladepoint. 28:38 - Lethal Company. 46:18 - Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion. 56:42 - Rodent Royale. 1:02:42 - Dragonquest. It's pretty cool to enjoy games in a safe online space. Join the party to play, chat or listen. Discord.gg/PartyInviteShow
Kicking off a new year, the party is gathered to predict what lies ahead in the world of games! It's all about the 3 -ions. Adaptations, Unions and Fusions! Let us know what we missed and what you're hoping to see in 2024! We'll be revisiting this to see how well we did come December. Want to support the show for free? Leave a review! `
Obsydianyte, Tegan, and Vilos are getting into the Thanksgiving season and getting in their feels a bit. Tegan discusses games that feel like Friendsgiving, Vilos talks about escaping into other worlds, and Obsydianyte speaks on how gaming as a whole is so ingrained in life! For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Tegan and Vilos explore how gamers find themselves entrenched in one side of the spectrum--as a person that watches or plays video games. We are attracted for a variety of reasons, but screens rule us all. Where do you fit in? For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
This week, Obsydianyte and Tegan explore the topic of early access, and how we're now conditioned to playing games way before release. Games mentioned here include Endless Dungeon, Baldur's Gate III, Splitgate, The Finals, Naraka: Bladepoint, Darkest Dungeon II, and Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, The Cycle, 7 Days to Die...it's a lot. Just listen. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Another Steam Next Fest has come and gone, and the PI team wanted to educate you on one of its favorite ways to support game developers. Obsydianyte, Tegan, and Vilos share tidbits on some games they were interested in, including: American Arcadia Urban Explorer Rush On Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor Battlecore Robots BapBap There's also a bit of Blissen Up in there somewhere. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games! Make sure to join our Discord for daily memes, news discussion, and Looking for Group requests!
Obsydianyte, Tegan, and Vilos catch up on the many games they've been playing, including: Wasteland 3 A Space for the Unbound Sunshine Shuffle Akiba's Trip xDefiant F4E Foamstars Of course, there's also a bit of Blissen up in there. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games! Make sure to join our Discord for daily memes, news discussion, and Looking for Group requests!
Obsydianyte, Tegan, and Vilos explore their favorite showings at the September Nintendo Direct, State of Play, and Tokyo Game Show. Hear more about: Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Unicorn Overlord, Foamstars, Princess Peach Showtime, and more! We also briefly catch up on the lovely Unity news and the usual Blissen Up. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos take on the difficult topic of modern game reviews--the good, the bad, and how we as gamers can get the best out of internet opinions. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos recap what's been an eventful Gamescom 2023 event, with unexpected game announcements and updates for some things we've been itching to play! Some titles we discuss are Nightingale, Cyberpunk 2077 (2.0 Update), Lysfanga, Crimson Desert, and Dustborn. This vodcast includes our What We've Been Playing segment as usual, featuring Final Fantasy XVI and Coffee Talk Episode 2, among others. For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Tegan & Vilos ponder the wild amount of games coming out--pointing out the ones they will play vs the ones that will just become the backlog of 2024. What games do you know you want to play THIS year? For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Tegan and Vilos take on the Herculean task of Frankenstein-ing a game out of their top 5 favorite parts of other games. Can it be a hit? Of course they also discuss what they've been playing, Blissen Up, and mention the community activities in the works! For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos gather once again to take on the discussion of the best controller of all time! You really see the full influence of the past generations here. ENJOY For more content and links to our community, drop by our website www.partyinvite.games!
If we lost all generations of gaming consoles to history, which would be the one generation that YOU must keep? Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos explore this evergreen topic across almost ten generations of gaming! Vodcast includes What We've Been Playing and Blissen Up For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos discuss the gaming industry's push towards the digital-only future, with big AAA developers making an example of their games, like Alan Wake II's only being available on digital storefronts. As usual, we have the What We've Been Playing segment, hitting on two different Final Fantasy games, Splatoon 3, Darkest Dungeon 2, and more. For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Summer has officially started and the games industry is nothing but buzz right now after Summer Games Fest, Steam NextFest, a Nintendo Direct, Wholesome Direct, Xbox Showcase, and many more events that brought us news on the future of gaming. We always make a big deal about these events, but we had some specific takeaways we wanted to share. Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos explore Starfield, 33 Immortals, Super Mario RPG, Jusant, Metaphor ReFantazio, Mars First Logistics, and Super Mario Bros Wonder. What We've Been Playing includes Splatoon 3, Exoprimal, Squad Blast, Final Fantasy XVI, Bleak Sword, Darkest Dungeon 2, and Loop Hero. For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
This week's vodcast is a dive into the world's greatest video game publisher, Devolver Digital! If you haven't heard us gush about them before, be prepared to listen to Tegan and Vilos explore a wide world of Devolver-published games that we love. What Devolver games have you gotten into? For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
A lot of current gaming discourse is flowing for a particular new game that allows you the freedoms to do basically anything you'd like with items in the game world–we'll dive deeper into that one, but overall, games allow us to express our creative side in a bunch of ways. During the Party Topic, we explore the creative details of Tears of the Kingdom, Baba Is You, Super Mario Maker, and Scribblenauts! For WWBP, hear more about Tears of the Kingdom, SD Gundam: Battle Alliance, Mech Arena, and Darkest Dungeon 2. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
A lot of current gaming discourse is flowing for a particular new game that allows you the freedoms to do basically anything you'd like with items in the game world–we'll dive deeper into that one, but overall, games allow us to express our creative side in a bunch of ways. During the Party Topic, we explore the creative details of Tears of the Kingdom, Baba Is You, Super Mario Maker, and Scribblenauts! For WWBP, hear more about Tears of the Kingdom, SD Gundam: Battle Alliance, Mech Arena, and Darkest Dungeon 2. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Chairman Mow, Tegan, Sovereign, and Vilos are back together again for a long discussion on the current state of indie games--with AAA games coming in like hot garbage these days, indies are pulling more than their weight and bringing us great experiences. Is it enough to dethrone AAA as the defacto games to buy? Of course outside of the Party Topic, we have a slew of What We've Been Playing, including Fire Emblem Engage, Splatoon 3, Go-Go Town, Darkest Dungeon 2, Borderlands 3, and Jedi Fallen Order! For more links to our community and additional content, drop by partyinvite.games!
It's just Tegan and Vilos on this podcast, so we decided to talk about our FAVORITE gaming protagonists. Vilos chose a special catgirl and a warrior queen as top two protags. Tegan chose a god and a mountain climber. What are your picks? For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos round up some of their most wanted games from the IndieWorld Showcase on 4/19! As for What We've Been Playing, listen for talk on XDefiant, Super Mario 3D World+Bowser's Fury, and Mini Motorways. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
This week, the PI crew is getting into the Super Mario Bros Movie (no spoilers included)! Some timestamps for your convenience: 00:36 Blissen Up 11:36 TEGAN IS MUTED WHY 12:44 Noita 22:00 El Paso Nightmare 42:39 Hyenas The Party Topic 57:50 Mario Movie (no spoilers) For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos talk about the new updates Eiji Aonuma presented for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's upcoming sequel during the Nintendo stream on 3/28. Learn about some of the awesome new abilities we'll have that might just break new ground for open world games! Of course there's also some What We've Been Playing for good measure. For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos discuss their favorite DINOSAURS in games in the leadup to playing the Exoprimal Open Beta (go to our Twitch to see that VOD). Of course you get a meager dose of What We've Been Playing as well! For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Some of the best games have ambient sound supporting the whole experience, and of course the gang has to share some of their faves. Join Sovereign, Tegan, and Vilos on their audial exploration--with plenty of Sons of the Forest discussion for the party topic as well as part of What We've Been Playing. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
ALL WE GOT TIME FOR THIS WEEK IS PLAYING GAMES Sov, Tegan, and Vilos share our Blissen Up segment and then it's just bouncing off all the games we've been playing. Pure chaos.
Tegan, Sovereign, and Vilos discuss some of the things they find makes up the IDEAL streamer! Listen up and you might hear something to take to your own content creation. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Chairman Mow and Tegan explore the depths of their Steam wishlists instead of diving into their backlogs-what kind of interesting things will they find? The pair talks what they've been playing, for example Overwhelm, Slay the Spire, Darkest Dungeon, Devolver Tumble Time, and Hitman Freelancer. For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Tegan, Sovereign, and Vilos decide to look back on where we've been across the 100 episodes, sharing memories and community stories! For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Steam's [quarterly?] celebration of indie games is beginning on 2/6, and of course we've gotta discuss a few things to check out during the week of demos and previews for 2023's sweetest indie gems. Included as always is What We've Been Playing, with Overwhelm, Slay the Spire, DKO, Risk of Rain 2, and Loud. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
With the release of Hi Fi Rush, we had to discuss a few of our favorite rhythm-based games. If you watch our stuff, you'll know that's one of our known genres! Sayonara Wild Hearts, Tetris Effect: Connected, Beat Saber, A Musical Story, and more are mentioned on this pod. For more content and links to our communtiy, drop by partyinvite.games.
Mow, Tegan, and Vilos choose a few games to get the TV treatment, in celebration of The Last of Us releasing on HBO Max. They talk about Bioshock Infinite, FTL, Inmost, Into the Breach, Sable, and more! Of course we get the healthy bit of What We've Been Playing including Pokemon Violet, Warhammer 40K Chaos Gate, and Overwhelm. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Tegan, Sovereign, and Vilos explore some of their favorite replayable games and why they keep going back to them. Hear more about roguelikes, Splatoon 3, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, and more during this Party Topic! For What We've Been Playing, you'll hear more about DKO, Frostpunk, and Rise Eterna. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
For What We've Been Playing, we've got Frostpunk, DKO, High on Life, and Control: Ultimate Edition. For the Party Topic, all four Party Members dropped in to discuss the biggest things we're keeping an eye on in the 2023 game release schedule! Hear more about: Starfield The Wolf Among Us 2 EverCore Heroes Wayfinder Fire Emblem Engage Metal Slug Tactics Atomic Heart For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
This week is all about what we've been playing--Sov is still on that Divine Knockout kick, Tegan is loving our Pentiment streams, and Vilos had a field day with An Airport for Aliens Run By Dogs. Don't forget, the podcast runs alongside our weekly show, Thursdays at 7pm CST. For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Tegan, Sovereign, and Vilos discuss playing Barotrauma, Divine Knockout, and Bloodrayne Revamped during the post-Game Awards lull. The next video game season is coming, and we'll be ready when it does! For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
This podcast is all Tegan and Sovereign getting excited about some games post-The Game Awards. Of course you get a taste of what they've been playing (like Warhammer: Darktide and Divine Knockout) alongside discussion on Hades II, Blue Protocol, Replaced, and Earthblade! For more content and links to our community, drop by partyinvite.games!
Tegan has questions of the Poke-players Sovereign and Vilos. What are their experiences with Pokemon Violet? Tegan also talks about this indie game called Noita. Pretty neat. For more content and links to ALL our socials, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
This week's party topic is a look behind the veil of game development, where Tegan, Sovereign, and Vilos discuss some of the most recent bad news in the game industry. From Hellena Taylor to the Doom OST, we cover several bases! For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
We have a more in-depth party topic this time, about the influence that Disasterpeace has brought to modern indie gaming and why we love it. We also have our typical what we've been playing with Tegan, Chris, Sovereign, and Vilos! If you want to know more about Disasterpeace, check out https://disasterpeace.com/music In between segments, we also have a brief message about our sponsor Wyldewood Cellars. Learn more about them here: https://linktr.ee/wyldewoodcellarsks (only if you are above legal drinking age) For more content and links to our community, check out www.partyinvite.games.
Tegan, Sovereign, and Vilos share MORE games they're playing right now, including Phantom Abyss, Gundam Evolution, A Plague Tale: Requiem, and more! Also our first mention of Wyldewood Cellars, the awesome KS company bringing us delicious drink for the podcast. You can check them out here: Wyldewood Cellars Winery For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
This week, Sovereign and Vilos ran a scuffed version of our Twitch show, and the podcast portion was just a loosey-goosey What We've Been Playing. You'll hear more about Beacon Pines, Overwatch 2, Domekeeper, Midnight Ghost Hunt, and some of the new GamePass drops like Phantom Abyss! For more content and links to our community, drop by www.partyinvite.games!
Chris, Tegan, and Vilos explore some of their picks from the HUGE selection of Steam's NextFest demos. Learn about Moonbreaker, Season, Dredge, and more! Of course we've got some games we've been playing that we wanted to talk about as well. For more content and links to our community, check out partyinvite.games!
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