193: Last Time in the Ding-Dong Hole

The Nextlander Podcast

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

We've got one week left before the big Switch 2 reveal, so hop in the ding-dong hole for one last round of rumors and speculation, plus plenty of other chatter about Atomfall, more AC: Shadows and 33 Immortals, Revenge of the Savage Planet, Josef Fares' Willy Wonka moment, a good week for games media, the landmark release of Big Rigs on Steam, and our exhaustive analysis of Apple Music's idea of "grunge."

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CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:00:32) Folks, what are we doing here?
(00:03:32) Thank goodness for video games
(00:05:04) It's Career Day time. Be interesting.
(00:09:52) Assassin's Creed Shadows | [iOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Mar 20, 2025
(00:38:55) First Break
(00:39:01) 33 Immortals (Early Access) | [Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Mar 18, 2025
(00:45:36) Atomfall | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5] | Mar 27, 2025
(00:53:07) Split Fiction | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Mar 06, 2025
(00:59:36) Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Mar 07, 2025
(01:00:37) Revenge of the Savage Planet | [Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] | May 08, 2025
(01:06:37) Second Break
(01:06:42) The last of the Switch 2 rumors
(01:18:43) Game Informer is back!
(01:23:28) The Game Business' new publication
(01:26:45) Assassins Creed Shadows sold really well
(01:32:02) Why is Big Rigs coming to Steam?
(01:40:27) Emails
(01:53:41) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:55:07) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(01:56:25) Nextlander Content Updates
(01:58:32) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome back to another Nextlander podcast.
0:14.8	Here you are all intentionally invited to the chat.
0:19.8	Here you go.
0:22.6	We're going to talk about games and you can feel free to participate or just sit back and we're
0:29.4	going to give out our game plans.
0:31.7	And this is, I'm sorry, I'm just so worked up about trying to feel.
0:37.2	About what, Vinnie? What's there to be worked up about these to feel... About what, Finney?
0:38.0	What's there to be worked up about these days?
0:40.2	I don't want to spend too much time getting into it.
0:42.0	Alex Navarro, Brad Shoemaker,
0:43.7	but it just feels like...
0:46.0	Is gaslighting the right word?
0:48.6	It feels like people just lying out.
0:52.5	And it's just...
0:53.4	I can't.
0:55.0	I can't. I don't know. I saw a comment yesterday.
0:57.0	We're talking about the, the signal stuff that's going to.
1:00.0	Yeah, just everything that's going on with our country right now.
1:02.0	But the thing I saw was that like, at a certain point, the thing we really have to confront is how much are we willing to let people just lie bald-faced open over and over again to our face.
1:16.1	Like, what is the actual consequence that we are going to try and impose on something like that?
1:17.7	Because right now it seems like there is none. I mean, the prerequisite for answering that question is all of society needing to agree on what is and is not a lie.
1:24.6	Oh, boy.
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