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The Nextlander Podcast

211: Destroy the Mouth!

The Nextlander Podcast

The Nextlander Podcast

Leisure, Hobbies

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

This week we get extra retro with Gradius Origins, Operation Night Strikers, The Scouring, and (in a way) Mafia: The Old Country. Also: pressure builds inside Xbox against Microsoft's support of Israel's actions in Gaza, Switch 2 dev kits are still pretty scarce, more game cancellations and studio closures continue to be a fact of life, and more.

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.
(00:00:08) Intro
(00:02:29) Revisiting your old school
(00:05:56) Fake Plastic Trees (or grass)
(00:11:11) Mafia: The Old Country  |  [PlayStation 5, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S]  |  Aug 08, 2025
(00:33:22) First Break
(00:33:26) Gradius Origins  |  [PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S]  |  Aug 07, 2025
(00:47:57) Operation Night Strikers  |  [PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch]  |  Aug 07, 2025
(00:53:19) The Scouring (Early Access) |  [PC (Microsoft Windows)]  |  Aug 12, 2025
(01:06:52) Donkey Kong Bananza  |  [Nintendo Switch 2]  |  Jul 17, 2025
(01:11:18) Second Break
(01:11:22) Union members within Arkane call on MS to end military support
(01:18:58) Avalanche's Contraband development stopped
(01:27:54) Bithell Games announces major layoffs
(01:30:36) IGN Layoffs
(01:31:46) RedOctane Games is making a rhythm game?
(01:42:02) More details are appear regarding Switch 2 dev kits
(01:54:47) Emails
(02:01:13) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:04:49) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:07:25) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to another Next Lander podcast.

0:14.4

Here we go.

0:15.4

Middle of August.

0:17.1

For some, I bet.

0:19.4

School has started.

0:23.0

For some, school is about to start. For some, I bet. School has started. For some, school is about to start.

0:29.5

For some, like on the East Coast, where normal people live, it's September, and it always has been.

0:32.3

And September is fall when you go back to school.

0:35.3

Alex Navarro, are you a school in September person?

0:55.0

I, well, okay, wait a minute. Hang on. As in, do I believe that school should start in September? Or did I ever have to suffer the idea of going back to school in August? Wow, do you think it's weird when people in like the Midwest and stuff are like, we start school in July? Yes, I think that's insane. You should not do that to a child.

0:56.0

Good, good, good.

1:04.3

Brad, in the, in the south, in where God touched the earth and made North Carolina.

1:06.9

God left that earth a long time ago, my friend.

1:09.4

I think, I think we were August back to school.

1:09.9

You were. As I recall, mid to late August,

1:12.2

for some of us, school never ended. That's right. That's right. That's not just a Midwest

1:17.2

construction. Like my niece and nephew are back in school as of late July. I guess maybe because

1:23.4

they're part of some sort of. They're in California. What? Yeah. So crops to be... Are they in the part of California that does actually grow crops? No. They're where I grew up. It's like a... Petaluma's farmland, right? Private school or like something, like non-standard, non-county public education situation? Far as I know, they go to public school.

1:45.0

Maybe it's just one of those things where like because they're in early education,

1:48.1

they're trying to get them in there earlier or something.

1:50.1

I don't know.

1:51.3

July?

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