221: Mortal Monday

The Nextlander Podcast

Hobbies, Leisure

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

If you want to hear us gush for like an hour about Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, this is the episode for you, and we also fit in discussion of Halo on PlayStation and the increasing demands on the Xbox business, the Kojima Matrix game that almost was, Once Upon a Katamari, Dead Reset, Jackbox 11, and... wait, did you think we forgot Death Stranding 2? THINK AGAIN.

CHAPTERS

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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:01:39) Health insurance premiums are too high for nugget challenges
(00:08:15) Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2] | Oct 30, 2025
(00:58:52) First Break
(00:58:57) The Jackbox Party Pack 11 | [Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Oct 23, 2025
(01:02:12) Dead Reset | [Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, iOS, Android] | Sep 11, 2025
(01:03:07) Once Upon a Katamari | [PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Oct 24, 2025
(01:08:49) Ball x Pit | [PlayStation 5, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch] | Oct 15, 2025
(01:11:10) Death Stranding 2: On The Beach | [PlayStation 5] | Jun 26, 2025
(01:11:37) [Spoilers] Some story moments and locations are talked about.
(01:26:41) Second Break
(01:27:50) Xbox and Microsoft continue to be in the news.
(01:51:32) EA staff reportedly being urged to engage with a lot of AI
(01:58:40) Konami says Kojima was asked to make a Matrix game?
(02:06:58) Battle Arena Toshinden franchise getting a re-release?
(02:11:18) Emails
(02:18:39) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:23:59) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:26:07) Nextlander content updates
(02:29:16) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome back to another Nextlander podcast.
0:17.0	We got some stuff to get through with some fun, nostalgic romps.
0:24.6	I'm very glad to be doing this podcast with you two today, especially today.
0:29.7	Alex Navarro, how are you?
0:31.3	This one's for the old heads.
0:32.9	It really, it kind of, both the good, for good reasons and maybe bad reasons or or not as as a
0:40.2	celebratory reasons later on Brad Schumaker.
0:43.5	There's no knowledge that is not power.
0:45.1	You know what they say?
0:45.9	I guess.
0:47.7	Children love evil.
0:49.1	Evil loves children.
0:50.6	You know what they say?
0:52.1	So we're going to talk about the Moral Combat Legacy Collection.
0:57.0	And later on, we're going to talk about what is going on with Microsoft for people who have
1:03.4	been around a little bit.
1:05.1	That might be a larger conversation than one podcast can contain.
1:08.4	But before we get into that, anything, which is, I'm dying to talk to Mortal Kombat
1:13.2	with you guys, but anything you guys want to jump into before we got rolling here?
1:18.7	I mean, I'll just say shout out to our friends at Giant Bomb and their Bombathon,
1:22.0	which seemed to go well.
1:23.2	In fact, we played some of that Mortal Kombat when we went out there for that.
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