231: A Powerful Grouse
The Nextlander Podcast
The Nextlander Podcast
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Let's start 2026 by chatting about games we played over the break, including Miles Morales, Civ 7, Absolum, and Vinny's... feelings about Metroid Prime 4. We also round up the the news over the holiday, like the tragic passing of Vince Zampella, next-gen consoles maybe getting delayed, possible new DLC for The Witcher 3, changes in GOG's ownership, and more.
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:03:00) 2026 and the business of video games
(00:06:10) Some purchases during our break
(00:13:38) Professor Layton still rules
(00:18:15) What the heck are the kids reading these days?
(00:19:18) No more generations, except Generation Remix
(00:21:47) Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | [Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2] | Dec 04, 2025
(00:32:52) First Break
(00:35:13) More of the games we played during break
(00:35:46) Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales | [PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5] | Nov 12, 2020
(00:42:12) Death Stranding 2: On The Beach | [PlayStation 5] | Jun 26, 2025
(00:45:43) Sid Meier's Civilization VII | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), Linux, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch] | Feb 11, 2025
(00:51:51) Absolum | [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5] | Oct 09, 2025
(00:58:35) Second Break
(00:58:40) Vince Zampella's death
(01:05:55) RAM prices and next gen planning
(01:13:56) The Witcher 3 is getting more DLC?
(01:16:52) GOG is being sold... sort of?
(01:19:52) Yoji Shinkawa designs some real gear!
(01:27:02) Alex has some breaking news
(01:28:55) Emails
(01:40:32) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:44:07) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(01:46:32) See ya!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to 2026. |
| 0:15.0 | If this is the first time you're hearing it, it's 2026. |
| 0:20.0 | And I got news for you. Things are, things are heating up |
| 0:25.2 | already. Didn't get better over the break. Weird. Just, uh, oh, 2020 fiddlesticks. |
| 0:31.6 | Alex Navarro, we didn't even have a chance to say, welcome to 2026. No, it's just welcome to 2020 fuck off at this point. Who cares? Just really jump in the pool. Don't ease yourself in. Brad Shoemaker, welcome to it. Hi. Hello. Thanks. I was already here. Oh, just living in 2026. Just ready. Just cold water bath. Is anyone truly living right now? Look, I'm living, |
| 0:55.7 | living my best life in 2026. |
| 0:58.7 | That's the only thing I can do. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.1 | 2026 here, |
| 1:03.2 | we're still kind of a crawling out, I think, |
| 1:06.2 | or at least I am still physically, |
| 1:09.7 | mentally, spiritually out of 2025. |
| 1:12.4 | There's still a lot of games I'm still scooping up from 2025 in terms of this year podcast. |
| 1:17.9 | We'll talk about those in a minute there. |
| 1:19.7 | We talked a little bit about some of our doings on the Ramblecast from 2025. |
| 1:26.2 | With new music. |
| 1:28.3 | What's that? New music. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.3 | Funky music. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.3 | Put that premium beat to subscription to good use. |
| 1:35.3 | That's right. |
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