248: Make All Characters Suspicious Types
The Nextlander Podcast
The Nextlander Podcast
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
Between the Star Fox 64 remake and Mixtape, there's a lot of hot button issues to talk about this week, plus more games like Directive 8020, Call of the Sea, Saros, and Forbidden Solitaire, even more Retro Rewind customizations, big retirements at Nintendo, big changes for Civ VII, strange encounters on Vinny's doorstep, and more!
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:02:48) They pulled Alex back in...
(00:09:57) Strange suburban encounters
(00:18:43) Mixtape | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2] | May 07, 2026
(00:44:45) First Break
(00:47:06) Forbidden Solitaire | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Apr 30, 2026
(01:01:31) Phillips CD-i vs 3DO
(01:04:55) Directive 8020 | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | May 12, 2026
(01:15:28) Call of the Sea | [Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Dec 08, 2020
(01:20:32) Saros | [PlayStation 5] | Apr 30, 2026
(01:28:24) Second Break
(01:28:25) Y'all like that Star Fox?!
(01:48:11) Switch 2 is getting its price increase
(01:54:15) Takashi Tezuka retires
(02:01:49) Big changes are coming to Civ VII?
(02:06:44) Emails
(02:14:04) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:15:26) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:18:02) See ya!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to another NextLander podcast. |
| 0:15.2 | Here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | The video game pile gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Bigger Alex Navarro. |
| 0:21.5 | Indeed. |
| 0:22.5 | Like stacks and stacks of tapes building up all around you. |
| 0:27.0 | It's just there's, it's, it's media everywhere, my friends. |
| 0:30.9 | Too many games. |
| 0:32.5 | Media everywhere. |
| 0:33.8 | Opinions everywhere. |
| 0:35.2 | Brachemaker. |
| 0:36.8 | I started to quote a song lyrics that i think i won't actually |
| 0:39.8 | no give it to me i want everything games game's so tall that my somebody got to climb it i'm not quite |
| 0:45.8 | sure okay well you've got a couple hours if you want to workshop it a little bit between now |
| 0:51.5 | and the end feel free brad what are you wearing it's it's it's a nicky min Minaj line from a Kanye song is what I'm trying to say. Oh, okay. Yeah, you actually now I understand. So that's why I was reluctant. What am I wearing? What are you wearing? What is that? This is the giant bomb cast 500th anniversary episode. Don't think I've ever seen that shirt. I actually had no idea we even did one. Yeah. That was the thing that the company made? Yeah. Yeah. Did we sell those? Uh-huh. It's got a giant like luchadier like balloon animal on the back, really? Oh, wow. Okay. |
| 1:28.2 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, it sure does. |
| 1:43.0 | We made a lot of T-shirts when we were at Giant Bomb. I don't remember them all. Did you see the balloon animal? I couldn't see what I was. I did. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Wow. Well, congratulations to Giant Palm on their 500th episode. It's like 500th asterisk. |
| 1:44.7 | Sure, sure, give or take. |
| 2:01.6 | The, I forget exactly how it went, but the numbering was a bit indeterminate, let's say. By the time we got there, it was like, it was kind of a ballpark. Like, we think this is the 500th one roughly. Was it because of like the arrow pointing down stuff before Giant Bomb? That was part it and there was a just there was just a ton of stuff in that feed that maybe maybe did or did not qualify |
| 2:06.8 | as like a mainline episode like just just for a long time I think just everything went into that |
| 2:11.9 | feed right yeah yeah like any you're like oh there's a random interview we did with somebody |
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