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The Nextlander Podcast
The Nextlander Podcast
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
This week: Lego Batman, Yerba Buena, TerraTech Legion, the Steam Deck price increase, lamenting the end of Destiny, Unreal Engine 6, our early PC-building memories, and other stuff!
CHAPTERS
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:02:54) Vinny's ready for the next career move. Well, maybe not.
(00:11:08) Vintage mice and remembering cleaning them
(00:15:12) "Jack of All Trades" redemption
(00:16:50) Yerba Buena | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5] | May 26, 2026
(00:22:00) LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | May 22, 2026
(00:32:17) First Break
(00:37:19) Saros | [PlayStation 5] | Apr 30, 2026
(00:39:04) [General Spoilers] Nothing big, just general flow, mechanics, and levels
(00:48:58) TerraTech Legion | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] | Apr 30, 2026
(00:56:40) Directive 8020 | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | May 12, 2026
(00:58:53) Second Break
(00:58:54) A big increase on the Valve Steam Deck
(01:06:17) Destiny 2 is ending updates
(01:21:44) Media Molecule is hiring and probably making a game!
(01:24:23) The Witcher 3 is getting new DLC!
(01:29:52) Make way for Unreal Engine 6
(01:38:48) Emails
(02:12:29) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:19:15) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:21:26) Nextlander content updates
(02:23:38) See ya!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to another Nextlander podcast. |
| 0:14.5 | Here we are taking it out for May, taking May out to the clean. |
| 0:19.4 | What am I taking out? |
| 0:20.6 | Taking out all of May. |
| 0:22.5 | Taking out. |
| 0:23.7 | You're whipping it out. |
| 0:24.9 | You're whipping out May. |
| 0:27.1 | Just put it right there on the table. |
| 0:29.4 | It really just kind of came and went. |
| 0:31.3 | Like I wrote exactly that in the patron poll yesterday. |
| 0:33.8 | Like it was just like, it was yesterday. |
| 0:35.5 | It was April next week at Summer Game Fest. I think it came and went because they feel like it was just like, it was yesterday. It was April. Next week at the summer game fest. |
| 0:38.8 | I think it came and went because they felt like it was pretty, um, event. It was like an interstitial. Yeah. It was like, this whole year has felt like that. You know, yeah, yeah. There's every, May is a great month. Every week this year is a week where decades happen. |
| 0:54.2 | That's right. |
| 0:54.7 | Every day a decade. |
| 0:56.7 | Yeah, so May... May is a great month. Every week this year is a week where decades happen. |
| 0:54.6 | That's right. |
| 0:55.5 | Every day a decade. |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.7 | So May, we loved you, but sorry to see you go. |
| 1:02.6 | I like, I like me. I'm not inclined to say loved about much of anything this year, but I'll say it wasn't |
| 1:06.8 | the worst month. |
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