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Kotaku Splitscreen

76: Switch, Nier: Automata, and The West Wing

Kotaku Splitscreen

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4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

There's lots to discuss on today's Splitscreen, starting with some brief chat about Kirk's cool Undertale cover (3:37) and some of the games we've been playing including Mario Kart 8 and Dungeon Keeper (10:23). Then, we dig into the week's news, starting with Nintendo discontinuing the NES Classic (23:44) and selling nearly a million Switches in the United States last month (29:21). We talk about why we're optimistic for Star Wars Battlefront II's campaign (34:10) and then Jason disappears so Kirk can talk to Kotaku staffers Mike Fahey and Heather Alexandra about what makes Nier: Automata so rad (42:59). Finally, Kirk and Jason reconvene to talk about The West Wing and answer a listener question (1:00:47). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:48.9

Music Welcome to another episode of Kataka's split screen. It is April 20th, 2017. We got a great show for you today. We are going to talk about near automata with Mike Fahhy and Heather Alexandra, who come on to replace me

1:12.7

and talk about the latest near game. We will also talk about the news of the week, including

1:17.2

Nintendo selling a million switches and Battlefront 2's writing talent. Finally, we'll cap things off

1:23.6

with some West Wing talk because who doesn't want to talk about the West Wing?

1:30.8

And a listener question or two.

1:35.1

Bonus, we will talk about Kirk's newest song.

1:35.9

Let's go. And we are back for another episode.

1:48.4

My name is Jason Schreier.

1:49.7

I am the news editor at the video game and snack website kataku.com.

1:55.9

I am joined, as always, by my co-host, editor at-large and in-charge.

2:01.6

Kirk Hamilton.

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