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Giant Bombcast

923: Original Urkel

Giant Bombcast

Giant Bomb

Video Games, Comedy, Leisure, Technology

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

This week we somehow continue talking about Sektori now that Mikey has gotten a taste of it. We also touch on Big Hops, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, and some older games too! We also recap the biggest headlines from the previous week alongside your emails. And somehow, we have a lengthy conversation about Popeye.

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Timestamps (note, timestamps on this free version may vary greatly depending on how many ads you receive):
0:00:00 Intro
0:22:35 Myst III: Exile
0:30:01 Disco Elysium
0:36:36 Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
0:38:38 Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
0:42:24 Star Wars Genesis
0:47:34 Dragon Quest VII Reimagined
0:51:39 Final Fantasy X
0:55:20 Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
1:01:19 Big Hops
1:07:06 Sektori
1:16:30 Mortal Comeback
1:18:47 Jan's Breaking News
1:20:39 Meta Closes Twisted Pixel, Armature, and Sanzaru Games
1:21:56 Understanding game pricing with the developers of Peak
1:23:46 The Xbox Developer Direct will feature a secret fourth game
1:25:18 Resident Evil Showcase set for this week featuring new Resident Evil Requiem gameplay
1:26:22 Ubisoft hits The Division and Avatar studio, Massive Entertainment, with layoffs
1:28:49 A poster for The Division: Definitive Edition has reportedly appeared at a Ubisoft event in Japan
1:30:54 Call of Duty on Switch 2 could be ‘imminent’, dataminer claims
1:32:02 Nintendo president reiterates plans for future movies and animated videos, doesn’t rule out anime in the future
1:34:50 Nintendo is monitoring high RAM prices and tariff impacts very closely, president Shuntaro Furukawa says
1:39:33 Baldur’s Gate 3 boss explains lack of Switch 2 version
1:41:30 Nintendo Switch 2’s latest GameCube game is now live, bringing the total to 8 games
1:47:24 Machine Games is reportedly working on Wolfenstein 3 and a ‘Rainbow Six Siege-style’ multiplayer title
1:49:22 EMAILS! (And super chats!)
2:22:02 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, me.

0:03.0

Hey! Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday, January 13th, 2026. Welcome to the giant bombcast. I am your host, Jan Ochoa, joining me co-captain of the ship. He's his own gold-plated HDMI cord, Jeff Grub. That's right. Every single one of my veins have been dipped in gold

0:43.4

and now they work better than ever. That's true. Speaking about being dipped and gold,

0:47.8

he has never been buffaloed because he is on top of everything because he's in first place

0:52.7

because his veins are gold. Dan Reichert.

0:55.2

Rarely buffaloed.

0:56.3

I'm rarely buffaloed.

0:57.6

I don't think I've been buffaloed in 20 years.

1:00.2

Speaking about 20 years, that's the energy he gives off.

1:04.8

That of a young Spride 20-year-old.

1:07.3

He's ready to do backflips.

1:08.9

Audio listeners, he's doing the Van Dam splits right now

1:12.4

under his chair, under his desk.

1:15.0

Jeff Backelar. Oh,

1:16.9

my groin. It's killing me

1:18.6

from these splits. I've also

1:20.8

buffaloed you in the last 20 years, dance.

1:22.9

I don't know. When? Do I know

1:24.7

about this? No, that's the whole

1:26.7

point. Sorry, you don't actually own any of giant bomb.

1:30.4

What?

1:31.6

When did you buffalo me?

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