924: Chipotlane

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Giant Bomb

Video Games, Comedy, Leisure, Technology

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast we chat about a beyblade like game in From the Top, a PS1 looking Vampire Survivor-like with Vital Shell, circling back to Sekiro, Marathon's release date getting leaked, Highguard not paying for their spot at the Game Awards, all of your emails, and more!

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0:00:00 Intro
0:17:21 Last Sektori update, Grubb promises
0:22:34 Vital Shell
0:26:27 From the Top
0:32:56 Super 10 Pin
0:35:35 Sekiro
0:43:08 Nine Sols
0:50:04 Rivals of Aether II
0:53:21 Rhythm Doctor
0:58:48 South Park Fortnite
1:03:42 MIO: Memories in Orbit
1:05:48 Highguard didn’t pay for the final spot at The Game Awards
1:13:17 Marathon’s release date may have been accidentally shared early on the Xbox store
1:16:01 The Division 3 boss Julian Gerighty has left Ubisoft for EA
1:17:43 Digital Eclipse’s Disney Afternoon Collection retro compilation has been rated for Switch and Switch 2
1:19:10 Forza Horizon 6’s release date may have been revealed early by an in-game ad
1:20:47 Monster Hunter Wilds reportedly runs much better on PC when all DLC is installed
1:23:01 Sega announces Sonic 35th anniversary plans to ‘celebrate Sonic’s legacy’
1:27:25 Nintendo’s Japan dominance continues as Switch 2 fuels 40% market growth in 2025
1:29:00 Ubisoft is updating three classic Far Cry games to run at 60fps on modern platforms
1:32:07 IO celebrates Hitman 3’s fifth anniversary by announcing cross-progression for World of Assassination
1:32:59 Valve has ‘significantly’ rewritten Steam’s rules for how developers must disclose AI use
1:35:44 EMAILS! (And Super Chats)
2:13:03 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey! Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday, January 20th,
0:28.5	2020s.
0:29.6	Welcome to the giant bomb cast, episode 924.
0:33.0	I am your host, Jan, Atchowah.
0:35.3	This is the Jesse, the Body Ventura of video game podcasts. You can extrapolate at home what that means. Joining me co-captain of the ship, Chef Grub. I'm a turkey and I want to drink like the body. Gobble, gobble, gobble, he's got two kegs under his arm just for funsies. Dan Reichert. No, man, I'm on that Starburst juice now. Just move on. The human epitome of Starburst and all fruity, joyous flavors. Jeff Backelar. That's, you just, I don't, you could have done better than that. I don't, I don't know. He threw me for a loopie. Starburst melted down into a drinkable thing.
1:12.4	It's Starburst juice. It's healthy that way. That's a new sentence.
1:16.6	It's basically just water.
1:18.8	Yeah, but Starburst.
1:21.4	Speaking about new sentences, he's constantly spouting them because he's so problematic because he's the
1:27.7	bad boy of games media.
1:30.9	Mike Minotti.
1:32.9	The hateful thoughts in my brain come out as mean sentences.
1:36.6	Look out everybody, especially people different from me.
1:41.2	What the fuck was that, Mike?
1:43.7	He's a bad boy. We've interacted with Mike for like 12 minutes this morning already and
1:48.3	I feel like it's a weird Mike day yeah you can occasionally get those
1:51.8	he finished his burrito early I got some lip smacking but not enough and so I'm not getting
1:57.3	enough of what I need on my Tuesday yeah Mikey what happen you wake up up at 10 a.m.? What's going on? No, here's the thing. I feel like 1030. Pretty good for me. He is in an interesting zone when he has not enough sleep and perhaps too much sleep. Yeah. Yeah. My sleep schedule has been pretty rough lately, even worse than usual. Like, it has not recovered from holidays. Oh, no, absolutely not. Yeah, so I got to get my. Why, are you embarrassed by it? Oh, yeah. You're not as dead. I mean, yeah. I was up until 4 a.m. like every day this weekend. That's fine. Yeah, I mean i like always am that for sure oh yeah yeah
2:38.7	absolutely yeah exactly so okay got to dial that in at some point here uh for sure but you know
2:45.5	there's so many i feel so cozy and bad just playing games on my switch and watching stupid
2:49.7	youtube videos and whatnot.
2:51.7	It's kind of just where I want to be.
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