#944 - Pokemon Pokopia Review, Slay the Spire 2 Takes Over Steam Charts, Gaming News

Video Game Outsiders

Pickaxe

Leisure, News, Tech News, Games, Video Games

4.1 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Pokémon Pokopia vs Animal Crossing vs Hello Kitty, Slay the Spire 2 card game impressions, Marathon, Starsand Island, Steam Machine will launch in 2026, MS at GDC tease, Pokemon is SATAN?, old Xbox games upscaled by AI, Nintendo sues USA, Crimson Desert previews, our Mar10 Day super Mario memories, and more gaming news! Support us and get weekly bonus shows, the 20 year VGO back catalog, and ad free VGO eps on http://videogameoutsiders.supercast.com/ and listen in the player of YOUR choice like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more! Head to our Discord on https://discord.gg/Ab6pxpT to chat, support, or win games weekly from Loaded.com. For show notes and more info visit videogameoutsiders.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pickax.
0:06.9	Five, four, three, two, live, Michelle.
0:11.0	What's up, everybody?
0:11.9	Welcome to episode 944 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast.
0:15.9	I'm on your host, Michelle Madison.
0:17.2	And I, of course, am your John Jacobson.
0:20.4	And I am Ryan Silvestri. What is up? Now, listen, I'm excited. Me too. It's a big show. I am excited. You know why? Why? You have different reasons. What are you excited for? What do you mean? I got... Because it's not going to be Slave Aspire 2 Roundtable or Popopia. Are you blooming like a flower, John? Are you excited for your flower? Yeah, what do you excited about? I mean, I feel like I've been playing with, first of all, what are we going to talk about tonight? What is this going? You just said you were excited. Some housekeeping. What is it happening? I'm just, I'm warning how to approach this right now because there's... now because there's- You don't know what we're talking about tonight. Do you want another Venn diagram? No, no, I'm wondering how to approach this right now because there's... You don't know what we're talking about tonight?
0:55.1	Do you want another Venn diagram? No, no, no. I'm... I know what's going to happen tonight. Well, what's happening is you guys play Pokey. It already started to happen. What is it, John? What do you think is going to happen tonight? Well, I mean, Slave-Aspire. Yeah, Slavis Bear too.
1:11.7	We're going to talk about that.
1:12.6	We're going to talk about that.
1:13.9	And by way, I mean, Slay the Spire. Yeah, Slay the Spire, too.
1:11.7	We're going to talk about that.
1:12.6	We're going to talk about that. And by the way, I have breaking news. This is very important. Already. Wow. Right now, it just broke? Yeah. Yeah. McDonald's French fries. All right. Have you heard this? No. McDonald's French fries are outselling the Whopper at Burger King.
1:29.4	Therefore, the Whopper at Burger King.
1:29.4	Therefore, the Whopper is bad.
1:32.3	It's horrible.
1:33.0	Oh, now you're bad that Marathon's getting shit on.
1:35.7	It's garbage.
1:36.5	The Whopper's garbage.
1:38.1	Marathon, the game itself was garbage.
1:40.9	There was a few bad things in that game.
1:42.6	Well, if you only have $5 to spend and you're hungry, you'd probably get the fries if you
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