Welcome to another episode of Kotaku Split Screen, the only podcast where we lock 16 talented students in high school and make them kill each other.

On today's show, we're talking about the Super Nintendo classic, Dangan Rumpa V3,

and Divinity Original Sin 2. Then we'll get into the news of the week, including the voice

actor strike coming to an end, toxicity and gaming, and how it affects developers, and

Assassin's Creed Origins getting a tourist mode. Finally, we'll bring on the prolific writer and

our good friend Tom Bissell

to talk about what it's like to work on video games like Gears of War 4 and Battlefield

Hardline. All right, let's go. And we are back for another episode.

It is September 28th.

We are one month away from Super Mario Odyssey,

and I am just counting down the days.

That's how we'll introduce this show from now on,

just counting down the days until Super Mario Odyssey.

My name is Jason Shrier.

I am the news editor at kataku.com, and joining me once again is my lovely co-host,

Kataku's editor at large, Kirk Hamilton.

Hello, Kirk.

Hi, Jason.

I'm also very excited about Mario.

I'm excited about a lot of the games that are out right now, but that one does kind

of loom large over all of my expectations for the next 30 or so days. It really does.

It's really the big fall game that we all just cannot wait to sync our teeth into. But there are

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