A Look At Nintendo's Year Ahead, Plus Overwatch's Big Overhaul
The Game Informer Show
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
After the break, Alex discusses what he played of Overwatch's big overhaul -- so massive, it's dropping the "2." And to cap it all off, Charles talks about the long-awaited launch of Mewgenics, and Marcus shares his thoughts on Nioh 3 so far. It's a feature-length episode of The Game Informer Show, so grab a cold beverage and enjoy.
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Jump ahead using these timestamps:
- 00:00 Intro
- 04:32 - Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase Reactions
- 22:07 - Nintendo Switch 2 Previews
- 1:00:13 - Overwatch
- 1:28:20 - Mewgenics
- 1:48:57 - Nioh 3
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game |
| 0:12.9 | industry. |
| 0:13.8 | Join us every Friday for discussion with the latest gaming news, reviews, and exclusive |
| 0:18.2 | reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken, and today I'm joined by Marcus Stewart. |
| 0:29.0 | How are you? |
| 0:30.0 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:31.8 | At the time they were recording, I heard the fans all having a good time last week talking about my headphones. |
| 0:41.3 | And I want to let those people. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah, you got what the UFO 3,000's on, right? |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, which I was told they look beautiful. |
| 0:47.1 | And then it comes to find out a bunch of little little smart asses out there poking fun at it. |
| 0:52.8 | But this is the last time you'll see these, because |
| 0:55.0 | as we're recording, there's new headphones literally coming in the mail. All right. We'll hold |
| 1:00.3 | you to it. Uh, we're also joined by Charles Hart. How you doing Charles? Marcus's headphones |
| 1:06.2 | kind of looked like if in Tom and Jerry, Tom was wearing headphones and Jerry pulled |
| 1:10.5 | down on the headphones really hard. And then Tom had to put the headphones back on but there was a big head shape lump in them if you're an audio listener that's kind of what it looks like I thought you're gonna I thought you're gonna go the other way of like it looks like I got someone hit me in a head while wearing them and a little bump just pushed her up yeah there's a lot of ways that they can go. One lump or two, the headphones. You got bonked with a hammer on the head. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Also, I'm doing well. Uh, hello, welcome. Uh, rounding out the show today, Eric Van Allen. Hello. Hi, join us later for the Viking funeral for Marcus's headphones. |
| 1:46.3 | We're going to set them adrift on the ocean. I think they'll flow. They've got so much. |
| 1:52.2 | They do look buoyant. For people wondering, my headphones broke like two weeks ago. |
| 1:59.7 | And because I'm like a cheap bastard and I tend to wear things until they |
| 2:04.1 | like explode basically like I wasn't in a rush to replace them but they kept getting worse and then |
| 2:09.8 | I had to tape the sides which you can see there they're really really struggling to hold on there |
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