‘Astro Bot’ Is Brilliant, ‘Black Myth: Wukong’ Is Killer, and ‘Concord’ Is Conquered | Button Mash

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Button Mash becomes Bot-ton Mash as Ben, Jess, and Steve celebrate the release of near-perfect PlayStation platformer ‘Astro Bot’ and explain why the game is both a bold leap forward and a relic of an earlier era. Then they break down what the record sales success of ‘Black Myth: Wukong’ and the flop of ‘Concord’ (49:00) say about the industry, assess their appetites for the PS5 Pro and mid-generation console upgrades (1:09:55), and share takeaways from several trailers for upcoming video game movies and TV shows (1:15:25), before finishing with a fond farewell to the late, great James Earl Jones (1:32:00). Host: Ben Lindbergh Guests: Jess Clemons and Steve Ahlman Producer: Devon Renaldo Additional Production Supervision: Arjuna Ramgopal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up guys? Your boy Johnny Bananas here. The challenge season 40 Battle of the
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0:25.2	crowned winner of the Challenge Season 40 Battle of the eras. Follow Ringer
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0:54.0	I am Benlinburg, senior editor for the ringer and your host here at Button Mesh.
0:58.0	Or today, should I say, Botin Mesh?
1:01.0	I shouldn't, but I did. Thanks for the courtesy chuckle with me this time our two friends
1:06.4	who hopefully like me enough to tolerate my puns first an old co-host and new rock
1:11.4	star who's always missed around the ring of
1:13.7	verse except when she returns to Brighton our day in the LA office where she
1:18.2	can record without interference from her cute but inquisitive cat. Jessica Clemens.
1:24.0	E, thank you for bringing up my cat.
1:27.0	Yes.
1:28.0	The two out of three of us on this call have cats.
1:30.0	Beautiful cats.
1:31.0	Ben, you're up.
1:32.0	All pets are represented here. Ben, you're up.
1:33.0	All pets are represented here.
1:34.0	I'm a dog guy.
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