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Now, on to the show.

Hello, everyone out there.

Thank you for listening to the multiplayer gaming podcast.

We are very excited to have you guys here with us today while we have a half-hour podcast about this week in gaming. We will keep things family-friendly as always. And I am your host, Paul. And with me, on the other line, he is staring at me like a crazy man right now.

I don't know what's going on, but it is Josh. What on earth was that? I was really trying to mess up your intro. Yeah, yeah. I was hiding behind my microphone with my eyes really

buggy, like I was just peeping at you

through a window or something. And you know what, Paul, you kept the professionalism going there.

I was pretty impressed. It felt like a serial killer was staring at me from behind your

giant microphone. It was, it was very creepy, don't pick on the size of my microphone.

It's a family-friendly show, Paul. Oh, goodness. Yeah. All right. Well, Josh, this is kind of one of those

crazy weeks for this week in gaming. Normally, we talk about what games we've been playing over the last

week, and we also break down some recent gaming news. However, this time there's not really a whole lot of gaming news, so we're

probably going to spend most of our time talking about some of our recent gaming experiences.

And if we have a little bit of time, we've got a little bit of news to cover. But I think the

two main things we wanted to talk about today are New World and

Back for Blood. Now, which of these do you want to tackle first? I'll leave it up to you.

Let's talk about some New World. Because we kind of amped that up. We amped up the fact that the

beta was coming. It was supposed to release on August 31st. You and I,

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