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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh, Matt James, and Joshua Rivera join forces to share their spoiler-free reviews of three hot new IPs from international game developers: Capcom's sci-fi thriller 'Pragmata,' and indie debuts 'Mouse: P.I. for Hire' and 'Replaced.' They play "Mash or Pass?" and provide their ratings for each game on the Mash Meter, while marveling at Capcom's comeback, lamenting the decline of single-player first-person shooters, and pondering whether pixel art is a personality. (00:00) Intro (05:07) Pragmata (46:18) Mouse P.I. For Hire (65:56) Replaced Host: Ben Lindbergh Guests: Matt James, Joshua Rivera Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome into the Ringerverse, your nexus feed for all things fandom.
0:19.2	I am Belmontburg Senior editor at the Ringer and
0:22.7	Button MASH host. I've got company today. I am joined by a pair of podcast sidekicks.
0:28.7	First, Ringer Deputy Art Lead, Pragmata, James.
0:33.5	Hey, Ben. That one was just right there for me. I didn't even have to reach for that one.
0:37.4	I thought you might go for that one. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was pretty obvious. Maybe one was just right there for me. I didn't even have to reach for that one.
0:37.5	I thought you might go for that one. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was pretty obvious. Maybe it was the low-hanging fruit, but sometimes the low-hanging fruit is pretty appetizing. How many hours into Crimson Desert are you now? What's the total count climbed to? Wow, right out the gate. I think I'm at 165.
0:59.8	Oh, okay. But I haven't touched it in five days because of all the other games we've been play. I know. I was expecting 200 for you at this point, so I'm slightly disappointed.
1:05.2	Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. I'll do better. We've been busy. And so have the developers
1:10.5	of Crimson Desert just patch in that thing
1:12.8	daily, basically. As we forecasted in our previous discussion, they are updating this thing as if it's an MMO.
1:20.7	And a lot of the complaints that we touched on last time, now Steve is producing this pod, but he is
1:26.7	unable to weigh in and speak. And so we can just
1:30.0	trash him here and he won't be able to do anything without it. But it turns out the critical
1:34.6	response was roughly right in the middle of what we predicted and what Steve predicted. But I
1:41.2	think the popular opinion certainly was closer to our take and I think is only
1:46.9	improving as the game gets better. That's definitely getting better the game for sure. But I think
1:53.7	the things that certain people fundamentally don't like about Crimson Desert are not really
1:59.0	going to change. It was never going to be a game for everyone.
2:02.4	But for us, sickos who just want to drop a billion hours getting completely lost in a game
2:07.3	world, it is indeed getting better every patch.
2:10.9	Yeah, it was for us from the beginning.
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