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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, Alex Van Aken and Wesley LeBlanc break down our Dead Island 2 cover story and recap their recent trip to Dambuster Studios in Nottingham, England. The pair played roughly eight hours of the upcoming sequel, set in zombie-infested Los Angeles, and came away reasonably surprised. Lastly, Alex and Wes answer your questions about Dead Island 2 from Twitter and Discord.

During The Playlist, the crew chats about recent games they've been playing, including Fire Emblem Engage, Signalis, Norco, and Neon White.

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The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join host Alex Van Aken every Thursday for a chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:22 - Cover Story: Dead Island 2

00:40:29 - Fire Emblem Engage

00:46:47 - Housekeeping

00:51:36 - Signalis

00:56:34 - Neon White

00:58:44 - Norco

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0:00.0	What is going on, everybody? Welcome to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering
0:25.8	video game industry. Join us every Thursday for a discussion about the latest gaming news, reviews,
0:31.1	and exclusive reveals alongside Game Informer staff, and special guests from around the industry.
0:36.6	I'm your host this week, Alex Van Aiken, and today I'm joined by the news hound himself,
0:42.8	Wesley LeBong. How you doing, Wes? I am doing great. It's been a minute since I've been here,
0:49.0	and I'm excited to beat back. Yeah, I guess the holiday lead-up was really busy for all of us.
0:56.8	You are on some trips. We'll talk about one of those trips I believe later on in the show,
1:03.9	but yeah, it's going to be me and you today, and the big talker is our Dead Island 2 cover story,
1:10.2	which you and I flew to England for. We went to visit Dambuster Studios in Nottingham,
1:18.9	and yeah, we had a really good time playing the game, I think. That's my consensus, at least.
1:25.5	Yeah, based on what I've talked to you about. We interviewed the folks who are making it at
1:30.7	Dambuster, which by the way, Dambuster worked on once upon a time, time splitters and time splitters,
1:38.2	too. As a fan of those games, I was really excited when I walked in into the studio and realized
1:43.8	that because they have posters and stuff on the wall of their discography or catalog,
1:50.7	Gameography. What are those? Yeah, one of those. We're going to be talking about Dead Island 2 today.
1:55.9	We're going to get into Fire Emblem Engage, which Wesley got a chance to preview for us recently.
2:03.0	Then we might talk about a couple of the games that we finished over break. I know I finished
2:08.2	Signolas and have a lot of thoughts about it. Wes has also been playing things like Norco and
2:12.6	Neon White, just kind of the holiday catch-up. Then we'll get into a couple of questions at the end,
2:19.7	but it's just going to be me and Wes today rolling through. Let's go ahead and get into all the
2:24.4	Dead Island stuff, Wes. So you wrote the cover story. I'll let you kind of kick it off. What's Dead
2:30.5	Island 2? Why did we go there? What did we see? Give me the rundown. Yeah, so all right,
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