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Game Scoop! 825: Virtual Insanity

Game Scoop!

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Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.74.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Welcome back to IGN Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops -- Daemon Hatfield, Sam Claiborn, Justin Davis, and Mark Medina -- are discussing Super Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong Bananza, Metroid Prime 4, Borderlands 4, and more. And, of course, they play Video Game 20 Questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Virtual Boy Returns on Nintendo Switch in a really expensive way.

0:04.0

But that's not all Nintendo recently announced.

0:06.0

We've got Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 coming back, Mario Galaxy Movie,

0:09.0

Metroid Prime 4 release date, and Borderlands 4 is here.

0:12.0

All that and more on this week's Game Soup coming up right after these messages. What's up, everybody?

0:26.7

Welcome to Higian Games Group.

0:27.8

I'm your host, Damon Hatfield.

0:29.2

You joining me this week are Sam Claiborne,

0:31.0

Scoop, Scoop, Scoop, Scoop,

0:32.9

Justin Davis.

0:35.0

And Mark Medina.

0:36.7

I'm here, Damon, the reverb on that Scoop. I know. I thought it was never going to end. Good. We've got a great show for you this week. So much to talk about, especially after that big Nintendo direct. New Mario games, Donkey Kong, DLC, Metroid Prime 4 release date, new Fire Emblem. Plus, Borland's 4 is out there in the wild.

0:54.7

There's lots of, it's been a little bit, I don't know if controversial is the right word, but Randy Pitcher just cannot help himself from replying to every single person who complains. I wonder what Randy thinks of Betray now. Oh, yeah, I love to hear that. But I know, I think Mark.

1:10.7

You know, I think Mark has been playing a lot of Orleans 4, I believe yeah oh yeah I love to hear that but I know I think Mark has

1:12.1

been playing a lot of Borland's 4 I believe so I'd love to hear his thoughts on that but let's begin

1:16.3

with but first let's begin with uh Mario galaxy which seems to be coming back in a big way and

1:21.1

first we've got Mario galaxy one and two coming to Nintendo Switch 2 is it also coming to switch 1

1:26.3

or just Switch 2 I'm not even sure oh that's a question. I think it is because there's a Switch 2 version that has tweaks that they mentioned that are up, like, you know, slightly up res or something like that. Well, and Galaxy 1 is already on Switch 1. Well, that's what's confusing is that they put Galaxy in the other collection.

1:45.2

Yeah.

1:45.5

Yeah.

1:46.1

Yeah.

1:46.7

So you're talking about the All-Star Collection, which was three games for $60,

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