Project Hail Mary is an extraordinary cinematic experience.

You're a great scientist, Dr. Grace. The world is counting on you.

Starring Ryan Gosling.

So I met an alien.

Two worlds, one impossible mission.

We're gonna save the stars.

Project Hail Mary.

Amaze, amaze, amaze.

See it first March 14th and 15th in Cinemas Everywhere March 19th. What's up everybody? Welcome to Ijean Game Scoop. I'm your host. Damon Hatfield. Joining me here in studio this week is Nick Limon. I'm back, baby. We're also joined remotely by Sam Claiborne. Hey, it's great to be here on a sunny GDC day. And Mark Medina.

I'm here, Damon. It's early. What? I'm tired. We're recording early. Are the effects of the coffee still in action? Yeah. They haven't kicked in yet. We usually record in the afternoons. We're recording in the morning this week just because of some GDC scheduling stuff. So anyway, we've got a great show for this week.

Lots of interesting stories coming out of GDC.

First details on the next Xbox Project Helix. And Sam actually attended a Nintendo panel where they sort of gave a look behind the curtain of development on Donkey Kong Bonanza, which is... You can destroy the curtain. You can destroy every... The curtain is destructible. But first, before we get to all that GDC stuff, we can talk about a couple of games that are out now.

A tale of two video games.

One made by a prestige developer, one of the biggest developers in the world, the developers of Destiny and Halo.

And their new game is out. And apparently it's good. It's being well received at least by Nick Limon right here. Yeah, I'm not terrible player count, but technically terrible player count. Dude, we should play together. I didn't know you were playing. Yeah, I've been in on it. I haven't asked the IGN folks yet if there's anyone around, but yeah, my squad is taking

a little bit of a break because they got obligation.

So looking for a team at any point.

But yeah, I'm having a blast.

I was not interested in the game at all.

I like the Marathon series as a whole.

You know, Marathon Durandle was a game that I played on Xbox 360 back then,

just because I didn't have an Apple computer way back when that game originally came out.

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