Gears Of Dark Souls
Kotaku Splitscreen
Kotaku
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Episode 197: Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about the great new visual novel AI: The Somnium Files, the wonderfully addictive Fire Emblem, and Remnant: From the Ashes, aka Gears of Dark Souls. Then they get into news (34:07) on Nicalis and Apple Arcade, plus a listener question about weird gaming traditions. Finally, off-topic talk (57:16) and the legend of Gardner Minshew continues (or does it?).
Music pick of the week: “Rock Steady” by Aretha Franklin from Young, Gifted and Black, 1972
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only podcast smart enough to just kick the extra point and go to overtime. |
| 0:15.0 | It's September 19th, 2019, and there's video games in the air. First up, we talk about the games we're playing, from more Gears 5 to the Gears Meet Souls Action of Remnant from the Ashes to Maddie's |
| 0:25.1 | Race Through Fire Emblem to Jason's time with AI, the Summium Files. |
| 0:29.1 | Then we talked news from last week's report on malfeasance at indie publisher Nicholas, |
| 0:32.5 | apparently that's how it's pronounced, Apple's new subscription game service, and rituals we perform in video games. |
| 0:41.6 | We close out with off-topic discussion of Mindhunter, Chernobyl, the NFL, and a funky music pick. It's going to be a good one, so stick around. |
| 0:57.6 | Welcome back to the show, everyone, as always. |
| 1:00.1 | We're so glad that you're here to talk about video games. |
| 1:04.4 | My name is Kirk Hamilton, and I am joined, as ever, by Mr. Jason Schreier. |
| 1:05.2 | Hello, Jason. |
| 1:06.6 | Hello, Kirk. |
| 1:07.7 | So nice to see you. |
| 1:10.7 | And, of course, Jason and I are also joined by Maddie Myers. Hello, Maddie. Hello, it's me. Hello, it sure is. Nice to see you. And of course, Jason and I are also joined by Maddie Myers. |
| 1:11.4 | Hello, Maddie. |
| 1:12.6 | Hello, it's me. Hello, it sure is. |
| 1:14.3 | Nice to see you both. |
| 1:15.7 | You guys, so I just want to say something up top. |
| 1:19.5 | Okay. |
| 1:20.3 | Sounds tremendous. |
| 1:21.3 | Kirk, you and I are both incredibly lucky that in our lives we will never have to be pregnant. I just, I just want to |
| 1:29.1 | throw that out. Listen, I'm not planning on it either. I'm not planning on it. I wasn't going to ask |
| 1:36.2 | because it would be inappropriate for me to ask. But also, in that case, all three of us are |
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