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Join us every Thursday for a discussion about the latest gaming news, reviews,

and exclusive reviews alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry.

I'm your host, of course, Alex Vanaken, and today I'm joined by Jay Guisal, Jay, how you doing, dude?

I'm good, man. How are you?

Good. Congrats on getting your first cover story under your belt, God of War.

Yes, sir. Thank you so much. It was amazing to be able to have that kind of opportunity and work on it.

I'm really excited for everybody to read it and check it out.

Hell yeah. Well, we'll get to that in a little bit.

First, we need to introduce our special guest, Kenneth Shepherd, staff writer at FanBite, co-host of Normandy FM.

Ken, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me. We're trying to get this like in the works for like a while and we finally found a time for me to come on.

I know. I'm also really bad at planning and typically message people, you know, the day before or the day of, like I did today,

but I saw your really excellent piece over on FanBite on the last of us.

And I was like, oh, we should get Ken on because I also think you're a fan of God of War, aren't you?

And, yes, very much so.

Yes, I was thinking, oh, Ken would be great.

And we worked it out. Thank you for making it happen, Ken.

How are you? How are things?

Oh, good. I'm vibing. I've been like a busy day.

As you can imagine, like when an embargo goes up, we get a lot of stuff that goes up and like just managing that is a whole endeavor.

So I feel like I get like I get like acid reflux around big embargo.

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