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Hello. Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the video gamers podcast.

Today we're hitting up the new game plus showcase that has indies galore.

Some of these are brand new reveals pushing wild ideas like survival on Mars, time loops in the Wild West, and a rogue-like chair combat game.

And others are games we've talked about before that show up bigger and bolder every time we see them.

I am your host, Ace, and joining me a man who truly struggled to keep his eyes open during the showcase,

but we'll see if it happens again tonight.

Or if these games can actually keep him awake.

It's Josh.

It jokes on you, Ace.

I didn't watch this showcase.

The showcase sucked.

It was a truly terrible showcase.

And what we mean by that is the games were not bad.

The games were the only good part.

No, the games were fine.

It was the people presenting the showcase.

They just couldn't stop interjecting commentary that had nothing to do with what was going on.

Did it also turn this into like a four and a half hour showcase when it should have been like maybe like an hour and a half at most just because they couldn't stop talking about not the games yeah i don't know what that's about guys we never go off topic never never never it's not like we would talk for 25 minutes straight before we even actually started recording this episode,

right?

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