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The Game Informer Show

Life is Strange: Reunion, Super Meat Boy 3D, Raccoin (New Balatro-Like)

The Game Informer Show

Game Informer

Hobbies, Video Games, Games, Leisure

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Alex returns from vacation to chat with Marcus and Charles about Life is Strange: Reunion, Super Meat Boy 3D, and several indie games: Damon and Baby, a twin-stick shooter from Arc System Works; Parseword, a new daily word game from the Wordle creator; and Raccoin, a coin pusher roguelike for fans of Balatro and quarter machines. 

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:41 - Cruise Ship Arcades
15:19 - Life is Strange: Reunion
44:10 - Raccoin: Coin Pusher Roguelike
58:06 - Parseword
01:46:27 - Damon and Baby
01:21:31 - Super Meat Boy 3D
01:39:39 - Is the PS5 Pro Worth It?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back, everyone to the game informer show, a weekly podcast covering the video game industry.

0:25.4

Join us every Friday for discussion about the latest gaming news, reviews, and exclusive reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry.

0:34.4

I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken.

0:36.9

I'm joined by Marcus Stewart.

0:39.6

How you doing, Marcus? Hey, I am doing great. Not as great as you, because you came back from a

0:44.6

whole bang vacation. I did, yes. I was gone for a while. We'll get into it in a second. Before that,

0:51.4

Charles Hart, how you doing? I'm doing great because when you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.

0:58.9

So I kind of don't even need a vacation when you think of that.

1:02.6

We're all a family.

1:04.0

And when you're with family, you're always relaxed.

1:07.6

I had a joke idea or like I was thinking about doing it for April fools or something and it's kind of

1:13.6

Just the just of it is like when you work in the games industry. It's just like that saying when you love what you do

1:19.4

You never work a day in your life mostly because we're often laid off and looking for work

1:24.1

In your life

1:26.1

You'll love it

1:27.4

The way you said it Charles almost sounded like you were throwing shade at Alex, so like, well, I actually didn't need a vacation like some people because I love what I do. Yeah, I'm good. I'm fine. Yeah, I love this company, so I'm going to be here forever. Yeah. I will never take a day off. I'm trying to think the best way it says, I'm better than you, I guess. I guess that's kind of what I'm getting at. Yeah, better than you in every way, huh? And I got so much more work at that than you. Oh, interesting. Anyways, how was your vacation, Alex? My vacation was good, Charles. I went on a rural Caribbean cruise.

2:02.4

It was my first cruise ever.

2:04.9

And it is relevant to this podcast.

2:07.1

Yeah.

2:07.3

Because I went to the, okay, Royal Caribbean, I was on a ship called the Adventure of the Seas.

2:12.8

It was my grandparents' 55th anniversary.

2:14.5

So, like, they had some of us family come with them uh and so that's why it went

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