Hello and welcome to the minmech show, a place about games friends are getting better.

I am Ben Hansen and this is the minmech show podcast, as you can tell because we have

Jeff Markier Fava here. Hey, that's not all. We have Surio Vesquez. Hey, and we have

Big Dog Kyle Hilliard in the dog bone.

Uh, rough, rough, rough. Hey, dogs got to eat this guy's wild, this guy's wild. Um, welcome

everybody. We are talking about Ratchet and Clank Rift apart today, um, which by the way,

um, if you want to see gameplay for Ratchet and Clank Rift apart and actually hear our impressions

of the state of play, that's on minmech's YouTube channel, which you can go subscribe to.

We'd appreciate that. We'll have our full reactions there, but recording this before the

state of play. Um, then we're going to be talking about Returnal from Housemark, PlayStation

5 exclusive, very exciting stuff. Um, and we're going to be talking about near the remake,

slash remaster of near say the full name. Don't shut, don't short yourself here. You're

right. Come on. Okay. This is near replicant version 1.22474487139. So please look forward

to that. In the back half of the show, we have some fun community questions, very good

batch today. I mean, if this was a dinner, I was cooking people from all over the neighborhood

would be clawing at the windows, trying to get to this meal. It's some very fun stuff

in there. So you don't want to cook too well there. That's right. That's a, that's a

scary neighborhood you live in. Yeah. It results in 48 deaths within the United States

per year is meals being too good and neighborhood children attacking the chef. And village is

very different from what I thought it was going to be. Hey, very exciting week for games

because we have our one and true beloved Pokemon Snap is returning on Friday. And I am

very, very excited about new Pokemon Snap. I cannot wait to play it. We're going to be streaming

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