‘Saros’ Review, ‘Resident Evil’ Trailer Reactions, and a Recent Release Roundup | Button Mash

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh, Steve Ahlman, and Matt James assess their hype levels for several recently announced release dates for upcoming games and video game movies, react to the ‘Resident Evil’ teaser, and share their thoughts on Microsoft’s Game Pass price cut and Xbox brand rehabilitation. Then they review Sony’s new PS5-exclusive rogue-like shooter ‘Saros’ and compare it to its predecessor ‘Returnal.’ Finally, they play Mash or Pass with four other new games: ‘Vampire Crawlers,’ ‘Invincible VS,’ ‘Tides of Tomorrow,’ and ‘Aphelion’ (plus “Rage Quit” rants about a ‘Battlefield’ movie and rolling credits too early). (00:00) Intro(1:14) Upcoming games and video game movies (11:54) ‘Resident Evil’ teaser(17:16) ‘Battlefield’ rage quit (22:12) Microsoft’s Game Pass price cut(28:15) 'Saros' review(51:54) Rolling credits rage quit (56:38) Mash or Pass Host: Ben LindberghGuests: Steve Ahlman and Matt JamesProducers: Devon Renaldo and Chris SuttonAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Amy Polar, and I'm launching a new podcast called Good Hang.
0:05.0	In preparation for that, I asked some of my friends to send in some videos and give me some advice.
0:10.0	Just be yourself and the guests will come.
0:13.0	Don't be the celebrity that this is their like six things they're doing.
0:16.0	I love true crime and cooking podcasts.
0:19.0	Is there any way you could combine the two? Well,
0:22.4	everyone has an opinion and a podcast.
0:24.8	So, join me for good hang.
0:27.0	It's rough out there. We're just trying
0:28.7	to lighten it up a little.
0:31.7	Music Hello and welcome into the Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom.
0:49.5	I am Ben Lindberg, senior editor at the Ringer, and lead enforcer at Button M, where, much like the protagonist of Saros, we do the same thing over and over, record podcasts while we gradually lose our minds.
1:01.3	We're also talking about a three-on-three tag fighting game Invincible Verses today, and I am tagging in two co-hosts to help me on this podcast.
1:10.3	Steve Allman and Matt James are with me today.
1:13.4	Hello, boys.
1:14.6	Yo, yo.
1:16.0	No time for clever puns.
1:17.4	We have so much to get to, so much news, so many games.
1:21.2	We're going to begin with a patch notes, our usual installment of video game news.
1:27.0	And we have a trio of news items, which will begin with a trio of recent release date
1:33.4	reveals for games and release date reveals for upcoming adaptations, video game movies.
1:39.5	So let's start with the release dates before we get to the games that are actually out that we will be talking about today.
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