Hello and welcome into the Ringerverse, your nexus feed for all things fandom.

I am Ben Lindberg, a senior editor for The Ringer,

and the Jeff Keely equivalent of Button MASH without the shiny red jacket. When

button mash moves to video, I've got to upgrade my wardrobe. We're doing a rare Sunday recording

to bring you the Button Mash Summer Gaming Showcase showcase, where we will react to all the news.

Well, most of the news, all the news might take us all day.

From Sony's state of play, summer game fest, the Xbox Games showcase and beyond,

joining me for this endeavor doing double duty as guest and producer and giving himself the survivor style

hero edit. It's Steve, Summer Steve Fest, Allman. Howdy, Steve? Very good. You don't know this by now,

but in post, I've given myself like heavenly God ray, angelic sounds every time I speak.

I don't doubt it. I don't listen back to the completed button meshes usually. So I have no idea what you get up to. Wow, okay. You could have just had bad air for years and you not know about it. I know. Hopefully you and Devon are doing a great job. I'm sure you are. Steve, you attended some of this week's festivities, and you bring us in-person impressions.

Yes, I do. I'm now senior Summer Games Fest correspondent this week as well.

Yes, some shoe leather reporting, service journalism from Steve, so we will get to what you saw and what you thought of it.

Also with us is Ringer Deputy Art Director Matt James, who brings us in-person impressions

of Sweden, because that's where he was during Sony's state of play.

Matt, did you go cold turkey for a few days, gaming-wise, or did you lug a lot of gaming

hardware to Europe?

I had the switch to on the flight, but otherwise, I was a very good employee and, you know,

just participated in all the team building.

And, yeah, I'm all caught up.

I've played some demos, and I'm ready to go.

I'm impressed. I thought for sure you would have had a Steam deck or one of your advanced exotic gaming handhelds. Oh, I mean, actually, I did bring my my Thor as well, but I didn't. Okay. See, I didn't use that. I knew there was more. Oh, you didn't get to it. Yeah. Two devices minimum on travel. You had me. Nick's games to pay attention to. And I still do. Yeah. Go New York. Go, New York. I hope you brought your power adapters at least. Well, my friends, no E3, no problem. Enough news for you this week? I mean, we knew we were in for quite a slew of announcements

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