Switch 2 Review, The Alters, and FBC Firebreak (Feat. Eric Van Allen)
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4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
(00:06:00) SGF Previews - Lightning Round
(00:06:27) End of Abyss (Section 9 Interactive)
(00:07:24) Out of Words (Wired Fly, Kong Orange)
(00:09:43) Sword of the Sea (Giant Squid)
(00:12:19) Marvel Cosmic Invasion (Tribute Games)
(00:14:33) Blighted (Drinkbox Studios)
(00:19:02) Adventure of Samsara (Ilex Games, Atari)
(00:23:04) Spine (Nekki)
(00:26:57) Digimon Story: Time Stranger (Media Vision)
(00:31:35) Lumines Arise (Enhance, Monstars)
(00:36:14) Crimson Desert (Pearl Abyss)
(00:48:49) Switch 2 Review Discussion
(01:20:40) The Alters (11 bit studios)
(01:32:31) Magic The Gathering x Final Fantasy
(01:54:47) FBC Firebreak (Remedy)
(02:12:19) Outro
In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, returning guest Eric Van Allen (Axe of the Blood God, IGN, Normandy FM) joins us for a Nintendo Switch 2 review discussion, a wild survival management game called The Alters, and the cooperative first-person shooter Control spin-off, FBC Firebreak. Beforehand, we share even more of our favorite upcoming games we recently played at Summer Game Fest.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game industry. |
| 0:19.9 | Join us every Thursday for discussion of the latest gaming news, reviews, and |
| 0:23.9 | exclusive reveals alongside game informer staff and special guests from around the industry. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm joined by Marcus Stewart. |
| 0:35.0 | How you doing Marcus? |
| 0:36.4 | Hey, I'm doing well. How are you, Alex? I'm feeling great. I'm feeling |
| 0:40.3 | rejuvenated after our last conversation in the hotel suite. I, you know, I like not recording |
| 0:47.9 | this at 10 p.m. at night. I feel like I have generally more to give at this hour. That's when all |
| 0:53.5 | the spicy stuff comes out though late at night. That's when all the spicy stuff comes out, though, |
| 0:55.1 | late at night. That's fair. That's fair. Well, also joining us is Charles Hart. How you |
| 1:01.2 | doing, Charles? Hello, I'm good. I just came back from seeing SGF super good friends. And now |
| 1:09.0 | I'm home. Well, speaking of super good friends, we're joined today by Eric Van Allen, returning guest, |
| 1:15.9 | friend of the show. |
| 1:17.4 | Hello, Eric. |
| 1:18.1 | How are you? |
| 1:19.0 | I don't know about super good. |
| 1:20.4 | That's a little presumptuous. |
| 1:21.6 | Like, like, maybe kind of good. |
| 1:23.4 | Like, I'm okay friends, maybe. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.4 | Hello. |
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