The Best Games Of 2023 So Far | GI Show
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Game Informer
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, hosts Alex Van Aken and Marcus Stewart determine the best games of 2023 (their favorites, actually, but "best games" is better SEO) by looking back through Game Informer's 2023 video game release schedule. Obvious picks are The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Resident Evil 4 (Remake), however we also highlight lesser-known standouts like Friends Vs Friends, A Space for the Unbound, and Terra Nil.
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The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join host Alex Van Aken every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:42 - Discussion Introduction: 2023 Six Months in Review
00:05:17 - 2023 So Far: Games We Have and Haven't Played
01:43:22 - Housekeeping
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on everybody, welcome to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering |
| 0:26.9 | industry. Join us every Thursday for a discussion of how the latest gaming news, reviews, |
| 0:31.6 | and exclusive reviews alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm one of your hosts Alex Van Aiken and today I'm joined by my partner in crime, |
| 0:42.9 | the only other chair on this podcast today, Marcus Stewart. How you doing Marcus? |
| 0:47.9 | Hey, I'm the Barney Tear Clyde today. Yes, yes, the smokey to my bandit. |
| 0:52.8 | The Luigi Tear Mario, known criminals, Mario and Luigi. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah, known on the run constantly. |
| 1:01.7 | For up to Bowser, because you know, it's all about point of view, really, to him, |
| 1:05.9 | they're the bad guys. Yeah, I guess so, yeah. Everybody has like a villain inside of them, you know? |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, the best villains think they're the good guys. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, that's us. Welcome to the Game Informer Show, everybody. We've got a fun kind of year |
| 1:22.6 | in review episode today. We're going to be taking a look at the great games that have launched, |
| 1:28.1 | that we want to recommend that maybe people have checked out, have not checked out rather |
| 1:32.4 | before the fall onslaught of game releases that starts in, I'd say about a month, September. |
| 1:40.1 | I usually consider September. I mean, especially this year, I feel like Starfield is the big, |
| 1:46.2 | Jurassic Park style game that once it opens up, it, along with every other fall game, |
| 1:52.2 | starts pouring out. Yeah, I've got our, our 2023 release state calendar here, |
| 1:58.4 | which you can go to at gameformer.com slash 2023. And, you know, things, we're in July right now. |
| 2:04.9 | So the big ones are, I know there's a new trails into reverie. I've left it here as game. |
| 2:10.4 | I think that's pretty small, but like, that has an audience, Oxen Free 2, exo primal, |
| 2:16.8 | viewfinder, Pikmin remnant to like, it's already kind of starting to like pick up. |
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