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The Game Informer Show

The Blood of Dawnwalker Exclusive Details & Forza Horizon 6 Review

The Game Informer Show

Game Informer

Hobbies, Video Games, Games, Leisure

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, we dive into the exclusive details of our Blood of Dawnwalker cover story, including an early look at romance options in the vampiric role-playing game from The Witcher 3's former game director. The crew also discusses Forza Horizon 6 and where the racing game goes next, why Directive 8020 disappointed executive editor Kyle Hilliard, and Call of the Elder Gods, another puzzle game from Out of the Blue Games. Finally, we wrap the podcast with a new wave of listener questions!

The Game Informer Show is a weekly podcast covering the video game industry. Join us every Friday for chats about video game reviews, news, and exclusive reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
05:02 – Forza Horizon 6 Review
25:46 – Directive 8020 Review
38:39 – The Blood of Dawnwalker Exclusive Details (Cover Story)
01:11:44 – Call of the Elder Gods
01:23:11 – Listener Questions

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back, everyone to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game

0:11.8

industry. Join us every Friday for a discussion of the latest gaming news, reviews, and

0:16.6

exclusive reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry.

0:21.9

I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken, and today I'm joined by Marcus Stewart.

0:27.1

How you doing, Marcus?

0:28.3

I'm doing well. I just realized we were talking off camera about Man in the Box by Allison Chains,

0:32.9

and it just dawned me that we are all men in boxes right now.

0:37.8

Yes, yes, we are.

0:38.9

It's, uh, we, we can't escape this, this, this, give me, I don't even know if the borders line up if I.

0:47.2

Yeah, yeah.

0:48.8

Uh, also joined by Kyle Hilliard. How are you?

0:51.8

Hey, what's up? I thought Spoon Man was an Allison Chain song.

0:56.1

That is SoundGuard.

0:57.0

Ooh, that is not.

0:58.6

Fake music fan.

1:00.7

I realize my mistake is what I...

1:02.7

You know, I have never heard of that song.

1:05.9

My daughter was texting a friend about Spoons, so I sent her that song as a cool, an older dad. Oh, perfect. And he said, check out this Allison Jane song. She said, cool, and then she never did. We're joined by Brian Shea rounding us out. How are you, Brian? I'm doing great. Every time we talk about like the layout of the podcast, it reminds me of that viral video video where they had like the kind of Brady Bunch layout of the podcast. It reminds me of that viral video where they had like the kind of Brady Bunch

1:30.4

layout of the celebrities singing,

1:31.8

We Are the Champions.

1:33.4

And Usher clearly thought he was going to be in the middle.

1:36.5

So he's looking all around all angles.

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