World of Warcraft: Midnight Cover Story + Steam Replay 2025

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

The year is winding down, and we're wrapping up for the holidays. Before the team gets going, though, there's still a few games to discuss and stories worth breaking down.

Marcus returns from The Game Awards 2025 to tell Alex and Charles about the on-the-ground experience. Then, the crew digs into their Steam Replay for 2025, then talks about a few neat games like Death Howl and Dogpile. And finally, Alex and Charles discuss the newly announced World of Warcraft: Midnight cover story.

The Game Informer Show is a weekly podcast covering the video game industry. Join us every Friday for chats about your favorite titles – past and present – alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry.

Jump ahead using these timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
06:03 - The Game Awards 2025
27:55 - Beastro
32:33 - Damon and Baby
39:06 - Steam Replay 2025
1:00:00 - Death Howl
1:06:27 - Dogpile
1:11:19 - World of Warcraft: Midnight

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game
0:12.9	industry.
0:13.8	Join us every Friday for discussion about the latest gaming news, reviews, and exclusive
0:17.9	reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the
0:21.6	industry. I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken. Today I'm joined by Marcus Stewart.
0:27.8	Hey, I'm back from the game awards and they didn't give me an award. I. Oh, yeah, you were
0:34.9	supposed to that's what you were going out there for, I thought. That's what Keeley told me when I hung out with him in Japan. He promised me a game award. And when I approached him, he just kind of like backed away and acted like he didn't know me. It was weird. Huh. They were also supposed to do an orchestral arrangement of the game informer show intro music. And I noticed that wasn't in the show proper.
0:55.7	I wasn't sure if that was in the pre-show and I missed it or a special, you know, audience only thing. Nothing, nothing. No, I, I blame Miss Piggy, honestly. I think. Okay. Yeah, there was a lot of drama. A lot of drama. I saw some stuff backstage. age. I can't, I don't know if I'm at liberty to say between the two of them, but.
1:12.7	Is that the stuff that was on TMZ or something different? Well, you know, then maybe you already know if you're referencing TMZ. Yeah. What does TMZ stand for? Too many. Muppets Zaney? Yes. Yeah.
1:27.9	Actually, what does TMS stand for?
1:30.4	I just realized I don't actually know TMS.
1:32.5	I just told you.
1:34.7	Charles Hart, hello.
1:35.9	How are you?
1:37.3	I'm doing better now that I know that TMZ stands for 30 mile zone.
1:43.6	TMZ.
2:00.8	Do you have the official name? Are you looking it up? That's, yeah, 30 Mile Zone. What? No, really? Yeah, historically used in the film and television industry to refer to the so-called studio zone, an area with a 30-mile radius centered on the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and La Sienega Boulevard in Los Angeles. Is that a good called the studio zone because the number of film and television
2:03.3	studios within it. So I guess because it's like celebrity news, specifically Hollywood news, the 30-mile zone would be like the area that they would do their report. That sounds confusing if you work in the industry. Like if you're trying, like if you live in L.A. or something, you're like, I'll meet you by the TMZ
2:16.6	and the people are like, what?
2:18.0	You're talking to TMZ.
2:19.3	You're like, no, no, no.
2:20.3	The old one.
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