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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Oooh yeah! In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, Marcus Stewart shares his first impressions of pro-wrestling RPG WrestleQuest. Stewart also interviews the game's creative leads at Mega Cat Studios and legendary wrestler Jeff Jarrett, who helped bring WrestleQuest to life. Charles Harte elaborates on his review of Stray Gods: The Role-Playing Musical while also musing about his ongoing journey in Baldur's Gate 3. Blake Hester gushes about his recent trip to virtual reality in VR Skater and Rez Infinite while recommending an oldie but goodie, Killer7.

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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
00:02:49 - Talent Show Update
00:12:17 - WrestleQuest
00:34:24 - Baldur's Gate 3
00:46:41 - VR Skater
00:57:34 - Rez Infinite
01:11:12 - Killer 7
01:17:11 - Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
01:33:42 - Housekeeping
01:41:44 - WrestleQuest Interview

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game industry.
0:25.6	Join us each and every Thursday for a discussion about the latest giving news, reviews, and
0:29.9	exclusive reviews with Game Informer staff. Alongside special guests from around the industry,
0:35.2	I am your coast, your host, your coast, your coast to the host. Marcus Stewart, that doesn't make any sense,
0:43.1	and that's okay because my two usual like permanent co-hosts are gone, so they can't judge me,
0:50.0	that being Kyle Hilliard and Alex Van Aiken both away, canaling super important business,
0:56.4	but that's okay because as they say, when the boys are away, the the toys can play.
1:03.6	Like, is that what we did on that toy story? Let's go on on here with this intro. Let me introduce you
1:11.3	first guest, Blake, the snake hester. Hello. How's it going? Good. What is going on with this
1:17.9	intro, Marcus? Well, I mean, it'll make sense in a few minutes because we're also jumping
1:24.2	to our other host, Charles, Hitman Hearts. Oh, that one's good. Hitman. Wait, wait, why?
1:31.2	Like, Brett, the Hitman Heart. Oh, I don't know how that is.
1:34.0	Well, Blake, I didn't expect you to give that reference. I'm glad it worked. It's brother Owen
1:39.6	who died. It's a whole family. It's a dynasty. Yeah, that's, yeah, that happened. Yeah,
1:47.2	I use wrestling references. One, because I like wrestling, but two, we're going to be talking about
1:53.2	a wrestling game of that being WrestleQuest. One of the big talkers of the week for more
1:59.9	reason than one is we'll get into shortly. But yeah, we'll be diving into that. And also at the end
2:07.3	of this show, we've got a special interview where I got to sit down with the co-founders
2:14.8	of Mega Cat Studios, which is the team behind WrestleQuest, as well as Hall of Fame wrestler Jeff
2:21.3	Jarrett, who was heavily involved in the game, got the chat up to three of them about the origins
2:27.6	of WrestleQuest and Jeff's history with video games and all kinds of fun stuff. So stay tuned
2:32.2	to the end of the show to give that a listen. But yeah, first off, how are you guys doing?
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