Not all video game consoles are created equal. Some make better partners than others. It’s time to find out which are generous lovers and which would butt-stomp your heart.
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With Xbox's future as a first-party publisher up in the air, there's never been a better time to look back at their franchises! Watch Matt decide which ones are legendary and which ones should stay under the bottom of an avatar's shoe.
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It’s the Media Boat 2023 Year-End Wrap-Up! Today we’re taking a look back at the year in Video Games! First we’ll recap the year in news, choosing one story that defined the year. Next, we’ll give our individual Top Five Games, followed by choice for Media Boat’s Game of the Year!
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The game combines smooth, precise platforming with a sense of pure surprise, making it one of the most consistently charming and inventive Mario games — or maybe games, period — in a long time.
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Leave it to a game about dinosaurs to help me reconnect with humanity.
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Watch Matt sever, stomp, and get jump scared a lot in EA Motive’s remake of Dead Space! Will he survive the zombie ship in one piece? Is everything 2008 really coming back? All the answers to these questions and more in this stream!
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We’re playing catchup with a late 2022 release: Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Will Mike’s new hero fit in with this famous crew? Has all his Marvel Snap experience given him supernatural card-drawing powers? Watch to find out!
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This week's surprise release from Tango Game Works and Bethesda turns out to be toe-tappin' fun! Watch Matt play a level full of rhythm character action.
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Matt plays a lot of Fortnite now. Is he good at it? Debatable. Watch him fail a few times here!
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It’s a new year and we’ve got new streams! Watch Mike continue his journey through God of War: Ragnarok.
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The year is almost over, so it’s time to wrap it up! Today we have a recap of the year in Video Games. What do we think was the biggest news story of the year? Listen and find out! Then we have Mike & Matt’s top 5 games of the year. Can we choose one game to crown the Media Boat Podcast Game of the Year?
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Ancient Enemy fails to follow in Shadowhand’s footsteps. While it maintains the turn-based RPG combat, it ditches some of the inventory management, simplifies the leveling up, and stars a boring male warrior who mostly just soliloquizes. Nearly every step of the way, Ancient Enemy manages to be a downgrade. It’s incredibly disappointing.
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Add one part Battle Royale to equal parts MXC and Wipeout, and sift through a Looney Tunes filter and you get Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout. This wacky game has no actual violence by substituting the gun gameplay that other battle royale games use with platforming obstacles and other mini games. Best of all it’s currently free on PlayStation for the month of August (with a PS+ subscription).
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Good Sudoku is both a great Sudoku app for veterans and a teaching tool for people new to the puzzles. Even people with hundreds of puzzles under their belt may learn some new techniques too.
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Have you ever wanted to be a mass of flesh? I mean, we’re all kind of masses of flesh already, but I mean a giant, rotting, putrid, rampaging mass of flesh? A carrion, if you will. Well Carrion, the new 2-D side-scrolling action/exploration game from Phobia Game Studio and Devolver Digital, lets you live this “dream.”
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Naughty Dog has brought us a game that defies confidential story telling in order to tell an unconventional tale of restitution. The art style and combat takes what was good about the the first game and refines the initial edges into a polished world that feels lived in. If you want a fairytale ending to believe in, then this isn't the game for you. The Last of Us Part II deals with the harsh reality of a world turned upside down and that actions have consequences. Nobody is safe on the path of revenge.
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Microsoft has revealed 10 world premiere and 22 launch exclusives for the upcoming next-gen console Xbox Series X due later this year. We can also look forward to over 100 titles by the end of this year with game upgrades through Smart Delivery. Here is a quick breakdown of all the games we can look forward to on Xbox Series X and Xbox Game Pass.
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First things first: WarioWare Gold is not just a Greatest Hits collection of Wario's finest microgames. Sure, the game is packed with remasters, but it's also full of new games and surprises. It's a package bursting with everything that's awesome about the series, and Nintendo as a whole.
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The video game community always talks about years ending in "7" as being fantastic for classic games, and 2017 was no slouch. This year we had great games on every platform there is, so no one was left out of the magic. Let's take a look at some of our faves.
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War may be hell, but Call of Duty: WWII is just... boring. For the first time since 2008, Activision's famed franchise has returned to the Second World War, but it lacks the surprise we've come to expect over the last decade.
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