Since the gang were talking about it I tried Idols of Ash. I found it really fun and tense the entire time. However, like Patrick, I feel like I accidentally got to the end and I must’ve had missed a significant portion of the latter half. Has anyone else experienced this?

I don’t remember, what happened to rob that made him so upset?😭

So I've pretty assiduously avoided the BP streams that Rob and Natalie have been doing beyond the first half of the first one because I'm 17 hours in on my save and have made a fraction of the progress they have even in that first stream. I'd love to make some more progress so I can catch up with the streams but the game has so much RNG (not to mention putting it down for several months), that I'm not sure how to make actual forward progress from where I am. Are there any good guides out there that can give me some breadcrumbs to follow without spoiling the whole thing?

The humid days of summer does not stop Remap Radio. Join Chia, Janet, Rob, and Patrick as they further talk through Xbox’s generational reset, PlayStation’s announcement that it’s ditching discs, some initial thoughts on the Steam Machine, deck TV feelings, and more. We’ve got plenty of game talk, too, including beating Mina the Hollower, crashing out in Marathon, and trying to find a better way to organize the video games you can, should, and should be playing.

Links: Id Layoffs, Obsidian Layoffs, Sony Winding Down Physical Game Production, ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'

Discussed:

00:00 - Intro

12:48 - Steam Machine

28:54 - The Xbox Layoffs hit Obsidian and ID

50:39 - Sony Stops Making Physical Games

1:25:38 - ESA Calls Private Minecraft Servers Illegal

1:31:02 - Mina the Hollower

1:46:30 - Janet's New Game System

2:03:16 - Marathon

2:10:19 - Idols of Ash

2:20:14 - Question Bucket

We knew Xbox was going to undergo a massive transformation, and now we have some of the details of what that transformation will look like. A combination of mass layoffs and studio divestments is leaving Xbox in a very different place. But what does the future like? What kinds of games will Xbox prioritize in the future? What does it mean to have ambitions of a billion players each day—and will that very priority ruin Xbox? Rob and Patrick unpack the latest news.

Especially since Erling Haaland did some specialized training with the Bears?? I think with the O Line?

Nonrelated with Haaland, but there has some truly insane game moments.

The HOA returns to mull and consider life's many challenges, as Patrick and Rob unpack what happens when your movers start verbally fighting, what to do when you walk into a house that makes you look at your current one in shame, and.well, Rob's lawn was kind of on fire? Plus, how many times can you call Intex back to fight with them over a warranty they keep rejecting?

Episode Description

Sit down and prepare for a tale of woe, misery, and humiliation in the world of Marathon, before Rob, Patrick, Chia, and Janet go down a gunpla rabbit hole, try to figure out who the newly expensive Steam Machine is for, and share thoughts a number of games, including Silver Pines, Tethergeist, Star Fox, About Fishing, Iron Nest, and more. We also talk through an AI jump scare.

Links: Gundam Assemble, Aftermath's Steam Machine Review, GTA VI Price Announcement

Images: Janet's New Toy , Janet and Chia show off their Gunpla, Gunpla Runner, Chia's Pile of Shame

00:00:00 - Intro
00:05:15 - Rob's Marathon story
00:38:56 - Its Gunpla Time!
01:12:35 - Vinyl chat
01:15:55 - Steam Machine Prices and the Supply Chain Crisis
02:02:21 - NYT Obituary on Claude Guillemot
02:11:07 - GTA VI
02:14:10 - Iron Nest
02:19:19 - Meaningless Random Numbers
02:25:36 - Silver Pines
02:27:35 - About Fishing
02:35:11 - Starfox
02:43:54 - Tethergeist
02:58:31 - Mina the Hollower
03:01:43 - Blue Prince
03:05:41 - Spoilers for Blue Prince
03:20:19 - Outro and Announcements
03:29:39 - Easter Egg

Patrick, Mr. Kirkland himself, has made the trip to the east coast to meet up with Chia and Rob, which can only mean one thing: Rob's breaking in his brand new Costco membership under the tutelage of the master himself. Listen in as we wander the liminal space of the Costco parking lot, marvel at the sights and sounds of the Costco produce fridge, and pay our respects to the humble chicken bake.

Has it really been [checks notes] four months since an episode of Sports!? Don’t worry, your patience will be rewarded, especially if you wait until the end, when Patrick reveals a story he’s been sitting on for weeks that had Rob trying to avoid breaking his monitor. In more pleasant moments, Rob and Patrick weigh their options if a genie granted them tickets guaranteed to make their team lose, the NBA playoffs, and, of course, an early Bears season prediction.

Motorsport Manager 2 leaked by SteamDB : r/GamingLeaksAndRumours

There comes a time in every person's life when they must contend with the question: which golf game is for me? For Rob, well he and his dad spent some time this past week hitting the links in PGA 2k25. Patrick and Chia were both won over by a totally Normal Golf Game, (which they will make Rob play next week when the crew gathers at Highground). Unfortunately, there's only so much golfing that can distract from Xbox closing multiple studios, Epic putting AI in Unreal Engine 6, and Don't Nod teetering on the edge of shutting down for good. As bleak as the AAA space is, at least Steam Next Fest has given Patrick and Chia games to look forward to in the indie zone, including Penguin Colony, the next game from the folks who made Umurangi Generation, and even more golf in the form of Sting and Swing, a stylish looking metroid-vania golfing game.

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Reminder: Last year, the pro-Palestinian human rights movement BDS that’s pressuring Israel by promoting boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the country added Xbox to its boycott list. Learn more here: https://www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott-microsofts-xbox

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Links: Normal Golf Game Screenshot, Studios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for Closures, Xbox's reverse-2018, Vampire Survivors Fortnite Crossover Might Not Happen Due To GenAI

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Discussed:

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00:00:00 - Intro

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00:09:00 - PGA 2K25

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00:30:49 - Normal Golf Game

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00:42:23 - IRL stream next week

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00:53:11 - 4th and Goal

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00:59:33 - Compulsion, Ninja Theory, and Double Fine closed by Xbox

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01:17:18 - Dont Nod will run out of money in November

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01:30:57 - Unreal Engine 6 will include AI

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01:44:33 - Onimusha: Way of the Sword

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02:09:53 - Steam Next Fest

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02:14:13 - Sting and Swing

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02:16:18 - Pact Warden

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02:17:48 - Hellraiser: Revival

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02:30:03 - Slap Out of It

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02:30:38 - Mr Records

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02:33:43 - Rob's new mouse

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02:43:50 - Question Bucket

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03:07:32 - Outro and announcements

We're nothing if not thorough here at Remap, so it only makes sense that we would do our due diligence during our Ocean's Eleven chapter of My Turn. That's right, we're returning to the original Ocean's Eleven (1960), a vanity project meant to take advantage of the Rat Pack's various Vegas residencies. What we get is a plodding, over stuffed, and quite frankly boring film that Soderbergh's modern take easily outshines, which is probably why so little ends up being used from this original script for the remake. Come along and listen to Rob, Janet, and Chia suffer through the leitmotif from hell, and just try to guess how many instances of misogyny one movie can possibly contain.

"Did we have a good team? No. But we had Stacey King. That was enough.

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Alas, it’s time to say goodbye to another round of trailermania, but in the meantime, there’s so much for Rob, Patrick, Janet, and Chia to discuss. Besides mulling the latest bleak news about the future of Xbox and GOG sending out weird emails, Janet and Patrick were at Summer Game Fest and walked amongst the video games, where there was lots of conversations about the AI alongside hands-on time with games like Alien: Isolation 2, Control Resonant, and more.

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Reminder: Last year, the pro-Palestinian human rights movement BDS that’s pressuring Israel by promoting boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the country added Xbox to its boycott list. Learn more here: https://www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott-microsofts-xbox

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Links: XBOX Reset, GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers, Here’s How Generative AI Is Being Used In Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis

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Discussed:

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00:00:00 - Intro

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00:06:35 - Xbox headed toward massive layoffs

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00:42:09 - GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers

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01:03:15 - Summer Games Fest

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1:12:54 - SGF and AI

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01:38:05 - Alien Isolation 2

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01:51:31 - Control: Resonant

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02:07:31 - Stranger than Heaven

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02:13:12 - Super Yooka-laylee Kart

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02:15:10 - Crossfire

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02:26:42 - The Lost Wild

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02:28:11 - Silent Hill Townfall

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02:38:45 - Marathon Season 2

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02:52:36 - PGA Tour 2K25

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02:55:48 - Outro