EXP Podcast #673: Call of Duty: Essential Warfare

Maybe Soap can buy himself a new haircut post-acquisition?

Corporate machinations make for some strange arguments.  This week in bizzaro mergers and acquisitions land, Microsoft is trying to downplay any potential regulatory roadblocks to the Activision deal by threading a hilarious needle: Call of Duty (while clearly valuable enough to be worth billions of dollars) isn't important enough to put them into anti-monopoly danger.  Sony is of course twisting the knife and claiming Call of Duty is an "essential" franchise within the gaming sector and beyond.  Regardless of who wins, we decided to take it as an opportunity to talk about the long-running franchise, its current influence, as well as what other franchises seem essential in today's landscape. 

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 31 min 16 sec

- "Sony Says Call Of Duty Is An ‘Essential Game’ Series While Microsoft Argues It Ain’t," by Zack Zwiezen, via Kotaku

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #672: Stray Debrief

Who's a good kitty? I am!

Get our your cat ears and ready your fursona, it's time to talk about Stray, a game all about being a cat, hanging out with robots, and knocking things off shelves.

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Show Notes:

-- Music from the Stray OST

EXP Podcast #671: Surprise, Courtesy of Kratos

"Surprise, mother fucker!

Well it figures: we voice our doubts about God of War Ragnarok's release date and Sony turns around and dunks a 2022 date right in our faces.  We were both totally surprised by the news, which got us thinking about other big and unexpected video game releases from past years.  This week, we talk about some of the events that have slipped by our prognostication prowess and why they were such memorable surprises.

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 33 min 21 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #670: Neon White, Live Alive, and We Were Here Forever

Is this heaven or hell?

This week on the EXP Podcast, it's co-op puzzlers, action puzzlers, and a curiously-named RPG from the early 90s. We are chatting about some games we've been playing!

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Show Notes:

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #669: Summer Game Fest 2022

Summer fun with a freaky gun

For all its troubles, E3 has still managed to leave a vacuum in its absence.  But just like nature, the game industry abhors a vacuum and plenty of summer previews have rushed in to take place.  This week we talk about Summer Game Fest, the Xbox showcase, and various other announcements.  We also get very philosophical about space, much to nobody's surprise.  

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 41 min 56 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #668: Another Sonic Facelift

"This shit again?"

Sonic fans are back at it again, this time demanding Sonic go...slow? Also on this week's podcast, we chat about Resident Evil coming to Netflix with a new live-action TV series and some of the cool looking games from Sony's most recent State of Play!

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 40 min 25 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #667: 2022 Best Seller Check In

This little freak is enjoying your money.

By the time you're done reading this sentence, someone has purchased Mario Kart 8.  This week, we take a look at the NPD group's list of 2022's best selling games to date.  Figuring out true sales numbers is an imperfect science these days, but if this is even somewhat accurate, it means that a whole lot of you out there are could be best described as "Tarnished."

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 40 min 25 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks