Giant Bombcast

It's Tuesday so we must podcast about video games! This week we gush about zipping around space in Star Wars: Galactic Racer, hitting the skies in Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, Grubb hitting virtual reality in Titalfall 2 VR, Bakalar flexing his thumbs in Nintendo Switch Sports Resort, and our time with the demo of Castlevania: Belmont's Curse. We also dive into the news and get to all your lovely emails.
 
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Timestamps (note, timestamps on this free version may vary greatly depending on how many ads you receive):
0:00:00 Intro
0:24:05 Star Wars: Galactic Racer
0:37:16 Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve
0:47:08 Titanfall 2 VR
0:49:44 Nintendo Switch Sports Resort
1:02:55 Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse demo
1:07:27 Well Dweller
1:11:52 Gears of War: E-Day
1:16:28 Naughty Dog reportedly returns to Uncharted
1:21:57 Sony is reportedly opening the vault
1:27:24 Regular PS5 owners get a meaningful graphics upgrade
1:28:53 PS5 hacking has gone crazy
1:34:25 Xbox isn’t for sale, but…
1:37:11 RetroAchievements on an actual PS2
1:38:57 Sega finally made Sonic out of the same stuff that we make toilets out of
1:44:20 EMAILS!
2:10:29 YouTube Super Chats
2:18:04 Outro

It's Tuesday and we've got to talk about video games! We're talking about Ace Combat 8, Control Resonant, Final Fantasy XIV, Grubb and Dan get into Goof Troop for the NES, and then we explore if Well Dweller is this year's Silksong. We also find the time to get into the news and then all of your emails!

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Timestamps (note, timestamps on this free version may vary greatly depending on how many ads you receive):
0:00:00 Intro
0:33:04 Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve
0:36:41 Final Fantasy XIV
0:42:12 Goof Troop
0:44:43 Control Resonant
0:54:51 Well Dweller
1:00:52 Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
1:01:44 Onimusha: Way of the Sword
1:03:44 SIFU & PACIFIC DRIVE CODE GIVEAWAY!
1:06:41 Game Informer's GTA VI cover story
1:08:24 Naughty Dog finally puts a window on Intergalactic news
1:14:19 A PlayStation controller that takes a credit card?
1:16:23 NIS America is talking to Sony about the future of PlayStation discs
1:20:14 Meta’s new VR headset looks like glasses, but costs $1,300
1:22:12 Halo is probably gonna get rebooted
1:28:55 EMAILS!
1:57:23 YouTube Super Chats
2:21:14 Outro

We're near the tail end of this hellish September of game releases and we're talking about them all! Grubb dives into his time with Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave, Jan shares his displeasure with Silent Hill Townfall, and we get into our time so far with Control Resonant! We also get into the big stories happening right now with Xbox, Kojima, and PlayStation.

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Timestamps (note, timestamps on this free version may vary greatly depending on how many ads you receive):
0:00:00 Intro
0:27:52 Silent Hill: Townfall
0:41:09 Onimusha: Way of the Sword
0:47:51 Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
0:57:14 Star Wars: Zero Company
1:03:14 Normal Golf Game
1:06:57 Happy Wheels
1:10:28 Draco and the Seven Scales
1:14:00 Control Resonant
1:24:46 The new Resident Evil movie
1:32:30 Xbox’s “reset” turns into a wholesale dismantling and consolidation
1:43:44 Destiny isn’t finished after all, so everyone is getting their jobs back, right?
1:50:25 Kojima Productions pushes back on the Physint reporting (but doesn’t refute it)
1:53:53 A lot of people bought Wolverine
1:57:20 Funky Kong is appearing in Donkey Kong Bananaza, we can all rest easy
1:58:58 EMAILS!
2:29:42 YouTube Super Chats
2:44:18 Outro

It's Tuesday so we're talking about games! Grubb takes us all on a trip to the virtual realm with his impressions with the Steam Frame, Mikey recounts his time over at Blizzcon this year, and we also wrap up some more thoughts on Wolverine. We also get to the news and all of your lovely emails!

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Timestamps (note, timestamps on this free version may vary greatly depending on how many ads you receive):
0:00:00 Intro
0:06:34 Mike went to BlizzCon
0:22:54 Pinball Week/Sonic the Hedgehog pinball machine
0:38:57 Steam Frame
1:01:37 Wanderburg
1:07:32 Metroid Dread
1:12:39 Marvel's Wolverine
1:33:43 Steam Frame: Valve’s next big hardware push costs $1,059
1:37:40 Sony dropped Kojima’s next espionage game. Xbox picked it up.
1:42:06 BlizzCon’s big return: StarCraft is a shooter, Diablo V is coming, and WoW goes Forever
1:47:47 Nintendo Direct
1:51:39 Ubisoft is removing a launcher requirement
1:53:39 Crazy Taxi movie
1:56:17 Some quick little stories
2:06:46 EMAILS!
2:32:55 YouTube Super Chats
2:37:35 Outro

We've played Marvel's Wolverine... and we're not into it. We're not gonna just dunk on it and run, though. Here's 42 minutes explaining everything we liked and disliked about the game.

Read Shawn's written review here: https://giantbomb.com/reviews/marvels-wolverine-review