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Defining Duke, Episode 221 | Xbox's Trojan Horse - How Will PlayStation Respond?! (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 221 | Xbox's Trojan Horse - How Will PlayStation Respond?!

A mere UI leak has given birth to many conspiracies on Xbox's potential gameplan to get PlayStation games on their hardware. With the inclusion of Steam tag on the Xbox PC App, it has opened the door for many to wonder if this all inclusive platform is part of Xbox's next generation vision. Naturally, Steam on a next generation Xbox device bring...

Please Clap: "The RSS Situation" Should Be Fixed

Greetings and good evening, specifically to you and you alone.

As you no doubt recall, we made profound changes to our RSS feed structure last month. To sum things up in short, we joined an alpha test here on Patreon to deploy individual ...

Sacred Symbols+, Split Fiction Spoilercast and Review Discussion: The Thread

Hello!

This Friday, Rick Hoeg and I (Dustin) will be recording a Split Fiction spoilercast and we'd love for you to be a part of it. Write in your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts and ideas regarding the game below.

As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc...

Summon Sign, Episode 65 | Assassins Creed Shadows is Aggressively Decent (Video)

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Summon Sign, Episode 65 | Assassins Creed Shadows is Aggressively Decent

This week, Matty and Gene join Brad to discuss Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, Atomfall, Bleach: Rebirth of Souls, and more!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:10:07 - Assassins Creed Shadows

1:15:25 - Atomfall

1:31:51 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

1:45:58 - Sort it Out/Keep It Up

2:27:57 -...

Defining Duke, Episode 221: The Thread

Hey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 221 of Defining Duke.

Great ways to get your write-up used: Be pithy, be topical, and be insightful. Walls-of-text, posts littered with poor grammar and punctuation, etc., are promptly (though respectfully) ignored.

Constellation, Episode 116 | Favorite LSM Moments, Being Remembered, What We'd Like to See Return (Video)

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Constellation, Episode 116 | Favorite LSM Moments, Being Remembered, What We'd Like to See Return

Does anybody even read these things? I feel like I could fill this space with complete gibberish and nobody would even notice. Rumpelstiltskin. See? You don't even know it says that! Anyway, Col, Cog, Lock and Dag convene this week to talk about stuff. Also, flibbertygibbet, because you'll never see that either.

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Summon Sign Ep 65 Thread

Yo! This week, Matty and Gene will be joining me. The games on the docket are:

• Brad: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

• Gene: Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come: Deliverance

• Matty: Atomfall, Bleach: Rebirth of Souls, Atelie...

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 441 | Ubisoft vs. Its Customers, Kotick vs. Kotaku, and SAG-AFTRA vs. AI (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 441 | Ubisoft vs. Its Customers, Kotick vs. Kotaku, and SAG-AFTRA vs. AI

Please give a warm welcome to returning guest Rick Hoeg, friend-of-the-show and lawyer extraordinaire. I (Colin) invited Hoeg back to Sacred+ for yet another chat about a series of legal and business happenings that concern our industry. For starters: What's going on with reporting around Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed Shadows, particularly in reg...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 351 | Too Many Shadows, Whispering Voices (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 351 | Too Many Shadows, Whispering Voices

This week is one of revelations, as the once-unknown finally sees the light of day. For starters, we have exclusive information on WB San Diego's cancelled game, a never-before-discussed (until now) WB-infused kart racer codenamed Moonlight, in development for years before having the plug pulled. We give you all the details. Then: If you're a Sa...

Today, Last Stand Turns 8

Hello, and good day.

Eight years ago to the day -- on March 20, 2017 -- I launched Last Stand Media (known then as Colin’s Last Stand). Eight years. Eight years! I have no idea how so much time has elapsed. But it has, and here we are.

Now, I fully recognize that eight years isn’t much of an interesting anniversa...

Defining Duke, Episode 220 | Bethesda Is Dropping Oblivion Remake NEXT MONTH?! (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 220 | Bethesda Is Dropping Oblivion Remake NEXT MONTH?!

What's one more game in April? As Xbox plans to publish games like South Of Midnight, feed Game Pass with Clair Obscur and Towerborne, as well as moving their multiplatform push forward with Indy and Forza Horizon 5 all in the same month, there's more. Indeed, the rumor is that the long discussed Oblivion Remake on Unreal Engine 5 will not only ...

Punching Up, Episode 55 | The 3DS Is Still AWESOME! (Video)

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Punching Up, Episode 55 | The 3DS Is Still AWESOME!

The week Dustin reunites with the Punching Up crew and discuss the 3DS launch, Final Fantasy sales, the new Nintendo store, and more!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:47:43 - Looking back on the 3DS launch

1:20:46 - Yooka-Replaylee trailer

1:23:45 - Atelier Yumia Demo

1:32:09 - Final Fantasy series sales u...

Summon Sign, Episode 64 | TOP 5 Nintendo 64 Games!

This week Micah, Hoeg, and Brad discuss their top 5 Nintendo 64 games, Onimusha: Warlords, Golden Sun, Split Fiction and more!

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro

0:05:41 - Top N64 Games

0:30:27 - This Is the Police

0:54:06 - Wanderstop

1:02:43 - Onimusha

1:14:45 - Sort It Out/Keep It Up

2:01:41 - Golden Sun...

Summon Sign, Episode 64 | TOP 5 Nintendo 64 Games! (Video)

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Constellation, Episode 115 | Toasters, The Things We're Surprised We Still Haven't Done, Puppets (Video)

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Constellation, Episode 115 | Toasters, The Things We're Surprised We Still Haven't Done, Puppets

Welcome back to another looooooong episode of Constellation! Delivering the goods like this week in and week out requires deep concentration and a sharp attention span. On this episode, Colin, Chris, Micah and Dagster talk for countless hours about a variety of fun and thoughtful topics. The only downside to this whole thing is that all our...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 440 | Monster Hunter Wilds Spoilercast and Review Discussion (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 440 | Monster Hunter Wilds Spoilercast and Review Discussion

While the Monster Hunter series dates all the way back to the original in 2002 on the PlayStation 2, it wasn't until Monster Hunter World in 2018 that the series became a meteoric success, becoming Capcom's highest-selling game. The follow-up, Monster Hunter Rise, was a success in its own right, but wasn't quite the follow-up some Monster Hunter...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 350 | The Unending Sixth Extinction (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 350 | The Unending Sixth Extinction

This week, Sacred Symbols is a Kojima Fanboy Podcast... for a little while, anyway. Finally -- finally! -- we have a release date for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and it's fairly close, arriving on PlayStation 5 in late June. And as a deep love for Kojima is perhaps the biggest gaming stance all three Sacred hosts share, we thought we'd spen...

Defining Duke, Episode 219 | Xbox's Next Generation Plans LEAKED... (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 219 | Xbox's Next Generation Plans LEAKED...

It's a big week for Xbox hardware fans. A report from Jez Corden has injected new, optimistic life into the conversation. In 2025, Xbox will deliver their first ever "partner device" in another team up with ASUS. It will be a handheld and likely symbolize the next step into what Xbox evisions as the future of their platform. That's no mere guess...

Hoodrats - Lockmort's Edit

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