The Nextlander Podcast 209: Stop Being Polite and Start Getting Wheel
Added 2025-07-31 00:19:06 +0000 UTCVideo games! We talk about some this week, like Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, Wheel World, Grounded 2, Wildgate, and more DK Bananza, plus news like the purging of adult games from Steam and itch.io, Sony's lawsuit against Tencent's Horizon clone, Atari's acquisition of Thunderful, and the momentous and long-overdue return of Mario Paint to a modern Nintendo platform.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:04:22) Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound | [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] | Jul 31, 2025
(00:17:19) Wheel World | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Jul 23, 2025
(00:25:55) First Break
(00:25:59) Grounded 2 | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] | Jul 29, 2025
(00:39:10) Donkey Kong Bananza | [Nintendo Switch 2] | Jul 17, 2025
(00:45:45) Wildgate | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Jul 22, 2025
(00:53:49) Len's Island | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Jun 19, 2025
(00:55:10) Second Break
(00:55:15) What's going on with Steam, Itch, and Collective Shout?
(01:14:32) Sony and Tencent have a lawsuit on the Horizon
(01:21:13) Atari acquires Thunderful Group
(01:26:47) Metroid 4 Prime has gotten its rating, maybe we'll get a date soon!
(01:27:51) Mario Paint will finally be coming to a Switch platform near you!
(01:32:58) Emails
(01:51:33) Nextlander content updates
(01:54:17) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(01:55:55) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:58:58) See ya!
Comments
Wild Space sounds like Pulsar: Lost Colony. Ok, this is going to veer in touchy political stuff, but here is some context to the processor situation. It is actually a bit deeper than them not standing up to conservative worry groups. This stems from judgement and judicial process rendered during the MindGeek/Pornhub sex trafficking lawsuit a few years back. The courts found Visa also liable for the money made over content featuring unwilling or minors and forced them to suspend payments to all related activities. Because of the judgement and precedent set by the Mindgeek lawsuit, payment processors have been much quicker to drop potentially problematic providers of porn than risk another costly lawsuit and other possible penalties. Many conservative groups have been leveraging this to go after adult and other “perverse and harmful” (almost always meaning LGBTQ+) content. Funnily enough, when this strategy was tried against firearm manufacturers for illegal distribution of weapons, it was ruled that payment processors were not liable, nor were the weapon manufacturers in most cases. Funny that.
swiftdraw
2025-08-01 22:25:52 +0000 UTC"They sell those things at Party City" - well not so much anymore
WulfBane
2025-07-31 16:01:51 +0000 UTC
