Starside Chat Episode 171 (Jan. 6, 2025)

Happy New Year! It’s the first episode of Starside Chat in 2025! And this week, we’re going over some of our most anticipated games of 2025. We also delve into what we’d like to see in the Switch 2 launch lineup.

[News of the Week]

• AGDQ Starts today!

• • Astrobot - Sunday 5:30pm (Any%)

  • Fallout New Vegas - Wednesday 7:00pm (All Romaces)

  • Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Thursday 1:00pm (All Dungeons)

  • FF7: Rebirth - Friday 4:30pm (Any%) (6 hours estimate)

  • Deus Ex - Saturday 4:15am - (Any%)

[Features]

• Most Anticipated Games of 2025

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Astrobot

• Animal Crossing New Horizons

This week, we return to try out a new way to determine the show’s Game of the Year. We’re trying out a bracket style this year, and we had fun with it. Let us know your top 10 games of the year! Do you agree with our picks?

[News of the Week]

• Future of Xbox?

• Christopher Nolan’s next movie will be an adaptation of The Odyssey

• Switch 2 Rumor Roundup

• • The Switch 2 could be revealed on January 8th

[Features]

• Starside Chat’s Game of the Year 2024 Bracket

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• PS5 / Astrobot

• The Long Kiss Goodnight

• Falling into Oblivion (book)

This week, we return after a week off to talk about the Game Awards. We also have to talk about some news pieces, and a bunch of stuff we have been playing and watching lately.

[News of the Week]

• Elon Musk says he's going to start an AI powered games studio

• Baldur’s Gate 3 to get big update with new stuff

• Space Marine 2 surpasses 5 million players, patch 5 coming in December, will add new co-op operation

• Ubisoft to shutdown xdefiant

• Astro Bot getting free winter update

• Switch 2 Rumor Roundup

• • Switch 2 possibly revealed by case maker

  • Probably fake switch stuff

[Features]

• The Game Awards!!

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Balatro

• Megalopolis

• Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

• Marvel Rivals

• Astro Bot Winter Wonder

• Timothy Dalton Bond movies: The Living Daylights and License to Kill

Episode 168

After taking a week off, we return to talk about the Game Awards nominees and some other interesting pieces of games industry news. We also talk about all the stuff we have been playing and reading lately.

[News of the Week]

• Super Nintendo World Direct - Donkey Kong Country

• Sony intends to buy FromSoftware’s parent company

• Update for PlayStation Portal to bring ability to cloud stream some PS5 games in the PlayStation Plus catalog

• Aaron Switch 2 rumor corner roundup

• Black Myth Wukong wins game of the year at Golden Joy stick awards

[Features]

• The Game Awards announces nominees

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Astro Bot Stellar Speedway levels

• Black Myth Wukong

• Lord of a Shattered Land (finished)

• No Man's Sky expedition complete

• Diamonds are Forever (book)

• Factorio: Space Age

• Christmas Market walking tour videos/streams on YouTube

On this week’s episode we talk Mass Effect things because N7 Day brought some Mass Effect-related news. Then we round up a few more news stories and talk about what we have been playing, watching and reading lately.

[News of the Week]

• No Man's Sky reruns Mas Effect-themed expedition for N7 Day also adds cross save support

• Mass Effect TV show moving forward

• Possible rumors of a long wait for the next Mass Effect

• Backwards compatibility confirmed for the Switch 2

• Insider rumors about the next Nintendo Direct

• Rise of the Golden Idol launched on 11/12, four DLCs planned for 2025

• Stardew Valley Secret

• Microcenter VR display

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• The Running Man

• Factorio: Space Age DLC

• No Man’s Sky Beachhead Expedition

• Moonraker (book)

• Lord of a Shattered Land

Episode 166

On this week’s episode, we talk about Nintendo’s new music app and a few other gaming-related news stories. Then we dive into the reception for Dragon Age Veilguard and whether we plan on playing it. Then we have a handful of games and books that we have been playing and reading that we are excited to talk about!

[News of the Week]

• Nintendo releases a Nintendo music app

• Concord studio shut down

• A weird thing: Exodus 1 | 2 | 3 — (Explanation)

• Apex Legends to undergo big changes

• Showa American Story

[Games out this week]

• Dragon Age The Veilguard

• Metal Slug Tactics

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• We solve murders

• Lord of a Shattered Land

• Blops 6

• Factorio: Space Age DLC / Minecraft Create

• Howling Dark

Episode 165

On this week’s episode, we talk about the Nintendo Switch Online playtest that leaked and several DLC’s or seasonal events that are happening now in games we like. We also give some initial impressions on Call of Duty Black Ops 6, and talk about what else we’ve been playing and watching this week!

[News of the Week]

• No Man's Sky Halloween update/expedition

• Vampire Survivors Ode to Castlevania DLC coming Oct. 31

• Nintendo Switch Online Playtest

• Yooka-Replaylee coming to…nintendo

• Bye Sweet Carole trailer

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[Games out this week]

• Black Ops 6

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• No Man’s Sky The Cursed expedition

• Call of Duty Black Ops 6

• Dr. Odyssey

• Pay Check

• We Solve Murders - book by Richard Osman

This week we talk about some of the latest news, including what was shown at the Xbox Partner Showcase. Then we talk about Epic Mickey Rebrushed, the Metaphor ReFantazio demo and the 90’s era western adventure series The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

[News of the Week]

• Switch 2 could have a bigger dock

• God of War Show starting over

• Xbox Partner Showcase

• • Alan Wake: The Lake House

  • Cronos The New Dawn

  • Mouse: PI for Hire

  • Subnautica 2

  • Animal Well - Available today on Xbox

  • FBC: Firebreak

• Factorio: Space Age DLC

• A youtube rabbit hole I went down

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Howling Dark

• Brisco County Jr.

• Luigi’s Mansion 2HD

• Metaphor ReFantazio demo

• Epic Mickey Rebrushed