In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, our editor-in-chief, Matt Miller, joins Alex and Marcus to discuss why Marvel Rivals has grown on us and how it's shaking up the Overwatch formula. Next, the crew dives into some of July's best indie games, including Dungeons of Hinterberg, Arranger, and Thank Goodness You're Here — okay, that last one technically releases today, August 1st, but I played and beat it during July via a pre-release copy. Finally, Marcus dives into Silent Hill 2 (2001) and Forestrike, the follow-up to 2021's pixel art action title, Olija. 

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The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join us every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Matt Storm, the freelance audio editor for The Game Informer Show, edited this episode. Matt is an experienced podcast host and producer who's been speaking into a microphone for over a decade. You should listen to Matt's shows like the "Fun" And Games Podcast and Reignite, a BioWare-focused podcast.  The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:05:29 - Marvel Rivals Closed Beta

00:31:27 - Thank Goodness You're Here!

00:41:00 - Dungeons Of Hinterberg

00:48:37 - Forestrike Preview

00:59:31 - Silent Hill 2 (2001)

01:14:27 - Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure

01:21:37 - Housekeeping

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Squirrel with a Gun is an evocative title, and this wacky sandbox platformer by Dee Dee Creations lives up to its namesake. You do, in fact, control a seemingly ordinary squirrel who wields human-sized guns (and other weapons like a rocket launcher) to blast shady government agents while bouncing around a physics sandbox. It's a strange and silly game, and you can watch editors Marcus Stewart and Charles Harte attempt to rationalize this exclusive gameplay montage. 

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The 2002 Star Wars: Bounty Hunter video game is being updated and making its way to modern consoles and PC, and we decided to give it a look.

The original game, now more than 20 years old, was released on GameCube and PlayStation 2, and this new version adds all kinds of interesting bells and whistles. According to developer Aspyr, this version is a native port of the GameCube version of the game, as opposed to an emulation. The game also features contemporary controls and and overhauled camera system.

You can watch the video for our full impressions and play (or replay it) on August 1 on PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, Switch, and PC.

Head to Game Informer's YouTube channel for more previews, reviews, and discussions of new and upcoming games. Watch other episodes of New Gameplay Today right here.

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Game Informer Magazine's next cover story dives into The Casting of Frank Stone, Dead by Daylight's first single-player game, and a collaboration between developer Supermassive Games and DBD masterminds Behaviour Interactive. Enjoy watching Alex Van Aken and Marcus Stewart discuss their time playing the game while watching exclusive gameplay of The Casting of Frank Stone's prologue.

The Casting of Frank Stone launches on September 3 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Be sure to visit our cover story hub for more exclusive stories and videos by clicking the banner below.

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As part of Game Informer's exclusive cover story, we flew to BioWare to discuss the making of Dragon Age: The Veilguard with three of the project's leads: Corinne Busche, John Epler, and Mark Darrah. The trio dives into their experiences designing this long-awaited RPG, including its similarities and departures from the series' previous titles like Dragon Age: Origins and 2014's Dragon Age: Inquisition. 

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AI Limit is an upcoming action RPG that takes clear inspiration from From Software's Dark Souls and other games of the style. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious substance has transformed the remainder of humanity into monsters, you control a powerful lifeform called a Blader exploring mankind's last city to put an end to the devastation. Join editors Marcus Stewart and Kyle Hilliard as they show off what this intriguing action game has in store. 

Head to Game Informer's YouTube channel for more previews, reviews, and discussions of new and upcoming games. Watch other episodes of New Gameplay Today right here.

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In this episode of New Gameplay Today, editor Marcus Stewart shares his time playing Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred's new Spiritborn class with Kyle Hilliard. The martial arts-focused class has the ability to tap into the Spirit Realm and harness the power of four powerful beasts – jaguar, gorilla, eagle, and centipede – to battle the forces of Hell. Watch us take the class for a spin and discuss why it might be our favorite in the game. Be sure to also read our in-depth preview of the Spirtborn class here. 

Head to Game Informer's YouTube channel for more previews, reviews, and discussions of new and upcoming games. Watch other episodes of New Gameplay Today right here.

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In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show podcast, we're sharing our review-in-progress thoughts on two intriguing releases this week. First up, Wesley LeBlanc shares his initial impressions of Capcom's action/strategy/tower-defense hybrid Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. Marcus Stewart then dishes out his time slaying gods in the action souls-like Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn. Kyle Hilliard unpacks his review of Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, and we also discuss playing the Concord beta and Zenless Zone Zero before answering some listener questions. 

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The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join us every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Matt Storm, the freelance audio editor for The Game Informer Show, edited this episode. Matt is an experienced podcast host and producer who's been speaking into a microphone for over a decade. You should listen to Matt's shows like the "Fun" And Games Podcast and Reignite, a BioWare-focused podcast.  The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:39 - Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess 
00:22:19 - Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn 
00:38:25 - Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Review
00:47:09 - Concord Beta Test
00:59:05 - Zenless Zone Zero
01:10:33 - Housekeeping and Listener Questions

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Concord is in beta this weekend and Alex Van Aken and I decided to jump in, play a few rounds, and figure out which characters we liked from the impressive roster. Together we discovered that Lennox, the hot sauce eating green man seen in the game's trailer shouts "exploding knife!" when he throws his exploding knife, but he had nothing on It-Z who had a great SMG, the ability to clone herself when she dodges, and teleportation ability making her easily and indisputably the best character in the game. Alex also liked Duchess. You can check out the archive of the full stream below.

For a while lot more on Concord, which releases on PlayStation 5 and PC August on August 23, head here to read about how it plays like Destiny meets Overwatch.

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In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew attempts to highlight the best games of 2024 that have launched between January and July. This is not all-encompassing. Rather, it's more a conversation about this year's early standouts and other releases we plan to visit before our official Game of the Year discussions in December. Before we properly dive in, Marcus breaks down his review of Anger Foot, developer Free Lives' new first-person shooter. Afterwards, Alex highlights a small desktop game (literally) called Rusty's Retirement. We hope you enjoy this episode and find new games to play!

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The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join us every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Matt Storm, the freelance audio editor for The Game Informer Show, edited this episode. Matt is an experienced podcast host and producer who's been speaking into a microphone for over a decade. You should listen to Matt's shows like the "Fun" And Games Podcast and Reignite, a BioWare-focused podcast.  The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:29 - Anger Foot Review

00:18:36 - Rusty's Retirement

00:30:06 - Best Games of 2024 (So Far)

01:34:51 - Housekeeping

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In this exclusive video, Game Informer interviews Jen Zee, the renowned art director behind Supergiant Games' Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and your favorite characters in Hades, about the making of Hades II. We discuss how art history inspired Jen when depicting Melinoë, why she loved revisiting her past work, the graphical differences between Hades and its successor, and fan art from Supergiant's community. 

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Thanks to our associate editor, Marcus Stewart, and freelance video editor, Evan Campbell, for helping me bring this video to life. Find more exclusive coverage of Hades II right here.

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In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, former GI editor and current writer for The Indie Informer John Carson drops by to share his impressions of Final Fantasy XIV's newly released Dawntrail expansion. We're also joined by our wonderful podcast editor Matt Storm to give their thoughts on Alan Wake 2's Night Springs DLC, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and their first foray into Sam Barlow's Immortality. Marcus Stewart spills the tea on his time playing the closed beta for the bubbly open-world dress up game Infinity Nikki and his first excursion through the typing-based dungeon crawler Cryptmaster. We round the show with Kyle Hillard and Marcus giving their obligatory Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree check-ins. 

Follow us on social media: Marcus Stewart (@MarcusStewart7), Kyle Hilliard (@KyleMHilliard), John Carson (@John_Carson), and Matt Storm (@dj_stormageddon). 

The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join us every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Matt Storm, the freelance audio editor for The Game Informer Show, edited this episode. Matt is an experienced podcast host and producer who's been speaking into a microphone for over a decade. You should listen to Matt's shows like the "Fun" And Games Podcast and Reignite, a BioWare-focused podcast.  The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:16 - Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail
00:23:36 - Infinity Nikki Beta
00:46:00 - Alan Wake 2 Night Springs Expansion
00:52:59 - Kyle's Jurassic Park Corner
00:58:51 - Cryptmaster
01:08:13 - Immortality
01:16:30 - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
01:22:33 - Marcus' Manor Lords Update
01:26:05 - Dragon Age: The Veilguard
01:35:54 - Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree
01:47:47 - Housekeeping

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In this episode of New Gameplay Today, Marcus Stewart and Kyle Hilliard go hands-on with Infinity Nikki! We played several hours of a beta version (here's our full preview), and we're showing off that gameplay while dishing out what makes the game a cozy delight to play. 

Head to Game Informer's YouTube channel for more previews, reviews, and discussions of new and upcoming games. Watch other episodes of New Gameplay Today right here.

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In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew discusses our recent trip to Bioware for our Dragon Age: The Veilguard cover story, our Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree review, PS5-bound multiplayer shooter, Concord, a new battle royale from former League of Legends developers, atmospheric horror title Still Wakes the Deep, Dustborn, Luigi's Mansion 2 HD and even more! It's a packed show, y'all. 

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The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join us every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Matt Storm, the freelance audio editor for The Game Informer Show, edited this episode. Matt is an experienced podcast host and producer who's been speaking into a microphone for over a decade. You should listen to Matt's shows like the "Fun" And Games Podcast and Reignite, a BioWare-focused podcast.  The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:42 - Cover Story: Dragon Age: The Veilguard

00:21:48 - Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Review

00:42:20 - Concord Preview

00:59:04 - Supervive Preview

01:11:59 - The Plucky Squire

01:24:37 - Magic: The Gathering – Assassin's Creed

01:35:01 - Still Wakes the Deep

01:45:52 - Dustborn Preview

01:55:06 - Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Review

01:58:26 - Housekeeping

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We got our first big look at Concord, PlayStation's upcoming 5v5 multiplayer hero shooter, during a State of Play last month. And last week, we traveled to California to go hands-on with the game. You can read Game Informer's full Concord preview thoughts here, but in short: it feels great and we're excited to play more. 

We have a lot of questions remaining about the game's progression, seasonal content, narrative emphasis, and more, but if the handful of hours we've played of Concord are any indication, developer Firewalk Studios has, at the very least, created a fun and great-feeling shooter. In today's New Gameplay Today, host Wesley LeBlanc talks about his visit to PlayStation's HQ to play the game with Kyle Hilliard and how he felt after checking out 10 of the game's 16 heroes and three of its gameplay modes. 

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This week on The Game Informer Show, we share our spoiler-free impressions of Elden Ring's DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree. We gave the expansion a 9.75 in our review. We also dive into Nintendo's impressive Summer Direct showcase and chat about the first mainline Zelda game where Zelda is the protagonist, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, and just about everything else revealed during the show. Thanks for watching or listening!

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The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join us every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Matt Storm, the freelance audio editor for The Game Informer Show, edited this episode. Matt is an experienced podcast host and producer who's been speaking into a microphone for over a decade. You should listen to Matt's shows like the "Fun" And Games Podcast and Reignite, a BioWare-focused podcast.  The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:56 - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC
00:31:26 - June 2024 Nintendo Direct
01:24:30 - Housekeeping

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Metal Slug Attack actually began as a mobile tower defense game for iOS and Android devices many years ago, but today, as part of Nintendo's Summer Direct presentation, it was revealed the game is getting "reloaded" for just about every platform. Also, of note, this game is not to be confused with the other tactical Metal Slug game, Metal Slug Tactics. You can learn more about that game here.

Join Kyle Hilliard and Brian Shea for a look at some early gameplay from the game and learn why it is scratching their Plants vs. Zombies itch.

Head over to Game Informer's YouTube channel for more previews, reviews, and discussions of new and upcoming games. Watch other episodes of New Gameplay Today right here.

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<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://ift.tt/OmqPW6Y" width="800" height="450" alt="our favorite games of summer game fest 2024" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-thumbnail" /></p> <p>In this week's episode of&nbsp;<em>The Game Informer Show,&nbsp;</em>our boots-on-the-ground crew returns from Los Angeles to discuss <a href="https://ift.tt/nZVwRmM favorite games from Summer Game Fest,</a> Ubisoft Forward, the Xbox Games Showcase, and orbiting events.&nbsp;</p> <h2>Watch the Video Version:</h2> <iframe width="560" height="315" frameBorder="0" allow="autoplay" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bxpA6_7Ik5k" width="640"></iframe> <p>Follow us on social media: Alex Van Aken (<a href="https://twitter.com/itsvanaken">@itsVanAken</a>), Brian Shea (<a href="https://twitter.com/brianpshea">@BrianPShea</a>), Charles Harte (<a href="https://twitter.com/chuckduck365">@Chuckduck365</a>)</p> <p><em>The Game Informer Show</em>&nbsp;is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join host&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/itsVanAken" target="_blank">Alex Van Aken</a>&nbsp;every Thursday&nbsp;to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with&nbsp;<em>Game Informer</em>&nbsp;staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry.&nbsp;Listen on<a href="https://ift.tt/aAbi8eF" target="_blank">&nbsp;Apple Podcasts</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://ift.tt/OFVcQBn" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or your favorite podcast app.</p> <a href="https://ift.tt/iQPHt9S" target="_blank">Matt Storm,</a>&nbsp;the freelance audio editor for&nbsp;<em>The Game Informer Show</em>, edited this episode<em>.&nbsp;</em>Matt is an experienced podcast host and producer who's been speaking into a microphone for over a decade. You should listen to Matt's shows like the&nbsp;<a href="https://ift.tt/GYbC6e3" target="_blank"><em>"Fun" And Games Podcast</em></a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://ift.tt/ySjROhX" target="_blank"><em>Reignite</em></a>, a BioWare-focused podcast.&nbsp; <strong>The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps:</strong> <p>00:00:00 - Intro</p> <p>00:01:52 - Summer Game Fest 2024 Deep Dive</p> <p>01:47:06 - Housekeeping</p>

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Metal Slug Tactics has surprised players with the run-and-gun series transformation into a turn-based strategy game, and we're breaking it down in this episode of New Gameplay Today! Join Marcus Stewart and Kyle Hilliard as they show off a couple of missions while breaking down the game's roguelite structure and unique systems that will, hopefully, make it a standout in the genre.

Be sure to also check out our in-depth, hands-on preview of Metal Slug Tactics here for even more details on how it's shaping up. 

Head over to Game Informer's YouTube channel for more previews, reviews, and discussions of new and upcoming games. Watch other episodes of New Gameplay Today right here.

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Nikoderiko: The Magical World is a classic mascot platformer heavily inspired by games like Donkey Kong Country and Crash Bandicoot. As Niko you swap between 2D and 3D sections of levels, collect four golden letters, find hidden barrels that send you to play minigames and more. The game also features music by Donkey Kong Country composer, David Wise.

Join Marcus Stewart and me as we play through a few levels of The Magical World.

Head over to Game Informer's YouTube channel for more previews, reviews, and discussions of new and upcoming games. Watch other episodes of New Gameplay Today right here.

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