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CORE 499: Primed
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⚠️ SPOILER POLICY CLARIFICATION
Going forward:
1. We'll do our best not to offer major spoilers on narrative elements
2. We'll give ample warning to pause, skip ahead, or come back later
3. We'll front-load discussions with spoiler-free content
- Scott will play BGM over spoiler sections for podcast listeners
- Jon is doing YouTube chapters ASAP once the episode posts
NOTE: This has never been a spoiler-free show, but we're making extra effort for those asking. You have personal responsibility to avoid spoilers if they matter to you.
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🎮 MAIN TOPIC
THE FEW GAMES OF DECEMBER 2025
Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Octopath Traveler 0, Metroid Prime 4, Yakuza 0 Director's Cut, Terminator 2D: No Fate, & More.
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📰 NEWS ROUNDUP
🐴 Indie Game "Horses" Keeps Getting Banned
Banned from Steam, Epic, and now Humble. Still available on Itch.io and GOG.
🎬 Justin Lin to Direct Helldivers Movie
The Fast & Furious director takes on the video game adaptation.
🐺 SO MUCH WITCHER
- Witcher 4 NOT coming in 2026
- Witcher 5 and 6 also in the works
- Witcher Remastered on the way
🔞 WickedWhims Has 300K Daily Logins
Sims' biggest sex mod sees massive daily usage
🧛 Paradox Takes Blame for Bloodlines 2
Publisher says responsibility for poor sales lies fully with them, not developers
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🎮 WHAT WE'VE BEEN PLAYING
SCOTT
⚠️ Possible Spoilers: Did I finish Dispatch? Have to wait and see!
Split Fiction - Incredible co-op game. Most FUN game this year!
PowerWash Simulator 2 - Still the best CHORE CORE of 2025.
JON
CyberPunk 2077 - Done everything in base game, Phantom Liberty awaits
Marvel Cosmic Invasion - Started and finished
SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance - Sleeper hit! (Scott confirms)
BEAU
Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt continues
Noobs Are Coming
Jump Space
Rocksmith 2014 - We're back
Star Citizen - I forgot about it... sorry
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CORE 534: No Man's Game
02:29:45|Beau and Scott played a lot of TCG Card Shop Simulator. Scott played Xeno Tilt, Demon's Tilt, Cult of Pin, and Pokemon Pinball. Notice a pattern? Jon is playing Pokemon Go again. Also more How Many Dudes other odds and ends. We talk about that Star Citizen livestream nightmare, the Horizon Hunters Gathering mess, and Fortnite going hard on outside game characteres. Also Blizzcon is stacked with celebs this year. More on muting bad voices in your games, and lots more!VIDEO: https://youtu.be/GsRM6tTN5LgCORE 533: Fix That Thing!
03:27:43|It's that time of the week! CORE is on. And we wanna talk about stuff like Restory, How Many Dudes, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Cult of Pin, Black Jacket, Marvel Tokon, Agent 64, Death Howl, DragonSword Awakening, TCG Shop Simulator, Helldivers 2, among other games. Plus Lord of the Rings comes back from the 2011 death hole! Blizzard is the best performing studio XBOX has right now. We could use more Sean Murrays, Donnie Yen in Phantom Blade 0, Amazon is OUT of MMO's, VR Showcase happened and Beau has the scoop, your feedback and lots more!VIDEO: https://youtu.be/jwzxnmBsSfICORE 532: Arachnophilia
02:03:10|Turns out, Spider-Man movies also inspire spending money on games. We get into it. Also, Scott played Granblue, messed with a Taco, played AC Valhalla and more. Jon played some Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls, The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time, How Many Dudes, and more Midnight Suns. Beau played a TON of DragonSword Akwakenings. Your emails and more!VIDEO: https://youtu.be/iyb_H54UPhkCORE 531: Pandora's Box
02:54:24|A quick note about Frogpants Replay at the top, and then off we go! Scott played a lot more AC games, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. And more fun with Sunshine and Moonlight with retro games. Jon still playing Marvel Midnight Suns, with some twists. Shader mods on Rebirth, and his son beat Astrobot on his own! Beau played DragonSword: Awakening, Tears of Metal, and more Nightreign. He also gave us a VR update on G-Rebels, Metal Hellsinger VR, Overload, and Arken Age. News about whats coming to FF14 is pretty interesting today as well. Your emails and more!VIDEO: https://youtu.be/aupfa3we3agCORE 530: Wash The Walker
02:29:29|Power washing gets a lot more fun when you put Star Wars stuff in it. Also, Scott played a lot of Black Flag Resynced, Farcry 4 (wait for it), Granblue Fantasy Relink, and a couple indies. Jon got all back into Marvel Midnight Suns, and Beau played DOOM The Dark Ages Revelations, and more Nightreign. He also really likes Chinese art books it seems. Microsoft is bringing a slate of classic Xbox titles to PC. The Witcher 3 expansion gets real at Gamescom. WoW and D&D are doing a proper crossover it seems. How best to play Final Fantasy 7 and LOADS more! VIDEO: https://youtu.be/cgb8c5ASVkcCORE 529: Higher Seas
02:54:08|We start with the games we played this week! The Aventures of Elliott still gracing Scott and Jon's screens. Scott is ALL in on Black Flag Resynced. He also configured Moonlight on his network and has praises for it. Palworld 1.0 for Scott and Jon as well. Jon played Denshattack, and Beau still mainlaining Nightriegn like a pro player. Then some talk about Glen Schofield pulling out of games, MS destroying someone's personal data, Sega having big plans for GamesCom, and then a RUSH of emails and phone calls from you guys to top us up this week!VIDEO: https://youtu.be/AYRwJBmNLB4MORE CORE: Rock Band, and beyond: Where will we play these games?
06:27|Let's talk about it in today's email.CORE 528: Ex-Box
03:04:07|A reminder about a few new posts on the feeds, and then off to the exciting world of how Xbox seems to be shitting the ENTIRE bed. Plus Games Done Quick, and the summer sale stuff. Scott tested the hell out of the state of GeForce Now, and did it with a load of games, including Just Cause 3, Diablo IV, Black Flag Resynced, Disco Elysium, and Ghostwire Tokyo to name a few. Jon played AstroBot and The Adventures of Elliot. Beau still buried in Nightreign and Slay The Spire 2! VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7tMpJgcajfwMORE CORE: Making the indie game, "Gyro", with solo-dev Shane Maddox.
40:51|We get into what it takes to build your own game, and actually launch it to the public. And go wishlist/get the game on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4822290/Gyro/