This week we're ramblin' about everything from Vinny's adventures with power tools to Alex's adventures with open houses, plus all sorts of random thoughts on asteroid mining, Martian bacteria, backups of backups of backups, Mass Effect's worldbuilding, and nature's hatred of vacuums--and love of...
2021-11-16 22:46:11 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Monday! We had a fun stream today, checking out the Xbox 20th Anniversary Stream and then playing some Halo Infinite! Thanks again to David Ellis for joining us near the end of that one. Alex and I are going to jump back into some Guardians this week, Brad is puzzling things out in RE7, and...
2021-11-15 22:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings Nextlanders! Hope you all had a solid week, and are having a solid weekend. Speaking of ends, this week was a week of conclusions for us, as we wrapped up multiple long-term plays of a few different games. This means we'll be changing some things up in the near future, but we'll still h...
2021-11-13 20:18:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's jumbo-sized episode features chatter about everything from our time with the Elden Ring network test to the Horizon festival's gentrification of the world, a full spoilercast on Inscryption, our guesses about the next Mass Effect, musings on open-world Mario (and open-world Sonic), an...
2021-11-11 01:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes we roll into this podcast and just kind of free-associate it, you know? Roll some stuff around in our heads, see where we end up? How about: Kilts! Flecktarn! Proton packs! Nixie tubes! Potato chips! Daylight savings! School lunch! Erotic cakes! What won't they ramble about? 2021-11-09 23:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
If you missed our Extra Life 2021 stream the archive is up now! You can still donate (http://tinyurl.com/nxlel) and a big thanks to everyone for joining us. This week is Forza, GTA, and we’ll have some Elden Ring impressions comin...
2021-11-08 19:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, Nextlanders! Hope your weekend is thus far a relaxing and enjoyable one. We had a very productive week over at Nextlander, and here's the proof!
This week, we find Unpacking delightfully earnest and Inscryption delightfully bizarre, get into more on Guardians of the Galaxy and Darkest Dungeon II, talk through another of our trademark Blizzard Blocks, say the words "NFT" and "metaverse" more than anyone needs to hear, speculate about a Qua...
2021-11-03 22:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, when you do a podcast about rambling, you never know what you'll get. This week it's a surprising amount of chatter about New York politics, some tentative attempts to get back out into the world, public transit technology, the current and future James Bond, the mythical birthday month,...
2021-11-02 22:43:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It's here, the hottest month for game releases on the calendar, November! Listen to us plan for all the biggest new games of the holiday. If you like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, buckle up! Skyrim fans, rejoice! Call of Duty? Battlefield? Forza Horizon? Yep, we've got those too. Video games!
<... 2021-11-01 23:41:56 +0000 UTC View PostOctober is behind us and November is upon us! We’ve wrapped up our Scream Team antics and you can check those out now. We’ve got more Hitman racing, Brad gritting his teeth in RE7 VR, and a return to House of Ashes this week. We’re also looking to jump into some Extra Life this Friday and h...
2021-11-01 18:37:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, and a happy Halloweekend to you all! Hope you are enjoying some good horror movies/shows/games, or absent that, just going ripshit on some cheap post-Halloween candy come Monday. If you're looking for more Halloween-ish stuff to watch this weekend, why not partake of some of this pa...
2021-10-30 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This week! Guardians of the Galaxy makes a surprise positive showing, Age of Empires IV gives us strong History Channel vibes, spoilers for Inscryption and Metroid Dread fly left and right, Warner Bros. makes a Smash Bros., the Switch's N64 games leave something to be desired, "Wu-Tang Clan RPG i...
2021-10-27 23:36:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Look, this whole podcast is vaguely Halloween-themed and has a bunch of chat about various horror movies and books we love, a ranking of the masters of horror, and stuff like that, but it really just devolves into an argument about the best and worst candies out there. Who knew sweets could be so...
2021-10-26 20:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostLike some grim spectral horror slinking away into the mist, the spookiest month of Extremely-Frightening-tober is about to leave us once again. But before it departs, it shall wreak upon us one final, grisly affront: our monthly stream thank-you to our patrons!
Below are the sinister offeri...
2021-10-26 17:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostHello! We’re in the final week of October already. That means we’ll have our Patron Choice stream, we'll talk some Guardians of the Galaxy (the game) on the podcast, and have some more spooky-themed business all week. That business includes more of VR Brad in RE7, Abby and I playing mor...
2021-10-25 18:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Nextlanders! Y'all like content? Well then you're gonna love this past week, because we put out a whole bunch of content! Good content, even. The best kind of content!
Here's that content:
2021-10-24 18:31:01 +0000 UTC
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Spooky month, spooky Q&A! In our latest Discord Stage chat, we field questions about what first got us thinking critically about video games, the musical instruments we own (and wish we owned), our signature dishes, a rundown of every review Vinny ever wrote, monitoring audio while home strea...
2021-10-22 21:52:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Indie games rule the roost around here this week, with Inscryption clutching us in its sinister grip, and The Riftbreaker, Into the Pit, and The Good Life filling out the roster. Also: more Metroid Dread, Kratos on Steam, Nintendo's Expansion Pack, Rocksteady's Suicide Squad reveal, the current w...
2021-10-20 22:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Week by week, our rambling net grows ever wider: this time around, we find ourselves discussing peanut butter strategies, our time with high school sports, the great American pastime of watching NASCAR, a surprising amount of detail about our family histories and genealogy, and more!
Hello Hello! We’re deep into October now and we’ve got more spooooookiness on the way. If you haven’t checked it out yet Abby and I posted our second adventure into Alien Isolation. This week will have Brad playing some RE7 in VR (he’s very nervous) and then we’ll return to the world of...
2021-10-18 18:34:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's an unlisted bonus version of Episode 2 of Scream Team which should be posting on YT shortly! I'm not going to say you're missing too much if you watch the public one instead, but this version does technically contain 15 mintues-ish more of us trying to get past that room. Whether that's a ...
2021-10-17 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! It's the weekend! And what are weekends for? That's right, catching up on all the Nextlander stuff you might've missed over the past week! That's the only thing they're for. Everyone knows this.
And now, without further ado, the stuff!
2021-10-16 21:46:38 +0000 UTC
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This humdinger of an ep features a long chat about Metroid Dread (and Switch emulation), thoughts on our time with Sable and Back 4 Blood, more on Jett and the Outer Wilds DLC, and discussion of the four-day game dev work week, the right to repair Xboxes, EA's FIFA faceoff, the future of Ryu Ga G...
2021-10-13 23:36:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We got awfully nostalgic this week, rambling about old GameSpot press trips and various shenanigans conducted therein, some of our experiences working retail and service jobs, the questionable wisdom of buying a second Wii U, the past and present of 2021-10-12 21:18:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Monday everyone! This week on the Hitmarathon we see who will get that cursed run that just throws everything into chaos. You know it’s out there waiting for someone… it always is. I think we’re also closing in on catching the killer in Ripper, so don’t miss that this week. Have you...
2021-10-11 16:57:51 +0000 UTC View PostHappy weekend, Nextlanders! Hope you're all having a good one. And if any of you were maybe hoping to use some of this off time to catch up on our most recent content, you're in luck! This post has all of the week's stuff in one handy dandy place! Amazing! What a concept!
And without furthe...
2021-10-09 19:56:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we consider the rocket backpacks and guerrilla spirit of Far Cry 6, the meditative sci-fi mood of Jett: The Far Shore, the [redacted] and [redacted] of the Outer Wilds DLC, that big ol' Twitch hack, Windows the Eleventh, some good Battlefield news for the Caravellas, a home for Dinobots...
2021-10-06 22:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Vinny and Alex have done the impossible... they hung out, in person. We ramble all about their burgeoning two-man band and the 16-core monstrosity they built, plus more topics like Squid Game, the oeuvre of Armando Iannucci, way too many iPhones, Robert Downey Jr.'s shocking Doolittle vo...
2021-10-05 21:57:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, we're in it now: the legendary Fourth Quarter. The traditional time for video games is upon us, but have they all been delayed out of October? With a new Far Cry, a new Metroid, a new Age of Empires, and some interesting originals--ranging from Jett: The Far Shore to The Good Life, Back 4 B...
2021-10-04 22:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post