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Schedule for the Week of 10/04/2021

Hello everyone! Happy October! We’ve got some fun shows this week and even more planned but not ready to put on the calendar yet. The Hitman racing continues, the ridiculousness of Ripper (hopefully) continues, and the games just keep on coming! Looking to be a fun and full week. Thanks for joi...

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The Week That Was: 09/27 - 10/01/2021

Hello everyone, and a happy spooky October to everyone who celebrates! This is the best month of the year, hands down. Autumn is fully on, leaves turning brown, hoodie appropriate temperatures, and of course, a healthy dollop of horror themed things. I don't usually do the 31 days of horror movie...

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Patron Q&A 003: September 2021

Patron Q&A 003: September 2021

Our third live Discord Q&A has concluded, and now we bring you the archive which features questions about our own personal Psychonauts levels, acceptable video game tattoos, coffee habits, airport horror stories, Alex's musical year-to-date-in-review, our favorite Beastie Boy, the origin of t...

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The Nextlander Podcast 017: The Prototypical Hoth Level

The Nextlander Podcast 017: The Prototypical Hoth Level

This week Death Stranding has us in the grip of its madness once again, Kena: Bridge of Spirits is a delight, there's... a very good Hot Wheels game (?!), Actraiser is kinda-sorta back, Nintendo motion picture stunt casting is on everyone's mind, Japan is hoarding all the six-button Mega Drive pa...

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Weekly Ramblecast 016: The Cost of Doing Business (With Adam Sandler)

 Weekly Ramblecast 016: The Cost of Doing Business (With Adam Sandler)

This week's ramble includes Alex's tales from the latest AEW event (plus an impromptu wrestling history lesson), Vinny's battle with the USPS over a lost Transformer, Brad's childhood adventures eating wild fruit, fulfilling the Jersey diner quota, a consideration of urban chicken coops, and more...

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The Monthly Friday Thank You: September 2021

It's tempting to start this poll with some "how in the world is September almost over" sort of business, because seriously, what is time these days, but instead I'm going to celebrate the imminent arrival of the spooky month! Yes, this Friday is the beginning of October, and it's also the day we ...

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Schedule for the Week of 9/27/2021

We’ve got a packed week Nextlanders! There’s a new show this week as Brad and I (Vinny) get to work trying to be the fastest Hitman we can be! Alex and I will also be continuing with Life is Strange: True Colors, we’ll be holding our live Q&A Podcast on the Discord, then we'll be rippin...

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The Week That Was: 09/20 - 09/24/2021

Happy Sunday, everyone! Hope you're all having a relaxing/exciting/fulfilling weekend. Once again it is time to recap all the fun stuff we made last week! As a quick aside before I launch into that, just want to let folks know that we've got another patron Q&A coming up next week, so if you h...

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Vinny Draws from Memory: Wrex and a Big Daddy

Vinny Draws from Memory: Wrex and a Big Daddy


Break out the big pencils! This should be an interesting one and I'm very curious to see how this all shakes out. Scared, sure... a little bit. Excited though? You know it. Come join me for a hour-ish of chill, goof-sketching.

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The Nextlander Podcast 016: A Gun That Shoots Yagamis

 The Nextlander Podcast 016: A Gun That Shoots Yagamis

Alex is lost in Lost Judgment this week, Brad loves playing defense in Deathloop, we all brought back a photographic travelogue from Toem, Quantic Dream might be making a Star Wars game (?!?), and things just keep getting worse for Activision Blizzard. Plus: an interview with Outer Wilds creative...

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Weekly Ramblecast 015: The People Vs. Steven Spielberg

 Weekly Ramblecast 015: The People Vs. Steven Spielberg

This week we're rambling all over the place, considering whether Vinny's kids really need Christmas Lights or not, what might possess a person to direct a film adaptation of Ready Player one, whether French dressing is really just watered down ketchup, and how many of us might still own and use c...

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Schedule for the Week of 9/20/2021

Hello everyone! This week we’re heading back to Scrap Mechanic, FMV-Town, and doing more Life is Strange. Also, don’t miss Friday’s show where we hopefully see the demise of Mother Brain in Metroid! It’s about time someone ended that menace.

--Vinny

All times Eastern

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Character Selection: Vinny Draws from Memory Episode 07

Hello! It's time to return to the drawing board! Let's pick some fresh faces to immortalize in our gallery.

Stream details will go up later this week after the poll is done. Thanks everyone!

--Vinny 

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The Week That Was: 09/13 - 09/17/2021

Hey everyone! It's another weekend, and therefore time to recap all the fun stuff we made over the course of last week. 

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Show Ideas: The Next Generation

Hey folks, we'll keep this one short and sweet: the time has come once again to solicit your feedback on one of the next shows we tackle. We've got some other ideas besides these that we like enough to hold back from this poll, so we'll be looking at doing some other stuff soon besides the winner...

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The Nextlander Podcast 015: Pairer Beware

 The Nextlander Podcast 015: Pairer Beware

Would you believe we spent like half this episode talking about Deathloop? You'll just have to listen to find out, and in the course of doing so you'll also hear about the new WarioWare's co-op calamity, some reminiscing about KOTOR in light of the newly announced remake, our wish list for Insomn...

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Weekly Ramblecast 014: Hot Lunch Friday

Weekly Ramblecast 014: Hot Lunch Friday

Ramblin' time is here again! Come for the tales of Vinny's family outing to... the dentist, stay for our obsessive dissection of the new Matrix trailer, our love of Laurence Fishburne, an attempt to discern our own individual Marvel numbers, our effort to define the one true Law & Order formu...

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Schedule for the Week of 9/13/2021

Oh yeah! This week we’re going to get loopy. We’ve got a livestream of Deathloop early in the week, and then we’ll be getting into it more during this week’s podcast along with a bunch of other stuff. This Thursday I’m going to jump into some Life is Strange:True Colors with Alex in the...

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The Week That Was: 09/07 - 09/10/2021

Hey everyone! Hope you all had yourselves a good short week. It's time once again to recap all the stuff we made over the course of the last week.

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The Nextlander Podcast 014: The Unhappy-Kid Exclusion Zone

 The Nextlander Podcast 014: The Unhappy-Kid Exclusion Zone

This week! We're on a cosmic voyage in The Artful Escape, playing post-apocalyptic golf in Golf Club Wasteland, traversing a Midgar Metroidvania in F.I.S.T., and hanging out around a placid lake in, uh, Lake. Plus: the Tripwire kerfuffle, the Horizon pricing fiasco, Alan Wake remastered, and the ...

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Weekly Ramblecast 013: Be Not Here

 Weekly Ramblecast 013: Be Not Here

With Vinny off roaming the earth, our friend Will Smith stops by for a quick ramble, and swaps some stories with Alex about working in game dev communications, regales us about the magical Safeway/drive-in movie theater combo, sells us on Star Trek animated series new and old, ponders the necessi...

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Schedule for the Week of 09/07/2021

Hey all! Alex here subbing in for Vinny, who still has one day of vacation left. After a long weekend, we're just about ready to turn the content production machines back on. Here's everything you can look forward to for the rest of this week.

Tuesday 09/07/2021

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Monthly Planorama 004: September 2021

Monthly Planorama 004: September 2021

Our monthly attempt to get a handle on the next several weeks' worth of games has come again, and... look, people act like 2021 has no games, and sure, plenty of them have been delayed, but you wouldn't know it looking at September. From WarioWare to Deathloop to birds on skateboards, listen on f...

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The Nextlander Podcast 013: Free Mom From the Bathroom

 The Nextlander Podcast 013: Free Mom From the Bathroom

Vinny barely managed to finish doing battle with his house in time to record this podcast, which covers the actually good time loop game The Forgotten City, thoughts on the end of Psychonauts 2, this year's Madden mess, the latest socially conscious goings-on in Fortnite, hanging out with Rad Gho...

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Weekly Ramblecast 012: One Dumb Room

 Weekly Ramblecast 012: One Dumb Room

What lavish dwelling is Alex going to build with his newfound (imaginary) wealth? Why does Brad think Back to the Future poisoned the minds of a generation? Did Vinny really social-engineer his daughter's birthday party? The answers to these questions may or may not be truthful, but they sure are...

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Schedule for the Week of 08/30/2021

August is drawing to a close but that just means September is on the way! A new month with a host of new possibilities. We’ve wrapped up some shows and we’ll be spinning up new ones soon so keep an eye out for that.

--Vinny

All times Eastern

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The Week That Was: 08/23 - 08/27/2021

Hello, Nextlanders! It's Sunday, and you know what that means: the recap post I always intend to write on Saturdays is being posted on Sunday again! Look, I don't have much of a social calendar these days, but somehow the last few weeks every Saturday has been my "do stuff" day. So here I am once...

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Patron Q&A 002: August 2021

Patron Q&A 002: August 2021

This month's lengthy live Q&A session is here, and yields conversations about our memories of old computers and game rentals, our history with fistfights, cross-country moving strategies, how to forget someone's name gracefully, playing tabletop RPGs for an audience, a handful of questions ab...

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The Nextlander Podcast 012: A Xeno Named Matilda

 The Nextlander Podcast 012: A Xeno Named Matilda

Games! A lot of them--including Psychonauts 2, Recompile, Aliens Fireteam Elite, and Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut--are upon us, and we played and discussed them all this week, before turning our attention to the goings-on at Gamescom. This one is definitely a podcast about video games, folks....

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Vinny Draws from Memory: Dr. Robotnik and Dr. Mario

Vinny Draws from Memory:  Dr. Robotnik and Dr. Mario

In honor of my trip to the doctor on Monday we've got some professionals to sketch out this week. The Eggman himself and old Dr. Mario were the winners of this week's poll. This should be fun!

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