The Week That Was: 10/31 - 11/05/2021

Greetings, 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! 

Nextlander Scream Team: Alien: Isolation -- Part 04 

The Halloween season has officially ended, but that doesn't mean the spooky content faucet has to be turned off! We've got all kinds of terrifying stuff for you this week, including the final installment of Abby and Vinny's run through Alien: Isolation in VR. 

Monthly Planorama 006: November 2021 

Is there anything in this world more terrifying than logistical planning? No! Experience all the chills and thrills of finding out what games are coming out this month, and which ones we'd like to cover! 

The Amazing Hitmarathon -- Episode 06 

What's the only thing more terrifying than wanton murder? Having to wantonly murder quickly! This week's installment takes on the two Hitman 2 DLC maps, New York City and Haven Island, and we throw down with another exhibition elusive target match-up too.

Vinny and Alex Play Dark Pictures: House of Ashes -- Part 02 

Meanwhile, in actual horror gaming land, Vinny and I continue to work our way through the latest Dark Pictures installment. Whether or not this one's gonna stick the landing remains to be seen, but the story is definitely getting more interesting as it goes along, and at least a couple of these characters seem like they might deserve to live. Not Eric, though. Fuck that guy. Don't miss him one bit.

Weekly Ramblecast 021: Garfield, the Bourgeoisie Cat 

In our post Halloween ramblecast, we discuss only the most pressing issues of our time, like how long anyone should reasonably be able to make other people celebrate their birthday, the prevalence of Squid Game costumes this year, the joys of New York mayoral politics, and whether or not Garfield is spiritually Italian.

The Nextlander Podcast 022: Big Kahuna Burger 

On this week's podcast, we all fall a little bit in love with the process of unpacking in, uh, Unpacking, go a little deeper into Inscryption, Darkest Dungeon II, and Guardians of the Galaxy, and continue to bang our collective heads on our collective desks over all this NFT garbage currently taking root in the video game world.

Absolutely Alex Mornings: Ghosthunter -- Part 05 

We're nearing the end of our journey through this PS2 B-game classic(?), but before we can escape, we've got to go to ghost prison for a while. Would you believe that being in ghost prison kind of sucks? Well, it does, but we find a way to have some fun anyway.

Brad Goes VR in Resident Evil 7 -- Part 03 

Brad Shoemaker is truly the man without fear. What would otherwise stifle and/or terrify a normal player is nothing to this man. Swarms of unnaturally big angry bugs? No problem. An angry mama with grotesquely long limbs and a bulging sac chasing you around? No problem! No grenade launcher at this stage of the game? NO. PROBLEM.

Nextlander x Giant Bomb Extra Life 2021

For Extra Life this year, we teamed up with Jan, Rorie, and Bakalar from the Giant Bomb crew to check out a few different games, including some DOOM Eternal horde mode, the FMV Battle Royale game Bloodshore, and a couple of different Jackbox games. If you want to donate to the Nextlander team, you can do so right here, and be sure to check out the rest of GB's Extra Life schedule and support the rest of the crew too!

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And that was a week! Thank you to all of our patrons and everyone who listens and watches our stuff. Smashing our Extra Life goal yesterday was a wonderful feeling, and we really appreciate your generosity both in supporting this endeavor, and in making some good money for a good charity. Have a great rest of your weekend, and we'll see you on Monday!

--A