EXP Podcast #632: Fortnite Mania

Now that's a Grande!

Everything is in Fortnite, even Martin Luther King Jr., and Fortnite is in everything, even Magic the Gathering. Today on the podcast, we explore what Fortnite has become, a larger-than-life conglomeration of fandoms, part music-venue, part game-engine, part ever-shifting IP. Is Fortnite becoming the most powerful and versatile gaming platform around today?

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Show Notes:

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #631: Hack and Slash and Peck and Smooch

Live by the blade, love by the blade

Sharpen your swords and your beaks: it's time to fight, but also to love.  This week we talk about Boyfriend Dungeon and Death's Door.  Both games caught our attention as well as imaginations.  When it comes to weapon romance, what's your type?  How does a crow wield daggers?  Will we ever perfect our rolling abilities?  All this and more will be revealed; just step through this not at all foreboding door.

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 32 min 45 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #630: All Aboard the Steam Deck

Searching for "Steam Deck moe"

This week on the EXP Podcast, we catch up on some recent hardware news about Valve's new handheld device: the Steam Deck. We share some reasons we might actually love this thing and some reasons why you might not. And well can we actually try it ourselves? Who knows!?

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 34 min 29 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #629: Pokemobas, Discos, and Ninjas

It's gotta be the shoes.

This week we're enjoying a grab bag of games that are getting us through the dog days of summer.  What better way to pass the time than watching a Pikachu viciously dunk on a Snorlax?  Or how about experimenting with recreational drugs in a cyberpunk wasteland?  Or if that's not your scene, could I interest you in some material that was "liberated" from Shinra's R&D facility?  Maybe you could use it as currency in your favorite free-to-play game?

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 39 min 18 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #628: Gaming for Olympic Gold

If not CoD, how about Tag?

The Olympics are bigger, more complicated, and more rules-heavy then ever. Is it almost time for esports to take the stage? OK, how about competitive tag at least? This week on the EXP Podcast, we go for gold!

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 50 min 11 sec

- Music from the Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart original soundtrack

EXP Podcast #627: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Debrief

When God closes a door, he opens a rift

I have my issues with our particular dimension of reality and all its various...quirks...but games like Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart prove that there is definitely fun to be had.  We've finished the game, so this week we're doing a full debrief on both the mechanics and the plot.  Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to converting my sprinkler system into an anti-robot security network.

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 50 min 11 sec

- Music from the Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart original soundtrack

EXP Podcast #626: Nintendo Kickstand Hype

Look at that glorious kickstand

Nintendo is back at it again with a confounding, exciting(?), and curious update to their Nintendo Switch hardware lineup. Stand aside Switch Lite! Out of the way Nintendo Pro! Let's give an exciting applause for the Nintendo Switch OLED Model. That's right it's... *checks notes* slightly bigger!

Join us this week to have some jolly fun and discussing what we do find exciting about incremental upgrades.

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Show Notes:

- Music by Brad Sucks