Assassin's Creed with your favorite special guest

Plus, Ron Funches' best games of 2023

Oct 13, 2023

Assassin's Creed Mirage for PC, PlayStation, Xbox, & More | Ubisoft (US)

Assassin’s Creed Mirage fills us with nostabgia. See, "nostabgia" is the experience of feeling nostalgia for an old-timey way of stabbing, which Assassin's Creed Mirage revels in. It's a return to sneaky form for the franchise, but how well do the old ways hold up?

Let's find out with beloved guestie, Ron Funches!

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Games discussed:

Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways, Chants of Sennaar, Pokémon TCG Live

Books discussed:

Shift by Hugh Howey, Audienceology by Kevin Getz

Ron’s favorite games of 2023:

Hi-Fi Rush, Baldurs Gate 3, Dave the Diver, Payday 3, Overcooked 2, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Ron’s plugs:

Stand-up! See Ron live at Wiseguys Town Square in Las Vegas from Nov 3-4.

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It’s still video game release season, which means Polygon has reviews for Saltsea Chronicles
And Lords of the Fallen
And Star Trek: Infinite
And Total War: Pharaoh
And the Quest 3
A new trailer for Godzilla vs Megalon!!
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How Elden Ring uses architecture to freak you out:

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Brandon

Oct 14, 2023

Hey Besties. The holidays are coming up, and I would like to get my SO a steam deck for their present. Recent episodes you’ve mentioned that games like Bouldergate 3 run well on steam deck. When I started looking in the purchasing one, I quickly realized that there were three different hardware variations. What hardware set are you all running on? 64GB, 256 GB, or 516 GB? I was thinking about getting the 256 GB package, since I think having the SSD will be night and day when comparing load times of the 64GB package. I would like to ask you all though on what your opinion/experience has been

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