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The Nextlander Podcast 208: Oh, Banana!
🕑 Added 2025-07-23 23:19:31 +0000 UTCThe gang's all here and going, uh, bananas for Donkey Kong Bananza, plus Shadow Labyrinth, The Drifter, and more Death Stranding and MindsEye. In the news, Splitgate 2 prepares to unrelease, From Software might have another new game in the works, and Hellraiser is finally getting that video game after nearly 40 years. All that, plus your emails!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:03:41) Brad's Field Market Research
(00:10:40) Donkey Kong Bananza | [Nintendo Switch 2] | Jul 17, 2025
(00:38:04) First Break
(00:38:09) Shadow Labyrinth | [Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2] | Jul 18, 2025
(00:46:42) Death Stranding 2: On The Beach | [PlayStation 5] | Jun 26, 2025
(00:55:51) Kaizen: A Factory Story | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Linux, Mac] | Jul 14, 2025
(00:57:02) MindsEye | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Jun 10, 2025
(00:58:54) The future releases and what August has in it
(00:59:34) The Drifter | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Linux, Mac] | Jul 17, 2025
(01:01:47) Second Break
(01:01:51) News
(01:02:13) Splitgate 2 is 'Unlaunching'
(01:08:06) Directive 8020 is getting a delay amid layoffs
(01:10:15) FromSoftware might have another game cooking
(01:16:51) There's a new Hellraiser game?
(01:31:40) Emails
(01:53:18) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:54:50) Mysterious Benefactor Tier Shoutouts
(01:56:00) Nextlander content updates
(01:57:14) See ya!
Comments
Erich Geiger
How could Alex not mention that Larry from Hellraiser is Garak in DS9?
swiftdraw
I keep hearing the excuse that ongoing server costs is the reason for aggressive monetization and eventual shuttering of multiplayer games like Splitgate. But I can recall a time when this wasn’t an issue for companies because the players ran or rented the servers. Oh, wait, I still can play those games and did with Day of Defeat: Source a few weekends ago with some old clamates from my high school and college days. I am really, really tired of fun games like Splitgate that have an active, albeit smaller, community playing them and they get shut down due to cost or trying to shunt them to the next, newest thing.
