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The Nextlander Podcast 211: Destroy the Mouth!
🕑 Added 2025-08-14 00:45:46 +0000 UTCThis week we get extra retro with Gradius Origins, Operation Night Strikers, The Scouring, and (in a way) Mafia: The Old Country. Also: pressure builds inside Xbox against Microsoft's support of Israel's actions in Gaza, Switch 2 dev kits are still pretty scarce, more game cancellations and studio closures continue to be a fact of life, and more.
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.
(00:00:08) Intro
(00:02:29) Revisiting your old school
(00:05:56) Fake Plastic Trees (or grass)
(00:11:11) Mafia: The Old Country | [PlayStation 5, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] | Aug 08, 2025
(00:33:22) First Break
(00:33:26) Gradius Origins | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Aug 07, 2025
(00:47:57) Operation Night Strikers | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch] | Aug 07, 2025
(00:53:19) The Scouring (Early Access) | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Aug 12, 2025
(01:06:52) Donkey Kong Bananza | [Nintendo Switch 2] | Jul 17, 2025
(01:11:18) Second Break
(01:11:22) Union members within Arkane call on MS to end military support
(01:18:58) Avalanche's Contraband development stopped
(01:27:54) Bithell Games announces major layoffs
(01:30:36) IGN Layoffs
(01:31:46) RedOctane Games is making a rhythm game?
(01:42:02) More details are appear regarding Switch 2 dev kits
(01:54:47) Emails
(02:01:13) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:04:49) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:07:25) See ya!
Comments
Zachary Williamson
Those rubber balls under the astroturf are also carcinogenic. They’re just literally ground up old tires and people have been trying to get them banned and removed from places.
Jamie Glasspool
Good lord. Company of Heroes and DJ Hero mentioned in the same podcast. Two of my all time faves that hardly get mentioned these days x
friend_of_turtles
Really appreciate the updates on the Microsoft boycott. Thank you guys!
WulfBane
The post credits "real content" is a series of challenges from each of the elders testing your skills with the different bananza forms. So it's for the folks who wanted more demanding platforming & combat challenges.
Michael Polston
I just rolled the first credits on Bananza last night. And though I've heard a lot of people say the "real" content happens after those credits, I didn't love this game enough to want to continue playing it. I was really really done with that game by the time I saw those credits.
Tom Kleinenberg
Late January school is the only way. Southern hemisphere has it right
