On this week’s podcast, we speculate on possible settings for the next Luigi’s Mansion game. We also go over the highlights of the latest PlayStation State of Play, and talk about what we have been playing and watching lately!

[News of the Week]

• PlayStation Network outage

• Patent confirms joycon mouse feature

• Where should the next Luigi's Mansion take place?

• Battlefield 6 revealed with early testing program

• EA CEO says there will an Apex Legends 2.0 update after Battlefield 6

• Retro Sim Cities 1 / 2

• 5 new levels coming to Astro Bot

[Features]

• PlayStation State of Play

• • Hell is Us releasing on September 4th (Deus Ex connection)

  • Saros - New game from Hoursemarque

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• FF7: Rebirth

• Buckaroo Banzai

• X-Com 2

• Marvel Rivals

Episode 173

On this week’s episode we talk about the latest update for No Man’s Sky, layoffs at Bioware following the flop of Dragon Age The Veilguard, and the deep dive on Doom: The Dark Ages.

[News of the Week]

• No Man's Sky Worlds Part 2

• Bioware layoffs

• • Legendary Drops’ video on EA falling apart

• Xbox Developer Direct

• • Doom: The Dark Ages deep dive

[Games out this week]

• Games coming out in February

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Severance / Silo

• Marvel Rivals

• Donkey Kong Country Returns HD

• Podcasts: Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, The Rest is History

• HBO’s Rome show

On this week’s episode, we talk about Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal trailer and a handful of other interesting news items. Then we wrap it up with what we have been playing and watching!

[News of the Week]

SteamOS expands beyond the steam deck

Xbox teases new OS

Next Xbox may arrive in 2026

Rumored Oblivion remake could come as early as June

Sony cancels live service games

[Features]

Switch 2 Announcement

New Mario Kart footage

Switch 2 leaks point to controllers that work like computer mice

Games reportedly coming to Switch 2

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

Theaters

FF7: Rebirth

Marvel Rivals

Mario Galaxy

Starside Chat Episode 171 (Jan. 6, 2025)

Happy New Year! It’s the first episode of Starside Chat in 2025! And this week, we’re going over some of our most anticipated games of 2025. We also delve into what we’d like to see in the Switch 2 launch lineup.

[News of the Week]

• AGDQ Starts today!

• • Astrobot - Sunday 5:30pm (Any%)

  • Fallout New Vegas - Wednesday 7:00pm (All Romaces)

  • Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Thursday 1:00pm (All Dungeons)

  • FF7: Rebirth - Friday 4:30pm (Any%) (6 hours estimate)

  • Deus Ex - Saturday 4:15am - (Any%)

[Features]

• Most Anticipated Games of 2025

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Astrobot

• Animal Crossing New Horizons

This week, we return to try out a new way to determine the show’s Game of the Year. We’re trying out a bracket style this year, and we had fun with it. Let us know your top 10 games of the year! Do you agree with our picks?

[News of the Week]

• Future of Xbox?

• Christopher Nolan’s next movie will be an adaptation of The Odyssey

• Switch 2 Rumor Roundup

• • The Switch 2 could be revealed on January 8th

[Features]

• Starside Chat’s Game of the Year 2024 Bracket

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• PS5 / Astrobot

• The Long Kiss Goodnight

• Falling into Oblivion (book)

This week, we return after a week off to talk about the Game Awards. We also have to talk about some news pieces, and a bunch of stuff we have been playing and watching lately.

[News of the Week]

• Elon Musk says he's going to start an AI powered games studio

• Baldur’s Gate 3 to get big update with new stuff

• Space Marine 2 surpasses 5 million players, patch 5 coming in December, will add new co-op operation

• Ubisoft to shutdown xdefiant

• Astro Bot getting free winter update

• Switch 2 Rumor Roundup

• • Switch 2 possibly revealed by case maker

  • Probably fake switch stuff

[Features]

• The Game Awards!!

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Balatro

• Megalopolis

• Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

• Marvel Rivals

• Astro Bot Winter Wonder

• Timothy Dalton Bond movies: The Living Daylights and License to Kill

Episode 168

After taking a week off, we return to talk about the Game Awards nominees and some other interesting pieces of games industry news. We also talk about all the stuff we have been playing and reading lately.

[News of the Week]

• Super Nintendo World Direct - Donkey Kong Country

• Sony intends to buy FromSoftware’s parent company

• Update for PlayStation Portal to bring ability to cloud stream some PS5 games in the PlayStation Plus catalog

• Aaron Switch 2 rumor corner roundup

• Black Myth Wukong wins game of the year at Golden Joy stick awards

[Features]

• The Game Awards announces nominees

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• Astro Bot Stellar Speedway levels

• Black Myth Wukong

• Lord of a Shattered Land (finished)

• No Man's Sky expedition complete

• Diamonds are Forever (book)

• Factorio: Space Age

• Christmas Market walking tour videos/streams on YouTube

On this week’s episode we talk Mass Effect things because N7 Day brought some Mass Effect-related news. Then we round up a few more news stories and talk about what we have been playing, watching and reading lately.

[News of the Week]

• No Man's Sky reruns Mas Effect-themed expedition for N7 Day also adds cross save support

• Mass Effect TV show moving forward

• Possible rumors of a long wait for the next Mass Effect

• Backwards compatibility confirmed for the Switch 2

• Insider rumors about the next Nintendo Direct

• Rise of the Golden Idol launched on 11/12, four DLCs planned for 2025

• Stardew Valley Secret

• Microcenter VR display

[What We’re Playing/Watching]

• The Running Man

• Factorio: Space Age DLC

• No Man’s Sky Beachhead Expedition

• Moonraker (book)

• Lord of a Shattered Land