CORE - Core Gaming for Core Gamers

Fallout TV series on the way, and we have thoughts. Police fired over Snorlax catching. Playstation ending PS Now cards, and we think that means something big coming. Wordle and why it's so big. Xbox1 is done being made. Shipbreaker has a 1.0 in sight. Dear Martha Reviews! Games we played: Ghost of Tsushima, Loop Hero, Final Fantasy, Death's Door, Valheim, Wild Rift, Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon, Super Bomberman R, and more! Oh and why you might wanna keep waiting for Baldur's Gate 3! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PSVR2 and what you might need to know about it. Ubisoft Connect coming to Gamepass in some form. China is killing their own video game companies. E3 will be all digital this year. Gamers now have a way to massage that pesky hand. Dear Martha steam review. The games we played this week and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our big end of year show! All the best games we played, and the best games we didn't! Join us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nature finds a way...to tea bag your fallen enemy. Welcome to CORE! We get into all sorts of news this evening, including a couple big Halo takes you might wanna hear, and how God of War might have done Kratos better than MS did Master Chief. Plus Tavern Master, Wartales, Shipbreaker updates, End Walker, MK11, and more! And next week, our best games of 2021! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gamepass had quite the week. More takes from the game awards. FFXIV stops selling itself. FF7 is out on Epic right now. Do we need video games in our cars? Ubisoft first to be dumb. Dear Martha Steam Reviews! Scott is hooked on SWTOR again, plus Halo, The Gunk, that Aliens coop game, and The Matrix UE5 thing. Jon ONLY played FF this week. And beat it. :) Beau played Age of Darkness, WarTales, Scarlet Nexus, MK11, and also that Matrix thing. Emails and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spend some time with the boys as they live-watch the awards, and all the announcements. Lots to unpack in here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is there a Matrix game coming soon? Mass Effect TV show and WOW did we have a discussion about this possibility. GOG is losing money, but CD project has plans. Marvel MMO on the way from DCUO dev. Dear Martha Amazon Reviews. Games we played include Final Fantasy 14, Legends of Runeterra, Halo Infinite MP, Darkest Dungeon II, Wild Rift, and more! Emails too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Big show tonight, so tuck in! Everyone wants Kotick out, and we have thoughts on that actually happening. Every big game delay from this year. 100 turns is a lot for the Humankind demo. Game Awards noms! Star Citizen hits 400m. Is it a game yet? Dear Martha Amazon Games Review. Games played this week: Halo, Forza, Ruined King, Final Fantasy, Runeterra, and Wild Rift! Oh, and we figure out what Tantric means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We fawn over the new Netflix series, Arcane. Endwalker gets a 2-week delay. Steam Deck also in delay town. MS Xbox PC app now treats folders and drives normally. Metal Gear gets pushed out of stores. Twitch App now on Switch, making it the Switch Twitch App. TWO Dear Martha reviews today! Scott talks about Forza H5, Animal Crossing 2.0, ESO, and more! Jon is still all in on FF14, plus Nier Automata, and a little Lost Ark. Beau goes ALL in on Lost Ark and has lots to say about it. And more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Blizzard had another bad week! Midnight Suns gets delayed. Same with Diablo IV and Overwatch 2. Animal Crossing hits the road early with 2.0. Esports are still not making any money. Crossovers are getting weird. Old people need to game too. Dear Martha Amazon Review. Unpacking, Rogue Legacy 2, Age of Empires IV, Super Mario RPG, FFXIV, Back 4 Blood, Urea, and Lost Ark! Your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lots to talk about this week, including Kotick taking a pay cut for the team. Twitch being built back into the dashboard. Playstation's State of Play and PC plans. The bad N64 ports to the Switch. Wu-Tang doing an RPG. Beau's hot take on pee in your coke. Scott played Guardians of The Galaxy, Enlisted, Chivalry II, Quacamelee 2, ESO and Rogue Legacy 2. Jon played Inscryption, Chrono Trigger, and Age of Empires IV. Beau played more HS: Mercs! Dear Martha Steam Review! Your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

God of War coming to PC. Cyberpunk and The Witcher still coming to your PS5 and Series X|S. Steam says no to NFT's. That Xbox fridge sold out. No Man's Sky goes full worm. Dear Martha Steam Reviews. Scott played Inscryption, EverSpace 2 and reset his WHOLE farm! Jon is almost done with Metroid Dread. Beau played a lot of HS Mercenaries. Some board game talk too, plus your emails! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maybe you should hear what Yoshi-P has to say. FFXIV detailed a load of what is coming next. G4 is coming back. Avengers is going back to getting your cash. Riot gets out of the chat business. Dear Martha Steam Review! Scott played Everspace 2, Back 4 Blood, Saints Row IV, and RogueBook. Jon and Beau played pretty much ALL of Metroid: Dread. Plus Pictopix, Chrono Trigger, and more FFXIV. Your emails and all! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

D4 gets a new director. PS3 and Vita are not gonna have ways to pay for stuff soon. Dread is reviewing well on Switch, out tomorrow. The big Twitch Hack and what it means. Scott played a LOT of GamePass games this week, including: Scarlet Nexus, State of Decay 2: JE, A Plague Tale, and Phoenix Point. Beau played NOTHING but is jonesing for Dread really bad. Jon is out with family stuff tonight! Emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New World is out, and if you wait long enough, you can get in and play. We have all kinds of thoughts about the game thus far. Potion Craft crafts an early success. Blizzard finally explains the fruit replacement thing. Game Pass is somewhere in the 30 million user mark, and that means a LOT of money. Chaterbate wants you to play games on there. Dear Martha, Aragami II, Castlevania Advance Collection, and playing DOS2 on the hardest setting. And your emails too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We break down the details of the Nintendo Direct this week! Especially this wacky Mario movie casting news. Dear Martha Reviews, Sable, Argami II, Gas Station Sim, D2:R, finishing tthe Disco, and emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

nVIDIA done put a leak out there and it's pretty tasty in terms of game potential. Fingersleeves are a thing you can now get. IKEA is making gamer furnature. Scott played Solasta, Wrath of The Rightious, and Warioware. Jon beat more Final Fantasy and played Deathloop! Beau 100 percented Hades and is one more to do that in Banished. Dear Martha, your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New Twisted Metal coming? Sign us up! Titanfall 2 has some issues. Pokemon cookies? How about all that stuff that dropped on the Playstation event? Dear Martha steam review. Spiritfarer, all the Final Fantasies, Hades, Disco Elysium, and SPLITGATE! Oh and your emails too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BONUS CORE: The Sony Showcase for 9-9-2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

China wants to keep kids from playing video games all the time. Midnight Suns is looking VERY good to us. Transformers comes to tabletop and Youtube! Dear Martha review of What The Golf. Scott played Mech Arena, Surgeon Sim 2, Mowing Lawns, and No Man's Sky. Jon is all about the final fantasies, and some MYST too! Beau can't stop playing Hades again! And more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All the big GamesCom stuff! Especially the new SR, and Marvel Xcom-like, or not so like. Halo Infinite date and the multiplayer plan. Working on car stuff in Simulator 2021. More Humankind and Old World. Jon finished a final fantasy for the first time! Google went after Epic hardcore. Wahammer good game time! Deep Rock is Deep Back! MYST, Hades, FFIV, Pokemon Unite, and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The CORE Boys are back! We start with Quake getting better all these decades later, and Skyrim coming yet to MORE platforms for its 10 year anniversary. A triple Dear Martha Steam Review bonanza. GW2, Humankind, Amazon Luna, Pokemon Unite, Jupiter Hell, Disco E., Katamari Rerolled, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We get some info on the OLED discussion. Then some new D2 cinematics. Blizzard let the D4 lead and lead designer go. Frostpunk 2 is coming. Grand Theft Audio Trilogy remastered is really a thing. Get GameMaker for free. Mobile players generate 1.7 billion dollars a week. Dear Martha Steam Reviews! Deep Rock Galactic is still amazing. Lawn Mowing needs a better throttle. Banners of Ruin is rad. Ultimate ADOM is very cool. FF Pixel Perfect Remaster is all it could be and more. Pokemon Unite knows where they can get to your wallet the fastest. Your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

JAB steps down, so does Meschuk, and the lawsuits keep coming. Halo Infinite had a good test weekend. New World gets another delay. Playdates sell out and sell out fast. Pokemon Go reverted, and pissed people off really bad. Dear Martha Steam Reviews! Scott got a BackBone and loved it, and played The Ascent, Lawn Mower Sim, and some weird MMO's. Jon played a lot of FF, and a little Townscraper. Beau got a switch and is completely hooked on Pokemon Unite! Emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sony sold 10 million PS5's, and MS did really well too, all this despite supply chain issues. Why and what, we discuss on the show. Blizzard employes did a walkout yesterday. Xbox Game Pass showing people using PS4 controllers on Xcloud. :) RE Villiage sells 4.5m copies! Zoom adds a weird gaming service. EB Games is now GameStop in Canada. We give away that Series S today! Dear Martha Reviews. Scott played Swords of Legends Online, Skyward Sword and ESO. Jon played FF1, FF14, and Pokemon Unite. Beau played Disco Elysium, and Like a Dragon. We did emails and talked about music in games, and when it goes horribly wrong. Music Beef? Maybe. Tune in and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk about this horrible Blizzard lawsuit. And then some positive stuff. Like New World is pretty good, EA is making Dead Space again, and Battlefield wants you to be creative again. Plus the fact that Pokemon Unite is badass. And a LOT of trying to get each other to play Disco Elysium. And more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Valve announced their long rumored handheld steam machine, called Steam Deck, and we have a LOT to say about it. Xbox controller might see a refresh sooner than you thought. Netflix is gonna start providing you with video games, whatever that means. Dear Martha. Scott played Ironcast, Griftlands, and Shipbreaker. Jon played FF14, and some Old World. Beau played a Bard in FF14, plus some time in Sea of Thieves. Your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We get into some news regarding the new Switch model, Assassin's Creed Infinity, WoW based Pandemic board games, Tencent seeing you on camera at all times, Doom Eternal getting a new replacement mode, Magic Legends going bye-bye, and more! Dear Martha Steam reviews. We played Prodeus, Wildermyth, Metro Exodus, Mario Golf, Old World, Griftlands, Gladius, Endless Space 2, Lego Builder's Journey, FFXIV, Sea of Thieves, and more! Also your emails! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Windows 11 and all the stuff that might effect your pc gaming life. Nvidia gets weird with AI and painting. Steam sale starts today! Fat Black Chocobos and how to gets em. Dear Martha goes to Russia today. Scott goes HARD into Chore Core this week. Chivilary II. Griftlands. Invisible Inc. Tainted Grail. FF14. Wildermyth. House Flipper. Dorfromantik. Your emails and more! Also, what's up with Incest Pig? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We sum up things in E3 so you don't have to, and we tell you what we think stuck and what didn't. Plus, Dear Martha Steam reviews, Yakuza Like a Dragon, Travelers Rest, and Invisible Inc. Plus Jon plays House Flipper. And Beau went wild in the deck builders but has regrets about Mass Effect. And lots more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CORE SPECIAL: The PC Gaming Show E3 2021 with the CORE crew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CORE SPECIAL: SquareEnix at E3 2021 with the CORE crew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CORE SPECIAL: Microsoft-Bethesda Showcase 2021 with Scott and Jon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CORE SPECIAL: Ubi-Soft Forward 2021 with Scott and Beau Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CORE SPECIAL: Summer Fest 2021 Commentary with Scott & Jon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Battlefield 2042 announced today, and we have thoughts about it, and how it will never be Planetside 1. Last of Us stand alone multiplayer game still coming. Overwatch goes full cross-play. Ratchet and Clank might have hit a new all time high. TWO Dear Martha Steam reviews. Cyberpunk, Tainted Grail, RE8, FF14, and the final missions! All that and your emails too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have the E3 details and we feel like talking about those details, including the big leak from 2k today. Also lots of games played this week so suit up and get ready for a big ol' CORE episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No Blizzcon in 2021. Dead by Daylight gets a load of RE people in it. MS confirms Starfield will get a big showing this June. Uncharted 4 coming to PC. No Man's Sky gives you the Normandy. Sonic looks really stupid in the Olympics. 3D Hentai Checkers gets the Dear Martha treatment. We have a LOT of Mass Effect remastered talk today. PowerWash Sim, Days Gone, RE:V, Bugsnax, and lots lots more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More ex-Blizzard folks in a new company, Lightfordged Games. Target gets out of the Pokemon fight. Mass Effect in effect this weekend. Dark Alliance coming to Gamepass day one. Jon played RE8 3 times so far. Dear Martha Steam Reviews. Back to Shipbreaker. ESO. FF14. Yakuza 0, and loads more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RE8 hits tomorrow and the word on the street is good! Nintendo wants kids to learn how to make games on Switch! Mass Effect LE lets you make custom console case art. Really. Blizz loses players but gains profits. Dear Martha Steam Reviews. Shipbreaker got its big patch finally! Apex gets 3v3 arena matches. ESO is still great. So is FF14, Mega Man X, and Dragon Quest Builders 2. Beau digging on Children of Morta, SW Battlefront 2, Andromeda, Inquisition, Torchlight 3 and more. Emails too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

MS goes for the 88-12 split, just like Epic. Acivision's Bobby Kotick got forced to take a pay cut. He also looks like a certain celeb. Xbox no longer charging you for free to play games. Capcom goes long with the demo for 8. The new Mortal Kombat movie is great trash. Dear Martha gets in on the Dragon Beef this week. ESO, PGA Tour 2K21, Obsidian Prince, NieR Replicant, FF14, Torchlight III on Series S, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff Kaplan leaving blizz, and what we make of that. Windows is overhauling the Windows Store for game stuff. PS Plus Video Pass leaked but no one really knows what it is. EA is upping frame rates on a load of older EA games for next gen consoles. Dear Martha Steam Review. ESO vs FF14 beef continues. MLB The Show on Xbox. American Fugitive on Switch. TaleSpire is interesting. Emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim Sweeny got that Sweeny Money. Jaffe says Sony is building a Gamepass like service right now. RE showcase was a thing and we break it all down. Last of Us remake? Alexa will start working with Gamepass. Blizz added a couple more games to the arcade collection. Things Naughty Dog is NOT making. Dear Martha Steam Reviews. The games we are playing and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deathloop delayed, Advent Children getting the 4k HDR treatment, EA play is weird on PC. Path of Exile 2 is coming and looks like one! Dear Martha game reviews. FFXIV and Scott and John in that game. FUSER. Two Point Hospital. Heroes and Hearthstone and your emails and more! Why do people meme Shrek anyway? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CyberPunk hits 1.2 and we have all kinds of thoughts about that. Among Us is going full art-redo and we are here for it. No Man's Sky adds a big multiplayer element. Sony's MLB The Show is coming day one on Xbox with Gamepass. We guess that means hell froze over or something. Beau goes off on Bitcoin. What we are playing this week, and your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BAFTA's happened. Hades and Last of Us Part II did really well. Niantic wants you playing with Pikmin outside. MS might be buying Discord for 10b. Steam has some standards we guess. Switch 2 could boost some serious Mario with DLSS from NVIDIA. Dear Martha Steam Reviews. Scott beat Outer Worlds, is playing Mankind Divided again, Littlewood on Switch, and tried that Magic ARPG. (Hint: It's kinda bad right now). John all back into FF 14, while Beau is in HOTS again. Get the new Frogpants newsletter at FROGPANTS.CLUB! And more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scott and Chris have a sit-down and chat up up about his new big project, plus lots of great insights into development of this kind of project vs something like a major game release at Blizzard. Here’s a bit more about the project.Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent is a 5E campaign setting by Chris Metzen and Warchief Gaming. The first release in this universe, Worldbook: Lawbrand, is based on the roleplaying campaign that Chris ran with his childhood friends in the eighties and nineties, before heading to Blizzard to work on worlds such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and more.Enjoy Scott Johnson chatting with Chris Metzen about his awesome new project! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Swuare-Enix did their showcase, and there were a few things of note. Playstation buys EVO, and we think that is a little odd. EA Play now on Gamepass PC. Diamond Cards come to Hearthstone. Scott actualy played a little Lust From Beyond, and it kinda was not what we thought it was. Also the long hunt for that Pharaoh Feeling. Jon is back into Neir, and loves it. More Loop Hero, and Beau just did some old fashioned Hots this week! And your emails! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the week all that Bethesda stuff comes slamming into your Gamepass sub. Right now in fact! Hang on to those 20 year old Diablo II saves. Also, Artifact is done. Are you? We go hard into Loop Hero, and why it's our game of the now. Horizon is rad on PC. Emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jon had a baby! But Scott and Beau are here to keep things running tonight with talk about Diablo IV, OW2 getting cooler by the second, MTG getting some Warhammer 40k love, and Bioware and the dropping of Anthem. Scott is losing it over Loop Hero, with some Griftlands, and Valheim thrown in. Beau is playing all the Blizz games, plus some Dicey Dungeons, Dyson Sphere, and Valheim! And lots more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.