Episode 663: The State of Play, Forward and Direct

This week’s episode takes a look at Sony’s State of Play, Ubisoft Forward and Nintendo Direct, and all of the games revealed in each conference. In addition, cryptocurrency gets all the reaction it deserves. Jonah expresses an unpopular GoldenEye 64 opinion, too.

Let us know what you think.

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  1. Hi guys.
    Thanks as always 🙂

    I played a lot of Magic the Gathering because a new expansion was released. And since wrath of the Koch king classic was released for WoW I got back to it for a lot of hours 🙂

    Regarding the topics: I have a simple stereo setup at my pc, because most of the time I play with headset anyway to talk to my friends in discord or listen to music. In my living room I have good 5.1 setup with a new receiver and 5 nice Teufel speakers 🙂
    X-com: I played it 10 years ago but I don’t think I will replay it. Maybe … we will see.
    Pac-Man 4 sound interesting… maybe I will check it out 🙂
    Kirby Games: I think the only Kirby game that I have played is the one for the first game Boy back in the days. Good old times when you spend a lot of time to a single game!
    The other games I barely know … i have heard of fire emblem but never played it :/

    Please stay healthy and keep on gaming!
    Greetings from Germany
    Ralf

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