The Nextlander Podcast 212: Cheaters Never Win
Added 2025-08-21 00:05:15 +0000 UTCThis week: New video games! Sword of the Sea, Is This Seat Taken?, and yes, the annual Madden check-in. In the news, PS5 price increases in the US, Halo on a PlayStation (sort of), a Gamescom wrap-up including Road Kings, WH40K: Dawn of War IV, and uh, Bubsy 4D, and lastly... maybe Hollow Knight Silksong is getting a release date. Or maybe it's just out now?
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
(00:03:03) I need to be more Coonce-like in my approach to stress
(00:05:18) 2 weeks? 2 weeks... Construction updates
(00:08:09) Mafia: The Old Country | [PlayStation 5, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] | Aug 08, 2025
(00:15:46) Sword of the Sea | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] | Aug 19, 2025
(00:28:19) First Break
(00:28:24) Madden NFL 26 | [Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Aug 14, 2025
(00:38:45) Is This Seat Taken? | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch] | Aug 2025
(00:44:34) The other games in our lives
(00:49:13) Second Break
(00:49:18) Sometimes spam gets tricky folks...
(00:51:01) Gamescom 2025
(00:55:43) Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown
(00:57:42) Bubsy 4D | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5] | TBD
(00:59:42) Road Kings | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | 2026
(01:02:04) Routine | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] | Q4 2025
(01:03:51) Cronos: The New Dawn | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2] | Sep 05, 2025
(01:04:53) Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | TBD
(01:10:18) John Carpenter's Toxic Commando | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | 2026
(01:10:49) Hollow Knight: Silksong | [Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux] | 2025
(01:12:16) LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight | [PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | 2026
(01:12:28) La Divina Commedia
(01:12:45) Silent Hill f | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Sep 25, 2025
(01:12:56) Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Oct 21, 2025
(01:13:30) Resident Evil: Requiem | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Feb 27, 2026
(01:14:03) Death by Scrolling
(01:14:26) Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S] | 2026
(01:14:56) Fallout Season 2
(01:15:38) Denshattack! | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5] | Q2 2026
(01:18:27) Silksong has/had a big announcement!
(01:22:34) Rod Fegusson joins the BioShock 4 team
(01:27:14) Halo and Helldivers join forces
(01:29:56) PlayStation consoles in the U.S. are getting a price increase
(01:33:32) Emails
(01:45:41) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:46:03) A late bit of Gamescom "news"
(01:48:18) Summer of Star Trek is ending soon!
(01:51:00) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(01:52:48) See ya!
Comments
Y’all are still awesome. I can’t wait to hear about the upcoming Voyager game from y’all!
swiftdraw
2025-08-23 16:40:22 +0000 UTCRe: The "Konami is really ascendant" comment: I think it's important to note that the new Konami _hasn't actually made anything yet._ Konami's involvement has so far been limited to signing development deals to get checks; prior to the MGS remake, nothing indicated that they wouldn't have been happy to publish pachinko-level no-effort projects for all eternity if it brought them money. So far, it's the individual _development studios_ who've been ascendant here, due to the respect they've brought to the franchises they've revived. If you like the Silent Hill 2 remake, that's due to the efforts of Bloober Team (and, of course, the groundbreaking work from Team Silent). The Vampire Survivors Castlevania campaign? That's Poncle. The upcoming Silent Hill f is Ryukishi and NeoBards. Even, say, well-received side stuff—the Dead by Daylight or Dead Cells Castlevania DLC—is Behaviour and Motion Twin respectively. If the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, which Konami is supposedly developing in-house, is worthy, then we might have *one* thing—and even then, I'd like to know how much support studio Virtuos is "helping." I don't mean to harp on Alex, as he's far from the first to make this mistake. But regardless of how MGS3 shakes out, the "Konami did it all" revisionism is unfair—and Konami has a hell of a lot of red in its ledger with the abysmal way they for years treated the creators who made their fortune and the foundational franchises in their care.
R. Ballien
2025-08-22 13:38:24 +0000 UTC
