The Nextlander Podcast 213: The Garbage-to-Gold Ratio
Added 2025-08-27 23:06:18 +0000 UTCShinobi: Art of Vengeance is our top game this week, plus one of us gets an up-close look at Bubsy 4D, the Hollow Knight Silksong release date fallout, Forza Horizon might be headed to Japan, Atari now owns Child of Eden and Grow Home, some highly important games are coming to the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection, 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.
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:01:29) The universal language of 'Thumbs Up!"
(00:07:51) Shinobi: Art of Vengeance | [Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] | Aug 29, 2025
(00:31:34) First Break
(00:31:38) Sword of the Sea | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] | Aug 19, 2025
(00:35:17) Bubsy 4D | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5] | TBD
(00:56:14) She Sees Red | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Jul 11, 2019
(01:00:34) Be careful with your FMV nudity on YouTube
(01:04:48) Second Break
(01:04:52) Silksong finally gets its release date
(01:12:59) Skate also gets its [Early Access] date!
(01:19:49) Forza Horizon 6 might take place and be announced in Japan?
(01:26:53) Atari wants to revive some old Ubisoft titles
(01:32:56) Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection adds more games
(01:46:11) Emails
(01:54:26) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:59:10) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:00:43) Nextlander Content Updates
(02:01:51) See Ya
Comments
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William Canzoneri
2025-08-29 22:26:45 +0000 UTCTo be clear: Team Cherry deserves the financial success they've found for making something a great many people love. I am, however, very wary of the "oh, they're just little uwu pixies who want to spread joy!" defense here: we *are* talking about adults old enough to have a sense of professional responsibility (see the Polygon editorial today), and they have, if only out of sheer obliviousness, created a difficult situation for some smaller devs who are already dealing with a monstrous industry outlook. That would incur a great deal of criticism for nearly any other party. (The team showed a similar obliviousness with the radio silence surrounding Silksong for so long, when all they had to do was post a brief "still working, thanks!" update every so often; yes, some people were being obnoxious, but the team did have a formal financial responsibility to its Kickstarter backers it was, again, ignoring.) The answer there, typically, is "Team Cherry made HOLLOW KNIGHT; they don't owe anyone anything!!!" That's an answer that boils down to: "they're entitled to treat people however they want because they made a lot of money." That's an argument I can't imagine the same parties making in any other context.
R. Ballien
2025-08-28 18:29:10 +0000 UTC"They seem *happy.*" Yeah, people who don't care about the repercussions of their actions on others often are. (As Alex notes, I imagine the money helps, too.)
R. Ballien
2025-08-28 18:09:02 +0000 UTCKingdom Hearts 4 Mother 3 Half Life 3 Mainline 3D Mario Marvel 1943 TLoU3 …
Brandon_Machine
2025-08-28 17:17:01 +0000 UTC
