September got hot again and so the summer of hype is back for more. There’s XBOX news, SONY news, Nintendo news and Ubisoft news in a larger digital package. We’ve got Spriitfarer, Hotshot Racing, Tell Me Why, Stormworks, Animal Crossing, Rocket League and absolutely no Avengers coverage. Everybody wins!

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Animal Crossing New Horizons, Deathloop, Factorio, Final Fantasy XVI, Hogwarts Legacy, Hotshot Racing, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, Immortals: Fenyx Rising, Opus Magnum, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time: Remake, Riders Republic, Rocket League, Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game, Spiritfarer, Stormworks: Build and Rescue, Tell Me Why, and more!

We are already cheating a lot as detectives thanks to this death watch we carry around but happy accidents can still happen.

We’ve got some weird games for you this week. An exhibition of odd choices, interesting structures and broken concepts. Society as expressed in the medium of idiots playing games. Mario’s 35th Anniversary, ONL, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remaster, Battletoads, Shapez.io, Spiritfarer and Tell Me Why are on display.

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Battletoads, Dirt 5, Factorio, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered, Mario Kart LIVE: Home Circuit, Rocket League, Shapezio, Spiritfarer, Star Wars Squadrons, Super Mario 3D Allstars, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Super Mario Bros. 35, Tell Me Why, and more!

Everything is temporary until blue science… Zeg continues getting the basics done, components stockpiled and plans made, ready to make something more permanent… maybe, eventually.

It’s important to be yourself. Be individual, stand out from the crowd. It’ll help investigators determine the cause of your demise later.

With the 1.0 release of Factorio, it’s time for Zeg to get back to belt business and make a million (or 6) green circuits. And also remember how vanilla Factorio even works.

Running late but with more news to debate! In this episode we have the Playstation State of Play, Nintendo’s Indie World, The Last of Us Part 2, Space Engineers, The Touryst, Forager and some “fanalysis”.

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Braid, Card Shark, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, Deathloop, Factorio, Forager, Fortnite, Genshin Impact, Godfall, Gotham Knights, Neon Abyss, Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game, Space Engineers, Spelunky 2, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, The Last of Us Part 2, The Pathless, The Touryst, VALORANT, and more!

Funnels and hard bridges. Not at all euphemisms, just science.

“E3” still had some stuff to say before it left. Most of it was hurtful but like true professionals we’ve cut all that out so we can present the last of this year’s hype season news.
We’ve got that Microsoft showcase with them’s Halo Infinite, dat Nintendo Direct Mini, this Neon Abyss, those Animals Crossing, the second Last of Us bit and Jet Set Radio?

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Animal Crossing New Horizons, Autonauts, Avowed, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Cadence of Hyrule, Crossfire X, Everwild, Fable, Forza Motorsport, Halo Infinite, Neon Abyss, New Genesis Phantasy Star 2, Psychonauts 2, Rocket League, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Tetris Effect Connected, The Gunk, The Last of Us Part 2, VALORANT, Warhammer 40k Darktide, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and more!

We’ve got a long way to go before we figure out how EVERYONE died or disappeared. It’d really help if we stopped misremembering things. At least we’ll have more content for a while eh?

Devolver Digital and Ubisoft have submitted their Gameovision entries for this year but without many surprises. It might not surprise you that we talk about what was actually shown once you filter out all the weird Devolver story stuff. OK so we’re running a little low on surprises right now but a couple of suppliers may have the goods soon.

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Things could always do with more testing, but testing the patience of the happysalad crew might be a questionable choice. Perhaps Portal 2’s co-op is supposed to be about solving puzzles but Zac and Rob know what’s really going on.

I’m spending my time thinking about alternative doomsday theories. If cats cast aside their differences with the pigeons, their web of information could bring down governments. They know what they’re doing and I’m onto them.

In this episode we pick out a few things from New Game +, discuss the return of live sports, play Pool Panic and Creeper World 4 and check in on a few regulars.

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Animal Crossing New Horizons, Astroneer, Billion Road, Creeper World 4, FUSER, Oxygen Not Included, Pool Panic, Satisfactory, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, VALORANT, Yakuza Kiwami 2, and more!

We didn’t manage to get through all the game news we had and now there’s more! An early SaladCast for you! In this episode we cover our picks from the PC Gaming Show, the Future Games Show and EA Play.

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Finishing off all the available death scenes, it’s left to our detective trio to sleuth out the culprits. Justice, betrayal, art and rain lies ahead.

So what if E3 isn’t happening? We’ve still got far too many game trailers happening right now. Rob picks out some highlights from the Escapist Indie Showcase and we go all E3 on the PS5 reveal event. The Summer of Hype is here!

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We’ve still got plenty of deaths to revisit and still plenty more furrowing of our collective brow to do as things get weird even away from the Obra Dinn. RIP Barrel.

The driest May on record is over but the drought is coming to an end. Just look at this episode. We have news about future news, The Wholesome Direct and The Last of Us Part II. The rain is coming! We also talk about some games what we played like Streets of Rage, Valorant, Terraria and Halo 2.

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Just when you think things aboard the Dinn had been a little odd, you learn something even stranger. This ship was never meant to sail.

Sensing the effects that Eurovision withdrawal is having on the morale of the populous, the games industry has rallied to produce some hype. These things may have happened in reverse order but all the best theories are based on some notion of “close enough”.

We have Unreal Engine 5, Xbox Series X “gameplay”, and a smattering a games like Valorant, Streets of Rage 4, Scrap Mechanic and that Terraria patch.

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