“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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There’s some properly nasty stuff at sea. Big, nasty, murdery stuff. You’ll see.

I don’t want to alarm you all, but there’s something called news here and they want to say hi. Would it be OK if we invited them in, just for this episode? It’s only little. Probably won’t bite. I bet our discussions on Yakuza Kiwami 2, Animal Crossing and Gears Tactics will cheer it right up.

Stay inside, stay safe, play games.

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Mysteries to be solved, murder to be relived, dithering to be endured. The Obra Dinn needs a detective and we’ve got three!

Time for another round of lockdown podcast. Has the madness set in or have the crew turned more normal? Which is which?
There’s not a lot of news but we’ll never run out of games. Rob finds and leaves an island, Zac remodels an island and Dan… breaks this stupid sentence.

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So we tried Steam’s Remote Play Together via the means of Assault Android Cactus. The results were… messy.
This video is recorded from the host’s perspective and so isn’t representative of the streaming video quality. The rest of what happened, happened.

Times are weird but for gamers much remains the same. Take comfort in the fact that your backlog will still be there, gin is readily available and Counter Strike players will still be the worst people alive.

In this episode we talk about all the time to play games, Zoom, TV, Ori, Animals Crossing, Steam Remote Play Together, Bravely Default 2 and other stuff.

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Rob goes back and plays a bit more Eldritch, badly. Here’s the raw footage if that’s your kind of thing. It’s clearly not Rob’s.

At first glance, it’s easy to dismiss FEZ as just an indie platformer with perspective tricks, but this rabbit hole runs deep. Shame you can’t show a lot of that genius in just 1 hour of gameplay. Zac and Rob don the hat of dimensionality regardless.