The Game Informer Show

Welcome back to another episode of The Game Informer Show! On this week's podcast, Kyle Hilliard and Ben Reeves join us to finally rave about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. There's a lot of swapping editors around in this episode, so after Zelda we're joined by Jeff Cork and Jeff Marchiafava to talk about the shallow pool that is 1-2-Switch, and Suriel Vazquez and Matt Miller drop in to explain why the setting and writing for Torment: Tides of Numenera make it a wildly unique RPG. After some great community emails, we're joined by Josh Holmes of Midwinter Entertainment to talk about leaving the Halo series and 343 behind to found a new independent studio. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 337 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) Our thanks to the talented Super Marcato Bros. for The Game Informer Show's intro song. You can hear more of their original tunes and awesome video game music podcast at their website. To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 2:35 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 30:00 - 1-2-Switch 44:40 - Torment: Tides of Numenera 1:04:00 - Community emails 1:36:30 - Josh Holmes from Midwinter Entertainment  

Welcome to a dense, new episode of The Game Informer Show! First up, we have Jeff Marchiafava to talk about why he really enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn from Guerrilla Games. Then Javy Gwaltney shares a lot of new info on his time playing Mass Effect Andromeda for three hours, and Ben Reeves weighs in on the new (console-friendly) RTS Halo Wars 2. Jeff Cork also shares his raw impressions of playing Double Fine's Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin with PlayStation VR. After some great community emails, we unleash our full opinions on our extended time playing the Nintendo Switch. It's an exciting week! Tell a friend if you enjoy the show! You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 336 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) Our thanks to the talented Super Marcato Bros. for The Game Informer Show's intro song. You can hear more of their original tunes and awesome video game music podcast at their website. To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 2:07 - Horizon Zero Dawn 19:27 - Mass Effect Andromeda 34:40 - Halo Wars 2  44:12 - Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin 56:55 - Night in the Woods 58:50 - Community emails 59:35 - Announcing the next GI Game Club 1:01:08 - Back to community emails 1:41:16 - Our extended hands-on time with Nintendo Switch

This week on Game Informer's podcast, our full review of Ubisoft's For Honor wasn't quite ready yet when we recorded so we have Ben Hanson, Dan Tack, and Brian Shea to share their early (and intrigued) impressions of playing the full game. Brian Shea also talks about what makes Sniper Elite 4 stand out as a shooter and how the next MLB game is hoping to ensnare a new audience with nostalgia. After some great community emails alongside Elise Favis, we speak to Harmonix's founder Alex Rigopolus about the highlights of developing games like Rock Band and what the future looks like for such a unique studio. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 335 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 2:55 - For Honor 26:02 - Sniper Elite 4 33:12 - MLB The Show 17 39:48 - Community emails 1:21:50 - Harmonix's Alex Rigopulos Interview

This week we were happy to announce that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild graces the cover of Game Informer's March issue and we're excited to talk about our extended time playing the game on the Nintendo Switch. Ben Hanson is joined by Kyle Hilliard and Ben Reeves to talk all about what stood out and impressed us about playing Link's next adventure. Then we're joined by Javy Gwaltney and Dan Tack to debate the quality of Fire Emblem Heroes on mobile and talk about Dan Tack's trip to ZeniMax Online to learn all about The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind. After some great community emails, we're joined by Ubisoft Montreal's Jason VandenBerghe to talk about what it's like to be the creative director of the studio's new IP For Honor. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 334 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 2:10 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild exclusive impressions 35:55 - What it's like to meet Shigeru Miyamoto 40:30 - Fire Emblem Heroes 41:38 - The moment we all regret inviting Dan Tack on to the podcast 55:10 - The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind 1:00:55 - Community emails 1:32:35 - For Honor's creative director Jason VandenBerghe 

Welcome to another episode of Game Informer's weekly podcast! This week, Dan Tack joins the show to explain why he's so impressed by Nioh and how the game compares to Dark Souls. After that, Kyle Hilliard talks a bit about Yoshi's best game in years... even if it is just a port. Then Kimberley Wallace rounds out the show with a heapin' helpin' of "Tales of" and Kingdom Hearts talk. We're also joined in the final stretch by a former writer at Obsidian, Eric Fenstermaker to talk about working on Fallout: New Vegas, writing South Park: The Stick of Truth with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and also the legendary, cancelled Aliens RPG from Sega. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 333 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 1:32 - Nioh 14:35 - For Honor's beta 17:43 - Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World on 3DS 19:38 - Tales of Berseria 27:25 - Double Dragon IV 31:20 - Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue 42:10 - Community email 1:30:00 - Eric Fenstermaker on writing South Park: The Stick of Truth at Obsidian 2:08:55 - Kyle's really embarrassing Pixar cereal story

We have a great show for you this week. First up, Andrew Reiner, Kyle Hilliard, and Javy Gwaltney have played through and are excited to talk about the big release of Resident Evil 7. And while that all sounds good, we also have the added delight of welcoming the designer/writer for Gone Home and Tacoma Steve Gaynor to the conversation to talk about his love of Resident Evil and draw the natural comparisons between the new game's setting and his work in the game industry. After that, Javy shares the highlights of his extensive hands-on time playing the tactical, open-world Ghost Recon Wildlands, and we talk about the latest changes to Overwatch. After some great emails from the community, we're joined by Vicarious Visions' Kara Massie and Dan Tanguay to talk about the challenges of remaking Naughty Dog's Crash Bandicoot games with the N. Sane Trilogy. If you like the show, please tell a friend or leave a review on iTunes! You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 332 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 1:35 - Resident Evil 7 with Fullbright's Steve Gaynor 36:35 - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands 44:44 - Overwatch's Year of the Rooster event 52:25 - Community emails 1:27:53 - Creating the Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy 

It's an exciting week for The Game Informer Show! Ben Reeves, Kyle Hilliard, and I flew out to New York City to play around with the Nintendo Switch. We have a lot of impressions to share, both with the hardware itself and all of the games Nintendo revealed. After a lot of Nintendo talk, Jeff Cork jumps in to explain how he fell in love with Yakuza 0 on the PlayStation 4. After some great community emails, we then interview Velan Studios' Guha and Karthik Bala about their experience founding and running the prolific Vicarious Visions from 1990-2016. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 331 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 2:20 - Nintendo Switch and Game Impressions 21:20 - Nintendo Switch Controller Comfort 44:25 - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 45:15 - Super Mario Odyssey 51:50 -  Yakuza 0 59:40 - Community emails 1:28:50 - Vicarious Visions Founders Guha and Karthik Bala Interview 2:24:20 - Settling the Nintendo Switch Bet

On this episode of The Game Informer Show podcast, we're breaking down the fun to be had in 2017! Andrew Reiner, Kimberley Wallace, and Elise Favis join me on this episode as we run down our five personal choices for our most-anticipated games on the horizon. After all of that, we are joined by Jeff Cork, Kyle Hilliard, and Javy Gwaltney for an intense round of game trivia based on the back of the game boxes. This time we chose a theme for the competition. Tune in to find out what it is. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 330 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 2:30 - Assassin's Creed and Star Wars: Battlefront II 5:20 - Thimbleweed Park 8:10 - Danganronpa 3 11:30 - Horizon: Zero Dawn 16:30 - Scalebound 18:09 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 22:00 - South Park: The Fractured But Whole 23:20 - Persona 5 28:45 - Mass Effect Andromeda 37:10 - Red Dead Redemption 2 42:00 - State of Decay 2 43:00 - Miscellaneous grab bag of 2017 releases 59:38 - Community emails 1:30:40 - Back of the box game trivia 

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show! This week we debuted our new (Overwatch-laden) cover of the magazine, featuring our Top 50 games from 2016. Week's ago, in order to make the lists a surprise to everybody, I rounded up Kyle Hilliard, Dan Tack, Ben Reeves, and Andrew Reiner to run down our personal ten favorite games from the year. If you want to spoil things, or check out some editor top 10 lists that weren't on this episode of the podcast, check out the full list here. On this episode we also talk a bit about our larger game of the year discussions, which games were on the bubble, and then wade through a bunch of emails sent in to podcast@gameinformer.com over the break. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 329 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 1:00 - Our Top 10 favorite games of 2016 1:01:07 - Extended community emails

We hope you've enjoyed our month of exclusive content covering Prey from Arkane Studios. We're excited about this game, and we're glad that the community submitted questions to ask the game's creative director Raphael Colantonio and lead designer Ricardo Bare. There are still plenty of mysteries to solve surrounding this sci-fi experience, but Colantonio and Bare shed some light on key details in this episode of the podcast. Check it out if you want to learn more about comparisons to Dishonored, BioShock, and the team's drive to have a smooth launch on PC. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to this episode on SoundCloud. (Please visit the site to view this media)

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Welcome back to another episode of The Game Informer Show! On this episode, Matt Kato joins us to talk about the (probably overlooked) winter sports game from Ubisoft called Steep. Then we really get to the most exciting release this week, by diving into Super Mario Run on iOS with Kyle Hilliard. After that, we take a turn for the dark with Javy Gwaltney talking about the complete season of Telltale's Batman game and Dan Tack showing a lot of love for Let it Die on PS4 and Overwatch's festive Winter Wonderland update. After some great emails from the community, we finish off our wonderful GI Game Club discussion with the community of Pokémon: Sun and Moon. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 327 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 1:05 - Steep 12:20 - Super Mario Run 21:20 - Let It Die 35:00 - Batman: The Telltale Series 41:50 - Werewolves Within/Superhot VR, Star Wars X-Wing VR 47:30 - Overwatch's Winter Wonderland 54:04 - Community emails 1:17:20 - Pokémon: Sun and Moon Game Club Part 2

While we've moved on to highlight Prey from Arkane Studios, we wanted to officially close out our month of coverage on Mass Effect Andromeda with a special edition of The Game Informer Show podcast where we talk with Mass Effect Andromeda's creative director Mac Walters via Skype and ask him dozens of direct questions from the community. We hope you've enjoyed our month of exclusive features and that this podcast answers some of your small, burning questions about BioWare's next RPG. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to this episode on SoundCloud. (Please visit the site to view this media)

Welcome to an info-packed episode of The Game Informer Show! On this week's episode, Ben Hanson is joined by Jeff Cork, Joe Juba, and Ben Reeves to talk about our trip to Arkane Studios to see and write a cover story about Prey. After that, we're joined by Suriel Vazquez as we discuss the high highs and low lows of Fumito Ueda's The Last Guardian. Then Jeff Marchiafava swings by to explain what makes Dead Rising 4 so much fun. After some great community emails, Andy McNamara, Andrew Reiner, and Suriel Vazquez talk about their hands-on time playing some exciting new games like the Crash Bandicoot remaster and we also talk about Andy's trip to Naughty Dog and experience hosting a panel on The Last of Us Part II. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 326 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! (Please visit the site to view this media) To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 2:09 - Prey impressions 22:20 - The Last Guardian 50:10 - Dead Rising 4 1:05:55 - Community emails 1:37:50 - Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards/PSX Reveals 1:41:15 - Hideo Kojima and Death Stranding 1:47:24 - Andy McNamara and The Last of Us Part II 1:58:38 - Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite