The Game Informer Show

On this episode of The Game Informer Show podcast, Ben Hanson, Ben Reeves, Suriel Vazquez, and Kyle Hilliard share impressions of playing Rare's Sea of Thieves on Xbox One before talking about great games like Celeste, Iconoclasts, and Bluepoint Games' wonderful remake of Team Ico's Shadow of the Colossus. Brian Shea also joins the show to explain why he thinks UFC 3 is the best MMA game ever made. After some great community emails, we kick off the first part of our big community discussion about Monster Hunter: World with GI Game Club. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 384 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... 2:30 - Sea Of Thieves Beta 10:30 - Iconoclasts 16:02 - Celeste 21:25 - Shadow of the Colossus on PS4 39:50 - The Room: Old Sins 43:15 - UFC 3 50:50 - Community emails 53:20 - Xbox Game Pass Discussion 1:00:08 - Back to community emails 1:30:00 - Monster Hunter: World Game Club Part 1

On this episode of The Game Informer Show podcast, Ben Hanson, Ben Reeves, Suriel Vazquez, and Kyle Hilliard share impressions of playing Rare's Sea of Thieves on Xbox One before talking about great games like Celeste, Iconoclasts, and Bluepoint Games' wonderful remake of Team Ico's Shadow of the Colossus. Brian Shea also joins the show to explain why he thinks UFC 3 is the best MMA game ever made. After some great community emails, we kick off the first part of our big community discussion about Monster Hunter: World with GI Game Club. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 384 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! 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... 2:30 - Sea Of Thieves Beta 10:30 - Iconoclasts 16:02 - Celeste 21:25 - Shadow of the Colossus on PS4 39:50 - The Room: Old Sins 43:15 - UFC 3 50:50 - Community emails 53:20 - Xbox Game Pass Discussion 1:00:08 - Back to community emails 1:30:00 - Monster Hunter: World Game Club Part 1

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show! Thanks for tuning into this episode, it's a good one. We finally get to weigh in on a couple of big Game Informer cover stories recently, with Dan Tack talking about his review for Monster Hunter: World and Suriel Vazquez geeking out over Dragon Ball FighterZ. We also cover a streak of surprising games on Steam, like the wildly addicting Subnautica, Slay the Spire, and the social experiment from hell SOS. After some great community emails, we interview Bennett Foddy about designing Getting Over It and discuss why he thinks the game is so much fun to watch on Twitch. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 383 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! 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... 2:40 - Monster Hunter: World 20:20 - Dragon Ball FighterZ 38:30 - Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition 42:00 - Slay the Spire 45:50 - Subnautica 52:43 - SOS 1:00:25 - Community emails 1:41:16 - Bennett Foddy interview on Getting Over It

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show! Thanks for tuning into this episode, it's a good one. We finally get to weigh in on a couple of big Game Informer cover stories recently, with Dan Tack talking about his review for Monster Hunter: World and Suriel Vazquez geeking out over Dragon Ball FighterZ. We also cover a streak of surprising games on Steam, like the wildly addicting Subnautica, Slay the Spire, and the social experiment from hell SOS. After some great community emails, we interview Bennett Foddy about designing Getting Over It and discuss why he thinks the game is so much fun to watch on Twitch. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 383 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... 2:40 - Monster Hunter: World 20:20 - Dragon Ball FighterZ 38:30 - Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition 42:00 - Slay the Spire 45:50 - Subnautica 52:43 - SOS 1:00:25 - Community emails 1:41:16 - Bennett Foddy interview on Getting Over It

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show, thanks for tuning in! On today's episode Ben Hanson, Ben Reeves, Jeff Cork, and Kyle Hilliard roll through a string of survival games like Fortnite, Metal Gear Survive, and They Are Billions before talking about a surprising and Valve-sanctioned Portal game. Then Brian Shea joins the show and we run down the Nintendo Switch's release list for 2018 and share some raw reactions to Nintendo Labo... the bizarre, cardboard-based construction kits Nintendo is releasing in April. After some great community emails and fan fiction, we're joined by Epic Games' lead systems designer Eric Williamson and lead level designers David Spalinsk and Sidney Rauchberger to talk about the history of Fortnite's wildly successful Battle Royale mode and the redesign of the game's map. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 382 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! 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... 1:13 - Fortnite 8:00 - Metal Gear Survive 14:14 - They Are Billions 17:20 - Bridge Constructor Portal 23:05 - Dissidia Final Fantasy NT 23:45 - Hero Academy 2 26:45 - Tiny Metal 29:00 - Blossom Tales 30:15 - Brawlout 32:20 - Crawl 34:04 - Nintendo Switch's 2018 release calendar 36:35 - Nintendo Labo 43:50 - Community emails 1:32:20 - Fan fiction radio play 1:38:00 - Fortnite interview 1:51:53 - Our raw reaction to Nintendo Labo's reveal

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show, thanks for tuning in! On today's episode Ben Hanson, Ben Reeves, Jeff Cork, and Kyle Hilliard roll through a string of survival games like Fortnite, Metal Gear Survive, and They Are Billions before talking about a surprising and Valve-sanctioned Portal game. Then Brian Shea joins the show and we run down the Nintendo Switch's release list for 2018 and share some raw reactions to Nintendo Labo... the bizarre, cardboard-based construction kits Nintendo is releasing in April. After some great community emails and fan fiction, we're joined by Epic Games' lead systems designer Eric Williamson and lead level designers David Spalinsk and Sidney Rauchberger to talk about the history of Fortnite's wildly successful Battle Royale mode and the redesign of the game's map. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 382 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... 1:13 - Fortnite 8:00 - Metal Gear Survive 14:14 - They Are Billions 17:20 - Bridge Constructor Portal 23:05 - Dissidia Final Fantasy NT 23:45 - Hero Academy 2 26:45 - Tiny Metal 29:00 - Blossom Tales 30:15 - Brawlout 32:20 - Crawl 34:04 - Nintendo Switch's 2018 release calendar 36:35 - Nintendo Labo 43:50 - Community emails 1:32:20 - Fan fiction radio play 1:38:00 - Fortnite interview 1:51:53 - Our raw reaction to Nintendo Labo's reveal

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show podcast! Last week we reflected on the highlights from 2017, and now it's time to look to the horizon once again and map out the gaming landscape for 2018. Ben Hanson, Kimberley Wallace, Andrew Reiner, and Suriel Vazquez each break down the five games that they're really looking forward to playing in 2018. After some great community emails, we're joined by Kyle Hilliard and Jeff Cork to talk about the final death of the Kinect and celebrate its strange, flailing life by talking about some of the peripheral's highlights. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 381 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! 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... 2:10 - WarGames 6:30 - Anthem 9:50 - Valkyria Chronicles 4 11:20 - Empires Apart 13:00 - Soul Calibur VI 17:30 - Ni No Kuni II 18:50 - Yoshi for Switch 20:10 - Travis Strikes Again 22:35 - God of War 24:30 - Dragon Quest XI 29:35 - A Way Out 30:20 - Red Dead Redemption 2 33:30 - The Last of Us Part 2 36:10 - Kingdom Hearts 3 41:07 - State of Decay 2 43:25 - Dragon Ball FighterZ 47:25 - Jurassic World Evolution 55:50 - Community emails 1:31:30 - Goodbye Kinect

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show podcast! Last week we reflected on the highlights from 2017, and now it's time to look to the horizon once again and map out the gaming landscape for 2018. Ben Hanson, Kimberley Wallace, Andrew Reiner, and Suriel Vazquez each break down the five games that they're really looking forward to playing in 2018. After some great community emails, we're joined by Kyle Hilliard and Jeff Cork to talk about the final death of the Kinect and celebrate its strange, flailing life by talking about some of the peripheral's highlights. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 381 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... 2:10 - WarGames 6:30 - Anthem 9:50 - Valkyria Chronicles 4 11:20 - Empires Apart 13:00 - Soul Calibur VI 17:30 - Ni No Kuni II 18:50 - Yoshi for Switch 20:10 - Travis Strikes Again 22:35 - God of War 24:30 - Dragon Quest XI 29:35 - A Way Out 30:20 - Red Dead Redemption 2 33:30 - The Last of Us Part 2 36:10 - Kingdom Hearts 3 41:07 - State of Decay 2 43:25 - Dragon Ball FighterZ 47:25 - Jurassic World Evolution 55:50 - Community emails 1:31:30 - Goodbye Kinect

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show! On this week's episode, we talk all about our new cover story on God of War. Joe Juba and Ben Hanson spent a couple of days at Sony's studio in Santa Monica and have a lot of thoughts to share on the game's new direction. After some great emails and a lot of fun discussion about crafting the magazine's Top 50 games of 2017 list, we bring in Leo Vader and Dan Tack and the four of us go around the table to share our personal top 10 lists of great games from 2017. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 380 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! 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... 2:45 - God of War cover story trip impressions 26:45 - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 30:30 - Doki Doki Literature Club 32:30 - Community emails 1:11:00 - Our Top 10 games from 2017 1:13:45 - Horizon Zero Dawn 1:17:55 - Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 1:20:10 - Assassin's Creed Origins 1:23:02 - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy 1:24:15 - World of Warcraft 1:26:50 - Heat Signature 1:30:02 - Agents of Mayhem 1:32:30 - HQ 1:34:45 - Nier Automata 1:37:15 - Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle 1:39:00 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1:44:00 - Puyo Puyo Tetris 1:45:35 - Hearthstone: Kobolds and Catracombs 1:47:15 - Destiny 2 1:49:00 - Yakuza 0 1:50:50 - Cuphead 1:52:05 - Pyre 1:53:35 - The Sexy Brutale 1:56:10 - What Remains of Edith Finch 1:58:05 - Nioh 1:59:10 - Resident Evil 7 2:01:50 - Night in the Woods 2:04:06 - South Park: The Fractured But Whole 2:06 :45 - XCOM 2: War of the Chosen 2:10:00 - Dropmix 2:14:20 - Persona 5 2:16:10 - Metroid: Samus Returns 2:17:55 - Sniper Elite 4 2:20:05 - Super Mario Odyssey 2:22:45 - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds 2:29:18 - Divinity Original Sin II

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show! On this week's episode, we talk all about our new cover story on God of War. Joe Juba and Ben Hanson spent a couple of days at Sony's studio in Santa Monica and have a lot of thoughts to share on the game's new direction. After some great emails and a lot of fun discussion about crafting the magazine's Top 50 games of 2017 list, we bring in Leo Vader and Dan Tack and the four of us go around the table to share our personal top 10 lists of great games from 2017. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 380 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... 2:45 - God of War cover story trip impressions 26:45 - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 30:30 - Doki Doki Literature Club 32:30 - Community emails 1:11:00 - Our Top 10 games from 2017 1:13:45 - Horizon Zero Dawn 1:17:55 - Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 1:20:10 - Assassin's Creed Origins 1:23:02 - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy 1:24:15 - World of Warcraft 1:26:50 - Heat Signature 1:30:02 - Agents of Mayhem 1:32:30 - HQ 1:34:45 - Nier Automata 1:37:15 - Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle 1:39:00 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1:44:00 - Puyo Puyo Tetris 1:45:35 - Hearthstone: Kobolds and Catracombs 1:47:15 - Destiny 2 1:49:00 - Yakuza 0 1:50:50 - Cuphead 1:52:05 - Pyre 1:53:35 - The Sexy Brutale 1:56:10 - What Remains of Edith Finch 1:58:05 - Nioh 1:59:10 - Resident Evil 7 2:01:50 - Night in the Woods 2:04:06 - South Park: The Fractured But Whole 2:06 :45 - XCOM 2: War of the Chosen 2:10:00 - Dropmix 2:14:20 - Persona 5 2:16:10 - Metroid: Samus Returns 2:17:55 - Sniper Elite 4 2:20:05 - Super Mario Odyssey 2:22:45 - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds 2:29:18 - Divinity Original Sin II

We might be on holiday break, but The GI Show goes on! We have a great episode for you this week, so we really hope that you subscribe to the audio version or tell a friend if you enjoy the show. On this episode, we're joined in-studio by Capcom's Tim Turi as well as Andrew Reiner, Kyle Hilliard, and (via Skype) the director of A Hat In Time to talk about designing platforming games and why 2017 made the classic genre shine. After some great members from the community Skype in and ask some questions, we force Kyle Hilliard and Tim Turi to compete 1v1 in an intense round of video game music trivia that we affectionately call "Game that Tune". You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 379 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! 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... 2:20 - Dissecting 2017's platformers with A Hat In Time's Jonas Kærlev 42:30 - Community Skype calls 1:05:40 - Game That Tune music trivia

We might be on holiday break, but The GI Show goes on! We have a great episode for you this week, so we really hope that you subscribe to the audio version or tell a friend if you enjoy the show. On this episode, we're joined in-studio by Capcom's Tim Turi as well as Andrew Reiner, Kyle Hilliard, and (via Skype) the director of A Hat In Time to talk about designing platforming games and why 2017 made the classic genre shine. After some great members from the community Skype in and ask some questions, we force Kyle Hilliard and Tim Turi to compete 1v1 in an intense round of video game music trivia that we affectionately call "Game that Tune". You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 379 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... 2:20 - Dissecting 2017's platformers with A Hat In Time's Jonas Kærlev 42:30 - Community Skype calls 1:05:40 - Game That Tune music trivia

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Matt Miller, Ben Reeves, and Suriel Vazquez recommend a ton of video and tabletop games to play with family and friends over the holiday break. We know family time can be stressful, and we're here to help. After some great community emails and a surprising visit from a Christmas icon, we say goodbye to our wonderful batch of Game Informer interns George Ash, Keenan McCall, and Cody Mello-Klein and force them to debate about the best game of 2017. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 378 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! 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... 5:55 - Praising The Jackbox Party Packs 10:00 - VR with the family 15:00 - Codenames Duet 23:00 - That's A Question 24:00 - When I Dream 25:00 - Dropmix 31:00 - La Lotteria...? 34:20 - Stick Fight: The Game 35:00 - Gang Beasts 35:30 - Crawl on Switch 35:55 - Snipperclips 36:55 - Unlock 39:47 - Risk Legacy/Pandemic Legacy 46:00 - Love Letter 48:20 - Star Wars: Destiny 52:00 - Flick 'em Up 57:40 - Community emails 1:51:40 - Goodbye Game Informer's interns 2:07:55 - 9 underappreciated games from 2017 2:21:16 - Debating the official Game Informer intern Game of the Year

Welcome back to The Game Informer Show! On this episode, Ben Hanson, Matt Miller, Ben Reeves, and Suriel Vazquez recommend a ton of video and tabletop games to play with family and friends over the holiday break. We know family time can be stressful, and we're here to help. After some great community emails and a surprising visit from a Christmas icon, we say goodbye to our wonderful batch of Game Informer interns George Ash, Keenan McCall, and Cody Mello-Klein and force them to debate about the best game of 2017. You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 378 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... 5:55 - Praising The Jackbox Party Packs 10:00 - VR with the family 15:00 - Codenames Duet 23:00 - That's A Question 24:00 - When I Dream 25:00 - Dropmix 31:00 - La Lotteria...? 34:20 - Stick Fight: The Game 35:00 - Gang Beasts 35:30 - Crawl on Switch 35:55 - Snipperclips 36:55 - Unlock 39:47 - Risk Legacy/Pandemic Legacy 46:00 - Love Letter 48:20 - Star Wars: Destiny 52:00 - Flick 'em Up 57:40 - Community emails 1:51:40 - Goodbye Game Informer's interns 2:07:55 - 9 underappreciated games from 2017 2:21:16 - Debating the official Game Informer intern Game of the Year

Two years ago, we unloaded all of our raw thoughts on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This year for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, we decided to just put the long and spoiler-filled discussion in the audio feed for The Game Informer Show podcast as well. Watch Ben Hanson, Mat Miller, Andrew Reiner, and Jeff Cork try to wrap their minds around The Last Jedi's biggest moments and what it means for the future of the Star Wars franchise. You can watch the video below or subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play.