Remap Radio 151: Now THIS Is Tactics

Hey everyone look at this guy. He doesn't know who Miyamoto Musashi is. He doesn't even know about Ganryu! If you mention the Five Rings, he thinks you're talking about Tom Brady. And yet HE was worthy of the Onimusha: Way of the Sword review code? That's fine. We're not bitter. We have other games to play, like Super Mega Baseball, First Light, or Orbitals.01:06 - The Sinking City 2 might be an Evil Within 2-like  06:02 - 80% of Bit Reactor Furloughed    18:22 - The DLSS5 Yassification Machine     38:21 - De-listed games included in Xbox’s disc to digital initiative     49:43 - Onimusha: Way of the Sword     1:22:24 - Super Mega Baseball     1:39:21 - 007: First Light     1:54:27 - Orbitals     2:09:26 - Question Bucket    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a preview of a Premium Library Tier podcast. To access the full episode, you can sign up at remapradio.com/signup2026 has been full of horrors, but it’s also been full of video games, too. With Grand Theft Auto VI coming later this year, though, there’s an avalanche of games coming throughout September and October. It felt like a good time to check in with Patrick, Chia, and Janet about their individual piles of shame, the games they plan to spend more time with before 2026 is over, and what games they’re looking forward to playing as the year rolls around. It’s, uh, a lot of games.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rob and Patrick have been digging into Zero Company and discuss the things they are getting from their vastly divergent contexts for it. The gang discuss Tim Curry's passing, Playdate's tariff generosity, and the Paradox founders' taxation takes. Then Janet has been digging Perfect Tides, Baldur's Gate 3, and Blood Dungeon, while Patrick is enjoying the a return to the grimness of A Plague Tale with Resonance.     01:17 - Star Wars Zero Company (Redux)         01:03:20 - Tim Curry's passing           01:05:49 - Doublefine's independent plans         01:09:29 - Xbox Discless Pivot            01:21:44 - Playdate refunds tariff money          01:26:46 - Paradox CEO complains about wealth taxes           01:48:25 - Perfect Tides: Station to Station           02:06:32 - Baldur’s Gate 3          02:15:01 - Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy         02:35:53 - Manual Transmission Games & Rally Car School         02:56:38 - Blood Dungeon   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

So far as we know, nobody is leaking clips from this podcast, but the same can’t be said for Grand Theft Auto VI. Join Patrick, Chia, and Janet as they reminisce about how their parents treated GTA growing up, Netflix’s latest signal they don’t know what to do with video games, and plenty of games talk, including impressions of Netflix’s (impressive!) Unhinged experiment, MiO: Memories in Orbit, Rogue Voltage, Mortal Shell II, and more. Plus, in The Question Bucket, we ponder why developers disable achievements when using options to tweak a game’s difficulty.Links: GTA 6 Suffers Third Day of Leaks, Latest Video Suggests Leakers Have Access to a Build of the Game, Nightschool Shuttered by Netflix, Industry legend Warren Spector is retiring: 'I'm feeling like I've done what I set out to do', Matthew Karch Apologizes to Stella Sacco, School for Poetic Computing, Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox | exclusiveDiscussed: 00:00:00 - Intro00:12:19 - The GTA VI Leaks, the Worker's Union, and GTA Histories00:16:32 - gameworkers.square.site 00:34:31 - Night School Shuttered by Netflix 00:38:37 - Unhinged00:55:57 - Saber Interactive CEO Apologizes to Former Employee 01:05:38 - Warren Spector Retires01:09:58 - Harvey Smith starts a new company01:11:10 - Arco recoups it's development costs01:14:21 - MIO: Memories in Orbit01:24:51 - Mortal Shell 201:42:28 - Rogue Voltage01:52:21 - School for Poetic Computing01:57:28 - Compulsion Games is now Independent01:58:37 - Angel Essence02:07:02 - Pin-Crawl02:12:14 - Question Bucket See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Patrick sits down with Nicole Carpenter to discuss her article on the prisoners at Rikers prison and their access to video games. Which games are provided to them, and who gets to make that decision? They also break down the biases people carry about who should have access to games, and how that access changes the prisoners' day to day life.A Virtual Escape for Riker's Inmates by Nicole CarpenterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Are you a down bad enough sicko to watch NFL pre-season football? That’s the question that Patrick poses to Rob as they kick off a new episode of Sports! We also discuss the state of sports journalism, the rise of analysis over journalism, what happened to The Athletic, the ongoing culture war in the WNBA, and much more. Plus, we strongly consider a trip to Detroit.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It is with a heavy heart that we share that the XCOM and Star Wars mashup, Star Wars: Zero Company, seems pretty good. You have another video game to play this year. At least, that’s what Rob told Patrick and Chia on this episode of Remap Radio, where we chat about turn-based Clone Wars, Twitch’s shockingly honest admission about AI, why nobody should work at Saber Interactive, the great time Patrick’s having repairing electronics in ReStory, and more.Links: Saber Interactive CEO Responds to Accusations, Twitch Makes AI Training Opt-Out. Stream Clip of Twitch Explaining Why it's Opt -Out. The CouchmasterDiscussed:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:55 - Star Wars Zero Company00:56:20 - Saber Interactive accused of replacing writer with AI01:16:24 - Twitch is Training AI on you01:28:41 - The Normies and AI02:05:30 - ReStory02:22:58 - Big Walk02:34:58 - Question BucketSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

There’s little evidence the Electronic Arts going private because it’s being bought by a Saudi Arabian-backed financial group is good for the industry, but who was expecting good news these days? Rob, Chia, and Patrick mull this latest development, news that Sony isn’t giving back any tariff money, and talk about a bunch of games, including Chia’s adventures at GenCon and Patrick finishing 007: First Light alongside dumping a whole bunch of hours into Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation. Oh, and how would we re-imagine a football video game?Links: EA bought by Saudi Arabia, Sony recieves Tarrif Refund, Motherboards are getting more expensiveDiscussed: 00:39 - Tyranny & Peter Molyneux11:26 - The John Company Megagame26:39 - EA purchased by Saudi Arabia 1:08:08 - Sony receives tariff refunds 1:15:30 - Motherboards are going to become more expensive1:21:26 - Beast of Reincarnation 1:50:46 - Chia's Gen Con Adventures2:11:42 - Theater of Idols2:23:19 - 007: First Light 2:32:10 - Boreal Tenebrae Act 0: Sundowning2:37:25 - The Question Bucket2:48:26 - Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast episode was born under a bad sign as avian wildlife besmirch Rob's finest attire shortly before the recording. After surveying a grim landscape of games, news, the gang sits down to a pretty good summer of games with Janet digging Townfall and Incident at Galley House, Patrick playing some really cool platformers, and Rob catching Super Mega Baseball Fever.A Bird Hath Shat Upon Rob 0:01 Microsoft Layoffs 0:18:56 EA are Jerks and Going Private 0:45:28 Passing of İpek Yavuz co-creator of Mount and Blade 0:54:07 Vermila Studios Shutting Down 0:58:37Silent Hill: Townfall 1:11:53 Rhythm Doggo & Slain 2: The Beast Within 1:27:29 The Incident at Galley House 1:40:06 Super Mega Baseball 1:55:14 Splatoon Raiders 2:18:00 Mailbag 2:30:26See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Samuel Horti joins Rob to talk about Super Mega Baseball. They discuss its brilliant “traits” system, never-to-be-beaten difficulty settings, delightfully slippery pitching and batting controls, and the “just-enough” franchise mode. They also discuss whether the game is truly an arcade baseball game, or if it’s occupying space that hardcore sims began from in the SNES and Pentium eras.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.