Good morning - wake up with John, Michelle, and some Coronavirus chat! Plus North Korea, farts, and an asteroid wearing a mask.
CS:GO and Team Fortress 2 Valve leak, Valorant with Alex Jones, Apple Airpod pros, Nvidia RTX Voice, streamer finder site, android phone system monitor, F word, and MS Flight Simulator system requirements. Join the VGO Discord to talk PC stuff on VideoGameOutsiders.com
The Scarlet Crusade is back... for the Shadowlands pre-patch? John starts a Warrior, Michelle quits Pathfinder part 2 (again), leveling experience buffs, reputation buffs, new character creation screen UI, and WE WERE WRONG ABOUT TORGHAST!?!
NSFW 2, now in VR! Dominatrix Simulator, Milfy City, Slaves of Rome, Oppaimon: Gotta F 'em all, Girlvania, Pirate Jessica, Matt's weiner, World of Whorecraft, Midnight Ride, step sisters, John is naked on the floor, Captain Hardcore, special adult songs, and more sexy games. Plus Abound, Final Fantasy 7, poop rag, and Mario 64 Rom Patch for Odyssey, and Michelle's home school with VGO!
Retroarch setup for big screen emulation mayhem, Peapod update, 808s, Corona chat, and more from John's week.
Code 8, Tales from the Loop, Chris D'Elia No Pain, Tom Segura Ball Hog, Dave Chappelle Mark Twain Prize, The Platform, Uppity: The Willy T. Rubbs Story, Tiger King, Dirty Money, LA Originals, ZZ Top: That Little Old Band from Texas, Grateful Dead doc, Uncut Gems, Curb, McMillions, and Ford vs. Ferrari. Plus Netflix puts stuff free on YouTube, Disney Plus has a Mandalorian doc coming, and HBO has free stuff out too!
Frozen pizza shortage and tips, stolen eggs, and the plan to reopen the country. Plus a game store owner refuses to close and a skatepark filled with sand!
RUMOR: Sony struggling with PS5 price and production, Turbo Graphics 16 mini, N64 retro gaming, Total War: Warhammer 2 free to play, our arch nemesis leaves Kotaku, "new" Crysis is a remake and might have ghetto raytracing on Switch, GTA 6 just started, and China bans Animal Crossing and online play? Plus what is Riot's plan with Valorant and the new Minecraft style studio they purchased?
John healed a dungeon, Michelle leveled in the Shadowlands alpha's new player zone, and we go over some of the quality of life interface improvements, graphic changes - ray tracing and target fps scaling, new auto-battler mode, new customizations, and will Torghast: Tower of the Damned be fun for end game? Plus private WoW server runs a new pandemic event.
Final Fantasy VII: Remake, Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord, Overwatch: Echo, Valorant, Call of Duty: Season 3, Mosh Pit Simulator VR, Shadowlands Alpha WoW, Boot Hill Bounties Steam giveaway, and more gaming. Plus Nintendo Switch DS, Cyberpunk won't get new console versions right away, and big Xbox announcements coming. Download our free VGO app and go premium on videogameoutsiders.com for weekly bonus episodes and the entire back catalog.
John is in his basement with a Corona update, Instacart experience, holy cheap gas, soda shortage, how to get rid of leaves, mossy roof dilemma, and more from his week.
Discord background noise canceling beta, Bethesda's line of themed Noblechairs, Valorant anti-cheat is always running, Assassin's Creed 2 free, insulting your woman with a used PC, Thermaltake budget case, PC part demand, Zoom and Teams video background hell, the most relaxing PC games, and more on the tv show Devs.
We Went Back, Valorant is shady, Twitch free games, Hotline Miami 2, Stadia Pro trial, Cyberpunk's pimp gangs, Animal Crossing gets bars, John has alcohol delivery on speed dial, click-bait PS5 button article, The Stand, HBO in the 80s and 90s, and more.
Part 2 of our Shadowlands Alpha coverage, this time with datamining and spoilers! Controller support in WoW, many dead characters returning, reputation removed from allied races, new WoW figures, class personality types, no BlizzCon this year, WoW viewer counts on Twitch, and The Jailer looks like who? Plus Michelle installs the Alpha - gets a free legendary - and talks about the problem with loot, and John leveled a Priest?!? Correction, looks like you CAN level a new toon in the Alpha under another area.
Part 1 of our Shadowlands Alpha coverage. Covenant previews, class changes, PvP vendors back, quest and map changes, Classic updates and server transfers, Burning Crusade, Shadows Rising audio book pre-order, lore Animal Crossing in WoW and the need for housing. Plus what have John and Michelle been up to in WoW?
The live, uncut, uncensored, raw Coronavirus play with Sam, Brenda, Trump, Fauci, Elon, Pence, Cuomo, and Santa aka Matt, Michelle, and John. For the edited play with sound effects listen to the end of VGO Episode 653!
Valorant beta, Resident Evil 3, PS5 DualSense controller, happy kazoo, Ashes of Outland Hearthstone, Operencia the Stolen Sun, Halo: Reach, Mission: ISS VR, Totally Reliable Delivery Service, New Retro Arcade: Neon, Jackbox Party Pack, it's the 5G, Animal Crossing: New Horizons bunny, and Drug Dealer Simulator. Plus our Coronavirus play (the uncut version with bloopers is on our app too).
Curbside McDonalds, toasted skin syndrome, Postmates, breaking habits, staining and coating a table, Nintendo Power from Dec 2006.
John and Michelle are joined by angry Coronavirus hoaxster - CCgamesCEO to find out how he is being impacted, his plan to let the world burn, and why he wants fast food places to shut down.
John opens his PC, Mount and Blade 2, Verdant Village demo, Fallout 76 and Sea of Thieves on Steam, Eternal card game, Windows 10 sucks, Michelle loves the old control panel, Jedi Academy matchmaking bug, Crysis tease, and is there a PC parts or laptop shortage?
Fly Inside and X-Plane VR, Pumpkin Jack, Change: A Homeless Survival Experience, the best and worst April Fools jokes, Animal Crossing bunny event and jealousy. Plus Michelle is tired and John has a knife.
Resident Evil: Resistance, Predator: Hunting Grounds, Biped, Ultrawings VR, Sonic movie, more on Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Doom: Eternal, and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, gaming news, and Coronavirus chat! Plus our FU Covid19 song!
Live action Dragon’s Lair movie, mountain biking, woodworking, fixin' your own shit, hospital ships, and Nintendo Power wayback machine.
China loses 22 million cellphone users overnight, coyotes and rats are taking over empty American streets, Cuomo's manual bag valves, the most depressing clock you've ever seen, JUST THE CHEESE sucks, GameStop tells people to wrap their hands in bags, PlayStation workers get full pay during the Coronavirus outbreak, people are panic buying cocaine, Calamity Jane, Putin is protected, homemade masks, people are dumb, and America is number 1!
Nvidia's DLSS 2.0, AI super sampling, Between Two Castles, Steam's Coming Soon - Top Selling - and Popular Now check in, Biped, 100% Orange Juice and other free Steam games, WoW Classic Burning Crusade expansion survey, Xbox Game Pass latest additions, The Full Nerd from PC World, board game video games, cloud VR from Shadow, Shady Sam from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion needs his own game, FMV games, cops use mirrors according to Police Quest, House Party update, and enjoy your free time during Coronavirus lockdown damnit! Plus Lex Fridman talks to Nick Bostrom about life in the simulation on the Artificial Intelligence podcast.