Remap Radio

Jacob Geller joins Rob, Patrick, and Janet to discuss Microsoft's new "new AI assistant" and how we expect AI to be deployed to make everyday experiences easier and definitely less frustrating. Plus, Jacob's publishing a book with Lost in Cult, and we talk about the two Stellar Blades: the one that's being treated as a reactionary victory, and the character action game that actually exists.

0:33 - How a Game Lives

11:22 - XBox AI

45:19 - Total War but also Fort Condor

59:40 - Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

1:19:52 - Princess Peach: Showtime!

1:36:12 - Stellar Blade

1:56:08 - Rise of the Ronin

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With Rob out for the week, it’s left to Patrick, Cado, and Janet to consider Destiny getting a mobile game, the massive data leak at Pokémon developer Game Freak, and what to make of social platforms monetarily rewarding online figures exhibiting the most toxic behavior possible. We’ve also played a bunch of the new Atlus RPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio, the first two chapters of Life is Strange: Double Exposure, the opening hours of Neva, and dabbled in Steam Next Fest. In The Question Bucket, we ponder the existence of “frankenstein remasters” in games.

• Mobile Destiny 0:06:05
• Game Freak Data Leak 0:20:53
• Asmongold 0:41:09
• Metaphor: ReFantazio 0:57:16
• Life is Strange: Double Exposure 1:37:37
• Steam Next Fest 2:08:33
• Question Bucket 2:23:03

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In the 90's Google changed the way people found things on the internet, and now they're incorporating AI to "help" people by showing them answers without needing to actually go to the website that they scrapped that information from. Patrick is joined by Alex Donaldson, Owner of RPGSite.net to go over the changes and track the history of Google's influence over the entire internet and more specifically game websites.

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With the holidays nearly upon us, Janet Garcia rejoins the Remap crew—yes, including Rob!—to chat about Patrick’s time with the new Steam Deck OLED, what to make of the video game industry’s response (or lack thereof) to the ongoing crisis in Gaza, and more. We’re playing plenty of video games, too, including Thirsty Suitors, The Talos Principle 2, WarioWare: Move It!, and...The Knights of the Old Republic? Finally, The Question Bucket has us weigh in on recent layoffs from a different angle: how to handle the sudden disruption that is losing your job.

Discussed: Steam Deck OLED 1:27, Meg Jayanth Dropped from Golden Joysticks 37:30, Thirsty Suitors 1:02:22, Talos Principle 2 1:21:22, WarioWare Move It 1:35:13, KOTOR 1 1:43:05, The Question Bucket 1:53:33, Outro and Announcements 2:15:32

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The Bears have won a game! Do we want them to win more? The answer is a bit more complicated than you might expect, but oddly enough fans of other teams are even more conflicted about what constitutes a "good" outcome if your team is not competitive in the current NFL landscape. Can you only get a good quarterback by being bad? How do you feed and water a young NFL quarterback? Maybe a veteran being plugged into a good team is the winning play but, hang on, look how Russell Wilson in Denver has panned out. That could have been the Bears! Finally, Rob and Patrick talk about the most overpowered play in the NFL right now, and then belatedly process the shock of the brutal ending to the Cubs season. Finally, listener questions, and a countdown to regular season Bulls games.

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