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Greetings! Diamond Feit here and it is my pleasure to present to you our latest monthly exclusive podcast for you. It was also my pleasure to talk to Stuart Gipp for over two hours (but not over three) about new releases, re-releases, announcements, and your comments. I hope my recent look back at 30 years of Resident Evil got you hyped to hear more about the series because both Stu and I are hip-deep in Requiem at the moment.

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

Art & edits by Diamond (using my own Requiem screenshot). Music heard in this episode:

", "contentSnippet": "Greetings! Diamond Feit here and it is my pleasure to present to you our latest monthly exclusive podcast for you. It was also my pleasure to talk to Stuart Gipp for over two hours (but not over three) about new releases, re-releases, announcements, and your comments. I hope my recent look back at 30 years of Resident Evil got you hyped to hear more about the series because both Stu and I are hip-deep in Requiem at the moment.\nSpecific items mentioned in this episode include:\n\nResident Evil Requiem aka RE9, I consider this chat spoiler-free!\n\nI have since completed my no-heal run, still working on <4 hours\n\nwe also talk Code Veronica, Zero, and RE6\n\nalas, Stu missed out on #599 Resident Evil 5 & 6\n\nKimimi found Requiem disappointing\n\nread my 20th anniversary Code Veronica column (no audio)\n\n\nParanormasight: The Mermaid's Curse is another winner\n\nI have barely played Romeo is a Dead Man but I like it\n\ndid someone say Ridge Racer Type 4??\n\nofficial Konami website: \"Set 23 years after Castlevania Dracula's Curse, follow a young Belmont's journey\"\n\ngasp: Stuart dares to invoke the name Mister Mxyzptlk on the air\n\nICYMI: Minmo!\n\nPrize Fighter Heavyweight Edition on Steam\n\ncancelled for Saturn but THAT version is free on archive.org\n\n\nMegadev: a fan-made dev kit for Sega MD/Genesis/CD\n\nfirst full version after years in beta\n\n\nCeleste Classic (the original, not the 2018 remake) on the Saturn!\n\nPhoenix Wright Ace Attorney : Case 1 for Game Boy (not Color, OG GB)\n\n1997 Czech 2D action platformer Colony 28 on Steam!?\n\nKimimi recommends it (you might need a dictionary)\n\nStuart recommends U Hrocha & Pilsner Urquell when in Prague\n\nFact Check: Czechoslovakia ceased to exist on Dec 31, 1992\n\n\nFatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly remake available on PS5, XBX, Steam, and Switch 2\n\nhasty patch issued to offset complaints\n\nJapan Fact: \u96f6 (\"zero\") and \u970a (\"spirit\") can both be read as rei\n\n\nValkyria Chronicles III English patch\n\nfan-made 2014 translation was incomplete, this one finishes the job\n\nStu and I both forgot about Valkyria Chronicles 4 from 2018\n\n\nSEGAGAGA finally translated into English BUT it's GenAI\n\ninitial online impressions: this is not good enough\n\nsilver lining: this project includes tools for future improvements\n\n\nnew Pok\u00e9mon games announced on the 30th anniversary: Winds & Waves (2027)\n\nBrowt seems to be the internet's early fav, he looks ornery\n\n\nnew Switch 2 update adds Handheld Mode Boost\n\nRetroAchievements now supports the Nintendo Wii, launches with 180 new sets\n\nan actual Resident Evil Revelation courtesy of RE9 director Koshi Nakanishi!\n\nshort YouTube clip explains \"gun finishers\" in Requiem aka \"Eat this!\"\n\n\n10th anniversary announcement: Devil Daggers II in the works\n\ndeveloper Sorath also made HYPER DEMON which has a PvP mode??\n\n\nVGHF frees Cookie's Bustle from copyright jail?\n\nStu says he got one of Phil Salvador's limited edition Quan Chi prints\n\n\n70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X coming to all current platforms in July!?\n\nyes. the original version came on FOUR PS1 discs\n\n\nLRG MARVEL MaXimum Collection out now (digital) on Steam/PS5/XBX/Switch:\n\nX-Men The Arcade Game (W/ 6 Player Online, read my column)\n\nCaptain America and the Avengers (Arcade, NES, MD, also a column)\n\nSpider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (SNES, MD, GG, GB)\n\nSpider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage (SNES/MD)\n\nVenom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety (SNES/MD)\n\nSilver Surfer NES (made infamous by AVGN)\n\nthis triggers a Comic Talk Tangent\n\ncheck out Absolute Carnage (2020, unrelated to DC's \"Absolute\" books)\n\nsadly I cannot endorse the Venom movies\n\nthis in turn triggers a Trailer Talk Tangent\n\n\n\nClint Hocking leaves Ubisoft after two decades\n\nGoro Abe departs Nintendo after 27 years for teaching game design at university\n\nQiddiya City-owned RTS fully purchases EVO, makes bold pledges about the future\n\nwill expand to nine tournaments around the world in 2027 (currently: 4)\n\n\"Saudi Arabia is not buying soccer teams and SNK and EVO and EA and partnering with WWE because it cares about sports, games, or wrestling; it is buying them to sportswash its image and encourage tourism.\" Will Borger\n\n\nNagoshi Studio facing a shutdown as NetEase cuts costs\n\nSQUEENIX adding AI buddies to Dragon Quest X\n\nI misspoke and said Sugimura instead of Sugiyama\n\n\nmore Ubisoft layoffs: Red Storm Entertainment loses 100+ developers\n\nXbox leadership shakeup: Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond both out\n\nAsha Sharma will take over Microsoft Gaming\n\n1000 yen says her introductory email was written by a computer\n\n\nThe Verve suggests Bond was \"tough to work with\"\n\nAftermath's Chris Person re: Bond's departure: \"I don\u2019t implicitly trust a narrative that lays the blame on one person that just so happens to be leaving and doesn\u2019t interrogate the person coming in. Like if you\u2019re Microsoft that is the preferred framing.\"\n\nAftermath's Gita Jackson: \"the only reason corporations ever put a woman of color in charge is if that person is going to have to publicly eat shit in a big way. sarah bond has clearly chosen not to be microsoft's sin eater, and asha sharma has taken on that role.\"\n\nSeamus Blackley, talking to GamesBeat, concurs: \"Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren\u2019t the core AI business, is being sunsetted. They don\u2019t say that, but that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night.\"\n\n\nSony shuts down Bluepoint Studios after cancelling their last project in 2025\n\nbought them in 2021, five years later they are gone (one casualty of many)\n\nBloomberg reports Bluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remake but FromSoft said no\n\n\nsending good wishes to Bruce Campbell, now fighting \"treatable\" cancer\n\nI loved Send Help and recommend it; Stu loves Drag Me To Hell\n\nthe internet says the Oldsmobile IS in Send Help but you have to look carefully\n\n\nStu wishes the people of Australia to know he enjoys Mr. Inbetween\n\nEpisode #123 covered the \"heritage\" of Breath of the Wild\n\nmy nomenclature is off: it's not the Swamp Palace, it's called Misery Mire\n\nStu correctly identifies the Cane of Somaria but it's in Oracle of Ages, not Seasons\n\n\nIn Japan Link Between Worlds is simply called Triforce of the Gods 2\n\nGreg Melo's Beatles-based tier list from the Discord:\n\n\nvideo proof of a baby beating Street Fighter V\n\nStu mentions the shocking Alex lore which may be retconned soon\n\nL'Arc-en-Ciel did indeed have a song in Full Metal Alchemist\n\nread Frank Cifaldi's 2012 investigation into Super Mario Bros' US launch date\n\nSGF's ongoing \"Sega CD Spree\" playlist\n\nDracula Unleashed looks cool but Bram Stoker's Dracula does not\n\n\nANECDOTE ONE: Miyamoto and bento boxes\n\nANECDOTE TWO: Yoko Taro and steak\n\nStu has a movie date coming in early May\n\nMidwest Gaming Classic: April 24-26\n\nArt & edits by Diamond (using my own Requiem screenshot). Music heard in this episode:\n\n12:00 \"Deadly Encounter\" (Resident Evil Requiem)\n\n23:34 \"Contact\" (Resident Evil Requiem)\n\n33:17 \"Vincent the Pest\" (Silent Hill 3)\n\n42:02 music from Colony 28\n\n52:27 SEGA-MIX (Segagaga)\n\n1:02:33 \"As For Dreams\" (Cookie's Bustle)\n\n1:14:00 \"The City\" (X-Men, 1992)\n\n1:35:39 Bruce Campbell: actor, chainsaw maven, and occasional crooner\n\n1:49:55 rock cover of \"Song of Storms\" (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)\n\n20439 \"Ready Steady Go\" by L'Arc-en-Ciel\n\n2:20:32 \"Bob-Omb Battlefield (Beta Mix)\" (Super Mario 64)\n\nFinale: get on your horse and DANCE", "guid": "154125478", "isoDate": "2026-03-29T11:00:08.000Z", "itunes": { "duration": "8998", "image": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/154125478/c0970afdd316433b9827985b48ca0125/eyJkIjo3MiwiaCI6MzAwMCwic3RyaXBfYWxwaGEiOjEsInciOjMwMDAsIndlYnAiOjB9/1.png?token-hash=WDx2hpRXj6njLkI1F3kLPzUyW32cgcGN82LhnTgviGo%3D" }, "itunes_duration": "2:29:57" }