A Marathon and a Sprint
3/13/20261 hr 26 min
Welcome back to IGN Game Scoop!, the ONLY video game podcast! This week your Omega Cops -- Daemon Hatfield, Sam Claiborn, Nick Limon, and Mark Medina -- are discussing Marathon, Slay the Spire 2, Resident Evil Requiem, Pokemon Pokopia, Xbox Project Helix, Valve's Steam Machine, and more. And, of course, they play Video Game 20 Questions.
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First 90 secondsDaemon Hatfield· Host0:00
[upbeat music] What's up, everybody? Welcome to IGN Game Scoop. I'm your host, Daemon Hatfield. Joining me here in studio this week is Nick Limone.
Nick Limon· Host0:10
I'm back, baby.
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:11
We're also joined remotely by Sam Claiborn.
Sam Claiborn· Host0:12
Hey, it's great to be here on a sunny GDC day.
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:15
And Mark Medina.
Mark Medina· Host0:17
I'm here, Daemon. It's early. What? I'm tired.
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:20
We're recording early.
Sam Claiborn· Host0:21
But are the, are, are the effects- [laughs] ... of the coffee still in action?
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:24
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Mark Medina· Host0:25
Yeah. They haven't kicked in yet.
Daemon Hatfield· Host0:27
[laughs] We usually record in, in the afternoons. We're recording in the morning this week, uh, just because of, uh, some GDC, uh, scheduling stuff. So anyway, we've got a great show for you this week, lots of interesting stories coming out of GDC. First details on the next Xbox Project Helix, and Sam actually attended a p- a Nintendo panel where they sort of, uh, gave a look behind the curtain of, uh, get- development on Donkey Kong Bananza, which is- You can destroy the curtain. You can destroy every- [laughs] The curtain is destructible. [laughs] But first, before we get to all the GDC stuff, we can talk about a couple games that are out now. Uh, a, a tale of two video games, one made by- Oh ... a, a prestige developer, one of the biggest developers in the world, the developers of Destiny and Halo.
Nick Limon· Host1:07
Yeah.
Daemon Hatfield· Host1:07
And their new game is out.
Mark Medina· Host1:08
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Daemon Hatfield· Host1:09
And apparently it's good. It's being well-received- Yeah ... es- at, at least by Nick Limone right here.
Nick Limon· Host1:13
Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm logged in right now.
Sam Claiborn· Host1:14
A not terrible player count, but technically terrible player count.
Mark Medina· Host1:16
Dude, we should play together. I didn't know you were playing.
Nick Limon· Host1:19
Yeah, I, I've, I've been in on it. I haven't asked the IGN folks yet if there's anyone around. But yeah, my, my squad is taking a little bit of a break 'cause they got obligations, so looking for a team at any