Games of 2026 Part 2
6/8/20262 hr 1 min
Everyone is here! Heather, Nick and Matt do a mid year check in on 2026's video game releases and look ahead at what's coming for the rest of the year! We also talk Pokopia, Mina the Hollower and more!
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Matt Apodaca· Host0:30
[blender sound] Wow, Summer Game Fest, it just always delivers. And this year, no difference.
Nick Wiger· Host0:46
No, yeah. Keighley at it again.
Matt Apodaca· Host0:47
Keighley at it again.
Nick Wiger· Host0:48
Dropping banger after banger.
Matt Apodaca· Host0:49
And Lucy James as well, co-hosting.
Nick Wiger· Host0:52
Oh, yeah.
Matt Apodaca· Host0:52
I mean, just what a show. I, I, I just could not believe they announced that game. That was crazy that, that there was finally stuff about that game.
Nick Wiger· Host1:03
No, yeah. That was really, really crazy. I was really hoping we'd... I heard rumors that we were gonna may- maybe hear about that game, but they showed a lot more than I thought they were gonna show, which was great.
Heather Anne Campbell· Host1:13
You guys are, you two guys are talking about the one with the trailer and the... It was, like, all the particle effects and, uh- Yeah.
Matt Apodaca· Host1:19
Yeah. There was like- Right?
Heather Anne Campbell· Host1:21
Yeah ...
Matt Apodaca· Host1:21
there was, like, m- music a- and, um- I can't believe who, who wrote- Yeah ...
Heather Anne Campbell· Host1:25
they, they, they announced who wrote that score is, like, stunning. I, I love all-