Giant Bombcast 928: Bigloo
2/17/20262 hr 40 min
Happy Lunar New Year, we're back from another 3-Day weekend and ready to talk about games! We chat about CiniCross, REANIMAL, the state of pinball with Pokemon Pinball, the Virtual Boy app for the Nintendo Switch, the Pragmata demo out for the Switch 2, getting back into Overwatch, and God of War: Sons of Sparta being an okay game. We catch up on all of the hottest news stories and all of your emails too!
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Timestamps (note, timestamps on this free version may vary greatly depending on how many ads you receive):
0:00:00 Intro
0:25:09 CiniCross
0:30:56 IT'S VIRTUAL BOY DAY
0:39:18 Reanimal
0:46:26 Pragmata Switch 2 Demo
0:50:29 Overwatch
0:58:36 Listen Up! We Tried To Make “THOSE GAMES” Even More Extreme! Some things Have To Be Learned The Hard Way
1:01:42 Mewgenics
1:04:59 Stern Pinball's Pokémon machine
1:16:07 God of War: Sons of Sparta
1:27:22 Sony is considering holding back PlayStation 6 until 2028 or 2029, report claims
1:32:36 Steam Deck is out of stock in the US as Valve warns of ‘intermittent’ memory and storage shortages
1:34:09 Asus ROG Xbox Ally X gets a price increase of nearly $200 in Japan
1:40:27 Nintendo just DMCA'd every Switch emulator (again), but it's not over yet
1:41:39 .hack//Z.E.R.O. announced
1:46:30 Pokémon Pokopia director Takuto Edagawa confirms Minecraft-style "cloud" servers that don't require the host to be online
1:47:58 Virtual Boy NSO app won’t work in docked mode
1:50:17 Blizzard Is Bringing The Warlock Class To Diablo IV: Lord Of Hatred, Diablo II, And Diablo Immortal
1:52:45 Hideki Sato, Visionary Who Shaped Sega's Consoles, Has Died
1:54:07 EMAILS!
2:27:20 Super Chats
2:36:33 Outro
Clips
Transcript preview
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Mike Minotti· Panelist0:55
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