Thumbstick Athletes

This week we talk about PC gaming hardware and give some examples of PC builds that can be used for gaming.  During "What We Played" Corey started The Long Dark now that it's finally out of early access.  After the episode Dan and Corey have their usual Game of Thrones recap, discussing Season 7 Episode 5: Eastwatch.  As a bonus though even after the GoT recap, Dan Corey and Will have a spoiler filled discussion about Pyre.

Dan and Corey cover the newest game from Supergiant, a hybrid sports-rpg game called Pyre.  It's kind of a different offering from Supergiant, but retains their typically fabulous artwork and soundtrack.  After the episode we continue our Game of Thrones recaps, this time talking about season 7 episode 4: The Spoils of War.

It was recently that Unsung Story, after months of no updates, was passed along to a whole new developer who was going to build the game from the ground up.  Corey and Will backed Unsung Story on Kickstarter years ago and give their thoughts on it to this point.  During "What We Played" Will played Nier: Automata, Corey played more Rocket League and Dan prepared for this weekend's Splatfest on Splatoon 2.  After the episode Dan and Corey cover last week's Game of Thrones episode, The Queen's Justice.

Dan spent quite a few hours playing Splatoon 2 this week.  During "What We Played" Corey tried Player Unknown's Battlegrounds and briefly tried Pyre.  After the episode's outro, Dan and Corey recap Game of Thrones Season 7, episode 2 Stormborn.

On this week's Thumbstick Athletes podcast, Dan and Corey try the JUMP beta...which is a new Netflix like indie game service with an interesting client.  After the episode Dan and Corey get back to their Game of Thrones recaps, covering Season 7, Episode 1: Dragonstone.

While on vacation Corey and Will tried some VR and relate their experience.  During "What We Played" Dan finally played Horizon: Zero Dawn and the new Breath of the Wild DLC pack.

I gave everyone the week off for 'Merica day this week, which was convenient since Corey and Will are out of town and we just passed the mid year point.  Like last year I played a brief clip of the episodes we recorded on some of the bigger game releases from this year like Resident Evil 7, Mass Effect Andromeda, Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild.

We give our top picks for this year's Steam Summer Sale, so can continue to pad your digital pile of shame.

With all the details finally released for the upcoming Xbox One X we can finally have a comparison between the two higher end versions of Microsoft and Sony's consoles.

As per usual we recap all the announcements for the major E3 press conferences along with some miscellaneous announcements.  It seems like we're not as negative on this year's E3 as some other outlets, so yay for some positivity!

Everyone has games, even extremely popular games, that for one reason or another you just never play.  In this week's episode, the Thumbstick Athletes offer up their games they didn't play for the world to see.

Gamer Christmas time again, where our hope and hype levels can vault into the stars, or be unceremoniously dashed.  In typical fashion, we do a rundown of the expected announcements, some rumors and offer up some things we can only hope for.

We're knocking them off in quick succession...talking to Will solo this week.  Instead of the hard hitting interview you got last episode, Dan lobbed some hanging curveballs for Will to knock out of the park.  (Asked mostly the same questions!)

Just Dan and Eric this week, so Dan interviews Eric.  Hard hitting journalism at it's finest!

We came into this week's episode without a topic and sort of fell into some areas of discussion.

Mario Kart 8 makes its Switch debut with a few new features tacked on to an already great game.  Find out what features and how they improve the Mario Kart experience in the next episode of the TSA Podcast!

The Nintendo Switch has been out for almost two months now, with the only major game (albeit a very one) being Breath of the Wild.  Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will be out now too, so we answer the question....When should I buy one?

For special episode #300 we revisit our top 10 games list with another almost 2 years worth of games.  This time we hash out the changes to our lists live on the episode rather than just listing off the games.

Corey, currently in possession of Will's PS4, catches up on some games he has yet to play...making up the main segment our last episode in the 200's. 

Since we've all spent our last few weeks playing Breath of the Wild and Mass Effect Andromeda we decided to get a little caught up on some of the other great games that have come out over the past few months.  These are games we'll get to at some point this year, likely when our current games are finished up or perhaps another slow release period.