CORE - Core Gaming for Core Gamers

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Get your ‘500+ Episodes’ mugs at Frogpants.shop now before its too late!. We recapped The Game Awards: Jon loved Resident Evil Requiem, Scott is into Total War Warhammer 40k, and Beau liked Gang of Dragon. We mostly bounced off Highguard. News: Steam Winter Sale is live. Fallout Season 2 has started. We discussed Netflix buying WB (details at core.show). Supervive is shutting down after 7 months. Played: Scott is on Path of Exile 2 and Mutant Football League 2. Jon is trying demos like Pragmata and back in FFXIV. Beau is on Witcher 3 and other sick-friendly games this week. Ozzfudd notes Scott can finish Far Cry 4 and 5 in minutes via secret endings. Just another Nick suggests Super Fantasy Kingdom. Email us at SHOW@CORE.SHOW ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 12

Audio edition of our watch-a-long! Listen along with us! Video version will be up on CORE.SHOW shortly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 12

Welcome to episode 500! Finishing Dispatch, loving Split Fiction, playing Demeo DND, and the Hordes of Hel! Plus Shinobi is underrated, Divinity still has a lot of stuff on the ground, Witcher 3, and a LOT of prep for tonight’s Game Awards. (coming in a separate post.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 5

🎉 500 EPISODE MUGS NOW AVAILABLE! Get yours reserved before we hit the limit! https://frogpants.shop ⚠️ SPOILER POLICY CLARIFICATION Going forward: 1. We'll do our best not to offer major spoilers on narrative elements 2. We'll give ample warning to pause, skip ahead, or come back later 3. We'll front-load discussions with spoiler-free content - Scott will play BGM over spoiler sections for podcast listeners - Jon is doing YouTube chapters ASAP once the episode posts NOTE : This has never been a spoiler-free show, but we're making extra effort for those asking. You have personal responsibility to avoid spoilers if they matter to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎮 MAIN TOPIC THE FEW GAMES OF DECEMBER 2025 Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Octopath Traveler 0, Metroid Prime 4, Yakuza 0 Director's Cut, Terminator 2D: No Fate, & More. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📰 NEWS ROUNDUP 🐴 Indie Game "Horses" Keeps Getting Banned Banned from Steam, Epic, and now Humble. Still available on Itch.io and GOG. 🎬 Justin Lin to Direct Helldivers Movie The Fast & Furious director takes on the video game adaptation. 🐺 SO MUCH WITCHER - Witcher 4 NOT coming in 2026 - Witcher 5 and 6 also in the works - Witcher Remastered on the way 🔞 WickedWhims Has 300K Daily Logins Sims' biggest sex mod sees massive daily usage 🧛 Paradox Takes Blame for Bloodlines 2 Publisher says responsibility for poor sales lies fully with them, not developers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎮 WHAT WE'VE BEEN PLAYING SCOTT ⚠️ Possible Spoilers: Did I finish Dispatch? Have to wait and see! Split Fiction - Incredible co-op game. Most FUN game this year! PowerWash Simulator 2 - Still the best CHORE CORE of 2025. JON CyberPunk 2077 - Done everything in base game, Phantom Liberty awaits Marvel Cosmic Invasion - Started and finished SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance - Sleeper hit! (Scott confirms) BEAU Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt continues Noobs Are Coming Jump Space Rocksmith 2014 - We're back Star Citizen - I forgot about it... sorry Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 29

Scott dropped a Patreon vs Core.show support comparison video—check it at Core.show for the breakdown. Also posted an article about RAM prices going absolutely bonkers right now. The advice? Wait it out. Don't be the person overpaying because you can't control yourself. News Roundup: WoW: Midnight Gets Real Jon brought the news: World of Warcraft's next expansion drops March 2nd, 2026. Mark your calendars, prepare your excuses for missing work. Half-Life 3 Copium Intensifies People—including "insiders"—still think HL3 is getting announced this year. Spoiler: It's not. It never is. Stop doing this to yourselves. CD Projekt Reality Check No Witcher 4 or Cyberpunk 2 at the Game Awards. Shocking absolutely no one. Cyberpunk 2077 hit 35 million copies sold, outpacing The Witcher 3's trajectory Cyberpunk 2 is still years away. Hang in there, chooms. GAMES PLAYED Scott's Games Dispatch Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault No Way Home Guild Wars 2 Milestone Jackbox Party Pack 11 Jon's Games Cyberpunk 2077? Beau's Games Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Finished Witcher 3 Total Chaos And LOTS MORE! Contact: show@core.show | Text: tenhams.com Links: Frogpants.com/core Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 21

Main Topic : Game Awards Nominees. Megabonk dev withdraws "Best Debut Indie" nomination (made previous games). Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 breaks record with 12 nominations. Notable snubs: ARC Raiders, Dispatch, Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Other News Xbox Partners Showcase (Tides of Annihilation, Vampire Crawlers, Total Chaos) Epic/Unity partnership for Fortnite integration Krafton AI controversy re: Subnautica 2 bonuses Dispatch skill requirements discussion First live-action Zelda movie set photos Our Week in Gaming Shared : Dispatch progress (Beau completed, Jon restarted, Scott finished Episode 1) Beau : Claire Obscur Act 3, Slay the Spire boardgame, No Man's Sky Normandy unlock, Vampire Survivors VR Scott : Forestrike (standout), Shelldiver (incremental gem), Advance Wars binge, Moonlighter 2 purchased, Cleared Hot, Guild Wars 2 reinstalled Jon: Cyberpunk 2077 continues Fallout 4 pricing clarification from NickLandry - Anniversary Edition upgrade options explained, Xbox Play Anywhere support added. Links : Patreon.com/coreshow | CORE.show | frogpants.com/core New article on CORE.show : Vegas conversation about AI threats + why GoldenEye is the GOAT. CORE.show vs Patreon (frogpants.com/core) Episode 500 commemorative mug dropping at frogpants.shop this weekend! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 14

Valve has three new hardware options for you, and we talk about them in detail today. Plus all the news and stuff you can stand, as well as a visit from Bobby for a nice little WoW update! GAMES PLAYED SCOTT Tavern Keeper JON Dispatch CyberPunk 2077 BEAU Farthest Frontier Jump Space REPO ARC Raiders Vampire Survivors VR Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 7

All the details on CORE.show, and what you can get from it! WoW is not coming to consoles, says game lead at Blizz. Fortnite has all the cartoon dads now. Rockstar doing some devious firings. Your Steam Deck can now download while asleep! Warhammer Survivors is HAPPENING! Blizzcon tickets go up tomorrow. Playstation Portal finally does cloud. The return of Nexeopardy! All the games of the week and loads more. SCOTT Hoop Land Mech Havoc Utopia Must Fall JON The Outer Worlds 2 Cyberpunk 2077 Dispatch BEAU ARC Raiders Aliens: Dark Descent Ball X Pit Dawn of War: Definitive Edition Jump Space Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.