Brandon Sheffield and Frank Cifaldi report from Las Vegas, where they supposedly attended the 2023 DICE Summit, but mostly ran into used game stores and friends of Insert Credit. Featuring Alex Jaffe, Brandon Sheffield, Frank Cifaldi, Chris Kohler, Ally McLean, Mathew Kumar, and Kris Graft.

SEGMENTS

  1. Retro City Games shopping with Chris Kohler (00:51)
  2. Retro City Games shopping with Ally McLean (10:48)
  3. Driving with Chris Kohler, Ally McLean and Frank Cifaldi from Retro City Games to another used game store (16:09)
  4. Brandon discusses the plot of The $cheme (2003) with Ally McLean (25:18)
  5. Getting lost in the car after Retro City Games #2 (27:08)
  6. A miserable situation involving accoustic covers of popular music (38:15)
  7. In the Circus Circus hotel room (39:17)
  8. Walking through Circus Circus (42:15)
  9. 6 AM stories with Kris Graft (44:00)
  10. Post-show thoughts from Brandon and Frank (58:56)

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Questions this week:

  1. Frank: Talk about video game recompilation efforts (05:58)
  2. Let’s go over the Nintendo Direct (15:39)

Insert Credit Presents: Why Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Is So Important, by Patrick Miller (25:57) 3. In video games with romanceable NPCs, should you as a player be unrestricted from pursuing any character regardless of gender or sexuality? (34:33) 4. Please explain the lore of Elden Ring to me. You have 6 minutes. (41:33)

Insert Credit Quick Break: Mannequin Deposit by The Houseflies (47:25) 5. Aaron Pickus: If you were working in a rental store, what games would you intentionally place in the wrong cases to give renters a different experience? (48:47) 6. Are esports good? (55:04)

LIGHTNING ROUND: New Robot Masters (01:04:56)

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:13)

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Frank: Become a reader again, Indika

Jaffe: 52 Pickup, The House in Fata Morgana

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