Luis calls for a meeting with Dan to discuss the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct and all the news that came after, the good, the bad, and the ugly. All this and not much more!
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00:00 - Intro / Housekeeping
22:39 - Switch 2 Topic Begins
1:54:30 - Outro/RPP Theme
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Dan and Luis meet one more time in 2024 to talk about their PlayStation stats for the year and talk about all things The Game Awards, from the announcements, the controversies, and the winners. All this and more!
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00:00 - Intro
02:11 - Luis' mini life update/secret stash
06:47 - PlayStations 2024 Wrap Up Stats
24:05 - The Game Awards Reactions/Announcements
1:04:41 - The Game Awards Winners
1:22:23 - Outro/RPP Theme
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Dan and Luis meet for the first time in 2024 to talk life updates, gaming stories, predictions of who's winning The Game Awards, and what new announcements they're expecting for next week.
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Dan and Luis meet up to talk about the death of E3, their video game stats recap on all platforms, and reveal who won The Game Awards predictions game as well as give their overall thoughts on the show in general. 00:00 - Intro
04:45 - RIP E3
30:29 - Xbox, PlayStation, Twitch Wrapped
51:48 - The Game Awards 2023 Recap
1:44:30 - Outro
Dan and Luis meet for the first time on camera in 9 months! They are so out of practice that they had technical difficulties with the audio (a rookie mistake)! They catch up and predict the winners of The Game Awards. For more Dan and Luis in the future subscribe to the One Game at a Time podcast feed
00:00 - Intro
01:12 - Luis talks about why he is not at LV1 Gaming
02:12 - Talking about Ep 150
04:08 - What’s up with the OGAT Feed
06:02 - What games did Luis play?
06:57 - Luis the Pro Smash Player?!
09:02 - Luis switched to the dark side (Android -> iPhone) & Dan can’t take pics
10:50 - What did Dan Play
11:40 - Dan’s Conflict of Interest / Disclosure
13:15 - How much did Dan play Mario Wonder and Tears of the Kingdom
14:38 - Luis folds on Fortnite
17:22 - Twitter is now X
19:27 - Luis announces his Street Fighter 2 Tournament happening in Jan 2024
20:54 - GTA 6 Trailer Reaction
23:42 - Predicting the Winners of The Game Awards (starts with GOTY)
1:37:11 - Predicting Announcements
1:44:15 - Closing Thoughts / How we are watching TGAs
1:47:05 - Wrap up & Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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Dan and Luis meet for the last time to send the show off in the longest podcast they have ever done! Clocking in at over 4 hours they reminisced on the life of the show, the future of the games industry, they got sentimental and closed the book on this chapter of their lives. In addition, they cover the news of the week including E3 getting cancelled, the last purchases they did on the Wii U and 3DS eShops, the Tears of the Kingdom Gameplay, and they finish their list of best games of all time, all this and much more. For more Dan and Luis in the future subscribe to the One Game at a Time podcast feed
00:00 - Intro
06:38 - Dan at GDC
10:37 - Discussing Titles of Previous Episodes
14:33 - How We Chose the Name Ready Press Play & How RPP Was Used in the Past
20:01 - The Process of Naming Episodes / The Early Days of Hosting
30:04 - The Most Listened to Episodes of RPP
35:24 - Luis’ final Steam Deck Update
40:56 - SF6, MK12, & Tekken 8 in 2023?!
47:32 - The Wii U & 3DS eShops closed - What did we buy?
1:14:38 - E3 Has Been Canceled via IGN
1:33:12 - Game Preservation / Less Physical Games Inventory
1:44:54 - AI / Chat GPT Discussion
1:59:55 - Gimmicky Hardware in the Future?
2:07:43 - Zelda Tears of the Kingdom gameplay. Via Nintendo YT
2:13:54 - Tears of the Kingdom Special Edition Switch / Predicting when #151 will happen
2:25:52 - Feb 2023 NPD Results via GI.biz
2:31:08 - Extra News
#1 - Last of Us Part 1 PC version launched in Poor State via VGC
#2 - Record Number of PS5 consoles were sold in the month of February via VGC
#3 - Microsoft is getting ready to launch its Xbox mobile gaming store via TheVerge
#4 - Microsoft has stopped its $1 trial offer for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate via TheVerge
#5 - Xbox’s Elite Series 2 controller is now available in red and blue via Polygon
#6 - 400 Twitch workers were impacted by Amazon’s layoffs via Polygon
#7 - Breath of the Wild Explorer’s Guide is now available as a free PDF via NintendoLife
#8 - Dolphin emulator is coming to Steam via VGC
#9 - GameStop posted a profit for the fourth quarter surprisingly via Reuters
#10 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game is currently in development via Polygon
#11 - Multiversus is going offline in June via DigitalTrends
#12 - There’s a new dating sim game that helps you file your taxes: Tax Heaven 3000
#13 - Obituary: Actor Lance Reddick has died of natural causes at age 60
Roundup: Kart racer Disney Speedstorm releases in early access on 4/18 for Switch, PC, PlayStation and Xboxes; Honkai: Star Rail, the new game from Genshing Impact developers, comes out on 4/26 for mobile and PC; Valve announced Counter Strike 2, coming this Summer.
2:38:34 - Out This Week
2:54:17 - RPP’s List of Best Games of All Time
4:02:28 - Recommendations - The Super Mario Movie (Theaters) / Empire of the Sun (Digital/Physical)
4:04:32 - Recommendations - Ted Laso (Apple TV+) / Dan & Luis’ Scary Device Listening Story
4:09:44 - Dan’s New Job Tease / Follow us on Twitter Plug
4:10:25 - Closing Thoughts
4:14:58 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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Dan and Luis deep dive into God of War: Ragnarok developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Spoilers start at 30:58
Once a month, Dan Lima (@PowerUpDan) and Luis Menchaca (@Chacalaca88) deep dive on a game from their backlog. If you want to play along with our hosts, next month’s game will be Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Please subscribe to the feed so you can get every new show directly to your device as soon as it posts, and if you like it, please leave us a nice review
Dan and Luis meet to talk about the upcoming finale of the show, go back through the Temple of Time for the last time, chat (once again) about the end of the 3DS and WiiU eShops, reports of a PS5 Pro around the corner, game delays, The Last of Us HBO show, and much more.
00:00 - Intro / end of the podcast discussion
16:15 - Temple of Time
52:25 - Reminder: The 3DS and WiiU eShops will close on March 27th
1:05:04 - PS5 Pro seemingly in development via Insider Gaming
1:12:25 - Check this out: There’s a Grogu Xbox Series controller
1:13:50 - Extra News
1:22:00 - Out This Week
1:37:28 - RPP’s List of Best Games of All Time
1:44:58 - SPOILERS WARNING: Recommendations / The Last of Us (HBO)
1:50:59 - Recommendations / The Mandalorian S3 (Disney+)
1:52:50 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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Dan and Luis meet to talk about how they titled the last few episodes, talk about their favorite games they played in 2022 and award Ready Press Play’s Game of the Year!, all this and much more.
00:00 - Intro
06:12 - Game of the Year Discussion Begins
09:38 - The Best Video Game Adaptation to Another Medium Award (Dan)
12:20 - The Most Japanese As Fuck Award (Luis)
14:40 - The Best Game from Another Year Award (Dan)
15:30 - The Backlog Award (Luis)
16:24 - The Best DLC Award (Dan)
20:37 - The New Coat of Paint Award (Luis)
22:52 - The Prettiest or Unique Aesthetic or Art Direction Award (Dan)
23:50 - The Indie Award (Luis)
25:54 - The Indie Award (Dan)
27:40 - The I’ve Given Up Monetarily Award (Luis)
29:12 - The Most Inaccessible Game of the Year Award (Dan)
31:36 - The Evo Award (Luis)
33:52 - The Best Acquisition of the Year Award (Dan)
38:29 - The New Game+ Award (Luis)
41:24 - The Best Cat Game of the Year (Dan)
42:58 - The I Wish I Played This Award (Luis)
45:04 - The Best Hardware of the Year (Dan)
51:02 - The Best Smash Mod Award (Luis)
54:07 - The Brought to You by LV1 Gaming Award (Luis)
58:08 - RPP’s GOTY 2022
1:13:34 - Out This Week
1:19:44 - RPP’s List of Best Games of All Time
1:29:25 - Recommendations / Perfect Match (Netflix), Attack on Titan (Crunchy Roll), Cocaine Bear (theaters)
1:36:20 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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In the longest episode of Ready Press Play Dan and Luis are hit with the realization that the theme for today’s episode is sadness. Dan and Luis give personal life updates, talk about a sad set of video game anniversaries, realize that their best predictions favor negativity, and were a little bummed about the latest Nintendo Direct. All this and more.
00:00 - Intro
05:22 - Luis’ life update
11:50 - Dan’s life update - EA’s Press Release / Yong Yea
24:58 - Temple of Time (February video game anniversaries)
50:02 - 2022 Predictions Results
1:16:02 - Nintendo Direct Roundup via IGN
1:38:45 - Xbox Developer Direct Roundup via Polygon
1:50:00 - Xbox, Nintendo, and Sony won't be part of E3 2023 via IGN
1:56:48 - Game Cancellations
2:03:36 - Check this out: HBO Mario Kart via SNL
2:05:45 - Extra News
2:14:18 - Out This Week
2:22:47 - RPP’s List of Best Games of All Time
2:32:23 - Recommendations / The Last of Us (HBO), Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
2:34:53 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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Dan and Luis meet to talk about The Last of Us' HBO show, layoffs at Microsoft, Ubisoft canceling multiple games, and end of year NPD results.
00:00 - Intro / SteamDeck / Xbox controllers
07:56 - Reminder! RPP ends on #150
10:41 - HBO’s The Last of Us Pilot Impressions
23:57 - Temple of Time (January video game anniversaries)
53:20 - Microsoft layoffs confirmed to affect Bethesda and Xbox via VGC
1:08:55 - Xbox showcase coming to highlight 2023 games, but Starfield won't be there via Polygon
1:13:45 - Ubisoft delays Skull and Bones, cancels more games via Kotaku
1:26:10 - End of year NPD results! via GI.biz
1:32:27 - Extra News
1:35:10 - Out This Week
1:49:21 - RPP’s List of Best Games of All Time
1:57:41 - Recommendations / The Whale (theaters), Missing (theaters), Kaleidoscope (Netflix)
2:04:31 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
Every other Friday, Dan Lima (@PowerUpDan) and Luis Menchaca (@Chacalaca88) will catch you up on everything that’s new and exciting in the world of video games.
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On the 3rd anniversary of Ready Press Play, Dan and Luis meet up to discuss their plans for the future of the podcast and catch up on what they were up to during the holiday break. Overall the episode was a chill laid back show where they eventually get around to talk about game news somewhere in there.
00:00 - Intro
02:30 - New Year Resolutions
15:30 - God of War Ragnarok Impressions
20:08 - Steam Deck Impressions
34:25 - FIFA predicts World Cup winner
37:20 - Christopher Judge's Game Awards speech breaks record
40:39 - Elden Ring wins more GOTY Awards than TLOU 2 - via PushSquare
47:30 - The Last of Us TV show "will be the best, most authentic game adaptation" - via Eurogamer
51:40 - Digital games outsold physical games in 2022 - via MyNintendoNews
55:17 - Sony announces new controller aimed at gamers with disabilities - via ArsTechnica
58:20 - Masahiro Sakurai confirms he is now semi-retired - via MyNintendoNews
1:06:24 - Extra News
1:13:37 - Out This Week
1:20:35 - RPP’s List of Best Games of All Time
1:30:18 - The Big Announcement
1:50:35 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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Happy holidays! On this unique episode of Ready Press Play, our crew unites to discuss and rank their favorite original games released between 1980 and 1989. This DLC was originally recorded on July 2022, and therefore won’t include updated news, releases, or other traditional segments of the show. Check back in two weeks for a more timely episode. Enjoy!
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Dan and Luis deep dive into South Park: The Stick of Truth developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Ubisoft.
Spoilers start at 17:18
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On the last traditional episode of the year, Dan and Luis meet to talk about everything announced at Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards, compare who got most predictions right, discuss newer updates on Microsoft’s big acquisition of the year, and go through flagship video game anniversaries in the month of December.
00:00 - Intro / World Cup
04:20 - FTC sues to block Microsoft’s acquisition via The Wall Street Journal
09:51 - The Game Awards 2022
1:19:05 - Temple of Time
1:44:00 - Out This Week
1:50:35 - RPP’s List of Best Games of All Time
2:00:33 - Recommendations: Tulsa King (Paramount+) and Everything Everywhere All at Once (AppleTV, Prime)
2:06:30 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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Dan and Luis meet for a bonus episode where they make predictions on what's going to get announced and who's going to take the trophy home at this year's Game Awards. Heads up: Episode 142 will drop on Saturday instead of Friday this week.
00:00 - Intro / Shenanigans
09:25 - The Game Awards topic starts
12:54 - Announcement predictions
31:55 - Winners predictions
1:13:10 - Recommendations: The World Cup and Football (sports)
1:18:43 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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Dan and Luis are enjoying their Thanksgiving holiday but they did manage to get together to pre-record a show for you guys. On today’s show, they dig up old topics that they forgot to revisit and left pending. So for today’s show, Dan and Luis figure out who won the Summer of Gaming predictions and who has the lead on their release date predictions. All this and nothing more!
00:00 - Intro / Woe is Luis
06:29 - Summer of Gaming Predictions Results
45:51 - Release Date Predictions, results so far.
1:11:40 - New Release Date Predictions
1:31:45 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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Now that God of War: Ragnarok is out, Dan and Luis don’t even mention it. Instead, they allude to it and move on to talk about PSVR2, PS Plus subscriber base decreasing, Street Fighter 6’s new controls, and more.
00:00 - Intro / Happy birthday to Luis / feeling old
05:40 - Temple of Time (video game anniversaries)
51:31 - PSVR2 launches on February 22nd for $549.99 via TheVerge
1:02:46 - PSPlus loses 1.9 million subscribers since relaunch, Sony says via Polygon
1:06:55 - SF6 has a ‘button mashing’ control scheme via VGC
1:15:55 - The Last of Us premieres on HBO in January via Polygon
1:19:41 - Activision has confirmed a ‘full premium COD release’ is planned for 2023 via VGC
1:26:12 - (Don’t) Check this out? Oculus co-founder makes a VR headset that can literally kill you via ArsTechnica
1:30:15 - Extra News
1:36:39 - Out This Week
1:50:16 - RPP’s List of Best Games of All Time
2:02:00 - Recommendations: Netflix’s Triviaverse, Andor (D+) & Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Theaters)
2:04:58 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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Dan and Luis talk about the Bayonetta 3 voice acting controversy, new Silent Hill announcements, Xbox Game Pass, September NPD results, and more.
00:00 - Intro / Housekeeping
07:16 - Bayonetta 3 voice acting controversy via Bounding Into Comics
21:54 - Phil Spencer talks Game Pass growth, profitability, pricing via The Verge
31:30 - September NPD Results via GI.biz
36:00 - New Silent Hill announcements via CBR
47:45 - Every PS2 game manual was scanned in 4K via Kotaku
50:15 - Check This Out: Super Smash Bros. [Game Concepts] via Youtube / Masahiro Sakurai
53:01 - Extra News
1:03:22 - Out This Week
1:21:46 - RPP’s List of Best Games of All Time
1:35:43 - Recommendations: See (AppleTV+), House of the Dragon (HBO), Last Night in Soho (HBO), and The Midnight Club (Netflix)
1:42:30 - Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
Every other Friday, Dan Lima (@PowerUpDan) and Luis Menchaca (@Chacalaca88) will catch you up on everything that’s new and exciting in the world of video games.
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