Jamie and Marsh get pumped, pepped and revved up for the summer games marketing onslaught, and then enjoy the more tangible pleasures of demos in the Steam Next Fest, including: Ball X Pit, Morsels, Bits & Bops, Consume Me, Dispatch and Baby Steps.

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In this episode, I, Marsh, misremember Peggle’s mascot as Bookworm Adventures’ mascot, which is a bookworm, despite the fact that only one of these titles has “bookworm” in the name. This is an error for which I do not deserve, and will never earn, your forgiveness—but I acknowledge it now to prepare you for the boiling rage my failure will induce.
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Lies of P and The Last Berserker – the best off-brand Soulslikes?
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Shout out to Ollie
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The games of Summer Game Fest:
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Mortal Shell 2
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
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Chronicles: Medieval
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End of Abyss
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Mouse: P.I. for Hire
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Game of Thrones: War for Westeros
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Atomic Heart 2 & The Cube
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Felt That: Boxing
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Out of Words
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Mafia: The Old Country
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Resident Evil Requiem
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LEGO Voyagers (LEGO Builders, from the same team, and LEGO 2K Drive, by not the same team, suggest that the LEGO brand has a stable of solid talent at their disposal.)
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Deadpool VR. So much great work going on in VR. This isn’t it. (Ghost Town, a VR puzzle game by Fireproof Games, developers of The Room series, might be brilliant, though.)
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Dying Light: The Beast
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Mixtape (the studio’s previous game was The Artful Escape)
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Acts of Blood
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MindsEye
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ILL
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Splitgate 2
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Games not from Summer Game Fest:
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Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement
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Lumines Arise (by the developers of people-herding puzzle game Humanity)
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Silent Hill F
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Militsioner
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Sleep Awake
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Mewgenics (the Other One Who Isn’t Edmund McMillen is in fact called Tommy Refenes, and is making Super Meatboy 3D)
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Games from Steam Next Fest:
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Ball X Pit
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Morsels
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Dispatch
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Bits & Bops
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Consume Me
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Baby Steps
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Mina The Hollower
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All Living Things
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Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
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Absolum (the Streets Of Rage 4 people doing fantasy)
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Jupiter Hell Classic

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