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The Most Normal Golf Game Ever Made Sep 21, 2026

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A conversation with the designer behind one of 2026's most pleasant surprises, and arguably the most unconventional take on hitting a golf ball since Wii Sports.

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Remap Radio 154 — It’s Not a Lake, It’s a Podcast Sep 18, 2026

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You don’t get a new Remedy video game all that often, but Rob, Patrick, and Janet have all played Control Resonant and…well, you should just listen to the podcast. Elsewhere on Remap Radio this week, we’ve got [checks notes] a ton of bummer news, including several studios shutting down, IGN laying off even more people, a truly perplexing story about a studio head’s comments on crunch, and more. At least Chia’s back from Japan and playing Perfect Tides!

Links: Moss Dev Shuts Down, Heart Machine goes through Layoffs, Rockstar Union had a Mole in their Discord, Wardogs Dev won't hire people who have been vocally anti-crunch, Nighthawks Categorized as Adult Content by Steam, The Future of Marathon

Discussed:

00:02:33 - Unfortunately we must discuss the horrors

00:04:49 - IGN/Indie Studios Layoffs and Closures

00:44:24 - Wardogs CEO talks crunch

01:16:36 - Rockstar deployed union mole

01:25:00 - Nighthawks marked as adult content by Steam moderation

01:32:03 - The Future of Marathon

01:41:49 - Control Resonant

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Sports! Mini — A 59lb Burger Sep 15, 2026

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The 13th of September will no longer be known as a Chicago holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice, we will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today, friends, The Bears Are Back! Join Rob and Patrick for a Sports! mini-pod—seriously, it’s only 20 minutes—about the Bears pulverizing the Panthers. Our hope is to deliver one of these every week (unless we’re already doing a normal Sports!). Library-tier subscribers will get access to them ASAP, while everyone else can hear our thoughts on Saturdays…right before the NFL kicks off again! Beardown!

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Remap Radio 153: Let's Not Get Mired in So-Called Research Sep 11, 2026

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Bruno Dias joins the crew to talk about his review of The Sinking City 2 and Lovecraft as author versus Lovecraft as brand. Then the gang gets into our glorious era of privacy annihilating personal technology and engages in a philosophical exploration of Siri Recap and when an audio file ceases to be an audio file. We discuss Kojima's announcement with Microsoft, and what it implies about Sony's relationship to big AAA prestige pieces and creators. You know, things like Wolverine from Insomniac, which Patrick has been playing a lot this last week. It's not great, bub! Then Bruno has been digging into 1000 Hells and Blood of Dawnwallker. If you ever wanted to hear about different ways voice lines and barks are handled at studios, this is the episode for you, because Bruno has spent time in those mines.

00:01:18 - Sinking City 2
00:59:44 - TCL’s TV Review Press List
01:28:13 - Hockey Commentator reveals that EA is testing AI voice acting for EA Sports
01:40:54 - 1900 Blizzard Employees Unionize
01:52:22 - Microsoft acquires Kojima Production’s PHYSINT after Sony drops it
02:16:01 - Insomniac’s Wolverine Woes
02:45:57 - 1000 Hells
02:51:49 - Blood of Dawnwalker
03:04:00 - Star Wars Zero Company

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Remap Radio 152 - I Studied the Blade Sep 04, 2026

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Hey everyone look at this guy. He doesn't know who Miyamoto Musashi is. He doesn't even know about Ganryu! If you mention the Five Rings, he thinks you're talking about Tom Brady. And yet HE was worthy of the Onimusha: Way of the Sword review code? That's fine. We're not bitter. We have other games to play, like Super Mega Baseball, First Light, or Orbitals.

01:06 - The Sinking City 2 might be an Evil Within 2-like

06:02 - 80% of Bit Reactor Furloughed

18:22 - The DLSS5 Yassification Machine

38:21 - De-listed games included in Xbox’s disc to digital initiative

49:43 - Onimusha: Way of the Sword

1:22:24 - Super Mega Baseball

1:39:21 - 007: First Light

1:54:27 - Orbitals

2:09:26 - Question Bucket

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The Pile of Shame (Library Preview) Aug 31, 2026

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This is a preview of a Premium Library Tier podcast. To access the full episode, you can sign up at remapradio.com/signup

2026 has been full of horrors, but it’s also been full of video games, too. With Grand Theft Auto VI coming later this year, though, there’s an avalanche of games coming throughout September and October. It felt like a good time to check in with Patrick, Chia, and Janet about their individual piles of shame, the games they plan to spend more time with before 2026 is over, and what games they’re looking forward to playing as the year rolls around. It’s, uh, a lot of games.

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Remap Radio 151: Now THIS Is Tactics Aug 28, 2026

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Rob and Patrick have been digging into Zero Company and discuss the things they are getting from their vastly divergent contexts for it. The gang discuss Tim Curry's passing, Playdate's tariff generosity, and the Paradox founders' taxation takes. Then Janet has been digging Perfect Tides, Baldur's Gate 3, and Blood Dungeon, while Patrick is enjoying the a return to the grimness of A Plague Tale with Resonance.

01:17 - Star Wars Zero Company (Redux)

01:03:20 - Tim Curry's passing

01:05:49 - Doublefine's independent plans

01:09:29 - Xbox Discless Pivot

01:21:44 - Playdate refunds tariff money

01:26:46 - Paradox CEO complains about wealth taxes

01:48:25 - Perfect Tides: Station to Station

02:06:32 - Baldur’s Gate 3

02:15:01 - Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy

02:35:53 - Manual Transmission Games & Rally Car School

02:56:38 - Blood Dungeon

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Remap Radio 150 — Grand Theft Podcast Aug 21, 2026

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So far as we know, nobody is leaking clips from this podcast, but the same can’t be said for Grand Theft Auto VI. Join Patrick, Chia, and Janet as they reminisce about how their parents treated GTA growing up, Netflix’s latest signal they don’t know what to do with video games, and plenty of games talk, including impressions of Netflix’s (impressive!) Unhinged experiment, MiO: Memories in Orbit, Rogue Voltage, Mortal Shell II, and more. Plus, in The Question Bucket, we ponder why developers disable achievements when using options to tweak a game’s difficulty.

Links: GTA 6 Suffers Third Day of Leaks, Latest Video Suggests Leakers Have Access to a Build of the Game, Nightschool Shuttered by Netflix, Industry legend Warren Spector is retiring: 'I'm feeling like I've done what I set out to do', Matthew Karch Apologizes to Stella Sacco, School for Poetic Computing, Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox | exclusive

Discussed:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:12:19 - The GTA VI Leaks, the Worker's Union, and GTA Histories

00:16:32 - gameworkers.square.site

00:34:31 - Night School Shuttered by Netflix

00:38:37 - Unhinged

00:55:57 - Saber Interactive CEO Apologizes to Former Employee

01:05:38 - Warren Spector Retires

01:09:58 - Harvey Smith starts a new company

01:11:10 - Arco recoups it's development costs

01:14:21 - MIO: Memories in Orbit

01:24:51 - Mortal Shell 2

01:42:28 - Rogue Voltage

01:52:21 - School for Poetic Computing

01:57:28 - Compulsion Games is now Independent

01:58:37 - Angel Essence

02:07:02 - Pin-Crawl

02:12:14 - Question Bucket

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Do Video Games Belong in Prison? Aug 19, 2026

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Patrick sits down with Nicole Carpenter to discuss her article on the prisoners at Rikers prison and their access to video games. Which games are provided to them, and who gets to make that decision? They also break down the biases people carry about who should have access to games, and how that access changes the prisoners' day to day life.

A Virtual Escape for Riker's Inmates by Nicole Carpenter

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Sports! — Da Bears Are (Almost) Back Aug 18, 2026

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Are you a down bad enough sicko to watch NFL pre-season football? That’s the question that Patrick poses to Rob as they kick off a new episode of Sports! We also discuss the state of sports journalism, the rise of analysis over journalism, what happened to The Athletic, the ongoing culture war in the WNBA, and much more. Plus, we strongly consider a trip to Detroit.

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