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The Save Room
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The Save Room is your safe haven for gaming news and discussion! If you're looking for critical and well-informed opinions on the video game industry from two highly regarded experts... Let us know when you find that. That show sounds awesome.
Instead, crack open a cold one and listen to us rant about games, gaming culture, and Reggie Fils-Aimé's skull collection. When you listen to The Save Room, you're practically a roommate! Because we like you (and you owe us rent).
Hosted by Kevin Pape and Daniel.
New episodes on every Friday.
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Episode 149: Xbox the Job Slayer
6d ago03:07:06Tap to summarizeXbox's big corporate reset resulted in 3200 layoffs, but Asha says we have to clap because they didn't close any studios. Hey! Don't mockingly clap. That's bad for the algorithm. We discuss how this latest round of cuts impacts long-running studios like Obsidian, Double Fine, and id Software (who was rewarded for releasing a phenomenal piece of DLC with severe down-sizing). Ain't gaming grand? Also: Daniel lists his top 10 wishes for the upcoming Ocarina of Time Remake and Kevin wishes Steve Burnside is deleted from the Code: Veronica Remake!
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Episode 148: Killing of a Sacred Disc
2w ago02:53:21Tap to summarizeSony has declared they will no longer put their games on physical discs starting in 2028. And that's fantastic news! As long as you enjoy news about corporations encroaching on consumer rights and shrinking what little ownership we have over our purchases. And, by golly, who doesn't? In other sordid news, Xbox (i.e., XBOX) plans to "reset" their business in clever, never before seen ways... Oh, wait, it's just more layoffs. Jesus. We swear there's some fun to be had in this episode under all the rubble. For example, we talk about the N64 being our sexual awakening! Um. Maybe listen to this one with earphones.
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Episode 147: The Summer Geoffs '26 - Keighley Redeemed Edition
Jun 2103:00:15Tap to summarizeThe Geoff Solstice has hit us once more and it brought the heat this year. We have Sephiroths, clawed Canadians, and goddesses of war. Nostalgia wins again and we're getting Ocarina of Time... again! We have a gosh darned Code: Veronica remake! (Although, due to tariffs, we couldn't keep the "Code" in the title). Geoff has learned from his prior errors and gave us what we really want: corporate IP, baby. Join the fellas as we unpack this cooler of game announcements!
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Episode 146: Our Saros/Pragmata Mixtape
May 2703:06:06Tap to summarizeDoes Saros cuckold the player? Can Pragmata make you paternal? Is Mixtape even a video game? These are all very stupid questions that we don't answer and, instead, we just talk about all three games like normal people. I know, it doesn't drive the clicks, but we're already well-funded industry plants.
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Episode 145: The State of Play(Station 5)
Apr 2403:04:45Tap to summarizeCome November, the PlayStation 5 will have been out for six whole years, and if you ask the internet, Sony doesn't have a single game to show for it. Of course, you shouldn't ask the internet anything because it'll melt your brain and then you'll drip brain all over your controller. Join us as we determine whether Sony's ninth generation console has lived up to PlayStation's legacy so far or left us with a terminal case of joystick drift.
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Save Room Reviews: Resident Evil Requiem
Mar 2703:50:53Tap to summarizeCapcom has finally had their peanut butter/chocolate moment and mixed white-knuckle survival horror with no-holds barred action horror. The latest entry in their long running horror franchise sees the return of Leon "Dad Jokes" Kennedy alongside Grace, a new protagonist, who holds a sought after secret (while struggling to hold it together). Requiem is a celebration of the franchise's 30 year history, but does it nail its split genre balancing act? Enter the world of survival horror podcasting to find out.
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Game of the Year 2025 - Part 2: GOTY Gommage
Jan 2404:05:02Tap to summarizeThe ritual is complete. The definitive video games of 2025 have been named. This painted world comes to an end. (Also, a certain three letter organization requires a judicial warrant -- signed by a federal judge or magistrate -- to enter your home. If they present an administrative warrant, don't let them in. Just some fun gamer tips to keep you playin' smart!)
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Game of the Year 2025 - Part 1: GOTY Obscur
Jan 1604:24:02Tap to summarizeThe time has come to put 2025 to bed, gamers. It's a year that saw us go on doomed expeditions, brave the dark ages, hunt monsters, and look at super-dicks (I mean, we did; no idea how your year went). In this first part to our overlong, and over-great, Game of the Year podcast, we rail our bottom five picks for 2025.
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Episode 144: The Game Awards 2025 - GeoffGuard
Dec 1802:03:22Tap to summarizeAnother year, another The Game Awards (TM). Geoff's seven hour showcase had everything you could expect: live performances, people dangling precariously from wires, sexual innuendos between a man and a muppet, and million dollar world premieres. Join us as we discuss the HighGuards and LowGuards of 2025's presenta-- HOLY SHIT IS THAT LEON???
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Episode 143: Geoff Keighley's Nom Noms
Dec 503:44:58Tap to summarizeCanada's Game Daddy (Geoff Keighley) has unleashed the nominees for 2025's The Game Awards. There are many contenders to the GOTY throne, but who will be interrupted by a Fortnite commercial first? Also: we discuss Halo ending the console wars, Resident Evil leaks, Call of Duty's botched Ops, the auditory pain of Borderlands 4, the mountain of Yotei (also the game), and the correct way to Dispatch superheroes.
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