Friends Per Second
Four nerds. Four microphones. Zero clue what we're talking about.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:30 Video Game Movie Adaptation Discussion
14:35 Randy Pitchford and the Price of Games
24:54 Marathon Discussion
42:03 Raycon (ad)
43:56 FBC Firebreak Interview with Mike Kayatta (Game Director) and Anssi Hyytiäinen (Lead Designer)
01:10:33 FBC Firebreak Impressio...
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May 13, 2025 • 119 mins
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Note: this episode was recorded Monday May 5th - it went out late due team travel stuff.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
5:40 Ralph's Visit...
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April 27, 2025 • 167 mins
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
06:19 Oblivion Remastered Discussion with Guest Host MrMattyPlays
28:34 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Discussion
53:17 Interview with Andy Serkis
01:01:43 Raycon (ad)
01:04:08 User Question 1
01:11:57 Video Game Adaptations Chat with The Weekly Planet
01:59:20 User Question 2
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April 19, 2025 • 109 mins
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This is part 2 of episode #67, recorded on Fri Apr 11th. We had to split the episode into two because there was too much to cover between the Switch 2 reveal stuff and the trip to Bungie for Marathon.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:58 Thoughts on the Minecraft Movie
13:54 Swit...
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April 14, 2025 • 105 mins
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Timestamps:
00:00 Marathon Discussion and Impressions Part 1
13:42 Interview with Game Director Joe Ziegler
38:01 Raycon (ad)
40:24 Marathon Discussion and Impressions Part 2
01:34:32 Wrap Up
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March 30, 2025 • 150 mins
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:10 GDC Wrap Up
12:56 Ubisoft News and AC Shadows Thoughts
51:47 Factor (ad)
54:03 User Question 1
01:03:40 Interview with Alex Van Aken About the Rebirth of Game Informer
01:28:59 What We've Been Playing
02:02:16 Show and Tell
02:17:29 Wrap Up
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March 17, 2025 • 185 mins
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March 2, 2025 • 138 mins
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
12:01 What's Happening in the AAA Space?
27:46 How to Use Video Game Reviews
01:11:01 Raycon (ad)
01:13:33 What We've Been Playing
01:56:15 Show and Tell
02:05:26 Wrap Up
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February 16, 2025 • 202 mins
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This week we react to the Sony State of Play, take a deep-dive look at Avowed and chat with Jakub Szamałek, formerly a lead writer from CDPR who work on The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, and now the Narrative Director at Rebel Wolves, the studio comprised of former CDPR talent who just revealed their fir...
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February 2, 2025 • 154 mins
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
08:37 Xbox Developer Direct Recap
31:31 Sony News
42:26 Assassin's Creed Shadows Thoughts
01:05:20 Raycon (ad)
01:08:13 User Question 1
01:16:17 User Question 2
01:23:17 Big...
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January 19, 2025 • 125 mins
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro / Welcome Back!
13:18 Displate (ad)
16:46 What We...
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We chat with CDPR about Ciri, new weapons, the lore & more in The Witcher 4 | Friends Per Second #60
December 15, 2024 • 115 mins
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Let's meet our hosts!
- Jake Baldino (aka the Before You Buy Guy) is pretty much the most watched reviewer on YouTube across both Gameranx and his personal channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/JakeBaldino). If you're obsessed with Delorians, The Mummy and Pizza you can discuss that stuff with him directly over on Twitter: @J...
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November 30, 2024 • 156 mins
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This week we're joined by a number of special guests. Michael Higham from IGN joins us to talk through STALKER 2. We've all played it and all have wildly different takes on it (for both technical and non-technical reasons). After that we're joined by Frederick Thylander and Drew Rechner of Ubi...
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November 16, 2024 • 138 mins
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This week we're joined by John Linneman of Digital Foundry to discuss the PS5 Pro. It's been out for a few weeks now so we wanted to check in on how it's been doing post launch, how the library of games is performing and guess what the future holds. Plu...
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November 2, 2024 • 138 mins
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This week we're joined by Paul Tassi of Forbes for a deep dive, spoiler free discussion on Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Paul liked it, Skill Up didn't, Lucy's kinda in the middle and Jake hasn't played it, so we cover a lot of ground from a lot of different perspectives. We're also joined by Ryan Payton, head of the studio tha...
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October 19, 2024 • 154 mins
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This week we do a spoiler free deep dive into Metaphor: Fantazio, and we're lucky enough to by joined by Jess Cogswell who reviewed the game for Gamespot (scoring it a perfect 10, no less). We're also joined by the one and only Shawn Layden, former Pres...
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October 5, 2024 • 129 mins
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This week we're joined by the charming Ben Hanson from @minnmax (a truly top tier gaming podcast, we don't mind telling you), plus Jason Schreier joins to discuss his recently re...
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September 21, 2024 • 146 mins
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A big thanks to Austin and @MrMattyPlays for joining us t...
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September 8, 2024 • 167 mins
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This week we're lucky to be joined by Nicolas Doucet, game director of Astro Bot, for his first interview after the review scores went live. A big thanks to Jordan Middler of VGC for stopping by as well.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:46 Sony Kills Concord
36:34 Astro Bot Discussion...
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August 24, 2024 • 110 mins
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
07:25 Show and Tell (With Gifts!)
16:23 Special Guests Alex Jordan and Ben Starr
53:59 Incogni (ad)
56:03 What We've Been Playing (Gamescom Impressions)
01:28:35 User Questions from the Audience
01:45:40 Wrap Up
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