A new Nintendo Direct caught us all by surprise this week, where it was confirmed that Splatoon 3 would launch this summer. Also, Square Enix is going to localize after many years a port of LiveALive, which has us particularly thrilled for a reason. New Mario Kart 8 DLC and much much more was announced. We talk about the highlights of the direct, and how we felt about it, as the internet seemed surprisingly polarized on the event. All this and much more news on another week of the longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio!

There are rumors that Stadia has been re-prioritized within Google, which some take as a sign that this is the beginning of the end. Is this conclusion being jumped to too soon? We discuss with our own DarkSakura, who streams from the Stadia platform quite frequently. Also at the top of the show we talk about Pokemon Legends Arceus, and a question that Rob received about if it was a rush job. Was it, or was something else potentially afoot? All this and much more gaming news round out another episode of the longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio!

Isn't it weird when gaming executives try to tell us that we just don't "get" things they try to push in games? Yeah, another big gaming executive is at it again, this time on the implementation of blockchain technologies in games that a minority of people are asking for. We discuss why this idea just seems to not go away and comes up way too often in the gaming news as of late. Don't worry, there's plenty other gaming news to get into as well that DOESN'T involve acronyms beginning with N and ending with T.

Tonight, we celebrate and thank all of our community for 900 weekly episodes across 20 years of broadcasting. Thank you all for your support! We jump right into the gaming news of the week which of course includes the major bombshell that Microsoft is purchasing Activision-Blizzard. We discuss with our live chat what this might mean for the future of the company (and some of those retro titles in the vault). We also get into the frustration of how the "bad guys" might win, with a major payout for a CEO who destroyed the company with the toxic culture he created. We discuss this and much more on another week of the longest running podcast about video games online, Orange Lounge Radio!

We reflect back on 2021 and some of our games of the year, as well as some of the lower points of the year in gaming. We look ahead to 2022 with some predictions for the year, then get into our gaming weeks. We also discuss the news headlines, which include a major acquisition of a mostly mobile gaming company by Take Two. Were they really worth that much, or are there some crazy casual games we aren't considering enough? Our live chat joins in the discussion on another week of the longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio!

This week at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Playstation VR 2 was revealed, along with a quick tease of a VR game in the Horizon universe. What do we think about the prospects of a new Playstation VR unit? We get into all this, our gaming weeks, and more, on a cable company failure abbreviated edition of Orange Lounge Radio.

For the holidays, the gaming news slows down a bit, and we get to read lots of fluff pieces left by gaming websites to auto-publish over the holidays. For this special episode of Orange Lounge Radio, we let these fluff pieces inspire our own gaming memories and discussion. The show doesn't end here though as we talk about our gaming weeks, and cover the few headlines that showed up just before the holidays. All this and more on the longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio!

A Nintendo Indie Direct happened this week, and we take some time at the top of the show to talk about the various announcements and forthcoming game releases. It's always nice to have some treats of things to look forward to in a new year of gaming. We get into all that as well as our gaming weeks and much more gaming news discussion on another week of Orange Lounge Radio!

The Video Game Awards were this week, and our hosts gather to talk about some of the highlights of reveals from the show, as well as some things we think could be improved for next year. Our chatters also weigh in on the subject of what they thought of the awards, musical performances, and commercials. There was much more news than just all that this week, and we talk about all of it as well as our gaming weeks on another week of the internet's longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio!

The Endwalker expansion for Final Fantasy XIV had it's "early" launch this weekend, and there are a lot of queues, errors, and frustration as folks try to play the latest chapter in this MMO that's been bigger than ever. Rob shares some of his experiences, as well as who he thinks is really to blame for all of these issues, and it's not who you might think. The gaming world goes on outside of just this one MMO though, and we talk about lots more gaming news on another week of the world's longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio!