Ben Lindbergh

which will be releasing Marvel's Wolverine on September 15th.

We got a release date now.

And Housemarque, which will be releasing Saros soon, the makers of Returnal.

But let us proceed to our main quest and talk about a big game that is out right now.

Resident Evil Requiem, which is the ninth mainline game in the Resident Evil series, the 30-somethingth Resident Evil release, depending on how you define that, spinoffs, remakes, etc.

It's the first mainline game since Resident Evil Village five years ago, though it's not a direct continuation of that game.

And the day that this podcast is coming out is Pokemon's 30th birthday.

Happy birthday, Pokemon.

We will wait a week to celebrate that birthday by talking about Pokemon Pocopia next week.

There's also a big showcase of all the Pokemon news.

Don't want to snub the Pokemon, but it's also Resident Evil's

30th birthday this year.

It has turned 30.

There have been more than 30 games.

That gives you some sense of the pace here.

But this one is a watershed and I think a release that ties together a lot of the strands of...

mutant DNA that have made up this franchise for years and years.

And I think for the purposes of this discussion, we can mirror Requiem itself.

So Matt, your portions of the podcast, you will just kind of creep around and stammer a lot and breathe very heavily and you won't be able to carry very much.

yeah and you'll just be constantly looking for keys and trying to unlock stuff and solve puzzles and then i'll throw it to joshua and he'll just come in guns blazing with his shoddy and his action hero one-liners and that will provide the the contrast on this episode that requiem provides its players no we won't actually do that on the podcast but that is the way requiem works and i think