Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on 'Highguard' and Ubisoft's restructuring?
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Hello and welcome into The Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom. I am Ben Lindberg, Senior Editor for The Ringer and Ringleader of Button Mash, back with you for a departure from our regularly scheduled Fallout recaps. Only one of those left. This time, we're talking about a couple of other game adaptations, but also some actual games.
You know, those interactive things the movies and TV shows are adapted from. Later on this episode, I will be joined by one of the great gaming-adjacent YouTubers, Mark Markiplier Fischbach, to talk about his movie adaptation of the 2022 horror game Iron Lung, which is in theaters, a surprisingly large number of theaters now.
But before I bring in the guy with 38 million YouTube subscribers, I'm joined by a man who has, to my knowledge, zero YouTube subscribers. Ringer, Deputy Art Lead, Matt. Matt Ablier, James.
I could probably get a few, you know, if I tried. I could probably get like, yeah, my star channel.
Have you YouTubed in your life? Do you have a hidden channel I don't know about? Yeah, let's not talk about that.
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Chapter 3: Why did Matt decide to buy a gaming PC?
Oh, wow. Okay. I could get 10 subscribers, Ben. Okay.
Chapter 4: What indie games are highlighted as January gems?
Do you have some edgelord behavior in your deep?
Oh, no.
Chapter 5: What makes 'Cairn' a standout game this month?
Nothing like Steve Allman in the Call of Duty.
His toxic language in the Call of Duty lobby. Well, that's good to know. Yeah. I was just wondering if there might be some secret YouTubing in your past, like how Timothee Chalamet had a channel where he showed off his modded and customized- Xbox 360 controllers. Yeah, it was called Modded Controller 360. Actually, you can't look it up.
I was going to say look it up, but you can't because it's been removed, sadly. But it was about 15 years ago. I remember. Yeah, that's the thing because other people have reposted it.
Chapter 6: What is 'Mio: Memories in Orbit' about and how does it compare to other games?
You can find it. But evidently, Josh Safdie told him to tap into his controller hustling spirit to play Marty Supreme. So it was always in him.
Chapter 7: What are the main features of 'TR-49' and who is it for?
That glimmer of stardom expressed via video games. Yeah. Yeah, same.
Come on, Button Mesh.
Yeah. Timothy, come on, Button Mesh.
Chapter 8: What should viewers expect from 'Return to Silent Hill'?
We'll talk about controllers. We have so much in common. Yeah. We won't talk about controllers today because we have so much else to discuss. And we have some segments today, which we're going to experiment. Nothing's really changing about the show, the actual content. We're still going to be talking about the things we would usually talk about, but...
As the ghoul says on Fallout, never underestimate the power of brand recognition. So we're just going to name the things that we are talking about, as suggested by super producer Devin Rinaldo. So we're going to lead off with some news items, and then we'll talk about some new games with a brief recap. departure, a brief diversion into a personal story about gaming that you care to share.
And then we'll get to our main conversation, which will be about some January gems, some indies that have come out in a slow month for gaming that we have played and enjoyed. And then finally, we will play Nashor Pass and we will rate Return to Silent Hill, the new movie that is based on Silent Hill 2. We'll get to that. So very, very telling tone.
I don't want to spoil whether we will bash or pass there. I want to preserve some suspense. But let's lead off with our patch notes. This is some quick hit news items that we've been tracking. And we've got to start with the game of the moment, High Guard. Not to be confused with Highgarden, Seed of House Tyrell. This is Highgarden, the game, which is from Wild Light Entertainment.
It's a new studio that is composed largely, though not entirely, of veterans of Apex Legends and Titanfall from Respawn. This game is an online, free-to-play, PvP, hero, raid, shooter, throw in some other genres and buzzwords and they probably apply. And this was, of course, the game that came to everyone's attention because it was the closer at the Game Awards, quite controversially.
And now, more than a month later, it is out after radio silence in the interim for PS5, Xbox, and Windows. And boy, people have opinions about High Guard, Matt. What have you seen of this furor that has been caused by the launch of this game?
Wow. Well, it's been an interesting week. You know, Jeff Keighley, the main guy of the Game Awards there, who... stuck a limb out there to put High Guard in the closing spot has seemingly been dealing with a lot of internet reactions specifically directed at him this week.
Shortly before the game was released, I believe he posted online saying, I will begin accepting your apologies in 48 hours when High Guard drops. And it dropped. And there weren't that many people apologizing to him. No.
Yeah, it's been divisive, to say the least. It peaked at about 100,000 players on Steam, so it obviously generated some interest. Yes, the publicity works. Yeah. Did it backfire? This is a test of the contention that all news is good news, or there's no such thing as bad PR, because according to the High Guard devs. So it was just utter silence for six weeks or so after that big reveal at TGA.
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