Splitscreen Gaming Podcast

E3 is almost here! Chad and Holden run through all the rumors and confirmed games coming to E3 plus their own predictions in this week's Main Quest. But before that the life long friends start the festivities out by sharing the excitement about the recently announced Pokemon Let's Pickachu and Let's Go Eevee! In other news discussed in Quest Log: Atari preorders begin, Bethesda teases Fallout 76, Microsoft changes it's customer service, and so much more. This month's BARF (Backlog Accomplishments With Respawn and Friends) is Deus Ex Mankind Divided. If you'd like to reach out and ask a question feel free to @RespawnAimFire or RespawnAimFire@gmail.com 0:00- Pokemon Let's Go! 11:36- Playtime with Chad 12:52- Playtime with Holden 17:37- Leaderboard 28:53- Whaddya Buyin'? 31:53- Quest Log 47:08- E3 Knowns and Rumors 51:19- E3 2018 Predictions

Disclaimer: Due to issues with the initial recording (Holden's fault, he really needs to get his act together), the first twenty minutes of the episode had to be rerecorded. Your understanding is appreciated. Starting off this week Chad and Holden share their thoughts on Japan's new standalone Switch bundle. Then they break off into their regular Playtime and discuss... SUPER MARIO RPG! This month's BARF (Backlog Accomplishments with Respawn and Friends)! YAHOOOOO! In the news John Kodera discusses the shares the future of PlayStation, Apple rejects the Steam Link app, some idiots are upset about Battlefield 5. Main Quest for the week sees Chad and Holden anticipate which games they want to see discounted in the post E3 sales. If you'd like to reach out and share something cool or contribute to our Subscriber Interrogatives please do so @RespawnAimFire or RespawnAimFire@gmail.com. Chad and Holden would like to extend a sincere thank you to Billiard Nye the Science Guy for fact checking this episode

Good evening, or afternoon, or morning, or whenever else you’re listening to this! Chad and Holden have a show for you! Opening up this week the life long friends discuss Microsoft’s new accessibility controller and positive impact it will have on many gamers’ lives. Beyond that Chad continues to play God of War and Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, and Holden shares his experience with Virtual Virtual Reality on this week’s Playtime. But then in the news this week we have lots of Quests to share with everyone… We got the Mario Tennis Demo, a new Halo game, Resident Evil 7 for Switch, Don Mattrick killing it per usual, Sony CEO talking about future of PS4, and so much more it’ll make your head spin. But don’t let it spin too much because you have to stick around for… Main Quest! Call of Duty Black Ops IIII has been announced and apparently they don’t know how Roman numerals work! But they do know how to shake things up and move the franchise away from being tired and stale. With that, Chad and Holden discus

Starting this week, Chad and Holden share their opinions on Days Gone’s details in Game Informer this month. Plus the juicy little bit accidentally mentioned regarding Last of Us Part 2’s release window! Chad continues to boast about God of War and Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze in Playtime. He just wants you to know how much he loves those games. He loves God of War so much he plans on having a spoiler chat with two other friends that aren’t Holden. Fuck Holden, who needs him? Well you’re gonna need Holden if you want to hear his thoughts on Oculus Go. Holden runs down his thoughts on the hardware and software of the Oculus and shares his favorite game he’s played on it so far, Virtual Virtual Reality. Getting into this week’s Quest Log… Rage 2 gets announced, Pokemon Switch might have a new title, Superhot is getting a sequel, Retro may be working on Star Fox (but not how’d you expect), and tons more! The Countdown to E3 also continues with Sony sharing details on their event and the “Big 4” they’ll be

Opening this week Chad and Holden go over the recently announced Marvel Fortnite cross over and wonder how this may influence the future of movie game tie ins. Nintendo surprises us again with some juicy deats on the Nintendo Switch Online Service! Our Main Quest this week features Chad and Holden offering their two cents on the announcements and see how Nintendo’s Online offering stacks up. Leaderboard makes it’s return this week with Holden breaking down the reviews for Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Radical Heights, and Nintendo Labo. Are these games worth your money? Find out right here! The Quest Log is full of news ranging from the return of Microsoft’s Kinect, God of War’s incredible sales, Nintendo Labo’s not incredible sales, Square Enix’s E3 conference announcement, and much more! Chad and Holden also the opportunity to play A Way Out together and share their thoughts. If you wish to join us in this month’s BARF (Backlog Accomplishments with Respawn and Friends), then play Super MARI

Speaking of Star Wars… We have TON of quests this week in our Quest Log! Not one but TWO earnings calls from Nintendo and Sony. Nintendo has a new President and lets us know when we can expect to hear about their online service. PS2 finally coming to PS Now. Oculus Go gets a stealth release. Platinum Games announces a new mobile game. Radical Heights sheds players. Hackers break into Switch. There’s so much to talk about! We even had to create a new segment counting down to E3, which is cleverly called Countdown to E3, to bundle all E3 stories into one section each week while we await the show. This week’s Main Quest focuses in on Nintendo’s decision to continuing 3DS support way past what it needs, but we offer up some reasons why they might be maintaining support. Reminder that this month’s Backlog Accomplishments with Respawn and Friends (BARF) will be Super MARIO RPG! If you want to share your thoughts on the game feel free to tweet @RespawnAimFire or email us at RespawnAimFire@gmail.com. Photo

It’s that time of the month again! Let’s get ready to BARF! For the past month both Chad and Holden got a chance to play Metro 2033 for April’s BARF (Backlog Accomplishments with Respawn and Friends!) and now get to share their final thoughts. Did they love it? Is it their favorite game of all time? Their least? All to be answered in Episode 58. For Main Quest the lifelong friends look to E3 2018 to make some broad predictions on what we’ll see and what they think will happen at this year’s conference. If all that wasn’t exciting enough already, Quest Log has Chad and Holden gawking at Animal Crossing Loot Boxes, gearing up to hopefully play Pokemon this November (fingers crossed!), guessing what could make Final Fantasy 7 Remake so special, and much more. May’s BARF will be Super Mario RPG if you want to get a head start! Enjoy this week’s episode, and if you’d like to reach out we can be reached @RespawnAimFire and RespawnAimFire@gmail.com 0:00- Weekly Forum 9:15- Subscriber Interrogative 14:48- P

Chad needs a nap. Poor little guy… We have a winner for April Photo Mode! Congrats to @SP00DERSK00TER! This week on our Main Quest Chad and Holden share their thoughts on Digital Curation on online stores. Are they beneficial? Who do they benefit? Quest Log is packed (yet again) with tons of stories to go over: Billy Mitchell is a big ole cheater (or is he?…he is), new Bioshock game, all the new games trying to get that Battle Royale gold, and finally round things up with God of War crushing it prerelease. Unfortunately we also have our biggest week for Game Potatoes. Five of them! Five eye roll worthy stories… But it’s okay because not everything is bad… Metro 2033 is our BARF this month! Next week the life long friends will share their thoughts on the game. If you want to be part of the conversation tweet us @RespawnAimFire or email us at RespawnAimFire@gmail.com 0:00- Weekly Forum 3:47- Subscriber Interrogative 11:42- Playtime with Chad 18:34- Playtime with Holden 20:17- Quest Log 55:01- Main Ques

PS5 coming this year?  In 2018?  Chad and Holden lay down the law and put this ridiculous rumor in it’s place in this week’s Main Quest. They continue to discuss how to find good rumors and avoid the clickbait that we all love so much. SO MUCH NEWS THIS WEEK! We talk about all the game announcements from Spider-Man, Boss Key’s new game Radical Heights, Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Our Quest Log this week also sees us discussing PUBG’s copyright claims, GTA V surpassing everything in revenue, and the groundbreaking announcements at the relevant and necessary Inside Xbox. Stay tuned in for our BARF (Backlog Accomplishments with Respawn and Friends) for the month, Metro 2033, which we will be talking about at the end of April. 0:00- Weekly Forum 6:18- Playtime with Holden 7:54- Playtime with Chad 8:15- Quest Log 50:16- Main Quest 1:07:07- Outro

Ahoy matey! No one liked Sea of Thieves, but you’re sure going to love this episode of Respawn Aim Fire. Holden takes you through the Leaderboard of games from March including: Ni No Kuni 2, Far Cry 5, and Sea of Thieves. Speaking of Sea of Thieves, in Main Quest this week Chad and Holden run down their thoughts on how Sea of Thieves’ negative perception will influence Xbox exclusives going forward. In more positive updates, Spyro the Dragon seems to be returning, Shadow of War removes microtransactions, PSVR gets a price drop, and much more is covered in the Quest Log. If you’d like a free gift card all it’s going to cost you is photoshopping images of Chad’s sexy photos available in the link below! http://bit.ly/aprilphotomode Another reminder that Metro 2033 will be featured this month on BARF (Backlog Accomplishments with Respawn and Friends). So feel free to tweet @RespawnAimFire if you’d like to share your thoughts. 0:00- Weekly Forum 7:25- Photo Mode 12:38- Playtime with Holden 20:22- Playt

We need to BARF! For March’s Back Log Accomplishments with Respawn and Friends Chad and Holden discuss Far Cry 4. Did they like? Did they finish it? All exciting points of discussion for our monthly game. Quest Log sees us venturing into the Sea of Thieves and find out what gamers are saying about it. Playstation triumphs in February leaving Xbox and Switch in the dust. For some reason Atari VCS is back in the news and we can’t wait to tell you all about it! Once we figure that out at least… Then for our Main Quest of the week we go back 20 years ago to 1998 a contender for the best year in gaming. Thanks to Fehzd and KGB SPDR for sending in our interrogatives! Holden..stop sending us your questions. We don’t care what you have to say. If you want to get ahead on next month’s BARF we will be playing Metro 2033. 0:00- Intro 1:57- Playtime with Holden 6:11- Playtime with Chad 9:16- B.A.R.F- Far Cry 4 26:44- Quest Log 41:25- Main Quest: 1998 in Gaming 57:42- Subscriber Interrogatives 1:12:25- Outro @R

We got more Nintendo, bitches!!!! Beyond our Main Quest featuring a discussion on the Future of Mobile Games, Chad and Holden also rundown the Nindies event. More importantly we explain why Lumines is the best game ever. YES IT IS CHAD! Lots of new games to discuss in our Quest Log from Shadow of the Tomb Raider to Lego Incredibles. EA has finally shown off the revamped progression and microtransaction system in Star Wars Battlefront 2. Ataribox is still perplexing, but you can preorder! And Ubisoft has been saved from the Vivendi takeover. Chad geeks out over Bayonetta and Moss VR on this week’s Playtime. Another reminder that next week Chad and Holden will finally be discussing Far Cry 4 (which hopefully they’ve played by then) in March’s BARF. 0:00- Intro 2:12- Playtime with Chad 9:55- Playtime with Holden 17:10- Quest Log 44:53- Main Quest 1:12:59- Outro @RespawnAimFire respawnaimfire@gmail.com

HEY EVERYONE IT’S EPISODE 52! WE DID IT! We were going to discuss the future of mobile games this week, but then Nintendo and Gabe Newell decided to be notable and take the spot light. But that’s okay because now Chad and Holden both get to scream about a new Smash Bros game! Our Photo Mode Winners have been announced so if you won you should have been contacted via a direct message. Congrats to the winners! Another reminder that Far Cry 4 is our BARF (Back Log Accomplishments with Respawn and Friends) for the month of March. In Playtime this week Chad hated on Kirby because he has no heart, but then redeems himself when sharing his thoughts on Florence a heart felt new mobile game. Holden plays a PC game? What? Holden played Civilization 6 and still has no idea what he’s doing. Exciting, we know. Next week we promise to chat about the future of mobile games, unless Nintendo or Gabe come back that is… Speaking of Gabe Newell and Valve here’s a link to the video Holden mentioned in this week’s episo

Welcome back to Respawn Aim Fire! It’s only our second episode under our new name and we’re already going to the future to see what video games have in store for us. What major hurdles does the industry have to tackle? How will we play games in the future? How will we buy them? Chad and Holden discuss the answers to all the questions. Review Round Up has also been renamed Leaderboard. Every first episode of the month Holden will run down some highlight games from the previous month and let us know the industry had to say about them. This week the games are Metal Gear Survive, Payday 2 for Switch, and Moss. Our Quest Log sees Chad and Holden going over PS5 backwards compatibility, Bethesda’s E3 event, Switch user reviews, and much more. Another reminder about Photo Mode! Be sure to send us a photo of you listening to Respawn Aim Fire by March 11th. There’s a great chance you’ll win $10 on a gaming platform of your choice! Wooo! Also be sure to play along with this month’s B.A.R.F. (Backlog Accomplishme

Welcome to Respawn Aim Fire! We are retiring the SplitScreen Gaming Podcast name and moving on to bigger and better things! Game of the Month has been updated to Backlog Accomplishments with Respawn and Friends (or maybe there’s a better way of putting that...) where we discuss February’s game: The Surge. Thanks to @FehzdIRL for asking two questions about Switch’s competition against PS4, and Xbox One which were discussed in this week’s Main Quest. Our Main Quest this week sees us looking back on Switch’s first year. Chad and Holden discuss what Switch means in the context of gaming history. We also look to the future to see where Nintendo might take their hybrid console. Quest Log features Konami’s questionable microtransactions, Super Smash Bros. rumors, ESRB’s response to loot boxes, and more! 0:00- Intro 1:01- B.A.R.F.- The Surge 35:28- Photo Mode 38:00- Quest Log 1:08:26- Main Quest- Switch, One Year Later 1:35:22- Outro Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @RespawnAimFire Email: RespawnAimFire@gmail.c

The world is changing! Exciting new changes to Splitscreen Gaming Podcast are coming next week! Name change! Theme music! Title cards! Potatoes!!! Listen to find out the future adventures of three life long friends! This week features all the important news you crave from FIFA 18 to ‘CosPups’ Plus we share our thoughts on the future of the Metal Gear Franchise starting with the release of Metal Gear Survive. Shout to Jerson for tweeting us our Subscriber Interrogative  “Will Sony release a new handheld?” Look forward to seeing you all next week for the beginning of something new… 0:00-6:46- Our New Podcast 6:46-12:17- What Holden Played 12:17-21:22- What Chad Played 21:22-47:02- News 47:02-59:42- Metal Gear Survive and MGS Future 59:42-1:09:39- Subscriber Interrogative 1:09:39- Goodnight, Sweet Prince Instagram: @RespawnAimFire Twitter: @RespawnAimFire Facebook: facebook.com/respawnaimfire Email: respawnaimfire@gmail.com

Happy Birthday Vita! Why does no one love you? We love you! You had some great games and some under appreciated ideas! Chad and Holden also continue to express their love of Shadow of the Colossus (LIGHT SPOILERS) Chad and Holden share their thoughts on the Google Console, Sea of Thieves Microtransactions, the rumored Spyro Collection, and more stories of the week. 0:00-2:43- Intro 2:43-10:51- What Chad Played (Shadow of the Colossus) 10:51-13:45- What Holden Played 13:45-43:07- News 43:07-1:13:44- Happy Birthday, Vita: A Retrospective 1:13:44- Outro Instagram: @SplitScreenGP Twitter: @SplitScreenGP Facebook: facebook.com/splitscreengamingpodcast Email: splitscreengamingpodcast@gmail.com

At last Shadow of the Colossus is upon us! We offer our initial impressions and compare the game on PS4 and PS4 Pro. The Big N finally revealed the official Switch sales numbers while also announcing the Mario movie and the release date for online support. Wrapping up the show, Chad and Holden get into a discussion on timeless games and what it takes to be timeless. 0:00-0:53- Intro 0:53-14:47- What Holden Played 14:47-21:57- What Chad Played 21:57-35:59- January Review Roundup 35:59-1:00:42- News 1:00:42-1:19:15- Timeless Games 1:19:15- Outro Instagram: @SplitScreenGP Twitter: @SplitScreenGP Facebook: facebook.com/splitscreengamingpodcast Email: splitscreengamingpodcast@gmail.com

Game of the Month Time! Holden fucked up his Earthbound save. Twice. And yes he knows he’s an idiot. But don’t worry Chad makes up for it with a fantastic rundown of what makes ports great. Holden is too stupid to know what Chad is talking about, but tries anyway. Literally, Holden wrote this. If you're a cop from the future looking into Holden's murder, this isn't evidence against Chad. 0:00-2:05- Intro 2:05-14:42- Celeste/What Holden Played 14:42-20:27- What Chad Played 20:27-50:07- Earthbound- Game of the Month 50:07-1:06:59- News 1:06:59-1:21:21- Are Ports ImPORTant? 1:21:21- Outro Instagram: @SplitScreenGP Twitter: @SplitScreenGP Facebook: facebook.com/splitscreengamingpodcast Email: splitscreengamingpodcast@gmail.com

Our biggest news week ever! Tons of updates from newly rumored games to new tech! Plus hear Chad and Holden’s thoughts on Nintendo Labo, and an incredible update to Xbox Game Pass and what it means for the future of gaming. 0:00-2:31- Intro 2:31-4:01- What Holden Played 4:01-17:12- What Chad Played 17:12-20:43- LIGHT SPOILERS: Last Day of June 20:43-28:34- What Chad Played- Continued 28:34-59:01- News 59:01-1:08:08- Groundbreaking Xbox Game Pass Updates 1:08:08-1:18:52- Nintendo Labo 1:18:52- Outro Instagram: @SplitScreenGP Twitter: @SplitScreenGP Facebook: facebook.com/splitscreengamingpodcast Email: splitscreengamingpodcast@gmail.com