This week on Checkpoint Chat, controller's get sweaty as Team Ninja's latest starts stressing our abilities in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Atomic Heart is a fun game with a truly awful story, and DID YOU HEAR ABOUT ELDEN RING DLC?

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-- SHOW NOTES --

00:00:00- Adulting, inverting, Eminem NFTs, and sickness
00:15:12 - Atomic Heart's story is actual nonsense
00:32:03 - Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty feels real good so far!
00:48:11 - Games out this week
00:51:22 - The latest gaming news
01:20:19 - Listener questions

We team up with fellow playmotion creator Troy Smith to talk about our most recent collaboration: Red Glare.

Plus the lads offer their opinions on issues #2 and #299 of the ARAH comic book run.

Red Glare can be seen here:

Steve's definitive HasLab Skystriker chat on Chaplain's Assistants Motor Pod can be heard here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/fail-safe-and-ramp-rats-and-sky-strikers-oh-my-haslab-g/id1579524031?i=1000601537192

See Mike The Hunter's GI Joe Classified film here:

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This week on Checkpoint Chat, we're still enjoying our travels back in time to a technologically advanced USSR in Atomic Heart, we've played around with the DualSense Edge for a month and think it's pretty great, and Suicide Squad is looking a bit strange right?

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-- SHOW NOTES --

00:00:00​ - The Last of Us show slaps real hard
00:07:02 - We've finished Atomic Heart!
00:26:10 - Our final review of the DualSense Edge
00:35:45 - Games out this week
00:39:33 - The latest gaming news
01:04:05 - Listener questions

This week on Checkpoint Chat we're deep in the Soviet Union fighting rebellious robots in Atomic Heart, the magic had faded fast in Hogwarts Legacy, and Padel has an MMR system now?

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-- SHOW NOTES --

00:00:00​ - Eskom (of course) and padel
00:09:38 - We're playing Atomic Heart!
00:24:55 - Our final review of Hogwarts Legacy
00:48:45 - Games out this week
00:56:40 - The latest gaming news
01:18:33 - Listener questions

This week on Checkpoint Chat, magic is burst at the seams with looks at both Forspoken and Hogwarts Legacy, but not before we dive into the rhythmic GOTY contender, Hi-Fi Rush.

Rob, Paul, Steve (and friends!) are back! We're kicking off a new year and kicking off a new segment where we review the A Real American Hero comic book run from the start AND THE END and meet somewhere in the middle! Confusing? We'll kick things off with issue #1... and issue #300!!!

Issue 300 review: 00:15 - 00:42

Issue 1 review: 00:42 - 01:28

This week on Checkpoint Chat there's a whole bunch of games new and old to get through, including Hi-Fi Rush, Forspoken, Final Fantasy Crisis Core: Reunion and...a new PlayStation controller?

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-- SHOW NOTES --

00:00:00 - Editing tomfoolery and padel tennis
00:12:32 - Hi-Fi Rush is a lovely surprise
00:25:34 - It's early days for us and Forspoken
00:35:07 - The DualSense Edge feels real nice (thus far)!
00:43:47 - Our Crisis Core –Final Fantasy VII– Reunion review
00:55:25 - Games out this week 00:58:19 - The latest gaming news
01:23:20 - Listener questions

We all learn about the true attributes of friendship. Running away has never been this difficult before...

An home-brew actual-play Dungeons and Dragons 5e podcast set on the continent of Astra in Callendos, with interactive input from our live sessions on Twitch.tv/dumdumdie . All female. All awesome!

Checkpoint Chat is back for 2023 (finally), and we've brought along a menagerie of games we played over the break including Signalis, Final Fantasy Crisis Core Reunion, Darks Souls I & II, Immortality, The Witcher 3, and more.

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-- SHOW NOTES --

00:00:00- HAPPY (LATE) NEW YEAR!
00:15:51 - We finished Signalis
00:26:26 - Immortality is a must play "game"
00:39:56 - Crisis Core is goofy but we love it
00:47:17 - Wind's still howling in Witcher 3 (now with pretty graphics)
00:48:45 - We went back in time to play Dark Souls 1...
00:52:53 - ... AND Dark Souls 2!
00:56:26 - Games out this week
01:01:25 - The latest gaming news
01:25:02 - Listener questions

Things are not looking good for our trio of adventurers. The Revenant, it seems, packs more than just a punch...

An home-brew actual-play Dungeons and Dragons 5e podcast set on the continent of Astra in Callendos, with interactive input from our live sessions on Twitch.tv/dumdumdie . All female. All awesome!

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Ambient soundtracks from Tabletop Audio (tabletopaudio.com/)

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