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We go over the Avatar beta this week!

Did we go to EVO this year? No. Did we watch it at home? Kinda. We go over the news at EVO, what we saw, and our issues with watching it at home.

Austin and Garrett do a duo episode to cover some news topics like Season 3 of City of the Wolves, the Tekken Cartoon, and new Avatar characters. (Episode is 184 since there are two episodes on the backburner, waiting on a host's internet connection to improve so they can send their audio)

The newcomers talk about their weeks and get into a large amount of fighting game news that includes, Virtua Fighter Crossroads, Avatar, Tokon, 2XKO, and Street Fighter 6

The boys are back from traveling and they brought a friend! Ben is one of Garrett's and Austin's friends, and he decided to come down to Chicago to go to Combo Breaker with Garrett and he's here to share his experience. Garrett also talks about one of the worst teams he spent $55 dollars on at an auction tournament, and some news is discussed along with opinions on the newest (at the time) Tokon build

We do a first to ten with Brandon and Troy in Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising in preparation for Combo Breaker! This episode is meant to be paired with video of the two playing, and will be included once that has finished editing.

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Evo Japan just happened and with it, a floodgate of news! Garrett also saw Mortal Kombat II in theaters and talks about his thoughts on it

We tackle the topic of combos, what we like, what we don't like about them, and what our favorite system of combos are!

In this rambly episode, the boys talk about a little bit of news, such as Goku Daima in Fighterz, and the buttercream gang!

We talk about the newest Guilty Gear Strive patch, the Invincible VS Open Beta, and Garrett tries to sell the gang on Pokemon Champions

We have Troy/Prodeus and Sean on, who went to Texas Showdown recently, where Prodeus got 5th at! We talk to him about his bracket run and the event in general along with the big amount of news.

Austin, Brandon and Garrett go into news overdrive as they cover Arc World Tour, Capcom Cup woes, along with other smaller but just as interesting news pieces.

We don't save the FGC this week but we do talk about recent news like the 2XKO patch and Strive 2.0 hopes.

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The gang is all here to talk about all the news and just the news (since Garrett has a bedtime), we talk about the 2XKO layoffs and the news after, Tokon's changes and teams, and everything in between.

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It's a lokey episode, as Garrett and Austin go over the little bit of news that came out this past week including Tekken Season 3, Garrett goes on a rant about Return to Silent Hill and the two go over some of their favorite costumes in fighting games, and what they want to see the genre do with them.

Due to a really rough news day this past week, we decided to do another news episode! We talk about 2XKO, early access and the ever so terrible AI use in the newest Fatal Fury trailer and none of us are happy about it.

Austin and Garrett talk about the huge amount of news the past month has had including EVO and 2XKO console release

Austin, Brandon, and Garrett do their fighting game secret santa, where each person gets two fighting game characters or games to try out and learn!

Austin and Garrett talk about the two new alphas and betas of Avatar the Fighting Game, and Marvel: Tokon Fighting Souls, and their thoughts on watching them.

Austin and Garrett talk about their weeks, as well as the Invincible VS Alpha, and end by talking about the dumbest characters they found to be added to the roster.

Short and sweet news episode with Austin and Garrett to salvage a recording session gone wrong

All rise, Defense Attorney Troy is here to defend 2XKO against the prosecution team of Garrett, Austin, and Brandon. Have their opinions changed at all, or is it time to uninstall 2XKO?

Crossover event of the summer! Garrett, Austin, and Brandon are joined by David and Michael from Story Time as they talk about crossovers, arcades, Injustice 3, Tokon, and 2XKO

With everyone finally back on pod the four of us get into our EVO experience, what worked and what didn't

In this episode we talk about the news from EVO and around it, as well as Bubsy. EVO thoughts will be the next episode, we wanted everyone here for that

Pre EVO podcast! We go over all the 2XKO news, complain about Invincible VS, and talk about our Nostradamus ass predictions

We go over the past month of news, catch up, and talk about the numbers for all the EVO games.

We talk about all the new team VS games coming out, including Invincible, HxH Demo, and Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls!

C-c-c-c-c-combo breaker! We go over Combo Breaker as an event and the news that happened at and around it!

News! It's a shorter episode as something came up for Austin while recording so we go over news and weeks for a smaller episode.

Garrett talks about COTW! The gang also goes over the Arc System Works leak, COTW sales numbers, and EVO Japan

Troy and Austin got a week of Fatal Fury experience, what did they think about the game? Shorter episode due to real life events needing to cut it short, there will be more to say about COTW next episode.

Everyone is here while we go over a bunch of topics, ranging from Tekken 8 Season 2 to all the news from Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.

We go over Arc World Tour as an event from Garrett and Austin's POV, while shouting out friends for doing well in Texas Showdown and going over Ronaldo being added Fatal Fury: into City of the Wolves

We celebrate 150 episodes, and go over the City of the Wolves open beta that happened recently, along with Sandalphon. Apologies for audio on this one, we had issues during recording.

For Brandon's blated birthday, the gang guesses the tier list of one of the Touhou fighting games while Brandon tells us what the real list is and how close we were

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What says love quite like Punch-Out? Austin and Garrett go over the cast of the 2010 Punch-Out and see which ones are champions and which ones are chumps

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(Brandon's audio cuts out at the end and is missing ~20 minutes and could not be recovered. I cut the big pauses in between Austin and if it still feels like someone is missing in the convo that is why)

We go over the EVO Award Nominees and we talk about why most of us aren't big fans of them.

Troy is back, and he goes over Frosty Faustings XVI including his bracket run, Sandalphon, and more! We also go over all the news we've been missing.

Garrett, Austin and Brandon watch the lineup stream for EVO 2025 and react to the reveals and have a discussion about the throwback title.

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A cathartic episode where Austin and Garrett are joined by Q and talk about grifters in the scene.

Apologies for the quality on Q's audio, I've edited as much as I could to make it sound somewhat decent.

Austin, Garrett, Brandon and Q go over The Game Awards and the Virtua Fighter 5 beta

Austin, Brandon and Garrett go over news, and their Spotify 2024 Wrapped for the podcast!

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In this episode it's a duo as Austin and Garrett talk about the new Virtua Fighter, more Bleach characters, and also the nominations for Best Fighting Game

In this episode, we talk about news and we try to do scattershot, where we do mini discussions before just having time for one which is "Should players create balance patches?"

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The boys do a Tier List on the best fighting game protagnists from Ryu to Ragna!

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We talk a whole lot about news to get caught back up!

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The boys talk about EVO 2024 with the announcements, the good, the bad, and the games they played like 2XKO, City of the Wolves and HxH Nen Impact! Brandon also offers his thoughts on EVO as a spectator watching from home

The boys are back with their yearly tradition of predicting what we will see and hear at EVO 2024 this weekend but with a twist