Best Tim Vargo Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 120 - Guess Who Won The Expedition 33 Awards 1:13:40

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! We're back and today is our last episode of the year. A nice number 120 to round off the end of 2025. Today we're NOT discussing the insane success of Expedition 33 because everyone else already has. Instead we're going to focus on a few games that we saw at the VGAs and talk about those. Divinity How could Larian possibl…

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Episode 119 - Bloodlines 2 Wins a GOTY?! The Biggest Disappointment of the Year Award 1:26:52

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Zach is back with us with some awesome news as we discuss (briefly) the new valve hardware, two RPGS, and the GOTY nominees so with out further delay let's get into the content! Steam Machine Moore's Law is Dead did a fantastic breakdown of this new machine with what I think is probably a pretty accurate estimate on what …

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Episode 118 - A Game Brilliant It'll Make You Ask, "Why hasn't this been done already?" 1:33:36

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! We're back once again and joining me this episode is Chris. He also did all the editing for this one so if it looks and or sounds bad blame him. His words not mine. Today we're covering a surprising amount of horror games consider we already did our Halloween episode but that's just the way it goes some times. Zeverland F…

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Episode 117 - A Macabre Halloween 1:42:41

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Good Morning CoinDroppers I apologize for the delay in this post. Chris was supposed to edit this episode but we ran in to some pretty heavy technical difficulties so I had to scramble to try and get it done. Today is unfortunately a heavy Extraction game focused episode as we're talking about three total. Marathon, Arc Raiders, and A new Game call…

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Episode 116 - Gamepass loses it's mind, EA goes private & Waterworld gets a good game 1:23:33

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Good Morning CoinDroppers NEXT EPISODE 30 OCTOBER Halloween Special Today We're talking about some industry news as well as a game we Mike and I commented on when it was debuted at the THQ Nordic Showcase earlier this year. Xbox Gamepass Even though Xbox just hiked the price of gamepass from $16.99 to $19.99 last year they announced ANOTHER price h…

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Episode 115 - New Extraction Game, A Crowded Genre 1:14:59

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Good Morning Coindroppers! Today Chris is back with us as we discuss a new Extraction like game that has thrown it's hat into the already over crowded arena. With Steel Hunters sunsetting in less that 6 months after launch, and Dungeonborne within it's first year it's a mystery to me as to why people are STILL making extractions. Mistfall Hunter La…

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Episode 114 - A Most Kids Rated Game 1:04:07

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Zach is back with me for his second full episode and boy are there some good laughs and great stories in this episode. I hope you're all having a great week and you're ready to hear about some awesome games because we've brought the content (despite the slow news week) DuskPunk A new "tabletop" RPG from what I believe is …

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Episode 113 - A New Co-Host & A New Left 4 Dead Like? 54:52

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! We're back to normal following the chaos of PAX and better than ever! Today Zach is joining us for our first full length episode. Chris, Zach, and I will all act as hosts and work on kind of a rotating roster. But we go over all this in the opening, Let's get to the content. No Man's Sky Voyagers Update Hello Games contin…

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Episode 112 - The PAX West Showcase, 2025 1:35:01

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! I'm happy to announce that I met my goal and managed to crank this bad boy out! It was a LOT of work and a lot of long nights grinding away at the computer to edit. Just a warning, the audio quality is NOT the best. We did what we could in post but we were trying to capture the voices of three people on one very direction…

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Episode 112 TEASER 6:08

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Good Morning Coindroppers! As you might have guessed by the title of this episode this is not the full episode but a short announcement that, well, we need more time. We have a ton of content top get through and edit for you not to mention interviews which will all get their own upload as well as a mega upload with all of them rolled into 1 video. …

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Episode 111 - Whoa... Déjà vu 1:00:24

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today unfortunately we have another solo episode. Mike had to pick up some extra work that ran long so you're stuck with just me again. Let's get into the content! Jurassic Park Survive Funny enough, I briefly talked about how I hoped Ferocious would hold me over till Jurassic Park Survive dropped, well Saber put out a de…

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Episode 110 - A Trio of Indie Titles You Might Have Missed 37:00

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today I'm on my own, Mike needed the weekend off so I handled the podcast and the editing on this episode so if it's not great that's my fault. Hope you enjoy the content regardless. Just a reminder there will be no episode in two weeks because I'll be out of the country. With that said let's jump into this content! Feroc…

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Episode 109 - A New Dark Messiah Like Game 1:00:10

5M ago1:00:10

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Good Morning Coindroppers, Just a quick announcement at the top. No episode on the 26th as I'll be out of town and out of the country! The following week will be our PAX coverage so here's hoping that's a good episode. Tides of Tomorrow Tides of Tomorrow is a new game announced at the THQ showcase earlier in the month. It seems to be a single playe…

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Episode 108 - Hellraiser, Vampires, and "Fantasy" 1:23:00

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today we've got a pretty large show! I'm happy to say we have a ton of news today so lets jump into it! First off as mentioned at the top, Squid's Divine Creations is a new acquaintance I met who actually paints art. Maybe that's not as rare these days as I think it is but most people I tend to meet these days do digital …

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Episode 107 - Frack You, Ubisoft 1:39:46

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today Mike is leading the show! In episode 106 he kept giving me shit so I said he was doing the next episode. Well here it is. And in true Mike form (a fan of the canceled Division Heartland) He decided he wanted to name the episode Expletive You, Ubisoft. At the top of the show I share my final thoughts on Red Dead Rede…

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Episode 106 - Ghost of Yotei State of Play 1:37:31

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today we're talking about two new indie games that got announce along with the deep dive Sucker Punch gave us on Ghost of Yotei so lets get into it! The Mound A new co-op indie game set on a cursed island where you and up to three friends try to survive the Lovecraftian madness and leave the island with untold treasure. T…

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Episode 105 - Sabotage, Bricked Systems, and Disappointment 1:27:26

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Good Morning Coindroppers I hope you're all having a good week so far and enjoying the summer. Today we're talking about Mindseye, The Switch 2 and how Nintendo continues to just be the worse, and a new indie game Midnight Walkers. Mindseye To be more specific here we're actually talking about the fact that someone on the team, including the CEO se…

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Episode 104 - Kind of a slow week... 57:56

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Good Morning CoinDroppers Today we... don't really have a whole lot for you. We're in the wake of the big summer shows so there isn't a ton new to talk about. However we do have news. Primarily that we will officially be at PAX West as media this year and I cannot understate how excited I am by that. Thank all of your for your listener and viewship…

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Episode 103 - Summer Games Show & THAT Email 1:21:16

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! I do apologize for the constant missed weeks of episodes. Life has a way of throwing a wrench in plans and things got a bit rough for a while there. HOWEVER! we're back! and will be back on track moving forward! The Summer Games Show! This episode is the long awaited Summer Games Show episode where we discuss games shown …

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Episode 102 - Witcher 4 with Nanite Foliage?! 1:02:04

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Right off the back I wanna make a quick apology to our patrons, there was an issue with Mikes audio export and the Patreon side of the podcast was lost. Now lets get into the content! Witcher 4 State of Unreal 2025 The Witcher 4 showed off some in engine real time footage during the State of Unreal this last week and holy…

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Episode 101 - The Ceaseless Need for Higher Profits in the Industry 1:10:27

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! We took last week off to enjoy the holiday weekend and now we're back! Just a reminder to please subscribe on YouTube, Follow us of Facebook, and leave us a good review where ever you listen to this podcast. A few quick announcements before we jump into the content, Next week will not be a live show because I'll be out of…

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Episode 100 - A New "Console" Enters the War 1:08:31

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Good Morning Coindroppers! Today we have a special guest with us so please forgive the shit audio as it was kind of a last minute decision. Bski flew in for my birthday over the weekend and we had him on the show. Unfortunately this wasn't exactly planned so he had to record at my wife's desk right next to mind and our audio bled a bit. We did our …

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Episode 99 - Halloween Comes Early 49:54

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today we've got some indie horror games that ARENT! about children and toys as well as a game that seems to be blending all the best parts of Skyrim and Minecraft! Before we get started, We recently did a our stream with the devs behind EXFIL and honestly it was a blast. You can find that VOD here. We wont be doing a seco…

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Episode 98 - A New Ragnarok Game?! 1:21:12

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Good Morning Coindroppers! Today Chis joins me on the podcast. Mike had an over night trip he had to run for work so he was unavailable. Some quick things before we jump in here, The second winner of the giveaway reached out just before Friday and claimed his game so the 2nd anniversary giveaway is concluded. Our live stream with the devs of Exfil …

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Episode 97 - Give Game, Give Truck, /Alpha 1:04:47

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Good Morning Coindroppers! Lets get this out of the way right now. The winner of our giveaway never responded to our messages so we spun again last Friday. This winner ALSO hasn't replied yet and he has till Friday to do so. If he doesn't respond by Friday then we'll spin again! Hopefully we can give this game away before episode 100.... Tainted Gr…

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Episode 96 - Cronos, Oblivion, and Zero Company 1:10:44

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Good Morning CoinDroppers Today we've got some great games to talk about and we're very excited to discuss them! but first! Just a reminder that on the 25th at 8pm pst we're gonna be live streaming Exfil with the devs for our community event this month. Now lets get to the content! Cronos: New Dawn Bloober Team just dropped footage of their upcomin…

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Episode 95 - The First Triple A Extraction Shooter 1:04:08

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Just a reminder at the top here you have until the 19th to enter into our giveaway. So don't miss your chance and head over to our Facebook or YouTube for more details. Marathon Bungie dropped a lot of new information about the upcoming FPS Extraction shooter and Mike and I are stoked! Alpha soon, and Launch day not far o…

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Episode 94 - Nintendo You Must Be Out Your Gat D**n Mind! 1:01:17

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Right off the back here just a reminder we are still doing our giveaway so if you haven't entered, ENTER! It doesn't cost you anything and you get a chance to win a $70 game completely free see our Facebook for more details. Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Well... Where do we even begin with this. Nintendo finally gave us the de…

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Episode 93 - 2 Year Anniversary Giveaway! 1:45:17

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! I am so excited to FINALLY share everything Tim, Mike, Tony, and I have been working on since the beginning of the year! The NEW CoinDrop Some of you may be aware already about some of the things we've been doing but now it's official, we are not only launching a new website that will host our podcast more cost effectivel…

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Episode 92 - I Have No Idea What Happen This Episode... 1:59:21

9M ago1:59:21

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Let me start by saying... I genuinely don't know what happened this episode but Tim was.... difficult to keep on track. What should have been a normal length episode ballooned into this monster of an episode. Enjoy? Forest Reigns We got a new trailer from our friends at VG Entertainment with some new info about what to ex…

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Episode 91 - Is Darkfall Cursed?, Silent Hill f Goes Full Japanese, Disco Elysium Dev's Next Game 1:24:46

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today we're talking about three upcoming games at various points of development. First up is a game that a college classmate told me about and intrigued me. So we're looking into it and it maybe a cursed game. After that we talk the new trailer for Silent Hill f, and closing out the main topics, the Disco Elysium devs ann…

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Episode 90 - The Master of Stealth Returns a new Styx Game and more! 1:20:50

10M ago1:20:50

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Good Morning Coindroppers! Today we have a another great show for you along with a surprise topic at the start of the show. I won't spoil it here so hopeful you enjoy it! Bolt Graphics Zeus GPU A start up company called Bolt Graphics has announced a new GPU they're working on called the Zeus and make the bold claim that its 10x more powerful than t…

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Episode 89 - Fable Delayed, MercuryStream's Next Game, and GoT Kingsroad Demo Impressions 1:33:58

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Good Morning CoinDroppers Today We're talking about the next game from the Castlevania Lords of Shadow Devs as well as trying something new. Both of us played the Game of Throne Kingsroad demo that was available on Steam Next Fest and went into the conversation completely blind of the other ones thoughts and discuss our individual opinions of the g…

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Episode 88 - Rocksteady's Next Game is Batman Beyond?! 54:49

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Good Morning CoinDroppers Today we're talking about an interesting new post apocalyptic survival horror game, some solid rumors about Rocksteady's next game, and Gothic Remake's new gameplay footage. M.I.N.S.K Minsk is a new indie horror survival game set in a post apocalyptic world. You take the roll of an engineer that rebuilt a construction robo…

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Episode 87 - Game of Thrones the Kingsroad looks too good to be true 1:06:29

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! We're back to your regularly scheduled hosts as Tim and Russ discuss the shockingly high quality gameplay of Game of Throne the Kingsroad and the latest State of Play from Sony that Tim also made a live reaction video for. Game of Thrones the Kingsroad Announced at the game awards last year, Game of Thrones the Kingsroad …

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Episode 86 - $400 Switch + Battlefield 6? 1:27:03

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today is a Mike and Tim episode, Looks like they got up to their normal shenanigans so I hope you enjoy the episode. I'm looking forward to listening to it myself. EA CEO is a paste eater For whatever reason, the CEO of EA thinks the reason Dragon Age The Veilguard failed was because it wasn't live service. Welp, neither …

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Episode 85 - Dune Awakening, Will It Change Survival Games Forever? 2:04:58

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today we've got a mix of news for you to include some struggles for Sony, the potential death rattle of Bioware, and some talk about Dune Awakening the survival game that might finally push the genre forward. But before we jump in, don't forget to head over to our Facebook page, give us a follow and vote for what game we …

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Episode 84 - They want HOW MUCH for new games?! 1:12:19

11M ago1:12:19

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! We're coming at you with another three man podcast today with Tim and Mike both joining me on the show. Get ready for some chaos! Today we're talking about some of the best news from Microsoft in recent memory, the return of a beloved physics engine that dominated the PS3 and Xbox 360 era, and analysts say new games shoul…

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Episode 83 - A Polarizing Switch 2 Reveal 1:16:39

11M ago1:16:39

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today we're talking about two new upcoming indie games from industry veterans. It's great to see that even in the face of all the layoffs in the industry these vets aren't leaving they're making news studios and amazing new IPs. Also we're going to discuss two highly opposing views on the Switch 2 Announcement. Hope you e…

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Episode 82 - A Chonky New Year 2:08:46

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today we have a chunky first episode of the year! Tim is back, I'm back, and Mike joins us as we start off the new year with a bit of catch up and some announcements about changes coming to the podcast. Nothing huge or earth shattering but make sure you don't skip the catch up at the beginning of the cast if you want to b…

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Episode 81 - Exfil Dev Interview 52:28

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Merry Christmas CoinDroppers today we have a hell of a show for you! Our first ever Dev interview. This has been an episode in the making for a very long time and I cannot express how happy I was to finally have one of the team from Exfil join us to discuss their game out in early access now. For those of you who don't know what Exfil is, I'll post…

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Episode 80 - The VGA's 10th Anniversary Show 1:03:09

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today is a bit different format since we're following up after the massive announcements that came from the 10th anniversary of the Video Game Awards this week. For that reason this podcast episode is going to act more as a recap where we offer some thoughts on everything we saw and hold off 2 specific games to discuss on…

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Episode 79 - Don't Sleep on Eternal Strands 1:38:27

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Today we're talking about some new AMD Rumors coming right of the heels of our coverage on the Nvidia RTX 5090 leaks, some new information about the development of Eternal Strands, and a new game from the creators of the first Battle Royal Game, PubG. AMDs RX 8800 XT Rumors Word on the street is AMDs next card may be an a…

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Episode 78 - Tim's "Welcome Hello" 1:27:56

1y ago1:27:56

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Good Morning CoinDroppers Today we're talking about the upcoming new flagship GPU from Nvidia the RTX 5090, Elon Musk's statement about wanting to make an AI game studio, and a new game that looks like it might just be an AI disaster. Hope you enjoy the episode! Nvidia RTX5090 Leak Nvidia is all set to announce their latest flagship GPU at CES in j…

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Episode 77 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 A Glitchy Mess? 1:14:49

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Sony Wants to Buy Kadokawa There's a lot of information being spread around about this and a lot of miss information so lets clear this all up a bit. Fable adds(?) Character Selection It's unclear whether or not the Horizon devs had already planned to have some sort of character selection in the game or if it was mad as a result of the horrible bac…

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Episode 76 - Is Microsoft Having a Stroke? 1:04:49

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! I apologize for the 24 hour delay on this post, I missed the upload time frame for our Patreon side and had to hold of on this weeks episode to ensure they got their 24hr early listening perk. It's been a busy few months for me but that's not important lets talk games! Game of Thrones Kingsroad Game of Thrones is getting …

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Episode 75 - Is Pax Dei Good Now? 1:14:09

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Good Morning Coindroppers Today we're jumping right into Tim's very long winded (sorry) first impressions of the PS5 Pro and whether or not he thinks it's worth the money. As well as a huge update to an MMO Tim and I have debated buying in on multiple times. PS5 Pro The PS5 Pro is in the wild and surprisingly easy to come by. The best part about th…

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The Confused Tim Episode "74" 1:24:14

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Welp... here it is... Enjoy? From the few minutes I listened to Tim he's definitely a little confused by the fact that I was on a boat in the Atlantic ocean and unable to receive or reply to his messages. Let us know your thoughts on the latest news Support the show Checkout our Linktree for more CoinDrop Content!…

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Episode 74 - Yep... We're Talking about Veilguard... 1:20:26

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! We're back! sorry for the confusion on last week I did not properly convey to Tim what was going on and so there was some confusion on how the podcast should go but fear not there will be a follow up post to this one (scheduled for the same time) with Tim's audio from that lost episode. Now lets talk about this episode! A…

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Episode 73 - Russ Solo Show 42:40

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Good Morning CoinDroppers! Just a reminder at the top of the show here I'll be absent from the next podcast as I'm going on a cruse with my wife and daughter and will not be able to stream the podcast. Tim has informed me he is doing a show so stay tuned to the Discord for information on that. Throne & Liberty | Once Human Tonight as a follow up to…