Arc Raiders is the hot new extraction shooter everyone’s talking about… and the community is actually nice?! 😅

This week on New Dad Gaming, Trevor and Jeff crack open the last of the pumpkin beers, dive into the surprise hype around Arc Raiders, and unpack the controversy around AI voice acting and what it means for real voice actors and future games.

From there, it’s full-on dad mode: Trevor raids eBay for cheap Magic: The Gathering cards to build a cube and see if his kids can handle the chaos of modern MTG rules… while he struggles to remember what lifelink even does.

Jeff, meanwhile, goes galaxy-brain with Dyson Sphere Program, turning chill dad evenings into interstellar automation spreadsheets, all thanks to their ongoing “year of no new games” challenge. They wrap with a quick (and painful) update on Jeff’s 25-minute, zero-progress attempt at Silksong, driven entirely by his determined teen.

If you’re a gaming dad trying to balance backlog guilt, new releases, kids who are better at games than you, and the ethics of AI in gaming—this one’s for you.

⏱ Episode Timestamps (approx.)

• 00:00 – Cold open, dad life, and missed episodes

• 02:30 – Pumpkin beers, espresso porter review & maybe… Christmas beers?

• 07:20 – What is Arc Raiders and why is everyone loving it?

• 10:30 – PvPvE, surprising kindness & emergent co-op in Arc Raiders

• 15:30 – AI voice acting, ethics, and what it means for voice actors

• 23:50 – Magic: The Gathering with kids, cube drafting & card complexity

• 34:40 – Dyson Sphere Program: the ultimate dad automation game

• 40:45 – Jeff gets wrecked in Silksong at his kid’s request

• 42:20 – Outro, community shout-outs & how to reach the show

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New Dad Gaming is a podcast about fatherhood, gaming, and new dads figuring out their gaming lives. Hosts Trevor (dad of a 10 & 8-year-old) and Jeff (dad of a 15 & 12-year-old) share stories from the trenches: backlog struggles, co-op with kids, late-night sessions, and the games they want to play vs. the games they actually have time for.

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