Not E3 2026
Mike and Ting talk about the games announced this summer.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
PC
- Order of the Sinking Star | Play the Demo Now (YouTube)
- Chivalware on Steam
- Thinky Direct 2026 - Exclusive trailers and announcements for puzzle fans! (YouTube)
- Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown | Out Now (YouTube)
- Star Trek: Outposts Unknown | Narrative Driven Outpost Builder | Reveal & Demo Available (YouTube)
- Star Trek: Shadow Frontier | Announcement Teaser (YouTube)
Not Nintendo
- [4K] XBOX Games Showcase 2026 | Gears of War: E-Day Direct (YouTube)
- Inside Xbox’s margin crush: A string of misses at Xbox Game Studios, misguided Game Pass decisions, and the memory rout at its core | Windows Central
- From GDC: Building the Next Generation of Xbox - XBOX Wire
- FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer (YouTube)
- Grand Theft Auto VI: Official Cover Art Reveal (YouTube)
- GTA 6 Fans Got More Insane (YouTube)
- State of Play | June 2, 2026 [English] (YouTube)
- gen Atlas World Premiere Trailer | Summer Game Fest 2026 (YouTube)
Nintendo
- Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 + Nintendo Treehouse: Live | June 2026 (YouTube)
- Star Fox Direct 5.6.2026 (YouTube)
- DELTARUNE – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026
- JUJUTSU KAISEN RUMBLE: SURVIVATON – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 (YouTube)
- Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen - Announcement Trailer (YouTube)
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 (YouTube)
- Someone spent 8 years remaking Zelda Ocarina of Time in Unreal Engine 5 (YouTube)
- John Peel - Wikipedia
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Pre-Chat: Big Broccoli
Mike and Ting talk about caffeine, Mythos and SpaceX.
NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Not E3 2026.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
Pre-Chat
- I Need To Tell You Why Coffee Makes You Poop (YouTube)
- Jewel Rain Vortex
- What Is Grounding and Can It Improve Your Health?
- Is raw milk a superfood or dangerous fad? - BBC Food
- Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 \ Anthropic
- ITER - Wikipedia
- Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire - his stratospheric rise in charts
- SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion - Ars Technica
- Count Binface destroys Sky News interviewer (YouTube)
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TR-49
Mike and Ting talk about TR-49.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
What is TR-49?
- TR-49 - Official Trailer (YouTube)
- The Roottrees are Dead
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- HER STORY
- Type Help by William Rous
- Inkle Studios
- Heaven’s Vault
- 80 Days - inkle’s award-winning narrative adventure
- Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! - Wikipedia
- Chants Of Sennaar - rundisc
Narrative and Playthrough
- Steam Community :: Guide :: All Codes (Obvious Spoilers)
- Printers : r/funny
- Her (2013) - IMDb
- OpenAI delays ‘adult mode’ for ChatGPT to focus on work of higher priority
- Steam Community :: Guide :: TR-49 - Guide
Summary
- Oscar bait - Wikipedia
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia
- Brave New World - Wikipedia
- Animal Farm - Wikipedia
- Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models - Ars Technica
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Pre-Chat: The Solution to the Alignment Problem
Mike and Ting talk about friction maxxing and AI emotions.
NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for TR-49.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
Pre-Chat
- Can ‘friction-maxxing’ fix your focus? - BBC Future
- Butlerian Jihad | Dune Wiki
- WALL·E (2008) - IMDb
- Soul (2020) - IMDb
- The promise and warning of Truth Terminal, the AI bot that secured $50,000 in bitcoin from Marc Andreessen | TechCrunch
- Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model \ Anthropic
- “Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews - Ars Technica
- OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company’s finances | Tom’s Hardware
- OpenAI closes Sora video-making app and cancels $1bn Disney deal
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2026 Look Forward
Mike and Ting talk about what they’re looking forward to in 2026, new Steam hardware and the best sellers of 2025.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
Genuinely Want to Play
- Slay the Spire 2 - Reveal Trailer (YouTube)
- Deltarune
- Grand Theft Auto VI
- Order of the Sinking Star
- Forza Horizon 6
- Last War Frontline Breakthrough: guide and strategies
- Raccoon Coin Pusher
- GTA 6 and everything else: What to watch in video games in 2026
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV - At last, back to war!
- Iron Harvest 1920+
- The LARGEST Real-Time Strategy Game I’ve Ever Seen (YouTube)
- Beyond All Reason
Academic Interest
- 007 First Light - Announcement Trailer (YouTube)
- CONTROL Resonant – Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2025 (YouTube)
- Big Walk
- Mewgenics on Steam
- Your Daily Dose Of Cats v14 🤣 - YouTube
- summertime - 麦吉_Maggie x 盖盖Nyan [romaji/japanese/english lyrics] (YouTube)
- Fable Gameplay Teaser - Xbox Developer Direct 2026 (YouTube)
- Spotted dick - Wikipedia
- Marathon
- The Marathon art theft debacle has been ‘resolved to my satisfaction,’ according to the artist Bungie stole from | PC Gamer
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Announcement Trailer (YouTube)
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) - IMDb
- Street Fighter (2026) - IMDb
- Mortal Kombat II (2026) - IMDb
Steam Hardware and Charts
- Steam Hardware Announcement (YouTube)
- Steam Machine pricing soars past PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X in new retailer listing
- GPD Win 5 Brings PS5-Class Performance To PC Handhelds (YouTube)
- Steam Charts Best of 2025
- Schedule I on Steam
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on Steam
- Dune: Awakening on Steam
- ARC Raiders on Steam
- ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN on Steam
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Steam
- Anno 117: Pax Romana on Steam
- inZOI on Steam
- Digimon Story Time Stranger on Steam
- FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH on Steam
- R.E.P.O. on Steam
- PEAK on Steam
- Escape From Duckov on Steam
- RV There Yet? on Steam
- METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER on Steam
- Blue Prince on Steam
- FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles on Steam
- ARC Raiders - Upgrade to Deluxe Edition on Steam
- CloverPit on Steam
- BALL x PIT on Steam
- Megabonk on Steam
- Nubby’s Number Factory on Steam
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure on Steam
- The 50 best games of 2025, ranked | Eurogamer.net
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Pre-Chat: Judy Hopps Will Return In Avengers: Doomsday
Mike and Ting talk about the latest Avatar, Disclosure Day and Avengers: Doomsday.
NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2026 Look Forward.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
Pre-Chat
- Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - IMDb
- ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Surpasses $1 Billion at the Global Box Office | The Walt Disney Company
- James Cameron Explains Why ‘Avatar 4 and 5’ Are Still Not Sure Things
- LucasFilm Tells Darth Vader That Return Of The Jedi Hasn’t Made A Profit!? - SlashFilm
- Disclosure Day | Official Teaser (YouTube)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - IMDb
- Super 8 (2011) - IMDb
- 'Avengers: Doomsday’ Proved “Superhero Fatigue” Is a Myth in Just 1 Day
- The X-Men Will Return | Avengers: Doomsday in Theaters December 18, 2026 (YouTube)
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2025 Wrap Up - Part 2
Mike and Ting hand out the Meaningless Awards.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
Meaningless Awards
Meaningless Awards - Best Multiplayer
Meaningless Awards - Best Game
Meaningless Awards - Missed in 2025
Meaningless Awards - Honourable Mention
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Pre-Chat: Spotify Wrapped Revisited, Windows 11 Refused
Mike and Ting comment on each other’s top Spotify tracks.
NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2025 Wrap Up - Part 2.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
Pre-Chat
- FURFAG - song and lyrics by Pent Up Pup | Spotify
- PITS - song and lyrics by Pent Up Pup | Spotify
- Already Done - song and lyrics by Free Worship | Spotify
- Never Meant to Know - song and lyrics by Tally Hall | Spotify
- Intel Ultra 7 258V vs i7-6650U
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2025 Wrap Up
Mike and Ting look back on 2025.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
Year in Review
- Undertale - Snowdin Remix (YouTube)
- A $5 Million Gift From Sega Saved Nvidia - GameSpot
- A Minecraft Movie (2025) 4K - Steve vs. Malgosha | Movieclips (YouTube)
- Despite Past Viral AI Fakes, This Grand Theft Auto 6 Leak Looks Real - GameSpot
- Brief explanation: why people are angry about pre-announced DLC : LegendsZA
- Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well — joining Everwild and ZeniMax’s new IP, and other unannounced projects | Windows Central
- The Windows 11 Crisis (YouTube)
- Steam Web API - Valve Developer Community
- Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Rises to $30 a Month, Microsoft Adds More Day One Games and Throws in Fortnite Crew and Ubisoft+ Classics to Help Justify the Cost - IGN
- Costco Confirms It Will No Longer Sell Xbox Consoles
- Silksong finally has a release date, officially, from Team Cherry and everything—putting an end to over half a decade of Silksanity | PC Gamer
- Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary
- Hades II Reviews - Metacritic
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A Reviews - Metacritic
- After Raising Over $1 Billion From Players, Star Citizen Dev Chris Roberts Hopes Squadron 42’s 2026 Launch Will Be ‘Almost as Big an Event’ as GTA 6 - IGN
- Steam Hardware Announcement (YouTube)
- Cut Content From Metroid Prime 4 Reveals Its Companions Were Meant To Be Even More Annoying
- Shadow of Mordor’s innovative Nemesis system is locked behind a patent until 2036
- Scaled agile framework - Wikipedia
- Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive (of course it’s AI) and why PC gaming hardware prices are only going to keep rising, even probably for GPUs | PC Gamer
- Now what do I do!?!? #wholesome #animals - YouTube
- Announcing a New Shorts Remix Capability - YouTube Community
- How did Zach braff win an Oscar for garden state when he just picked music he liked and slapped it on a CD? : r/NoStupidQuestions
Stats
- Deltarune - Dark Sanctuary Remix (YouTube)
- 2025 Wrap Up (stats spreadsheet)
- Slay the Spire 2 Release Date Slips to March 2026 — and No, It Had Nothing to Do With Silksong, Dev Insists - IGN
- Borderlands 4 Review - Too Much Of An Overcorrection - GameSpot
- Goodbye Zachtronics, Developers Of Very Cool Video Games - Kotaku
- Kaizen: A Factory Story review | Rock Paper Shotgun
- Donkey Kong Bananza: Post-Game - What To Do After Rolling Credits | Nintendo Life
- Mario kart 8 deluxe vs Mario kart world. Which game do you enjoy playing the most? : mariokart
- Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it’s coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here’s what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it
- Welcome to Springfield - Fortnite | The Simpsons (YouTube)
- Fortnite Battle Royale Chapter Seven: Pacific Break - v39.00 Update Notes
- The Rise of the Golden Idol: Detective Pass Trailer (YouTube)
- BALL x PIT
- Cloverpit Official Game Announcement | Triple-i Showcase 2025 (YouTube)
- The Roottrees are Dead
- Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review (Switch) | Nintendo Life
- ZELDA NOTES for Nintendo Switch App
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Pre-Chat: There’s No Pod Like Horse Pod
Mike and Ting talk about their extremely cursed Spotify Wrappeds and YouTube Recaps.
NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2025 Wrap Up.
Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club
Show Notes:
Pre-Chat
- Mike’s 2025 Spotify Wrapped
- Ting’s 2025 Spotify Wrapped
- Mike’s 2025 YouTube Recap
- Ting’s 2025 YouTube Recap