Wavelengths with Brendon Bigley

Hello and welcome back to the podcast! And the first one with video posted publicly for all to see! This week I'm talking about the four games that extremely worked for me from the Nintendo Partner Direct (and a bunch of other notable announcements), Switch 2 sales struggling outside of Japan, Valve kind-of-delaying the Steam Machine, and Sony's extremely stupid patent for AI podcasts.
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Welcome back to the first normal episode of this show in a while! There was video game news! Can you believe it? This week I'm talking about the Nintendo Direct focused entirely on Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream — otherwise known in this house as "The Big Game" — before talking about another "big" game that's not landing as well: Highguard.

Also in this episode: Ball x Pit updates, Dispatch on Switch, and thoughts about the future of Wavelengths.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Welcome Back to Wavelengths
5:15 - Tomodachi Life Living the Dream Direct
14:45 - Highguard is Fine
33:19 - Dispatch Censorship
34:38 - The Ball x Pit Free Update Rules
39:28 - Wavelengths Updates
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This week I'm answering your many questions from how to make potatoes, to thoughts on Heated Rivalry, to Nintendo of America's relationship with Nintendo of Japan and so much more. Come along, will you?

Also: Huge solidarity to those in the streets of Minneapolis this month. Your bravery means everything, for real.
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I was very glad to be joined by my good friend Will LaPorte for a lengthy episode about our favorite albums and films of 2025! I hope you enjoy it, and I'll be back next week with (gasp) more stuff about video games!!

Find Will Online: https://ghostdown.online/
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Chapters:
0:00:00 - Welcome to Wavelengths!
0:02:50 - Intro Will
0:04:22 - Will Album 10
0:09:54 - Brendon Album 10
0:16:41 - Will Movie 10
0:19:26 - Brendon Movie 10
0:23:48 - Will Album 9
0:27:50 - Brendon Album 9
0:31:22 - Will Movie 9
0:34:36 - Brendon Movie 9
0:39:04 - Will Album 8
0:41:29 - Brendon Album 8
0:43:09 - Will Movie 8
0:46:17 - Brendon Movie 8
0:52:02 - Will Album 7
0:54:11 - Brendon Album 7
0:57:42 - Will Movie 7
1:01:45 - Brendon Movie 7
1:04:48 - Will Album 6
1:07:22 - Brendon Album 6
1:08:52 - Will Movie 6
1:10:35 - Brendon Movie 6
1:17:20 - Will Album 5
1:23:36 - Brendon Album 5
1:27:17 - Will Movie 5
1:34:47 - Brendon Movie 5
1:42:39 - Will Album 4
1:46:52 - Brendon Album 4
1:49:25 - Will Movie 4
1:54:21 - Brendon Movie 4
2:03:14 - Will Album 3
2:09:18 - Brendon Album 3
2:13:32 - Will Movie 3
2:16:41 - Brendon Movie 3
2:29:00 - Will Album 2
2:33:12 - Brendon Album 2
2:40:10 - Will Movie 2
2:46:45 - Brendon Movie 2
2:56:07 - Will Album 1
3:04:06 - Brendon Album 1
3:14:40 - Will Movie 1
3:20:07 - Brendon Movie 1
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Turns out they made a lot of good video games last year. So many, in fact, that I felt the need to continue last year's move of celebrating 50 of them in an extremely chill manner!!
Thank you all for a great first (partial) year of Wavelengths, I hope you're as stoked for 2026 as I am!
Note: Wish I'd known about the Level5 CEO showing his whole tuchus before I said all those nice things about Fantasy Life i... a game that might have been made by artificial intelligence for all we know!!
Also note: Count the number of times I say “pound for pound” or “it’s a fascinating thing” or “check it out!!"
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