The 30th episode of TheGamer Podcast is out now and features discussion on the biggest news of the week, a deep dive into all of the announcements from the latest PlayStation State of Play, and an interview with Dying Light 2's Lead Designer, Tymon Smektala.

TheGamer Podcast is hosted by Eric Switzer and this week's episode features Issy van der Velde and Andrew King as guests. You can listen to the podcast through Pandean, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and several other podcast apps.

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To start off this week's episode, Eric Switzer is joined by Issy van der Velde and Andrew King to run through some of the biggest news stories of the week. Some of the topics include the Twitter discourse surrounding Elden Ring's user interface, Nintendo delaying the release of Advance Wars in response to the Ukraine conflict, and Forspoken's recent delay.

After the news breakdown, Eric and Andrew take a deep dive into the latest PlayStation State of Play and run through all of the games that were announced there. It was a relatively quiet showcase, with some of the highlights including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: Cowabunga Collection, Dino Cri... uh, we mean Exoprimal, and the Returnal: Ascension update.

Finally, to round off this week's episode, Eric Switzer talks to Dying Light 2's lead designer Tymon Smektala to discuss how successful the game was at launch and how Techland has reacted to that, how different the sequel is from the original, and what's next for the game over the next five years of promised content.

This week's question is - what's your favourite gaming pet? That includes mounts, sidekicks, and general gaming animals. Tweet us using the hashtag #AskTheGamer and we'll read your answer on the show next week!

TheGamer Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Eric Switzer and featuring staff from TheGamer discussing topics in gaming from over the week. Last week's episode can be found here and features a deep dive into Elden Ring.

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