Lost Levels Club

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

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)

Mike and Ting hand out the Meaningless Awards. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Meaningless Awards Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun dorma" from Turandot (The Three Tenors in Concert 1994) (YouTube) Meaningless Awards - Best Multiplayer Arc Raiders (Mike) Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (Ting) Meaningless Awards - Best Game Blue Prince (Mike) Hades II (Ting) Meaningless Awards - Missed in 2025 The Séance of Blake Manor (Mike) Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Ting) Meaningless Awards - Honourable Mention Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Mike) Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Ting)

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

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

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

Mike and Ting talk about Deltarune. Contains SPOILERS for Deltarune and Undertale! Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: DELTARUNE 2. Beginning (DELTARUNE Chapter 1 Soundtrack) - Toby Fox (YouTube) Undertale Reviews - Metacritic 『DELTARUNE Chapter 1』が2/28に配信決定 | トピックス | Nintendo deltarune.com on the Wayback Machine Undertale teaser points to Delta Rune, a new game, er, thing you can play right now Deltarune Chapter 2 gets surprise release in two days DELTARUNE Nintendo Switch 2 Announce Trailer (YouTube) Undertale's Toby Fox Composing Music for Nintendo A Few Musical Notes from Game Developer Toby Fox | #PokemonSwordShield (YouTube) Homestuck - Wikipedia Earthbound Halloween Hack Music - Final Boss (Megalovania) (YouTube) "...only one ending...?" : r/Deltarune EarthBound - Wikipedia UNALTERED 1. ANOTHER HIM (DELTARUNE Chapter 1 Soundtrack) - Toby Fox (YouTube) Introduction - The Deltarune Wiki Susie - The Deltarune Wiki Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Reviews - Metacrit

Mike and Ting are taking a break. NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Deltarune. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Pre-Chat Why I think the podcast ended : r/HelloInternet Somehow Palpatine Returned (YouTube)

Mike and Ting talk about what they played in the first half of 2025. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Multiplayer Split Fiction | Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer (YouTube) It Takes Two | “My Cutie” Toy Commercial (YouTube) BOKURA on Steam Return to Verdansk: Massive Intel Drop Ahead of Call of Duty: Warzone Season 03 Call of Duty: Warzone’s streamlined loot is so much better than fiddling with backpacks | PC Gamer Fortnite Is the Biggest Competitor to Any New Game or Service; Top Live Games Sucking Nearly Half of the Playtime on Consoles Are a Bigger Threat to the Video Games Industry Than Subscription Services History of basketball - Wikipedia R.E.P.O. - Official Release Trailer (YouTube) PEAK Trailer: OUT NOW! (YouTube) Peak went from a canceled game that couldn’t get funding to selling millions on Steam Singleplayer Monster Train 2 - Official Announcement Trailer (YouTube) Void War - Launch Trailer (YouTube) Nubby's Number Factory on Steam Gloomhaven | Board

Mike and Ting talk about Anthropic's Project Vend and being a tryhard at Puzzmo. NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Now Playing 2025. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Pre-Chat Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) \ Anthropic Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees | Reuters Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon - Ars Technica ClaudePlaysPokemon - Twitch World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says "Computer Says No..." | Little Britain | Lucas & Walliams (YouTube) Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) - IMDb Today's Puzzmo GD Column 17: Water Finds a Crack | DESIGNER NOTES TED Tumblewords Mobile Game: Everything You Need To Know About - Netflix Tudum

Mike and Ting talk about Blue Prince. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: What is Blue Prince? ♫ Blue Prince - Full Extended Soundtrack (+ Unreleased Tracks) (YouTube) BLUE PRINCE: An Interview with Tonda Ros (YouTube) Gesamtkunstwerk - Wikipedia Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle - Wikipedia Betrayal at House on the Hill | Board Game | BoardGameGeek How my friend made a masterpiece (NO Spoilers) (YouTube) ANIMAL WELL Day of the Devs Preview (YouTube) Blue Prince patch will fix PS5 save bug | Polygon Room 46 Library - Blue Prince Guide - IGN All permanent additions in Blue Prince and how to unlock them | Polygon Parlor - Blue Prince Wiki Billiard Room - Blue Prince Wiki How to solve the Laboratory periodic table puzzle in Blue Prince | Polygon Blue Prince: Should You Make a Wish? Erajan - Blue Prince Wiki Classroom - Blue Prince Wiki Crown of the Blueprints - Blue Prince Wiki Gift Shop - Blue Prince Wiki Bookshop - Blue Prince Wiki A New Clue - Blue Pr

Mike and Ting talk about Spaceballs 2. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Pre-Chat Spaceballs 2 | Announcement (YouTube) "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money" (YouTube) Mel Brooks explains why George Lucas signed off on Spaceballs — with one giant caveat "Weird Al" Yankovic - Fat (HD Version) (YouTube) The A.I. Apocalypse - Beyond the Black Void (YouTube) Austin Powers - fook me and fook yu (YouTube) I Love Gold! (YouTube) When 900 years old you reach… (YouTube) Steve Martin - Wikipedia Martin Shaw - Wikipedia How to chat with Meta AI in an individual or group chat | WhatsApp Help Center "No, I’m Singaporean": TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi responds to US Senator’s questions about China ties (YouTube) Play A Mind Forever Voyaging Online - My Abandonware

Mike and Ting talk about Slay the Spire. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: What is Slay the Spire? Slay the Spire (YouTube) Slay the Spire Reviews - Metacritic Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures | VGC Giant Bomb Escapes Fandom, Goes Independent Game of the Year 2019: Day One Deliberations (YouTube) Slay the Spire - Northernlion Plays - Episode 1 (YouTube) Slay the Spire passes 1.5 million copies sold | VentureBeat Mechanics Exordium (YouTube) Dominion (card game) - Wikipedia Dream Quest on Steam Prismatic Shard | Slay the Spire Wiki Ascension | Slay the Spire Wiki Act 4 | Slay the Spire Wiki Downfall - A Slay the Spire Fan Expansion on Steam The Packmaster - Steam Workshop Experiences The City (YouTube) Burning Blood | Slay the Spire Wiki Body Slam | Slay the Spire Wiki Barricade | Slay the Spire Wiki Council of Ghosts | Slay the Spire Wiki Wraith Form | Slay the Spire Wiki | Fandom Vampires(?) | Slay the Spire Wiki Peace

Mike and Ting talk about being polite to AIs and Mike's latest holiday. NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Slay the Spire. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Pre-Chat Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power Update that made ChatGPT 'dangerously' sycophantic pulled How to enjoy Japanese hot springs - Onsen Blue Prince What Time You Should Go to Bed by Wake-Up Time and Age Nintendo Is (Kinda) Returning To Region-Locking With A Cheaper Japanese Switch 2

Mike and Ting talk about the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Price, Hardware and Features Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025 (YouTube) Nintendo delays Switch 2 pre-orders in response to Trump tariffs | Polygon How Does Switch 2’s Price Compare to the Cost of Other Nintendo Consoles at Launch? Spoiler: It’s Not the Most Expensive - IGN Nintendo to launch Switch 2 on Jun 5 in the US, between July and September in Singapore - CNA Lifestyle "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops Select EU Retailers Are Abandoning Nintendo's Suggested Retail Price For Switch 2 Games It should be free, but Switch 2’s genius Welcome Tour is nevertheless going to be a must-have game | VG247 Reggie Had To Fight For Wii Sports As A Pack-In, And Miyamoto Wasn't Happy | Nintendo Life I Love Gold! (YouTube) Xbox's 2025 gaming handheld teased in new trailer | Eurogamer.net Nintendo Explains

Mike and Ting talk about lean forward vs lean back entertainment and Ghibli AI slop. NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Nintendo Switch 2 Reveal. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Pre-Chat Severance (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (TV Series 2023– ) - IMDb Dandadan (TV Series 2024– ) - IMDb The ChatGPT, AI-Generated Studio Ghibli Trend, Explained Hayao Miyazaki - Wikipedia AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% - Ars Technica

Mike and Ting talk about The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: What is The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe? The New Full Intro Cutscene for Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe The Stanley Parable The Stanley Parable mod for Half-Life 2 - ModDB The Forgotten City The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Reviews - Metacritic The Stanley Parable "Raphael Trailer" (YouTube) The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe – The Game Awards Trailer (YouTube) Achievements | The Stanley Parable Wiki Highlights The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe – The Complete Soundtrack (YouTube) Museum Ending | The Stanley Parable Wiki Confusion Ending | The Stanley Parable Wiki Settings Person | The Stanley Parable Wiki Endings | The Stanley Parable Wiki Settings World Champion Room | The Stanley Parable Wiki New Content Ending | The Stanley Parable Wiki Skip Button Ending | The Stanley Parable Wiki Mostly Infinite Hole | The Stanley Parable Wiki Figurines Ending | The Stanley Parable Wik

Mike and Ting aren't sure if they're less efficient, or the podcast is just longer. NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Pre-Chat Radiohead - Karma Police (YouTube) I'm not sure if it's because I'm more efficient, or if I'm just not getting as much work. I'm not sure if I should be worried about it or not. I'm not sure if I should be looking for more work, or if I should just be happy with what I have. I'm not sure if I should be trying to get promoted, or if I should just be happy with where I am. I'm not sure if I should be trying to get a raise, or if I should just be happy with what I'm making. I'm not sure if I should be trying to get a bonus, or if I should just be happy with what I'm getting. I'm not sure if I should be trying to get a new job, or if I should just be happy with the one I have. I'm not sure if I should be trying to get a new career, or if I should just be happy with th

Mike and Ting talk about The Rise of the Golden Idol. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: What is The Rise of the Golden Idol? Title Screen - The Rise of the Golden Idol OST (YouTube) The Rise of the Golden Idol - Wikipedia Observer effect (physics) - Wikipedia The Rise of the Golden Idol available now! Lingo Lorelei and the Laser Eyes - Annapurna Interactive Story Constriction - The Rise of the Golden Idol Soundtrack (YouTube) Steam Community :: Guide :: Timeline of story events (extreme spoilers) Luke Brown | The Case of the Golden Idol Wiki Behind Bars | The Case of the Golden Idol Wiki The Procedure | The Case of the Golden Idol Wiki | Fandom Feathered Frenzy | The Case of the Golden Idol Wiki The Strange Practices of a Secretive Society | The Case of the Golden Idol Wiki Speildance | The Case of the Golden Idol Wiki Complex | The Case of the Golden Idol Wiki Beach Trip | The Case of the Golden Idol Wiki Boardroom Brawl | The Case of the Golden Idol Wiki Anc

Mike and Ting fail to plan / plan to fail the pre-chat. NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for The Rise of the Golden Idol. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club Show Notes: Pre-Chat Avatar: Fire and Ash - Wikipedia How ‘Avatar: the Way of Water’ Revolutionizes Underwater Cinematography - The Walt Disney Company Zhangjiajie and Avatar: How Far Off Is Pandora? Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) - Wikipedia Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) - IMDb Watch Severance - Show - Apple TV+ Watch Silo - Show - Apple TV+ Lost (TV series) - Wikipedia Lost’s Polar Bear Explained: Why It's On The Island Severance Theories #2 - Goats, and why we love them. Examining goat room theories. (YouTube) Instagram users discover old AI-powered “characters,” instantly revile them - Ars Technica