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In today’s episode, we provide our usual mix of news, what we’ve been playing lately and an in-depth topic, which today is the sprawling world of horizontally scrolling shoot ’em ups.

In the news, we have the upcoming new Pokemon game, along with PlatinumGames’ Astral Chain, Square Enix’s Oninaki, a few new bits and pieces about Ys IX, a brief tease of Rune Factory 5, PQube’s first original in-house IP Kotodama, a release date for Atelier Lulua, some moderately interesting news about Sting’s Department Heaven game Yggdra Union, some sad news about the dear old Vita, and a nugget about Kingdom Hearts.

Between us, we’ve only been playing a few things this week; Chris has been tackling Battle Chef Brigade, while I’ve been polishing off 428: Shibuya Scramble. And we’ve both been playing a ton of Dynasty Warriors 8.

As for horizontal scrollers… well, we both love the genre a whole lot, so we both have lots to say, including some highlights that you might not have come across in your own travels! We hope you enjoy the show.

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