Galactic Racer: The Star Wars Burnout That Cured Our Star Wars Burnout - Beyond 959

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Beyond and hello and welcome once again to IGN's PlayStation show. I'm Max Scoville and coming up, would you believe it, we're going to be talking about some video games. Let's get into it.

Remember, do not underestimate the power of PlayStation. Hello, everybody. Before we get into it, we have a quick personal update. Due to some recent restructuring across IGN Entertainment, our time hosting is coming to an end, mine and Brian specifically. We are incredibly proud of what we built here and so we're grateful to all of you who tuned in, chatted and hung out with us and this isn't the end of our journey. So please stay tuned for what's next and thank you for being the best audience a host could possibly ask for. Keep up with Jada in all of our Discord channels and Nick on upcoming episodes of GTFM to keep up today with a flurry of GTA 6 news and analysis. Because of these changes and the all new stuff the team is spinning up, Beyond! is going to be going on hiatus for a while. We think there is no better way to wrap up our time hosting Beyond! Then by talking about some of our favorite PlayStation moments.

Yeah, I'm here with Brian, I'm here with Jada, I'm here with Nick. Hey everybody, how's it going? Beyond!

Jada Griffin (2:05)

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Brian Altano (2:07)

Good to see you all. Yeah, you know, bittersweet, but I'm glad we get to do this episode for some closure because I have been podcasting with you all for a very, very long time, and it's been a blast, genuinely. So, yeah, I don't even know where do we start. We have been covering PlayStation on this show forever. The show predates most of us here, and I don't even know where to begin in terms of thinking about all the cool stuff that Beyond has gotten to do in terms of covering PlayStation launches, PlayStation games. We did entire series takeovers for this show for specific games. Hosts of Yote is one of this. I think that was a Logan Plant joke. We were coming up with a really silly name for something that was like, how do we do a three or four week takeover for a big game we're all excited for?

I think it was because we had done Talk of the Kingdom for Tears of the Kingdom over on NBC. Then we were like, we need a show name for this. Logan was just like, hosts of Yote? We were like, it's so silly, it will work. Yeah, that was a blast. I think one of my favorite things that I ever got to do here for PlayStation was we did this. When the PS4 came out, I think there was 25 people at IGN that pre-ordered it, and we were all in the SF office at the time.

Just the Amazon truck showed up, and they just brought pallets of PS4s out. We all paid our own money for them before you think we're paid shills.

We did this unboxing video where it was like 25 people at the exact same time, all unboxing the PS4, and we all were talking and hosting it at the same time. We looked like line cooks. It was so funny, and there were just so many people on staff involved with that. Greg Miller was there, Naomi, Fran Mirabella. I was in there, and it was just so weird to do something. It just felt really cool that everybody was so excited about this thing at the exact same time. That turned out to be just a really, I love the PS4.

Andrew Goffard, we got Collin, we got Damon, we got Sam Claiborne, there's me, there's Naomi. Oh my God. Yeah, there's so many great people. And yeah, we're all tearing through the plastic. We're all talking at the same time.