Planning for PAX West and just living life has distracted us immensley here. So many games, so many trailers, so many shows in the month since the last Nerd Notes. So instead of just a lot of trailers, some reactions to things that have happened in the month.
My schedule for at PAX West is full with appointments for Daedelic Games lineup, No Stone Unturned, Memoria Wake, Astroneer: Starseeker, Terrible Lizards, Aether & Iron, Project ATOM and Mistfall: Hunter while also keeping the schedule free to see games as I see them, as well as non game booths, plus the market, the wharf and the Museum of Pop-Culture time permitting.
Secondly, we are now the owners of a Meta Quest 3 and it is amazing. There are mind blowing experiences such Arkham and less than stellar experiences like experiments that while interesting were not thrilling. Watching a film or TV show on the Quest is absolutely mind changing, a screen over 100 feet but its not even real with basically full blown true 4K and in some cases 8K?!
Peacemaker Season 2 premiered and boy oh boy was that so good, especially watching it in the way I just stated. That one sequence … at larger than life. Yeah, so good, but also the plot and how the trailers really did a doog job of telling you what was coming yet not how and when and messing with that. So looking forward to the rest.
Upload series finale also uploaded to Prime. Only watched episode one of it but it feels like the show will get a satisfactory conclusion and therefore in my mind be one of the best complete streaming shows we might get for a long time.
Wrestling wrestling wrestling. So much wrestling. GCW vs Juggalo 2 Day War and GCW Homecoming AC 2025 were both fantastic events. TWE 12 Years was also another wild affair. There’s just indie show after indie show after indie show. All so good.
Gamescom has come and went. I wish I was there, but boy oh boy did we get announcements, reveals and stuff from that! and I mean beyond just the Gamescom Live: https://popculturespectrum.com/gamescom-2025-from-home-impressions/
Let’s start there with some videos released during Gamescom, some of this will be at Pax West but not all:
And now trailers of some games I’ll definitely get to check out at PAX West:
Here’s one game I wish was at Pax West. It wasn’t even at Gamescom. Blippo+ is something I just want and need now.
And now a deluge of streaming TV and Film trailers: