The Weekly Stuff Podcast #444 – Video Game News Galore! Nintendo Direct, State of Play, Tokyo Game Show, Assassin's Creed & More!

<p>With the Tokyo Game Show going down this week in, well, Tokyo, there was an avalanche of gaming news and gaming events, with Nintendo, Sony, and many others showing off new games for 2023 and beyond, and we break it all down on today’s episode! Starting with Ubisoft’s event last week to show off the appropriately convoluted future of <i>Assassin’s Creed, </i>and continuing on to this week’s Nintendo Direct – where we saw a new <i>Fire Emblem, Octopath Traveler II, </i>and got the title reveal for <i>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom </i>– and Sony’s State of Play, which showed off Team Ninja’s <i>Rise of the Ronin </i>and gave us a peek at the future of the <i>Yakuza </i>franchise, now returning to its original Japanese title, <i>Like a Dragon. </i>And if all that wasn’t enough, Hoyoverse also gave us some huge <i>Genshin Impact </i>reveals, including the jaw-dropping news that Ufotable, the renowned animation studio behind <i>Kimetsu no Yaiba, </i>will be creating the long-awaited <i>Genshin </i>anime. </p><p>Enjoy, and come back next week for our retrospective review of James Cameron’s <i>Avatar, </i>as it heads back into theaters ahead of December’s sequel.</p><p><strong>TIME CHART:</strong></p><p>Intro & Stuff: 0:00:00 – 0:21:34</p><p>Splatoon News: 0:21:34 – 0:29:00</p><p>Assassin’s Creed News: 0:29:00 – 1:01:10</p><p>Nintendo Direct: 1:01:10 – 1:31:30</p><p>Sony State of Play: 1:31:30 – 1:56:21</p><p>Yakuza and Tokyo Game Show News: 1:56:21 – 2:11:16 </p><p>Genshin: 2:11:16 – 2:23:07 </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQBqje0qmCVn0WkCXJzckaA"><strong>Subscribe to our YouTube Channel!</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/japanimation-station-an-anime-podcast-with-jonathan/id1477001961"><strong>Subscribe to Japanimation</strong></a><strong> Station, our Anime Podcast!</strong></p><p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wgtc-radio-we-got-this-covered/id535584943"><strong>Subscribe for free to 'The Weekly Stuff' in Apple Podcasts!</strong></a></p><p><