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Just when you thought we couldn’t be more ambitious, the podcast Holiday crossover has gotten larger and merrier!

Welcome Bindle-Man: No Way Home for the Holiday Crossover Special! This team-up of epic proportions is from your favorite podcasts and podcasters. This year we have Super Bracket Bros, GeeK KetchUP, Game of Groans, Level Playing Field, Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers, and Ultimate Sports Mashup all coming together to bring holiday cheer!

In this episode, our podcasting gang plays some games-themed around the holiday season. Emily and Kate from Game of Groans host Have Yourself a Merry Little Quizmas, a Holiday movie trivia game. Andrew from Level Playing Field and Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers hosts a Christmas music version of Synonym Roll, the game where song titles have been changed to synonyms and players have to guess the original. Finally, Jay from Super Bracket Bros and Ultimate Sports Mashup host, of course, a bracket. This year, the tournament was to decide the best Christmas movie of all time. Hilarity and bindles ensue.

If you enjoy this episode, let us know! And please check out all of the shows represented in this episode! Thank you and have a Merry Christmas and happy holidays! 

Super Bracket Bros

https://superbracketbros.buzzsprout.com/

GeeK KetchUp

https://www.geekketchuppodcast.com/

Game of Groans

https://www.gameofgroanspod.com/

Level Playing Field

https://www.levelplayingfieldgaming.com/ 

Ultimate Sports Mashup

https://ultimatesportsmashup.buzzsprout.com/

Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers

https://www.fngamers.com/

Hey everyone! We have some exciting news to share! Andrew and Dylan have a new project launching on January 3, 2022. It's called Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers! This project will be made up of a podcast, a YouTube channel, and a Twitch channel. Links for everything will be listed below in the description. Thanks so much for supporting LPF and thanks for checking out this new project! Stay friendly, gamers!

Insta - https://www.instagram.com/yourfriendlyneighborhoodgamers/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/F_N_Gamerz

Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/neighborhood_gamers

YouTube -  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRgS_YRAM8_PlWNvxrjQshA

Website - https://www.fngamers.com/

Join Andrew, Aubrey, Caleb, Joe, and Dylan one last time as they reflect on the past 100 episodes of LPF and discuss some of their favorites. 

The whole crew is here for the final time before episode 100! This episode is all about our favorite games of all time. We talk about all sorts of awesome games! 

Episode 100 will be the last episode of Level Playing Field, at least for now. After giving it a lot of thought we have decided to take a hiatus from the show and focus on other things going on in our lives right now. That doesn't mean that the show can never come back, but right now it is ending for the foreseeable future. I’m sure I can speak for everyone here at Level Playing Field when I say thank you to anyone who has listened, commented, retweeted, liked, reviewed, and especially supported us on Patreon. It means so much to know that this little passion project has reached so many people around the world. Video games are cool and we’re going to continue enjoying them off mic and off-camera. Thanks again for any and all support. 

-Andrew

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The whole crew is here to talk about what they've been playing and it's quite a bit! Here are a few of the games they cover on the episode, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Resident Evil, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Dorfromantik, Dead By Daylight, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, and more!

Also covered in this episode is the announcement that LPF is going on indefinite hiatus after episode 100.
Episode 100 will be the last episode of Level Playing Field, at least for now. After giving it a lot of thought we have decided to take a hiatus from the show and focus on other things going on in our lives right now. That doesn't mean that the show can never come back, but right now it is ending for the foreseeable future. I’m sure I can speak for everyone here at Level Playing Field when I say thank you to anyone who has listened, commented, retweeted, liked, reviewed, and especially supported us on Patreon. It means so much to know that this little passion project has reached so many people around the world. Video games are cool and we’re going to continue enjoying them off mic and off-camera. Thanks again for any and all support. 

-Andrew

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Andrew and Dylan are joined by their friend Alyssa Hollingsworth to talk about storytelling in video games compared to other mediums. She is an author with two published books under her belt so we couldn't have asked for a better guest for this topic!

Check out Alyssa's work here!
https://alyssahollingsworth.com/

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Andrew, Caleb, and special guest Katie Shesko take a deep dive into Nier Automata!
Nier Automata is one of the most unique games from the last generation and this episode goes into all of the many reasons why!

Be sure to check out all of the awesome stuff Katie is doing!
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**Content Warning** Some of the things we talk about in this episode are a lot more serious and uncomfortable than our usual episodes. If you want to skip ahead, here are some timestamps.
Blizzard talk starts at 41:30 minutes and the closing game starts at 1:36

This week Andrew, Dylan, Aubrey, and Joe are here to talk about a bunch of news that has happened over the past few weeks. The most important of these stories is all of the terrible stuff coming out about Blizzard/Activision. 

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The whole crew is here to talk about one of the greatest gaming franchises of all time, The Legend of Zelda! They talk about all of their favorites from the series including, Breath of the Wild, Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and many more!

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Andrew, Aubrey, Dylan and Joe are here to talk about party games! What is a party game and what are some of their favorite ones? Listen to find out!

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Here's another freebie for you all! This time it's an episode of the LPF Moviecast! Caleb and Aubrey are discussing the recent trend where Disney feels the need to remake all of its classic movies for some reason. 

Get new episodes of this show, along with a bunch of other perks, by becoming a patron over on our Patreon page! The link is below. 

Andrew, Dylan, and Caleb are here to talk all about one of the coolest gaming consoles around, the Nintendo Switch! Give it a listen to hear the many things they love about the system and the few things they wish were better. 

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Here's a freebie episode of our Patreon exclusive podcast, The Open Mic! On this episode, Andrew, Dylan, and Caleb answer a very important question. How long is too long to wait for fast food? We had a ton of fun on this episode and wanted everyone to hear it. If you enjoy it, please consider supporting us on Patreon! 

The gang is here to tell you about all of the games they've been playing lately including, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Mario Golf Super Rush, World of Warcraft Classic: Burning Crusade, The Sims 4, Dark Souls 2 and 3, Code Vein, Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance, and more!

There's also an update on our Fantasy Critic league!

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Andrew and Joe talk about the game It Takes Two and give their spoiler-filled thoughts about it!

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Andrew, Caleb, Dylan, and Joe are here to recap all of their favorite (and least favorite) things from E3 2021! 
Check out this link for a recap - https://www.ign.com/articles/e3-2021-schedule-date-events-games-news

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Andrew, Caleb, Aubrey, and Dylan are here to talk all about the latest game in the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil Village! They talk about their likes and dislikes of this game and how crazy the whole franchise is. To close it out, Andrew hosts a fun trivia game that has an unexpected twist ending. You don't wanna miss it! This is a spoiler-filled discussion so keep that in mind. Thanks for checking it out and be sure to follow us on social media and let us know what you thought about the episode and RE Village.

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Andrew, Caleb, Joe, and Dylan revisit the predictions we made at the start of the year to see how things are going. They also talk about the upcoming E3 event and what they're excited about when it comes to the event this year!

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Andrew, Aubrey, and Dylan cover a bunch of cool stuff that's been happening in gaming news lately! 
Here's a list of links that relate to the stories covered in this episode!

1. Horizon State of Play
2. Sonic Central
3. Lies of P 
4. Mario Golf Super Rush details
5. New DualSense colors 
6. Far Cry 6 Gameplay looks dope
7. Kelsier is in Fortnite now
8. House of Ashes addresses fan feedback on The Dark Pictures series
9. Timesplitters Returns? Can I Predict The Future?
10. Is Starfield Xbox Exclusive?
11. Dying Light 2 plans further delays for December
12. Sony Drives People To Be Fans Of Games By Sony Studios and Not Actually Sony Itself
13. Blizzard makes consistently bad choices and sees dip in playerbase
14. You probably won’t be able to easily get a PS5 until 2022
15. Ubisoft remains loyal to Skull and Bones for some reason
16. Skyward Sword Remake Fast Travel Locked Behind Amiibo
17. The Normandy is in No Man’s Sky now
18. Dark Alliance coming to Game Pass on Day 1

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On this episode of the podcast, Andrew, Dylan, and Joe talk about one of Dylan's favorite games of all time, Remedy Studio's Control! They talk all about the game's creepy atmosphere, interesting combat and weapons, and weird story. This is a spoilercast so keep that in mind!

Joe hosts a game of Synonym Roll to close it all out.

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