Here Comes a New Challenger

Mar 05 2025 150 ep. 110 mins 4

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A podcast about fighting games whether it be about the fight games themselves or more broad things such as training modes and music.

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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Open Beta (Episode 150)

Mar 05 2025 117 mins

We celebrate 150 episodes, and go over the City of the Wolves open beta that happened recently, along with Sandalphon. Apologies for audio on this one, we had issues during recording.

Guess the Tier List: Touhou Edition (Episode 149)

Feb 21 2025 100 mins

For Brandon's blated birthday, the gang guesses the tier list of one of the Touhou fighting games while Brandon tells us what the real list is and how close we wereOur Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P

Punch-Out! Tier List (Episode 148)

Feb 15 2025 82 mins

What says love quite like Punch-Out? Austin and Garrett go over the cast of the 2010 Punch-Out and see which ones are champions and which ones are chumpsOur Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P

Evo Awards Nominees (Episode 147)

Feb 07 2025 119 mins

(Brandon's audio cuts out at the end and is missing ~20 minutes and could not be recovered. I cut the big pauses in between Austin and if it still feels like someone is missing in the convo that is why) We go over the EVO Award Nominees and we talk about why most of us aren't big fans of them.

Frosty Faustings XVI (Episode 146)

Jan 31 2025 103 mins

Troy is back, and he goes over Frosty Faustings XVI including his bracket run, Sandalphon, and more! We also go over all the news we've been missing.

EVO 2025 Lineup Reaction (Episode 145)

Jan 18 2025 113 mins

Garrett, Austin and Brandon watch the lineup stream for EVO 2025 and react to the reveals and have a discussion about the throwback title. Support victims of the LA Fires: https://www.latimes.com/00000194-4945-dbaa-a9be-5fcd08250000-123 Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P

The Airing of Grievences (Episode 144)

Jan 17 2025 130 mins

A cathartic episode where Austin and Garrett are joined by Q and talk about grifters in the scene. Apologies for the quality on Q's audio, I've edited as much as I could to make it sound somewhat decent.

Virtua Fighter is Back (Episode 143)

Dec 31 2024 83 mins

Austin, Garrett, Brandon and Q go over The Game Awards and the Virtua Fighter 5 beta

Our Wrapped 2024 (Episode 142)

Dec 12 2024 123 mins

Austin, Brandon and Garrett go over news, and their Spotify 2024 Wrapped for the podcast! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/9WmeCCn59P Our Blusky: https://bsky.app/profile newchallengerpod.bsky.social

VGAs Kinda Suck for Fighting Games (Episode 141)

Dec 01 2024 106 mins

In this episode it's a duo as Austin and Garrett talk about the new Virtua Fighter, more Bleach characters, and also the nominations for Best Fighting Game