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Hosted by Dan Lima & Luis Menchaca · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 173 episodes
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A weekly podcast to catch you up on everything that’s new and exciting in the world of video games. We meet every Friday morning to discuss the top news of the week, notable releases on all platforms, what we’re playing, big topics of the industry and the games we love. Hosted by game developer Dan Lima (@PowerUpDan) and game reviewer Luis Menchaca (@Chacalaca88).
Dan Lima & Luis Menchaca hosts Ready Press Play: A Video Game Podcast, a leisure show with 173 episodes published.
Luis calls for a meeting with Dan to discuss the recent news that PlayStation will cease producing physical discs starting in January 2028. They discuss how the overall games industry is going especially with how Xbox an
Luis and Dan meet to discuss all the games they played in 2025 and come to a consensus as to what Ready Press Play's Game of the Year for 2025 will be. The nominees for Ready Press Play's Game of the Year 2025 are: Clair
Dan and Luis met live on Twitch immediately following The Game Awards to discuss all the announcements, the awards, and the show overall. Timecodes: 00:00 Intro / Revealing the prediction winner 09:33 Recapping the annou
This episode was recorded live on November 19th, 2025, on the Ready Press Play Twitch channel.
This episode was recorded live on June 5th, 2025, on the Ready Press Play Twitch channel.
Luis calls for a meeting with Dan to discuss the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct and all the news that came after, the good, the bad, and the ugly. All this and not much more! For more Dan and Luis in the future subscribe to th
Dan and Luis meet one more time in 2024 to talk about their PlayStation stats for the year and talk about all things The Game Awards, from the announcements, the controversies, and the winners. All this and more! For mor
Dan and Luis meet for the first time in 2024 to talk life updates, gaming stories, predictions of who's winning The Game Awards, and what new announcements they're expecting for next week. TIME CODES PENDING
Dan and Luis meet up to talk about the death of E3, their video game stats recap on all platforms, and reveal who won The Game Awards predictions game as well as give their overall thoughts on the show in general. 00:00
Dan and Luis meet for the first time on camera in 9 months! They are so out of practice that they had technical difficulties with the audio (a rookie mistake)! They catch up and predict the winners of The Game Awards. Fo
Dan and Luis meet for the last time to send the show off in the longest podcast they have ever done! Clocking in at over 4 hours they reminisced on the life of the show, the future of the games industry, they got sentime
Dan and Luis deep dive into God of War: Ragnarok developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Spoilers start at 30:58 Once a month, Dan Lima (@PowerUpDan) and Luis Menchaca (@Chacalac
Dan and Luis meet to talk about the upcoming finale of the show, go back through the Temple of Time for the last time, chat (once again) about the end of the 3DS and WiiU eShops, reports of a PS5 Pro around the corner, g
Dan and Luis meet to talk about how they titled the last few episodes, talk about their favorite games they played in 2022 and award Ready Press Play’s Game of the Year!, all this and much more. 00:00 - Intro 06:12 - Gam
Dan and Luis meet to talk about anxious dads, Super Bowl trailers, January’s NPD results, Game Pass affecting game sales, the Tetris movie, and much more. 00:00 - Intro 06:25 - The Flash trailer and the DC Cinematic Univ
In the longest episode of Ready Press Play Dan and Luis are hit with the realization that the theme for today’s episode is sadness. Dan and Luis give personal life updates, talk about a sad set of video game anniversarie
Dan and Luis meet to talk about The Last of Us' HBO show, layoffs at Microsoft, Ubisoft canceling multiple games, and end of year NPD results. 00:00 - Intro / SteamDeck / Xbox controllers 07:56 - Reminder! RPP ends on #1
On the 3rd anniversary of Ready Press Play, Dan and Luis meet up to discuss their plans for the future of the podcast and catch up on what they were up to during the holiday break. Overall the episode was a chill laid ba
Happy holidays! On this unique episode of Ready Press Play, our crew unites to discuss and rank their favorite original games released between 1980 and 1989. This DLC was originally recorded on July 2022, and therefore w
Dan and Luis deep dive into South Park: The Stick of Truth developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. Spoilers start at 17:18 Once a month, Dan Lima (@PowerUpDan) and Luis Menchaca (@Chacalaca88) deep
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Ready Press Play: A Video Game Podcast is hosted by Dan Lima & Luis Menchaca. The show is categorised under leisure (games) and has published 173 episodes.
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