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Episode 457: For HonorEpisode 457: For Honor
This week’s episode has T.J. raving about the new hotness, the multi-cultural action-MOBA game For Honor, while Jonah complains about the lack of attention paid to Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. Scott, meanwhile, is playing Pillars of Eternity in preparation for the sequel.
This week’s news includes:
- Nintendo announces DLC Pass for Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Bard’s Tale remastered trilogy will be finished, promises developer
- Sony axes PS Now for PS3, Vita
- Microsoft teases Project Scorpio in E3 2017 press event
Let us know what you think.
Gaming Flashback: Mega ManGaming Flashback: Mega Man
Mega Man, a series franchise was born in the month of December, a series we rarely hear about today but one that inspired many great games in the side scrolling genre. Mega Man was foundation brick in the early Nintendo consoles and a bread winner for Capcom, he was a mascot to represent a genre typically dominated by Mario.
The name Mega Man, in the 1980’s was synonymous with the word awesome. It was also synonymous with the word difficult.
A character that had so much potential you can now find him in mobile phone gaming and the virtual console in Europe.
“In the year 200X, master robot designer Dr. Thomas Light, and his assistant, Dr. Wily, worked on a project to create human-like robots with advanced intelligence.” (wikipedia) Each robot was designed to perform a specific task, Cut Man was designed to cut down trees, Guts Man is designed to pickup heavy things, Ice man for arctic exploration, etc. His assistant grew envious of Dr Light so he reprogrammed the robots to do his bidding, which was nothing but evil. Your job is to undo this evil.
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Gaming Podcast 184: Just like Johnny DeppGaming Podcast 184: Just like Johnny Depp
Gaming Podcast, we get some impressions about gaming reviews and media from our listeners while tackling the gaming flashback 10-Yard Fight for the arcade and NES. We ran out of time on our four stories and didn’t get our gaming history in yet.
- iPhone Jailbreaking is Fair Use
- Kinect launches as Casual Gaming Device
- Next-Generation Blu-Ray 20x Better
- EA’s Bright Light Creates Create
- Lost Planet 2 Tanks
This weeks question of the week, what do you think of blaming video game failures on the economy?