Episode 410: Shady Nintendo

January 19, 2016| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 9:40 pm

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This week’s episode features Paul guest-hosting, joining Jonah and Scott. The only real drama comes when Paul defends Nintendo’s shady policy of deleting levels without any warning.

This week’s news items include:

Nintendo is deleting people’s Mario Maker stages without telling them why
Vivendi’s takeover of Ubisoft looms
Square Enix announces upcoming Hitman game will be going fully episodic
Former game developer accused of being a spy released from Iranian prison

Question of the Week: “What is your favorite mobile/social game?”

Episode 549: PS4 CrossplayingEpisode 549: PS4 Crossplaying

The crew realize how prickly gamers are getting. Lootboxes may make them complain, but it won’t stop them from paying. Exclusive DLC? That seems to be a bridge too far.

The news includes:

Modern Warfare fans are cancelling pre-orders over Spec Ops exclusivity
PS4 cross-play features reportedly out of beta, now available to all developers
French CS:GO players can preview loot box contents now, but still have to claim them

Let us know what you think.

Classic Cinematics: DiabloClassic Cinematics: Diablo

Diablo is a classic title with endings for each class you can play, but all give you the same result: hell and torment. You battle your way through a very difficult game, defeating legions of evils minions, piling their corpses upon the floor as you dig deeper into hell.

Eventually, you battle the essence of hell itself: Diablo. However, the ending does not give you warm fuzzies. The ending shows the results of a man with a burden and ends with the transfer of such burden.

Pure evil. Pure fun. Exciting and well crafted ending. For more talk on cinematic endings, listen to the TD Gaming Podcast Episode 75.

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Episode 754: Pre-Show HypeEpisode 754: Pre-Show Hype

The guys discuss Dune: Awakening’s endgame deep desert area has a PvE zone, PowerWash Simulator goes underground, overground in final free content update, Persona 4 voice actor confirms a remake is in development, EA Sports College Football 26 adds cross-play Dynasty, 300 coaches and trophy rooms, Star Wars Battlefront 2 breaks its concurrent player count record on Steam, Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake will also come to Nintendo Switch 2 and Hideo Kojima’s next game “Physint” is coming in about 5-6 years.