Episode 421: Pursuit of Happiness

April 20, 2016| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 9:03 pm

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This week’s episode morphs from a discussion about abusive workplace practices to pharmaceutical company practices. Otherwise, it’s just a discussion about the games people play and the people who play them. Also, a bunch of pop culture discussion.

This week’s news includes:

GameStop to launch video game publishing division
Sources leak potential Nintendo NX and controller specs online
Nintendo’s cloud-like patent approved
Ark: Survival Evolved lawsuit settled

The Question of the Week, “What games are you looking forward to this coming Summer?”

Episode 706: Goodbye E3Episode 706: Goodbye E3

E3 is no more, but was it inevitable?

Other news includes:

E3, the video game expo, officially shuts down forever
Report: Insomniac suffers ransomware attack
Zelda producer doesn’t get why some fans want to go back to the “limited” and “restricted” games
The Last of Us Online finally canceled

Let us know what you think.

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This weeks Gaming Podcast comes out a bit early due to some travel plans and an upcoming trip to Popcap’s Bejeweled Twist launch party. This week in the news we took a look at:

Metal Gear Solid 4 may be coming to Xbox 360
Ubisoft taking a page out of EA’s book
Microsoft bringing the big name games to Xbox Live Arcade
Little Big Planet recalled

We also take a look back at Pitfall! and cover yet another DRM issue on our soapbox, asking the question, is online gaming the DRM of the future? Our history segment does a bit of history on Popcap games.

Our NFS: Carbon and Saints Row contest has ended, the gang names are in, and we’re giving away the games to the winner. Next, we’re going to give away Project Gotham Racing 4.

Episode 462: Nerd RageEpisode 462: Nerd Rage

Jonah discusses his renewed views of Mass Effect: Andromeda after his long, long rant last week. It fits in with the theme of nerd rage in the news items, as well as some new games coming out. TJ and Scott talk about the games they’ve been enjoying in the past week as well, as the latter is burning through Pillars of Eternity so he can play Torment: Tides of Numenera and the eventual Pillars of Eternity II.