Episode 443: Nintendo Pulls a Switch

October 20, 2016| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 10:19 pm

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So, this episode covers that fact that Nintendo is about to announce their next device, which they did earlier today: the Nintendo NX is now called the Nintendo Switch. The official Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer was also unveiled today too, and the multiplayer aspect is discussed. Jonah advises TJ and Scott to try The Stanley Parable as well.

This week’s news includes:

Dishonored dev’s The Crossing, put on hold in 2009, gets a new trademark filing
Red Dead Redemption 2 announced for Xbox One and PS4, but not PC
Voice actors threaten strike against EA, Activision, and nine other companies
Grand Theft Auto 5‘s exploding Note 7 mod video yanked from YouTube by Samsung

All this and two Questions of the Week!

Episode 253: Future GenerationEpisode 253: Future Generation

This week, Paul is still not available, which is unfortunate, since the Gaming Flashback is the classic DuckTales for the NES. There’s also a bunch of scintillating news items including:

Pachter: Nintendo “Blew It” With Wii U, “In Disarray”
Bethesda hiring talent for Xbox 720, PlayStation 4 game
EA reveals Mass Effect 3 preorders well ahead of Mass Effect 2‘s
Pachter: Next generation Sony and Microsoft consoles will have 4GB SKU
Sony filed patent For Kinect-like motion device
PSN Minis not working on Vita

We also reveal the winner of the Pixie Diamonds contest.

Episode 526: New York State of MindEpisode 526: New York State of Mind

This week’s episode of Gaming Podcast features the first news of 2019 for the podcast, and there’s some juicy items to discuss. There’s no Gaming Flashback, but there is more discussion of the latest Civilization VI: Gathering Storm civs to be discussed.

The news includes:

“Exciting Halo: The Master Chief Collection news” teased for SXSW 2019
EA cancels open-world Star Wars game
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is getting turn-based combat later this week

Let us know what you think.

Episode 458: Dark Souls the Board GameEpisode 458: Dark Souls the Board Game

This week’s episode features a report by Jonah Falcon from Toy Fair NY, raving about the co-op board gane version of Dark Souls. T.J. continues to rave about Nioh and Scott texted while the podcast was going on, but you’ll have to wait for an outtakes episode to hear that story.