Episode 497: Only Three More Til 500

The podcast slowly inches towards the magic 500th episode of Gaming Podcast, representing over 11 years of yakking about video games. For a Gaming Flashback, the gang looks at arguably the last good Mario game, Super Mario Galaxy. They also discuss the phenomenon that is Fortnite.

As for the gaming news, this week includes:

  • Atari reveals Ataribox, renamed Atari VCS
  • Ys: Memories of Celceta will arrive on PC this summer
  • Fortnite is already the second highest grossing game on iOS
  • Top Fortnite streamer Ninja earns $500,000 per month

Do you play Fortnite? Let us know.

0 thoughts on “Episode 497: Only Three More Til 500”

  1. Hi guys.
    As always: thanks for the episode, it was fun to listen to it 🙂
    Regarding your topics in this episode:
    I am very hyped for the new Atari console, but i can´t describe why. Maybe because the Atari 2600 was my first console as a kid, and i am a little bit nostalgic? The new one looks good, but as Jonah mentioned: the console will rise or fall with the games and they did not show anything right now (or i did not see anything).
    I never played Ys as a kid, because as far as i know, the are not available in german, and as a kid, i was not able to understand english 🙂 The bumping mechanic seems a little bit awkward, but on the other hand it´s something different to everything else 🙂 I saw some videos about the newer versions of Ys (PS4 releases). Did one of you play them/one of them and can tell me, if one of them is worth playing?
    I play Fortnite on PC sometimes with my friends. I did not bought the game, so i only can play the battle royal part and this is fun to me, if i play it with friends. I also played it on my mobile … for 2 minutes … its unplayable in my opinion … as expected 🙂 But if you want to play a round on PC with Discord or TeamSpeak to coordinate, let me know. My ingame Name is the same as here : Jackosis.
    I have one question to all 3 of you: are you thinking about streaming some gaming of you or do YouTube Videos? Some kind of Let´s Plays or sth like that? I think it´s more work, so i don´t know if you would have the time for that 🙂

    And for the OffTopic: right now i am into the a very old series: SpinCity with Michael J Fox (in germany its called Chaos City … don´t ask me why) and i started watching The Walking Dead.

    I wish you a great week and a happy easter weekend and hope to get a new episode very soon 🙂

    greetings from germany,
    Ralf

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