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Gaming Podcast Flashback: Episode 374: Lost In a CrowdGaming Podcast Flashback: Episode 374: Lost In a Crowd
This episode was recorded on January 10, 2015, and was guest hosted by former Joystiq editor Andrew Yoon. He tragically passed away three weeks later.
Here are the original podcast notes:
This week’s episode of Gaming Podcast has a special guest co-host, Andrew Yoon, formerly of Joystiq and currently in card game and video game development. The Gaming Flashback is the one that started them all: LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game. The slow news week includes:
- DDoS service targeting PSN and Xbox powered by home Internet routers
- Japanese console sales continued to slide in 2014
- Evolve’s questionable bargain: pre-purchase to avoid the unlock grind
- Sony delays PS4 in China
The Question of the Week: “What is your favorite, if any, LEGO videogames?”
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Episode 393: Pepper II PaulEpisode 393: Pepper II Paul
Paul’s not in this episode due to sickness, so it’s just Jonah and Scott, the former who berates the latter for the lack of any listener feedback. There is a Gaming Flashback this time, with the classic 80’s arcade game Pepper II.
The news includes:
- China ending restrictions on gaming console sales
- Capcom is sorry about the Street Fighter V beta
- Video gaming organization to start testing gamers for drugs
- Not even “a s—load” of Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Editions is enough for the world
The Question of the Week: “What makes a good expansion?”
Episode 291: Monster PoopEpisode 291: Monster Poop
This week it’s Jordan Lund’s turn to be absent, while Jonah Falcon and Paul Nowak discuss just how bad The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is. This week’s Gaming Flashback is Peter Molyneux’s ambitious title Black & White.
In the news:
- Silicon Knights’ cancelled games revealed
- Gabe Newell: Valve planning console-like PC for living room
- Windows Store “begins accepting” 18-rated games
- Rockstar muses on “one big world containing all” GTA cities
- Defiance‘s TV show and game “stand up on their own,” don’t ‘need’ one another
There’s also some Reader Feedback, while the Question of the Week is, “How in tune with an MMO’s story are you while playing?”