Gaming Podcast’s Jonah Falcon and Shack News’ T.J. Denzer do a totally-not-ripping-off-Zero-Punctuation’s-Let’s-Drown-Out video of the former playing Bus Simulator 18 as they discuss some of the news of the day.
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The previous week’s episode had too many technical issues to post, so this week’s episode overcompensates by being over two hours long. The Gaming Flashback this week is none other than 2009’s Minecraft, which is still going strong well into 2019.
This week’s news includes:
- Microsoft explains Xbox Game Pass for PC, selling games on Steam (from GameWatcher)
- The Avengers game is being revealed at E3 2019
- Super Mario Maker 2‘s lack of costumes and online matchmaking with friends upsets fans
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood to feature ray-tracing technology
All this and Listener Feedback.
Episode 255: The Darkness II ContestEpisode 255: The Darkness II Contest
Dan Quick returns again to cover for Paul Nowak, and this week, the Gaming Podcast is offering free copies of The Darkness II Limited Edition, which comes with the main game and some free DLC. The guys are giving away an Xbox 360 version and a PlayStation 3 version. To win, just listen to the podcast and post what your favorite scary movie is.
The game news this week includes:
- Ex-SCEE senior VP Phil Harrison joins Microsoft’s European team
- DOOM developer John Romero has “plans” for “old school” shooter
- EA defends Mass Effect 3 From Ashes DLC data being on disc
- Notch settles with Bethesda over “Scrolls” trademark
- DICE: 2GB RAM won’t be enough for next gen consoles
- Angry Birds theme park to open in Finland
- GAME puts itself up for sale, GameStop interested
- Diablo III release date announcement “in a few days“, no PvP in launch version
And yes, they know that the announcement was just made today – May 15th release date for Diablo III.
The contest to win either the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 version of The Darkness II will run this and next week, with the winners announced in Episode 257.
Gaming Podcast 187: Poor WalmartGaming Podcast 187: Poor Walmart
This weeks podcast covers some news, as the usual, a gaming flashback about Mach Rider on the NES and the cassette loader from the old NES days (in Japan). Aside from community comments, we’ve also got this news lineup:
- Nintendo Drops DSi and DSi XL prices
- Acclaim has died
- Sony changing their mobile target audience
- Best Buy and Target getting into the used games business
- Xbox Live subscription increasing
This weeks question of the week, are storylines important in video games (more so than graphics) and, what game do you believe will go down as the best storyline based game in your opinion.