The 265th podcast will be a little delayed, as it will be recorded on Wednesday, the day the podcast is usually released.
There will be one this week, though, so keep your eye on the iTunes RSS feed.
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Episode 319: Someone Is Butt-Hurt About MicrosoftEpisode 319: Someone Is Butt-Hurt About Microsoft
There’s no Gaming Flashback or Gaming History, but there is a crapton of news this week on TD Gaming Podcast, which Jonah Falcon and Jordan Lund eagerly read.
That, and Jordan really wants to know what you have been playing.
The news this week includes:
- Microsoft officially announces indie self-publishing, to be unveiled at GamesCom 2013
- Phil Fish explodes on Twitter, cancels Fez II in a huff
- Shadow of the Eternals back on Kickstarter, no longer episodic
- Neil Gaiman has announced his first videogame, Wayward Manor
- Lanning: Nintendo will be around for “100 years,” but probably not Zynga or Microsoft
- Activision-Blizzard buys out $8.2B of its own stock from Vivendi
- Paid subscribership of World of Warcraft down to 7.7M
All this and Listener feedback.
Gaming Flashback: Mega ManGaming Flashback: Mega Man
Mega Man, a series franchise was born in the month of December, a series we rarely hear about today but one that inspired many great games in the side scrolling genre. Mega Man was foundation brick in the early Nintendo consoles and a bread winner for Capcom, he was a mascot to represent a genre typically dominated by Mario.
The name Mega Man, in the 1980’s was synonymous with the word awesome. It was also synonymous with the word difficult.
A character that had so much potential you can now find him in mobile phone gaming and the virtual console in Europe.
“In the year 200X, master robot designer Dr. Thomas Light, and his assistant, Dr. Wily, worked on a project to create human-like robots with advanced intelligence.” (wikipedia) Each robot was designed to perform a specific task, Cut Man was designed to cut down trees, Guts Man is designed to pickup heavy things, Ice man for arctic exploration, etc. His assistant grew envious of Dr Light so he reprogrammed the robots to do his bidding, which was nothing but evil. Your job is to undo this evil.
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Episode 327: Not-Love LettersEpisode 327: Not-Love Letters
This week’s podcast has Jonah having a new job, while some really long Listener Feedback letters lengthen the podcast. In fact, several discussions between Jonah and Jordan were cut and will be in a near-future Outtakes episode.
This week is full of news as well, including:
- Star Wars 1313 was to have starred Boba Fett after all
- Shadow of the Eternals dev Precursor Games disbands
- Techland: Dying Light isn’t another Dead Island
- China lifts console ban, Microsoft collaborating with BesTV to make new console
- Watch Dogs ships on two discs, requires install, 30 FPS cap on Xbox One and PS4
That plus the long Listener Feedback, and Jordan has an appeal to veteran listeners to write in.