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Episode 323: What Is Nintendo Thinking?Episode 323: What Is Nintendo Thinking?
Jonah Falcon and Jordan Lund discuss PAX Prime 2013, then delve into this week’s news, Listener Feedback, and discuss the 1990’s developer Psygnosis.
The news this week includes:
- Nintendo announces 2DS, Wii U price drop
- Inafune “fought hard” for risk taking at Capcom, creators must be “willing to fail”
- Godus beta to hit Steam Early Access on 13th September
- Diablo III‘s new loot system to “cut the legs out” from the auction house
- Bethesda wants The Elder Scrolls Online available to non-Xbox Live subscribers
The Question of the Week: “How many times have you purchased a new form factor of a console you already owned?”
Episode 766: Madden Gets 2030Episode 766: Madden Gets 2030
The news items include: EA and NFL extend Madden license til 2030 – NFLPA still far apart, former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024, Ubisoft has come up with a new way to avoid saying the word ‘layoffs,’ with a ‘voluntary career transition program’ offer that some employees won’t be able to refuse, ‘Pacifist Battlefield completed’, Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won’t handle games that use generative AI: ‘We don’t believe in it’, Two Point Museum gets Vampire Survivors content in free update.
In addition:
- The Sinking City 2 is delayed into 2026
- No Man’s Sky gets space wreck salvaging and expanded ship building (from Eurogamer)
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Episode 360: City of WarcraftEpisode 360: City of Warcraft
This week’s Gaming Flashback is a major one, in particle for Gaming Podcast: World of Warcraft, as the WoW guild established by Derrick and Jennifer is well-remembered. For Paul, however, World of Warcraft was and is the source of some deep pain.
Along with the Gaming Flashback, this week’s news includes:
- NCsoft might allow players to resurrect the City of Heroes IP
- Sega accuses Gearbox founder of “doing whatever the f— he likes”
- Free full-version Xbox One game trials coming for Gold members
- Thousands of developers sign plea for tolerance in gaming community
- Dev on PS4?s 8GB RAM: “It didn’t really change that much for us”
All this plus Listener Feedback and the Question of the Week: “What are the strongest memories of World of Warcraft that you have?”