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Episode 422: Pop CultureEpisode 422: Pop Culture
This week’s a lot of discussion of comic book movies, including the upcoming “Captain America: Civil War”. In fact, it dominates most of the podcast. However, there is some discussion of video games.
This week’s news includes:
- Free money suddenly showed up in some people’s Steam accounts
- “Obviously there’s going to be another Borderlands,” says Gearbox
- Rumor: Nintendo NX to be officially revealed this or next week
- Rumor: Xbox One upgrade under development at Microsoft
Question of the Week: “Would you buy a updated console like the PlayStation 4.5 or Xbox One and a Half?”
Episode 688: July Is ComingEpisode 688: July Is Coming
The gang talks about Cities: Skylines 2, Microsoft and the FTC, and Biden’s high speed internet bill, as well as the following news:
- Baldur’s Gate 3 promises level 12 cap, new races, 22 new subclasses
- Minecraft’s devs exit Reddit
- Bobby Kotick says Switch successor will be closer to Xbox One & PS4 performance
- New Resident Evil 4 achievements spark speculation about upcoming DLC
All that 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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