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Gaming Podcast 169: The Zerg RushGaming Podcast 169: The Zerg Rush
This week we’re busting out the Gaming Podcast love with some gaming news, community comments and we’re flashing back to Tag Team M.U.S.C.L.E for the NES and looking through the history of Greg Costikyan. For those interested in Herr Alien’s link, here is the article about Modern Warfars woes. Also, the Will It Blend iPad video. This weeks gaming news:
- Move will appeal to the hardcore gamers as well
- Starcraft II gets AO raiding in Korea
- Not looking good for Activision‘s lawsuit
- Nolan Bushnell returns to Atari
Thanks for all the feedback and answers to the questions last week. This weeks, we’re asking a tough question… what game exists in the market today that rivals the overall play time seen by games like Minesweeper and Solitaire?
Episode 470: The Sims 4 Contest Part 2Episode 470: The Sims 4 Contest Part 2
The The Sims 4 contest is still going on this week, with the winner to be announced in Episode 471. The crew gets back to discussing news, but as is usual, it’s a light week in July.
This week’s news items include:
- Starcraft Remastered is coming in August in 4K
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 loot boxes spark pay-to-win fears
- Only main player will progress in Far Cry 5 story
- Destiny 2’s getting rid of random perk rolls for loot and the response is divided
- Nintendo Switch Virtual Console will be the only way you can play certain Super Mario games
Again, The Sims 4 Contest is only eligible for US entrants.
Episode 661: Remasters and ExpansionsEpisode 661: Remasters and Expansions
[This episode was reposted due to being corrupted when the site went down.]
This episode is heavy on remasters and expansions, some bad, some good, some questionable. There’s even a sequel in there.
The news items include:
- Saber Interactive takes over working on KOTOR remake
- MultiVersus was July’s biggest-selling game
- Cities Skylines gets pedestrianization in new Plazas and Promenades expansion
- Ooblets is releasing in September
- Sony sued for £5bn for “ripping people off” on PlayStation Store
- Starfield at Gamescom may still happen
All this and listener feedback!