This week’s episode covers a wide variety of topics, with no set news list save talking about Nintendo Direct’s oddly uninspiring conference. There’s no news list, so feel free to discuss what you found interesting or frustrating about Nintendo’s stream or anything else mentioned in the podcast.
Episode 602: Nintendo Directionless
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This week’s podcast was delayed in publishing thanks to the holiday week being more hectic than usual. However, better late than never, and there’s even some listener feedback included!
The news items include:
- Valkyria Chronicles 4 is mobilizing for deployment in the west in 2018
- Clicker Heroes 2 developer abandons microtransaction model citing ethical concerns
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting a high-tech ninja named Vigil
- Minecraft is adding tridents, shipwrecks, dolphins and coral reefs in Spring 2018
Let us know what you think.
Rock Band 2: Backwards Compatible DLC TooRock Band 2: Backwards Compatible DLC Too
Harmonix, MTV Games and Electronic Arts has announced their next block buster killer app: Rock Band 2. First, the most important feature is backwards compatible downloadable content. They’ve surpassed 15-million paid downloads, we want our content and we want to keep all the awesome songs for future games, else we might as well stop purchasing now, right?
The question remains, will we want to upgrade our instruments? They’re saying we’ll have “more variety of instrument choices than ever before with new and improved drum and guitar peripherals, enhanced functionality and innovative new designs – all fully compatible with the original Rock Band instruments.” Will the enhanced instruments really want to make us go out and buy them?
If these new instruments are highly desirable or add any new features to the game (or make newer features ‘easier’) then we may be persuaded to look into new hardware…yet with Guitar Hero World Tour we’re already pressured into considering another drum unit.
So confusing, but yet so much desired. I guess that’s the love hate relationship of a gamer with a passion and a, slight, addiction!
Episode 330: Batman ProblemsEpisode 330: Batman Problems
This week’s episode has Jonah ranting about the shoddy QA in Batman: Arkham Origins, while Jordan admits he never used those Xbox Live cards that came free with some games. In the meantime, the Gaming Flashback is the classic Apple ][ game Bolo.
The news this week includes:
- EA splits from Tiger Woods
- Rumor: Xbox One SDK plagued by eleventh hours bugs
- Apple sells 33.8m iPhones, 14.1m iPads in September quarter
- Nvidia Shield update adds official PC streaming, console mode, more Android support
- Fans trash Call of Duty: Ghosts booth at a games expo
No Question of the Week this week – just looking for Listener feedback.