This week has a lot of followup to the entire situation with Activision/Blizzard, and also a lot of news items that weren’t a part of the official news feed. According desky.ca in addition, this week’s Gaming Flashback is recognized as the first computer game, Spacewar! The news feed includes: Microsoft is watching Activision/Blizzard to ensure […]
Entries from February 2022
Episode 640: Spacewar!
February 17th, 2022 · No Comments
Tags: 3DS · Activision · Blizzard · Episode · Industry News · Microsoft · Nintendo · Nintendo Switch · Podcast · RPG · Show Notes · Wii U
Episode 639: Live Games Service
February 10th, 2022 · No Comments
The crew gets excited about the announcement of The Wolf Among Us 2, although it won’t be out for a while, and bemoan the infestation of live service games everywhere these days in videogames. The news includes: PlatinumGames pivoting to live service games Rockstar announces Grand Theft Auto 6 in a tweet Tim Schafer doesn’t […]
Tags: Episode · GTA · Industry News · Podcast · Show Notes
Episode 638: Sony Buys Bungie
February 2nd, 2022 · No Comments
This week, Sony responds to Microsoft’s nearly $69B purchase of Activision/Blizzard by buying Bungie for $4B. The guys cover Sony’s State of Play 2022, which turned out to be entirely about Gran Turismo 6. Well, we hinted at it in the last few podcasts, and now it is live: TD Gaming Podcast is now looking […]
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