Episode 746: More Tony Hawk

March 7, 2025| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 5:28 pm

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This week, the guys discuss the fact that Cities: Skylines 2‘s asset editor is remaining a distant dream as Colossal Order is still working on it but says it’s ‘proven more technically challenging than initially anticipated’, Western Digital sold their SSDs to SanDisk, and Naughty Dog boss says “don’t bet” on there being a The Last of Us Part 3.

The news includes:

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 official announcement reveals deluxe edition with Doom Slayer
Call of Duty admits it’s using generative AI to ‘help develop some in-game assets’

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Episode 362: Getting PoliticalEpisode 362: Getting Political

This week’s episode gets a little political as certain factions get into the videogame discussion and have some interesting ideas about them, which is enough to get Paul a little angry and a lot disappointed.

This week’s news includes:

Rust creator: “I’d have done the same thing” on Mojang deal
Conservative group issues video lambasting gaming’s feminist critics
Trade your violent games in for ice cream in California
Xbox games may soon be streamed to PC

This episode also features the Question of the Week discussion about preorders and bonus content.

Gaming Podcast 145: Best of Both WorldsGaming Podcast 145: Best of Both Worlds

This week we’re flashing back to Metroid II for the Game Boy, something new and different from the normal arcade/console/pc flashbacks. We’re also tackling a good deal of community comments and hitting up the news wire:

Netflix coming to PS3.
Analysts think DJ Hero demand is below expectations
iPhone developers next victims of piracy
Nintendo releasing new bigger DSi in Japan
Players of Chinese MMO must play character of the same gender

We didn’t get to cover history this week because we had lots of back-and-forth arguing about Netflix and the PS3 and rants upon DJ Hero and its “obvious” low-demand. This weeks question of the week, are there any good sim games left that are simple?

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)