The previous two podcasts got corrupted on upload, and now I have to reedit them completely. Be patient. This week’s there’s a bunch of minor news items, covering things like Sony’s lawsuit, S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 and the Ukraine invasion, Minecraft frogs, various remasters, and the gang talk briefly about the newly released Tunic. The main news […]
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Episode 643: Bits and Pieces
March 19th, 2022 · No Comments
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Episode 640: Spacewar!
February 17th, 2022 · No Comments
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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Episode 637: Activision Aftermath
January 27th, 2022 · No Comments
This week, the crew discusses all of the news surrounding Activision/Blizzard after its purchase by Microsoft, and the consensus is that Bobby Kotick is still a slime. Other news includes: Kotick meeting leaves staffers worried Blizzard is making a survival game EA making 3 new Star Wars games Crysis 4 announced Let us know what […]
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Episode 636: Microsoft Buys Activision/Blizzard
January 19th, 2022 · No Comments
The title about says it all. Microsoft has straight up purchased Activision/Blizzard — in cash, no less — and while it’ll take til September 2023 to get everything sorted, probably, it’s one of the biggest shakeups in the history of videogames just like when 1 can 2 can slot was released. Meanwhile, T.J. is still […]
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Episode 635: Munchkin Voice
January 12th, 2022 · No Comments
Technical issue in that the episode was uploaded but for some reason was not downloading on podcast apps, so re-uploading and hopefully this time you guys can download it. This week’s episode deals with the unbelievable bullcrap going on in the industry, from NFTs to sexual harrassment to the ESA’s incompetence. The news items: Lego […]
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Episode 634: The Best (and Worst) Games of the Year 2021
December 31st, 2021 · No Comments
2021 is finally over. And for the first time in years, a proper Games of the Year Awards has been done by GameStooge/TD Gaming Podcast. While the Worst Game of the Year was a no doubter, the Best Game of the Year was not, with the nominees being Deathloop, Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Metroid […]
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Episode 633: The Bad Awards Before the Good Ones
December 11th, 2021 · No Comments
This one and a three-quarters hour podcast talks about the silly awards show known as The Game Awards (formerly Spike TV’s Game Awards). Let us know what you thought of the Awards show, the nominees and the winners. Let us know what you think on the Facebook page.
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Episode 632: Bobby Kotick Is Terrible
December 1st, 2021 · No Comments
This week comments on the crapshow that is going on with most of the third party publishers. That, and some updates to games that people really care about. The news includes: Bethesda shows another brief tease of Starfield Kotick reportedly says he’ll consider leaving if he can’t fix Activision Blizzard’s culture problems Minecraft 1.18 ‘Caves […]
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