This week is plagued by the Mark of the Beast, but next week’s will be a giant landmark, too. No Gaming Flashback, but a lot of legal happenings in the past week. The news includes: USB-C charging ports will be required by law in the EU for most portable tech from 2024 NetherRealm’s next game […]
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Episode 666: Nintendo Hentai Ban
October 9th, 2022 · 1 Comment
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Episode 661: Remasters and Expansions
August 24th, 2022 · No Comments
[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 […]
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Episode 656: Gooey Episode
July 12th, 2022 · No Comments
This week includes a Gaming Flashback about the sticky puzzle game World of Goo, which was one of the first games released without DLC — which is one of the main themes running through this podcast: videogame obsolescence. The guys also discuss James Gunn’s work on Lollipop Chainsaw and speedrun cheating. The news for the […]
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Episode 650: Walking Simulators
May 20th, 2022 · 2 Comments
This week’s episode looks at the progenitor of all walking simulator games, Dear Esther, in this week’s Gaming Flashback. They also discuss the upcoming Game Pass games for May as well as voice masking on the Playstation 3 and Xbox. In addition, Scott discusses Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, the spinoff of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes that […]
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Episode 648: Sleeping Scott
April 26th, 2022 · No Comments
[This episode has been re-uploaded due to technical issues] Scott falls asleep mid-podcast, leaving Jonah and TJ to wrap up the episode. In the meantime, the crew get nostalgic over the “Toys to Life” craze, as this week’s Gaming Flashback is Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. This week’s news includes: The Bethesda Launcher will be shut down […]
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Episode 644: Nintendo At It Again
March 25th, 2022 · 1 Comment
Jonah considers Elden Ring too grind-y, and talks about the name of an infamous handheld console. News items include: PlayStation 5 owners report online issues following system update Mass Effect Trilogy co-creator returning to science fiction Bungie says last week’s Destiny 2 video takedowns were ‘fraudulent‘ Nintendo takes down scans of 1996 Super Mario 64 […]
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Episode 643: Bits and Pieces
March 19th, 2022 · No Comments
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 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 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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Episode 628: The Core Nintendo Franchises
October 15th, 2021 · No Comments
This week, Jonah, Scott and TJ have a huge debate over which franchises are the core ones for Nintendo. Mario and Zelda are the easy first two, but who is the third? Scott is also invested in what will be the next major Minecraft addition. There’s also a Gaming Flashback, looking at a minor roleplaying […]
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