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This week’s episode was delayed in publication thanks to real life intruding on the videogame podcast.

The week’s news items include:

• Pokémon Sword and Shield starters revealed
• Stardew Valley gets esports tournament
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be revealed in April
• Funcom is working on a Dune MMO, and two more Dune games

All that and listener feedback.

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Things are starting to get interesting in the videogame industry, as Microsoft is starting to make Live available on other platforms, including the Switch. TJ on the other hand is getting more and more into Apex Legends.

This week’s news includes:

• Paradox Introduces multiplatform modding on Xbox One and PC
• Red Dead Online gets competitive fishing, gold armor gunfight in next update
• The developer of Furi is making a co-op RPG
• Rocket League gets cross-platform parties

There’s Listener Feedback as well.

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Jonah’s desktop PC finally died completely from irretrievable hardware failure, and this episode was recorded clumsily on his cellphone. Meanwhile, TJ has been enjoying Apex Legends enormously, and gives it a rave review.

Otherwise, this week’s news includes:

• Activision-Blizzard lays off 800 employees
• World War Z gets an April release date
• Dragon Quest Builders 2 comes to Switch, PS4 this summer
• Chucklefish boss says Sony is responsible for lack of PS4 crossplay

The Question of the Week is “Which game would you love to see remade?”

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This week’s episode has minor audio issues, but otherwise is okay. Most of the talk is about the Resident Evil 2 remake, and how it’s taken over the world. The crew also discuss the latest Gathering Storm civ, Phoenicia.

The news of the week includes:

• Capcom shipped 3 million units of Resident Evil 2
• Valve calls exclusive Metro Exodus deal with Epic “unfair” to Steam customers
• American McGee confirmed to be working on Alice 3 story, art and design
• Fallout 76 Survival Mode – PVP Beta starting in March

Let us know what kind of game you want to see remade.

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This week’s episode of Gaming Podcast features the first news of 2019 for the podcast, and there’s some juicy items to discuss. There’s no Gaming Flashback, but there is more discussion of the latest Civilization VI: Gathering Storm civs to be discussed.

The news includes:

• “Exciting Halo: The Master Chief Collection news” teased for SXSW 2019
• EA cancels open-world Star Wars game
• Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is getting turn-based combat later this week

Let us know what you think.

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This week’s episode has no news, despite the beginning of 2019 having some earth-shattering news items, which will be discussed next week, probably.

Instead, Jonah, TJ and Scott talk about their favorite games of 2018. Let us know which game was your favorite last year.

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This is the last podcast of 2018, and the next episode will be our Games of the Year announcement. Until then, we snark at Pewdiepie, and check some of the news ending the year.

This week’s news includes:

• Steam Xbox One cross-play tools hinted
• Americans can get Assassin’s Creed Odyssey free from Google
• Discord Store to offer developers 90 percent of game revenues
• Inca announced for Civilization VI: Gathering Storm

Let us know what your Game of the Year is.

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Valve continues to have problems in the wake of Epic (and now Discord) giving developers more of the earnings pie, as the year draws to a close. Meanwhile, T.J. explains his gamertag.

This week’s episode includes the following news items:

• Developers do not believe Steam is worth it anymore
• Canada announced for Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
• Studio Wildcard’s Atlas is delayed by a week
• Rainbow Six Siege chat filter and toxicity update

Let us know what your favorite game of 2018 was.

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This week’s episode is full of industry news in the wake of The Game Awards. There wasn’t many news items but there was plenty to talk about with the Awards, especially with this week’s Gaming Flashback, Unlimited Adventures.

This week’s news items include:

• Rumor: Starfield in trouble
• Epic launching Steam rival
• Maori announced as second civ for Gathering Storm

Let us know what you think.

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Last week’s podcast couldn’t be uploaded thanks to some good old-fashioned California power outages. This week’s episode is full of snark — enjoy.

The news items include:

• PlayStation Classic using PAL versions for several games regardless of region
• Bethesda apologizes about Fallout 76 launch
• Fortnite surpasses 200 million players
• No Man’s Sky Visions update improves diversity

Let us know what you think.