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The first episode of 2014 is now out, as Jonah Falcon, Jordan Lund and Dan Quick recap the major news of 2014.

The news includes:

• PC gaming exploding
• Next-gen launches, including Microsoft’s 180
• Nintendo Wii U suffers
• Nintendo Announces 2DS
• Microconsoles launched
• Tech flops of 2013

Also, some Listener Feedback, and the Questions of the Week, “What was the biggest event of 2013? What was your favorite game?”

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Thanks to the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, Gaming Podcast is running an Outtakes episode, which features mostly Jonah Falcon and Jordan Lund, but a little Paul Nowak and Dan Quick. If that weren’t enough, right after the outtakes is a Dr. Who discussion by usual commentators Jordan, his wife Jennifer and Paul.

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This week, Jordan reveals that he actually won an Xbox One from work, making him the second owner of the console in the podcast, and the only one with both a One and a PS4. Unfortunately, Paul’s not available for the podcast, making it a podcast of two.

The news this week:

• Square Enix confirms Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for next-gen
• EA donates $1.65 million to American Cancer Society following Humble campaign
• Report: MMOs targeted by intelligence agencies
• Ubisoft polling on Assassin’s Creed 5, non-Assassin pirate game
• Report: Disney taking over Indiana Jones from Paramount

Also, listener Pawel Predki wrote his own review of Tearaway. Read it here.

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Despite the title of the podcast episode this week, nothing is boring. Rather, there’s a ton of banter between Jonah, Paul and Jordan, as they discuss next-gen console gaming.

This week’s news items include:

• Amazon testing package delivery by drone
• Microsoft advises gamers against turning the Xbox One into a dev kit
• There’s “no lack of ideas” at DICE, CEO ponders local weather for Battlefield
• Xbox One beats PS4 sales at Walmart, Target
• Epic: “We’ve yet to see the real value of the second screen”
• Sega: Shenmue 3 trademark listing a hoax

All this and some Listener Feedback.

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Paul returns to the Gaming Podcast, having doing the major work on the Facebook game he’d been helping develop, Team USA Pinsanity. The trio argue over boss battles, and this week’s Gaming Flashback is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Jordan also finally has a great Vita game to fawn over, Tearaway.

• Take-Two files ‘Bully Bullsworth Academy’ trademark in Europe
• Twitch cracks down on PS4 Playroom inappropriate content
• Blizzard dev apologizes for remarks on sexualized designs
• Sony to make $250M entertainment cuts, “nothing too sacred”

The Question of the Week: “What is your opinion on boss battles?”

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Gaming Podcast is back after a week off, as Jordan talks about playing games on his brand-new PlayStation 4, while Jonah is anxious and worried about the Xbox One launch this week.

There’s also a ton of news this week, including:

• Unlucky PlayStation 4 owners face ‘blue light of death’
• Report: Apple in “talks” to purchase co-creators of original Kinect tech
• Ubisoft explains why launch games underwhelm
• Xbox One launch official broadcast available through Spike, GameTrailers
• Survey: only 1 percent of gamers want a Wii U this Holiday season
• Ken Levine defends BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 1‘s length
• World of Warcraft not going free-to-play, stop asking
• More Fallout 4 evidence pops up with trademark registration

And the Question of the Week: “What was the best budget game you ever bought?”

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This week’s episode has a long discussion on videogame music of the past, while Jonah discusses Batman: Arkham Origins and iPad adaptations of board games.

This week’s news includes:

• Surprises found in the PS4 FAQ
• Xbox One will support DLNA, MP3 and audio CD
• Valve working to make offline mode indefinite
• Nintendo: We have failed to establish Wii U as a “worthy” Wii successor
• Wii U bundle announced

This week’s Question of the Week is: “What was your favorite videogame music?”

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This week’s episode has Jonah ranting about the shoddy QA in Batman: Arkham Origins, while Jordan admits he never used those Xbox Live cards that came free with some games. In the meantime, the Gaming Flashback is the classic Apple ][ game Bolo.

The news this week includes:

• EA splits from Tiger Woods
• Rumor: Xbox One SDK plagued by eleventh hours bugs
• Apple sells 33.8m iPhones, 14.1m iPads in September quarter
• Nvidia Shield update adds official PC streaming, console mode, more Android support
• Fans trash Call of Duty: Ghosts booth at a games expo

No Question of the Week this week – just looking for Listener feedback.

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Gaming Podcast is back after being off for a week. This time out, there’s a Gaming Flashback as Jordan and Jonah discuss The 7th Guest, which was coincidentally just released on Steam.

This week’s news includes:

• Xbox One and PlayStation 4 headsets compatibility issues
• Dark Matter abrupt ending blamed on failed Kickstarter drive
• Rockstar New England working on “next version of famous IP”
• Fassbender on Assassin’s Creed film: it’s “definitely happening”
• Struggling Scrolls may go free-to-play

This week’s Question of the Week, “What was your favorite adventure game?”

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This week is on the short side, though Jonah and Jordan discuss pop culture like Red Letter Media, The Venture Bros. and Cave Johnson’s lemon ranting. There’s no Gaming Podcast or Gaming History, but there’s plenty of Listener Feedback and news items.

The news includes:

• Source: RI governor Lincoln Chafee deliberately torpedoed Studio 38
• UK online retailer SimplyGames enforcing PS4 bundles
• Half-Life 3 removed from trademark registery – Portal 3 appears
• The Last Guardian developers “re-engineering” the game, never was on “hiatus”
• Grand Theft Auto Online microtransactions disabled while server issues persist

No “Question of the Week” – this week is Listener Questions – send ’em in!