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Everyone but the video game industry saw this coming. 20:30 – Loot Boxes and potential legislation 59:56 – Publisher banned from Steam for strong-arming employees to review their own game 1:07:20 – What do we think about the upcoming Five Nights At Freddy’s movie?
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Why pay full price for a video game when you can pay full price for HALF a video game? 0:15 – We start the show! I played the Dragon Quest Builders demo and EZK watched The Punisher on Netflix 28:37 – Half of the new BlazBlue game’s characters will be paid DLC 36:41 – Sony …
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Swatting got someone killed last week. It’s an unpleasant topic and one we spend the first part of the show yammering about anything and everything to avoid it. But, as former GamePolitics writers, we felt we needed to discuss it. 46:00 – Gamers kill someone via swatting 1:13:08 – Copyright extensions keep hundreds of games …
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Another solo show! I didn’t think I had enough material for 30 minutes but I ended up yammering for two solid hours! 0:41 – I have more thoughts on LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens 53:53 – I rant about net neutrality 1:03:40 – The Avengers: Infinity War trailer left me cold 1:17:55 – The …
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It’s the long-dead Wii U’s fifth birthday! 0:10 – For the Wii U’s fifth birthday, we remember the 300 games that released on the PS3 and 360 (and often, a bunch of other platforms as well) but not the Wii U 26:42 – Universal’s Illumination may be handling an animated Super Mario Bros. movie 40:01 …
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Because that’s a far better name than “Pocket Camp.” 9:41 – EA and demands for high Metacritic scores 28:54 – Xbox One’s backwards compatibility would have arrived sooner if Microsoft didn’t have to spend a bunch of time and resources removing its ill-advised always-on DRM 39:46- Nintendo details Animal Crossing for mobile devices
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No matter how old I get, I still laugh at the most immature things. We spend most of the first half of the show talking about superhero cartoons then discuss which games Nintendo might include on a hypothetical N64 Classic Edition (42:10).
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Seriously, what’s with that guy? 33:17 – Andrew opines that game journalists who were confused by the Wii U were lying or terrible at their jobs 42:05 – Senran Kagura producer wants to make a game that appeals to women 46:25 – What is and is not clickbait? 51:50 – What is and is not …
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This week we talk about the video game industry’s myriad shenanigans of late. I’m sure we’ll find something positive to talk about! 31:53 – Lawbreakers dev says game not Switch-bound because not enough buttons 41:03 – Metroid: Samus Returns gates content behind amiibo 52:47 – ThinkGeek hoards NES Classic Editions and forces you to buy …
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By request, we’ve kept our pre-show banter in the video version of the podcast (linked below). You can skip ahead to the start of the show proper (or another topic) with the timestamps below. In the show’s final half hour, Andrew and Zachary discuss the future of AR games the cost of living in San …
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