Videogame Roundtable

Episode 472: Live Games Service

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 want Psychonauts or any other Double Fine game turned into a movie
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Episode 471: Sony Buys Bungie

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. The other news this week includes:
Sony wants to help Bungie turn its franchises into movies
Sony's State of Play 2022
MLB: The Show 22 is coming to Switch
EA's boss went from calling NFTs "the future" to running away from them
Let us know what you think.

Episode 470: Activision Aftermath

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
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Episode 469: Microsoft Buys Activision/Blizzard

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. Meanwhile, T.J. is still salty over Vicarious Visions developing Diablo II: Resurrected, while the trio discusses the plans for Sony's Game Pass. This week's news includes:
Microsoft spends almost $70B in buying Activision/Blizzard
City-building RTS The Settlers launches in March, closed beta next week
Split Pad Pro getting the Attachment Set
PS3 games reportedly appear on PS5 Store
Let us know what you think!

Episode 468: Munchkin Voice

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 suspends release of Overwatch 2 set amid ongoing Activision Blizzard controversy
Sega stalls NFT plans
E3 2022 cancels in-person event
Elden Ring character creation leaks
Hitman 3 year 2 reveal coming later this week (from PC Gamer)
Let us know what you think!

Episode 467: The Best (and Worst) Games of the Year 2021

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 Dread and Psychonauts 2.
But there are a whopping 26 award categories, technical and artistic, so listen in on this fat 2 1/2 hour episode to find out who the winners are.
Original music by Liborio Conti.

Episode 466: The Bad Awards Before the Good Ones

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.

Episode 465: Bobby Kotick Is Terrible

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 and Cliffs Update' Part Two is officially available on all platforms
Let us know what you think.