Videogame Roundtable

Episode 364: Is Bethesda Evil?

This podcast was also delayed in publication due to real-life issues, but there's a lot of banter involved, including a discussion of Bethesda's missteps and the upcoming The Elder Scrolls VI, whatever it is.
Report: Xbox Game Pass not happening on Nintendo Switch anytime soon
Resident Evil 2 remake was nearly first-person
Kingdom Hearts director says Marvel and Star Wars would be tricky to add
Let us know what you think.

Episode 363: Pokemons With Swords and Shields

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.

Episode 362: Crossplatforming

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.

Episode 361: Back From Disaster

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?"

Episode 360: Technical Issues

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.

Episode 359: New York State of Mind

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.

Episode 358: Best Games of 2018 - A Rambling Recap

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.

Episode 357: Goodbye, 2018!

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.