In-Game Chat

We’re just two weeks away from the massive explosion of GTA6. Earlier this year, and not that early, like September or so…I was working out a budget to fit the game in. It wasn’t something I would normally do, but when your game costs $100, that’s a little more than what we’re typically used to – well, what I am anyway. Upon hearing the rumor that a PC version could be released as early as F...

It’s not often the days match up when we can do a show on Halloween, but here we are. And we don’t really devote it to scary games (what a novel idea that would have been), but nonetheless, it’s scary news indeed. Because it’s mostly AI and job losses. You’ve got Microsoft cutting 60,000 people, Epic practically forcing their developers to use AI in both coding and art (Microsoft stepping a bit in...

So long BioWare, we hardly knew you. Or at least I did. I wasn’t there for your early work. I wasn’t there when you had the Star Wars license (KOTOR mainly, I was there for the MMO Old Republic), I skipped the first Mass Effect, played the second, and, again, skipped the third. I also wasn’t there for most of the Dragon Ages either. But the few games from BioWare I WAS there for, I really enjoyed....

Just a quick note at the start here to say we’ll be running a replay next weekend. It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited for a big game release and purchased that game on day one or before with a pre-order. But here we are and I am so happy to tell you about Star Wars Galactic Racer. I talk about it a lot at the beginning of the show but it just fills me with joy (and some frustration but...

There’s a lot to tell you about from this past week. Most of it isn’t great. And that’s why I’d just rather not talk about it and tell you how excited I am about a game releasing THIS week. Star Wars Galactic Racer didn’t need the Star Wars license to bring me on board but the more the merrier for whoever that does bring into the fold. Not saying the game could use the help but it’s a brand new st...

I guess we’re back to the bad news aspect again. Not that we ever really escaped it. But here we are again with blood at the feet of Microsoft. It’s round two of their big Xbox Reset and that means cutting out another near 300 jobs. This time, however, it came with studio consolidation. It’s a pretty massive mix up of studios and it’ll be interesting to see how Activision handles Halo. At this poi...

I don’t know if this AI thing is gonna go away. I actually don’t have a problem with AI when it’s used for solving, like, massive world issue problems. Use it to solve world hunger? Sure. Use it to develop new drugs or treatments for things? Absolutely. Use it to make your game look better? No, thank you. Better yet, use it to replace clearly talented people who create? Absolutely not. Look, I’m n...

We’ve been away for like 2 weeks and there’s a LOT to cover. Two or three different game showcases from Nintendo, Sony, Konami, and even Blizzard just before we came on air. There were more studio closures, Sony dropping a Kojima project only for Microsoft to quickly step in and take it on – I almost picture some kind of “In case Sony drops Kojima, break glass” situation that’s been in place...

Just as a reminder we won’t have a new show next weekend. As for this show we spend it mostly talking about two things. Gamescom and GTA6. To start with GTA6 was a pretty successful showcase. It left me coming away with more positives than negatives, but I still hope that mini-map gets some attention. All in all, it’s more GTA, and there’s not much else you could ask for except maybe a bigger map...

At the beginning of this episode we have a wonderful interview with Katie & Micah. They’re a husband and wife team working on their first game together. The pull of which is styled on Roller Coaster Tycoon but for national parks. It’s a very indie title due to release sometime before the end of the year and you can currently wish list it now on Steam. After that we talk about some updates fro...

At the start of this episode I mentioned that AI and RAM prices and all that doom and gloom is still out there but that hopefully we could talk about other things. And we did. But I could NOT pass up talking about the week that was for Saber and their situation with AI use. They got called out for it. Not from gamers by the way, no. This call came from inside the house. Or, at least, someone who u...

We’re back and in the two weeks away…nothing has changed. In fact, it’s only gotten worse but what do you expect from an AI world taking in all the ram (and water). PlayStation tells us it has enough ram for systems through the end of the year and more so during the release of GTA6 but Samsung has said we’re gonna be in the funk for the foreseeable future. Also, both Nvidia and AMD are raising the...

Not the busiest of weeks for news, especially compared to previous weeks, but I guess it isn’t all bad. On my end, we might be getting another shot at someone making a Burnout game. However they’ve tried before and missed the mark so we’ll have to wait and see how this next attempt shakes out. We don’t have detailed pre-order data for GTA6, but we do know it’s been number one on PlayStation for a...

So we finally have a week that isn’t dominated by bad news. But don’t get me wrong, it’s still there. From more layoffs to more physical media options being lost to the expectations that our RAM pricing issues will only get worse. But let’s focus on the good for a bit at least. Summer Games Done Quick raised over TWO MILLION dollars for charity and that’s just an absolutely wonderful thing to shar...

I don’t know how many more times I can start these things by saying we have more bad news but… We have more bad news. Likely by now you know most of it. The gaming world has been dominated by the news from both Sony and Microsoft. On the Microsoft side, it’s the layoffs. The big “reset”. We’d known cuts were coming and we expected it to be bad. We didn’t know how bad but it didn’t matter. Wh...

Before we get to the (bad) news this week, a reminder that we’ll be off next weekend due to the holiday. Also, a massive thank you to all of you who helped us reach our goal covering our server costs for the year. We appreciate that more than you know and we can’t begin to express what it means to us. Seriously, thank you. Now for the bad news. This was a week packed full of what normally would be...

And the bad news just keeps rolling on. To start with, after the wonderful help and generosity with the help of our hosting costs – our host decided to increase our costs. If you are able to help, and I get that we’re living in times right now where helping, financially, is difficult, we appreciate even the least little bit. It’s all laid out in the post just below this one on our website. S...

To start this off I need to thank all of you for listening over the years and being as supportive as you’ve always been. And to specifically thank Dave, Sarah, & Bryan. We have hosting costs coming up next month and their generosity has gone further than I ever expected to make that possible. This is what was talked about at the beginning of the show and before the first hour was done, we’d a...

Well, as is every year, we’ve reached the point where EVERYONE wants to show their games. And it’s too damn much! Seriously, spread the love here. Not everything has to be done in the first weekend of June. Also, why does everyone think it should? You are not doing any devs or publishers any favors by doing this. The big guns just drown you out. And I’m writing this right now before we get to Micr...

Goodbye. Again. I was contemplating doing a post during the week break we took. When the Destiny news broke, I’d thought to say some words about it given we’d be another week before we could talk about it. Never did get around to it so consider this THAT post. It’s been a few years since I last played Destiny 2. After the ban there was no way for me to do so without starting completely over...

As is usual this time of year, we’re not doing a show next week to coincide with a holiday here stateside. Coming back, we’ll be leading into the big summer game event stuff where we find out that rumors were true or false or better or worse than we expected. For now, we’ve had a good run of releases. Forza Horizon 6 and Subnautica 2 this past week with LEGO Batman and 007 First Light on the horiz...

What a strange time to witness the state of video gaming as it currently stands. I thought 2020 was an odd time with the release of the new consoles but here we are six years later and I’d have never believed you could tell me that those same consoles will be MORE expensive six years later – oh, and we’d have no idea of when the NEXT systems would be released. That’s the kind of strangeness...

Do we need another controller for something? Well, yes, we do. Do I personally need this controller? No, absolutely not. I don’t need the Steam controller but I can totally see myself owning one at some point in the future. And I do like the idea of it and what it’s trying to do. I was there for the first one and rarely ever used it – either because of its functionality or the tech for strea...

Advertising feels evil. And that’s so strange to say, but I look at how many ways we attempt to avoid it and it feels like it’s something we just don’t want to mess with at all. We skip them on pre-recorded things, we subscribe to ad-free tiers, we try to block them out on our websites…we don’t seem to want them in any part of our lives. Especially not in our gaming. But it’s already there for som...

I seem to have stumbled upon another “type” of game that I enjoy. The kind of game where you try to break it. Not actually break it but you take its rules and gameplay and find ways to do absurd things with it. It’s the nature of the game itself and could easily be called “ways to crash your PC”. There was Ball X Pit and CloverPit, Vampire Survivors and Mega Bonk, and now I’m doing the same with R...