Combo Wombo

Chip and Gimpy Discuss current events around WFH and latest gaming news including reports on EA looking to sell/merge youtube available: https://youtu.be/xzw3qG1qtpY

Chip shows up wearing his own merch and discuss the big Square Enix western franchise dump. youtube available: https://youtu.be/eg_HD3piYDE

 Chip and Gimpy hung out IRL and tell the story of that, the boys update on game dev projects and then jump into the perils of Overwatch 2, Gimpy realizes that FPS games are falling off and is sad about it. youtube available:  https://youtu.be/2luCIiWElfc

 Gimpy and Chip start off by talking about hardware modifications they have gotten into over the years, then the guys dive into a talk about the quality of video game movies stepping up over the last few big releases. youtube available: https://youtu.be/l2bIenurqs4

With summer coming game releases trickle and we need something to fill the time, we discuss our plans on both the dev side and the gaming side. Chip also shares some hot takes youtube available: https://youtu.be/Evo7BaYaWkE

 Chip and Gimpy discuss the state of current technology, we are in a golden age of creatability, but usability is suffering, we get some stuff off our chests ranging from render pipelines to televisions, join us in asking the question “why don’t you work” youtube available: https://youtu.be/9gkmVCAPrIo

Chip and Gimpy discuss chips extended time in the virtual world, Discuss the big news of Unreal Engine 5 coming out of previews and Cry Engine 5.7 coming out to try and directly compete with UE. youtube available at:  https://youtu.be/KGqvqsSUwm0

Chip going super saiyan in VR, Gimpy actually using his 3D printer, playstation updating PS+ we have a lot of updates today and get into the nitty gritty of further subscription services with the recent playstation plus update sony also announced news for PSVR2 youtube available: https://youtu.be/Br0G6X__VeU

Chip is upgrading his life, he also got VR we discuss his thoughts on his first week with the Oculus Quest 2 youtube available at:  https://youtu.be/lfN72OuI_Q4

Gimpy tells Chip to put some respect on the OG Red Ranger, leading to jokingly pitching the Combo Wombo Anime, Then after an exciting VR update from Chip we get into wrestling games to get it out of Chips system. youtube available: https://youtu.be/VbVe10kgUPc

Chip wonders where have all the 4 player games gone? Gimpy drops the knowledge and explains what happened and why they are just now starting to come back youtube Available: https://youtu.be/IDUS1LV8pSE

Chip and Gimpy discuss food love and boss fights, why we love them and why you should too youtube available at: https://youtu.be/IwGqPzHPYSs

Chip and Gimpy discuss Elden Ring and then delve into why open world games are typically littered with bugs. We give our thoughts on why, and perhaps some suggestions on how to have better releases in the future. youtube available at: https://youtu.be/1xfd27lew_8

Chip and Gimpy discuss get some things off their chest on the latest gaming news, Nintendo’s terrible preservation practices and actions, the Steam Deck release date is almost upon us, and digital games being delisted and removed from your inventory. youtube available at: https://youtu.be/PSxkm2zkey4

Chip and Gimpy discuss game difficulty, a conversation topic that comes up every few years whenever a new Fromsoft game comes out, this time spurred on by the release of Sifu. The guys get into their thoughts on difficult games and if we need difficulty modes. youtube available at: https://youtu.be/sJF2o8WTYgs

Chip gives us his final thoughts on his dice game, then the guys get into the topic of Kickstarter games still being underfunded and backers being upset on where their money is going. youtube available at: https://youtu.be/_FheRVEwMUQ

Chip and Gimpy discuss the misconception that “all popular games are violent” news flash they aren’t youtube available at: https://youtu.be/L4fFgRnC1jI

Chip and Gimpy discuss their current solo game dev journey and discuss their thoughts on the big Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard. youtube available at: https://youtu.be/-2Ti9LgLPjk

Chip and Gimpy praise the people who take the time to mod games, create new content, restore content and house custom servers to keep games going well past the lifecycle determined by the devs and publishers. We speak on Titanfall 2, Battlefront 2 and others youtube available at: https://youtu.be/6GWf0piJrzU

Chip and Gimpy discuss their development process, and learning through tutorials and expanding upon them, the boys also go over the current state of VR hardware in the industry. youtube available: https://youtu.be/msINstzoBBY

Chip starts us off with an unorthodox method he is learning on making 2d assets, then we shift to Gimpy sharing his distaste for survival games and Chip shares his distaste for sports games, the guys discuss why. youtube available at: https://youtu.be/k_4LW190xwc

 Chip took some time off of work to just focus on creating games, we discuss his process and the tool he chose (G Develop). Check out Chips Game: https://chippedmonk.itch.io/dice-demo youtube available at: https://youtu.be/E87AyV5el_s

Chip and Gimpy discuss the year of 2021 and share their resolutions for 2021, gaming, game dev, wants for the industry, personal growth and goals for the pod. Happy New Years everyone! See you in 2022! youtube available at: https://youtu.be/MmOGYlnKvZ0

Its that time of the year, Chip and Gimpy go over their top 5 games of the year of 2021! youtube available at: https://youtu.be/grdmbZyG-wM

 Chip sits on the fence on if he should be getting into VR or not, Gimpy tries desperately to get Chip to jump in, and goes in on his opinions on why this is the time to get into VR. youtube available at: https://youtu.be/-1Z84eTIj1k