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Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Xbox showcases several new games. Including, the hotly anticipated Halo: Infinite...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Sony hands Epic Games a large chunk of change, Tim Sweeney imagines our near futu...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Twitch bans a prolific and controversial IRL streamer, Amazon Studios prepares a...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. As BLM protests continue to occur daily, the Emerald reporters are learning first...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Nolan, Janelle, and special guest Frankie share their feelings on 2020's biggest...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Nintendo surprises everyone with a new Pokemon Snap game, Persona 4 sets a new re...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Sony reveals the PlayStation 5 alongside a host of games in an hour long press ev...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Itch.io raises money for charity with a timely bundle, Infinity Ward addresses ra...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. More "The Last of Us Part 2" game-play is shown, Phantasy Star Online 2 drops in...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. The strange and stagnant state of the video games industry continues to slow the...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. The first footage of the next generation arrives with Unreal Engine 5, Paper Mari...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Xbox shows off some next generation launch titles that (mostly) resemble the curr...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Alex, Janelle and Nolan cover the new Animal Crossing and Mario Maker updates, Ja...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Janelle, Alex and Nolan talk about the quietly announced PS5 controller, the myst...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. In this episode of our new series “A Week in the Life,” Podcast Editor Sararosa D...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. In this episode of How It’s Reported, Podcast Editor Sararosa Davies speaks with...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Alex, Janelle and Nolan discuss Animal Crossing (for real this time), the mountin...

Editor’s Note: With school online due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures being implemented across the country, things will sound a bit different here at the Emerald Podcast Network as we navigate recording from separate physical spaces. We’ve got limited recording technology, so join us as we figure this out. Some good news, though: The Emerald Board has chosen The Emerald’s next Editor-in...

Nolan, Janelle, and Alex get together to talk about the incredibly popular and successful game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and talk about the joys of living in a world where the worst thing you have to worry about is the falling turnip market or not catching that big fish you saw in the river the other day. Countless hours of immersive play have impacted their thoughts on this very special epis...

Janelle, Nolan and Alex discuss the increasingly large list of events cancelled due to COVID-19 and what it might mean for the industry. Elsewhere, a collector sells the last Nintendo PlayStation for an unexpected price, a new Animal Crossing game looms on the Horizon, and Harvard gets into game preservation. Articles talked about: Numerous events cancelled due to COVID-19: https://gamesindustry.b...

In the spring of 2019, Daily Emerald podcast editor Sararosa Davies and news reporter Jack Forrest wanted to find a way to explore pertinent social issues through the experts we have on campus here at the University of Oregon. Out of those conversations, we developed Spelling It Out, a new podcast from the Emerald Podcast Network. The first topic of focus we chose for Spelling It Out was gun contr...

In episode 19 of The Emerald GamesCast, Alex, Janelle and Nolan discuss the gradual death of E3, the parting of the Houser Brothers, the success of Untitled Goose Game and of course, the long awaited Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Here are the news stories they discuss in the episode: Untitled Goose Game wins Game of the Year at the 2020 D.I.C.E Awards https://mobile.twitter.com/official_aias/status/12...

In their triumphant return to the podcast booth, Nolan, Janelle and Alex talk about their favorite games of 2019, their expectations for 2020 and the rumors surrounding the imminent PlayStation 5 news avalanche. Theme music is "Flamingo (Azureflux Remix)" by Kero Kero Bonito (freemusicarchive.org/music/Kero_Ker…zureflux_remix), modified under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License (creati...

How do Emerald reporters and editors do what they do? That’s one of many questions How It’s Reported seeks to answer by talking to Emerald staffers about their reporting processes and the stories they tell. How It’s Reported has allowed a behind the scenes look into various Emerald stories for over year. Now, a new Emerald initiative is aiming to build on that idea and cultivate more trust between...

Who Is Ruth Yi of Cottage Market? When Emerald news reporter Ardeshir Tabrizian and photo editor Sarah Northrop sought to answer that question, they knew the Emerald audience would respond well. But they did not expect that their reporting would go viral in the University of Oregon Community. In this episode of How It’s Reported, Northrop and Tabrizian speak with podcast editor Sararosa Davies abo...