Scanline Talks

Johnny and Six are both veterans of many years of MMORPGs, with vastly divergent taste in the genre between them. The two get together to talk about what MMOs offer that no other game does, their unique missteps and approaches, and why DPSing is a raw deal. Encounter design, the Trinity, and mislaid plans collide in this latest Text But In Words.

Welcome to our new semi-regular podcast about what's been going on in games and the world beyond! Johnny, Kyrie, and Six join for a roundtable discussion about DOOM, Hitman, Fallout 4, and Taco Bell? Galak-Z is back with The Void, and we should probably read The Name of the Rose. All this and more on our inaugural episode of Scanline Status!

We keep it real in these streets. Capcom's biggest fighting game has been back for a few months now, and it's a real mixed bag. Johnny and Six sit down to talk through what it does right, what it does wrong, and where they clearly cut corners to save money. Can this game right the sinking Capcom ship? It's a pretty big ask, but just look at Ryu's biceps and tell me you don't think he's up to the t...

We've only got one Harvest Moon fan on the regular staff here, so to discuss this one, we had to bring in a friend. Six is joined by Emily of Bottle Crow to discuss the indie darling about escaping your big city life and starting new. We didn't farm this one out, it's homegrown! Sorry. Let's be real, I'm not sorry.

Since I do the titles and descriptions for our podcasts, I can use them however I want. HEY. Bring Baby Steps back for a third season! For this episode of Oops All Anime, Johnny and Six are joined by Harrison, a friend of theirs and fellow anime enthusiast. Durarara comes to a close, Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans kills a lot of characters, and I guess Attack on Titan is coming back or something. Let...

The Overwatch stress test beta has passed us by- and for once, Six and Jennifer have gotten into a Blizzard beta! We've played all the heroes, explored the included maps, and come back with a lot of conclusions, and a handful of questions. Join us as we talk through the whirlwind 48 hours of Overwatch we experienced.

It has been several years since The Walking Dead: Season One made its big splash in the industry, and pushed developers like Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman into the spotlight. They since went on to make their own studio, Camposanto, and Firewatch is its first game. Is it fair to think of this as a spiritual successor to The Walking Dead? Or is that doing a disservice to the range of those writers? J...

Terrible ideas, ho! Six's been a deeply casual wrestling fan for some time, and Johnny's been a deeply skeptical eyebrow-raiser. What happens when they watch WWE's Royal Rumble 2016 together? Well, they walk away from it and record a podcast that sounds a little something like this. A wrestling newbie with a wrestling amateur, bringing you the hottest of takes. Maybe we'll do this again someday.

This time, Johnny and Six have actually seen some of the same shows. Lupin the 3rd Part4, GATE, Durarara… ra ra… rarara… whatever. Anime continues, and so do we! How’s that for a tag line? Terrible? Whatever, my show my rules, get outta here.

We took two massive lists, and whittled them down... and now those two lists combine, and we finally make them into one ranked list of the ten best games of the generation. PS2. Dreamcast. Xbox. GameCube. We seek the truth of the matter, and plunge deep into the hard questions, like "did you even play this game?" In the end, we settle on winners. Witness the ten best games of the sixth generation...

The debate rolls on- what is the best game of the sixth generation of consoles? PS2 and Dreamcast have been whittled down to a list, and now it's time for Xbox and GameCube, as well as multiplatform titles. Sparks will fly! Someone will try and say Billy Hatcher wasn't a terrible game! It's gonna be eventful. Part 2, comin' atcha.

Some would say that the Playstation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Dreamcast generation was the best console generation ever. I am probably one of them. But what is the best of the best? What games of this best of all generations rise above, and deserve the kind of discussion we're all about here? Johnny, Jen, and Six dive into the three part GotG 6 discussion, starting with only Dreamcast and PS2. Let's...

The debut project from Thekla, Inc. and second independent effort from Jonathan Blow, nobody's been able to shut up about The Witness lately in our industry. So much has been said, and we're wary of repeating things that are already so thoroughly stated- but Johnny, Jen, and Six got together to discuss the vibrant, meandering puzzle game with their own perspectives on it.

This is it- the big one. Game of the Year. Johnny, Jennifer, and Six sit down to figure out the top ten games of the year, in a ranked list. There will be yelling. There will be bargaining. Six will ask "what are we even doing here?" And in the end, there will be a winner.

This is it- the big one. Game of the Year. Johnny, Jennifer, and Six sit down to figure out the top ten games of the year, in a ranked list. There will be yelling. There will be bargaining. Six will ask "what are we even doing here?" And in the end, there will be a winner. This is part one, and part two will go up tomorrow!

The Scanline Media 2015 Game of the Year show begins with our Gimmick Awards! Johnny, Jennifer, and Six join forces to argue about the best games in categories like Best Idea, Best Character, Best Music, and so on! 

The Scanline Media 2015 Game of the Year show begins with our Gimmick Awards! Johnny, Jennifer, and Six join forces to argue about the best games in categories like Best Idea, Best Character, Best Music, and so on! Part 1 is comin' atcha now, and part 2 will be up tomorrow!

Why. Why did we do this. For some ungodly reason, Johnny and I decided we should record a podcast talking about anime. Our interest in anime comes and goes, and in 2015 we both had a reasonable level of interest. What did we watch? What did we hate? What does anime say about the nature of humanity, and our desire to see ourselves through a different lens? Two of these questions will be answered, d...

All throughout our Game of the Generation 360/PS3/Wii podcast, one question kept nagging at us- what about the handhelds? And so Johnny and Six set out to do the unthinkable- figure out the best games of the PSP/DS handheld generation. …But it actually went pretty well, other than a few minor… hiccups. Check it out!

We were both eagerly anticipating the release of Galak-Z- I on PS4, and Johnny on PC. Now that we've both had time to play a great deal of it, we find ourselves really... frustrated? It's a game that constantly reaches out and touches greatness, but can never maintain contact for long. The two of us sit down to try and explain where the game goes wrong.

Our Game of the Generation discussion rages on, and eventually concludes. From our original sixty-six, we do, eventually, manage to make one winner, and nine runners up. Johnny swears, Jen sighs, Six snarls, and in the end, we are exhausted. You will be too. Enjoy the second half of our discussion.

The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii are all wrapped and done. Sure, a few triple A games will still release on those platforms in addition to their more capable PS4/Xone versions, but developers and players alike are moving on. What better way to put a bow on the generation than figuring out what the best game of the generation was? Jennifer, Johnny, and Six take a list of sixty-six games, and wo...

Generally, reviews are handled by one person around here, and they get up a written review. For the cyberpunk adventure game Read Only Memories, that was to be Jen, and her review will go up soon... but on this particular game, the whole crew ended up playing and having things to say. Jennifer, Johnny, and Six sit down for an in-depth discussion about MidBoss's anime-styled adventure. Spoilers are...

When Johnny sat down to interview me about Destiny: The Taken King, I figured it would go about thirty minutes, and I’d simply explain some of the new features and content in the game. Instead, it was an hour long discussion about what makes Destiny itself, and why I can’t seem to quit it even when my frustration reaches its peak. The Taken King is the best the game has ever been. It&#...

Text But In Words is our on-and-off debate podcast. For our third episode we're discussing the free-to-play PC fighting game Rising Thunder, and what it means for the fighting game genre. Jennifer, Six, and Johnny throw down for a verbal best of three. I should probably apologize for that metaphor.