Scanline Talks

The Playlist of recent games returns! Six and Jen have sampled of gaming's bounty, and bring back fresh reports from the field! First, Six lays out the case for Remnant: From the Ashes, a little-covered but fascinating new Soulslike for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Were you disappointed by the implementation of guns in Bloodbourne? Great news, my friend. Then, Jen attempts to break the dreamlike world o...

The school bell's ringing! Six of the Black Eagles, Jen of the Blue Lions, and Kyrie of the Golden Deer assemble for a spoiler-lite conversation about the pre-timeskip period of Fire Emblem Three Houses, and general gameplay impressions. With different levels of Fire Emblem experience represented, how does Three Houses serve veterans and newcomers alike? What's this I hear about them removing the...

Well, here we go again, eh? Before you go too much further, please understand the conceit of this episode: while the Epic Games Store has its problems as a service, the bigger problem lies with the reaction of fanatical gamer abusers who use their dislike of it along with racism and xenophobia as a justification for vile and toxic acts. We don't love the Epic Games Store here at Scanline, but we s...

When Scanline was first starting out, Jen and I did regular articles where we talked about the media we'd been consuming recently, and called them "Playlists." Well, we've decided to bring them back... in podcast form! On this episode of Playlist, Jen talks about Judgment, a detective brawler by the team behind Yakuza, and Sonic Team Racing- a kart racer with special team-based gameplay mechanics....

So you're thinkin you're in the market for an indie game. Maybe a horror one, but not like a horror horror one. Just one with horror atmosphere as it tells a melancholic story. Hey, folks? Plague Tale ain't it . Six asks the questions and Jen answers, laying out the full story of A Plague Tale: Innocence, and wow that game goes off the rails.

Are robots people? Christ. What a boring question. What are you, David Cage? Let's ask more interesting questions. You like cyborgs? Nier Automata? Twin Peaks? Cool. Join Six, Jen, and friend of the site Ryan as they discuss Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, an incredible movie about transhumanism, philosophy, and identity. This is the latest sampler for Oops All Anime, our patron-only show! Want m...

It's always valuable to sit down with game developers and hear their perspective on the industry, how it's changing, and how it hasn't. Erik Johnson of The Indie Bros. and Vertigo Gaming has certainly done his time in the trenches of development, and can speak to that experience. But even more rare than hearing about development is hearing about games marketing and promotion. Please enjoy this mea...

After much consideration, Six and Jen sit down to hash out their thoughts on the latest From Software release, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Maybe when people argue about difficulty, they aren't REALLY arguing about difficulty... they're arguing about fairness, and being respected as a player. Or maybe they are just arguing about difficulty XD Don't worry, we talk about plenty more than just the Easy...

And so the Gimmick Awards draw to a close. We're ready to look to 2019, and face its new challenges and successes, but before we do, let's take one last look at 2018. Nick and Six take stare their culinary pasts in the face for a conversation about the food of 2018 in this special edition of Jacky's Chow.

It's time for our last Gimmick Awards category. It's easy to focus on the core gameplay and mechanics of a game, but what about the minigames and side stuffs that games often pack in? Fireside Friend Ryan joins Six and Jen to talk about the best side activities of 2018: because sometimes the distractions are even better than what they're distracting from.

Our Gimmick Awards for 2018 continue with the big question on everyone's mind: what about them tunes, though? Allen, star of the Gimmick Award's opening music podcast, joins Six and Jen to discover which song is Our Jam this year, and which works are worthy of being spoken in the same hushed tones. Or loud tones: sometimes it's good to play music loud.

We've talked about 2018's most disappointing game, but the games industry is more than just the games that make it up. There's also the people, culture, and events SURROUNDING the games. And those... can let us down pretty hard as well. Harri joins Six and Jen once again to figure out the Facepalm of the Year.

Sometimes, it's not enough to just look at the present, or even what's on the horizon. Sometimes you need to reach into the past, and grab relics thereof to bring forward and appreciate anew. That's the thinking behind our Best Old Game category, where returning guest Nick joins Jen and Six to talk about non-2018 games that they, nonetheless, played in 2018.

Here at Scanline Media, we're big fans of fighting games. As it turns out, our feelings on them are so strong, one GotY category isn't enough! Kyrie Page joins us on this pod for a discussion about the best new challenger to arrive in a fighting game in 2018.

Nick joins Jen and Six for a discussion of the Most Disappointing Games of 2018 in this episode of the Gimmick Awards. There are some very strong nominees, everyone has their personal favorites, but in the end, there can only be one winner, and two runners up! Who will win the ?gold?

The 2018 Gimmick Awards continue, and for our first year ever, we're talking about more than just games! Oops All Anime was a huge part of Scanline Media in 2018, so it seems only fitting that we pick an Anime of the Year! Six, Jen, and Allen sit down to hash out a winner and two nominees.

The 2018 Gimmick Awards have begun! We kicked off with Ryan and Allen's year in music, and now we're here with the awards themselves! Six, Jen, and Harri assemble for category one: the Best Fighting Game of 2018!

Our Game of the Year podcasts for 2018, the Gimmick Awards, begin now! We're opening with a guest podcast by friends Ryan and Allen! Ryan and Allen take a trip down memory lane to discuss their favorite music of 2018. From hip hop to K-Pop and everything in between, this episode is one giant music appreciation post in podcast form!

Six and Jen have played a lot of Red Dead Redemption. 1, 2, and online. And frankly? They can't play another minute without recording some thoughts about the experience, because these games are a lot. Boy howdy, Rockstar games usually are, huh? This podcast is full of SPOILERS so consider yourself warned.

The title up there says this is The GachaPod. Listen... that's not the real name. That's the name we can say and use on services like iTunes without a stern talking to. You'll hear the real name of this show at the start of the podcast. We'll have a rotating cast across this sporadically updated podcast where we talk about gacha games and why we play them. On this episode, Six, Allen, and Molly co...

Welcome back to Ill-Gotten Games: I'm sorry that we had to have you back. It's not that we're not glad to see you, it's that if we're on this show, it means capitalism's at it again, being shitty to folks in the video game industry. This time, it's Telltale Games, or more specifically, its management, misusing and abusing its over two hundred employees in disgusting fashion. Join us as we break do...

CW: Spoilers! Can he swing From a web Yes he can Press R2 For a long time now, folks have been craving a followup to the PS2 classic Spider-Man 2 that treated the traversal with the same spirit of joy and motion. Leave it to Insomniac Games, makers of Sunset Overdrive, to take up that particular torch with their 2018 release of Marvel's Spider-Man. And hey: the movement options are really good in...

Much like our last podcast was a roundabout discussion of RWBY Volume 1, this episode is a roundabout sort of spoilercast. We actually try not to spoil very much? Six and Olivia talk in general terms about the five seasons of RWBY, their themes, and the progression of the development team as they find their legs making a story serially. We aim to preserve as much mystery as we can: we only spoil e...

Let's go back to the beginning of the fairy tale. Neither Olivia nor Six are new to RWBY, the western CG anime about girls at a monster hunting school, but it's been such a long time since it started. What's it like to revisit the beginning of a show that started pretty... rough? Honestly, it's more interesting than we expected. This episode: RWBY Volume 1! If you want to contact us, Olivia is @Ol...

You can't leave a job half-finished. Six and Olivia are back to finish the caper with episodes 3, 4 and 5 of Lupin the Third Part V. Ami's backstory is revealed, Zenigata and Lupin team up, Lupin... dies? And then the show keeps GOING? Boy, this is a grip of episodes, my friends. If you want to contact us, Olivia is @OliviaZircon on Twitter, and Six is @sixdettmar . Oops All Anime Gaiden does not...