Words About Games

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:16:26 - State of Play September 2024 thoughts 1:06:46 - Indie Game of the Week - Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2697000/Windstorm_The_Legend_of_Khiimori/) 1:12:55 - Don't Nod bets on Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, as multiple projects fail to meet expectations 1:30:55 - 'We don't think Hi-Fi Rush 2 is going to make...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:08:53 - The games industry crash continues 0:30:06 - Final Fantasy 16 producer asks fans to please not make "offensive" or "inappropriate" PC mods 0:38:58 - Indie Game of the Week - check out our Steam curator page (https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7857031-Words-About-Games/) 0:43:17 - The game industry is becoming an innovation wasteland (v...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:13:25 - Vitz got an Astrobot platinum 0:35:53 - Amy has been obsessed with Arco & Tactical Breach Wizards 0:59:37 - Indie Game of the Week - The Witch's Bakery (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2967950/The_Witchs_Bakery/) 1:06:28 - The PS5 Pro starts at £700, doesn't really do much 1:48:03 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head The Witch's Bakery Kickstarter: ht...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:15:55 - PlayStation axes Concord after less than two weeks 0:44:58 - Sony execs claim the company isn't creating enough original franchises 1:05:53 - Indie Game of the Week - Selfloss (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2996080/TAMASHIKA/) 1:08:56 - Moody's Halo: Reach review 1:34:11 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head We're raising money for Special Effect! Donate...

0:00:00 - Intro 0:21:35 - The Star Wars tangent... 0:26:34 - ...that leads to the Star Wars: Outlaws tangent... 0:27:46 - ...that leads to the David Cage tangent 0:37:04 - Why Does The World Need A PS5 Pro? 1:07:25 - Indie Game of the Week - Detective Dotson (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2450840/Detective_Dotson/) 1:12:18 - A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:25:19 - The Black Myth: Wukong ‘No Feminist Propaganda, No COVID-19 Discussion’ Email Is Real 0:45:16 - The Serious Lack Of Critical Thinking & Media Literacy In The Gaming Community 1:14:17 - Indie Game of the Week - Hela (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3161310/Hela/) 1:17:53 - There Was No Pokemon Z-A News At The Pokemon World Championship 1:44:36 - OpenCri...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:23:05 - Tango Gameworks Is Back Baby 0:40:00 - Dungeons of Hinterberg Review 0:57:29 - Indie Game of the Week - Rue Valley (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2126190/Rue_Valley/) 1:05:07 - We Raised Over £300 And Counting For Special Effect 1:36:14 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head 1:45:10 - Fantasy Critic Check-In We're raising money for Special Effect! Donate to help...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:21:15 - Why Do So Many Video Game Adaptations Miss? 1:00:26 - Indie Game of the Week - Castaway (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2564860/Castaway/) 1:05:31 - Moody gave us too much power (Amy asks him if he's ever considered which Pokemon is tastiest) 1:23:30 - Game Reviews Are An Absolute Mess 2:00:57 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head We're raising money for Spec...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:23:45 - Our Favourite Performances In Games (#LevelUpTheContract) 1:04:37 - Indie Game of the Week - Arsonate (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2822980/ARSONATE/) 1:08:01 - Bungie has now laid off a quarter of its employees in the past year 1:33:12 - How To Git Gud…At Racing Games 1:47:35 - Elden Ring (Shadow of the Erdtree spoilers) 1:57:22 - No Man's Sky 2:00...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:17:28 - Are battle passes actually any good? 0:42:52 - How to "git gud" 1:19:45 - Indie Game of the Week - CORPUS EDAX (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2017610/CORPUS_EDAX/) 1:22:10 - Twitch Reinstates Trump 1:39:04 - Fridge Poetry 1:44:25 - Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.49 1:50:53 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head We're raising money for Special Effect! Donate to...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:18:08 - Amy finished Elden Ring 0:24:04 - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Review 0:55:20 - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree spoilers start here 1:15:06 - Indie Game of the Week - Silver Pines (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2333000/Silver_Pines/) 1:22:13 - Ian Bell’s GTRevival Becomes “Project Motor Racing”, Switches Publisher to GIANTS 1:39:47 - Microsoft DEI...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:21:53 - Xbox Game Pass 0:58:47 - Indie Game of the Week - Strange Antiquities (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2885870/Strange_Antiquities/) 1:02:38 - How can we fix the games industry? 1:29:36 - Amy's trip to NERG 1:53:02 - Elden Ring 2:01:50 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head We're raising money for Special Effect! Donate to help an awesome cause and help us hit...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:15:38 - Working hard to like the Star Wars: Jedi games 0:20:35 - Collecting Final Fantasy 0:22:34 - Nintendo's ideal future Amiibo strategy 0:27:57 - Moody's 40k trip to Japan 0:37:49 - New Life Is Strange Game Charges $30 For Early Access 0:59:43 - Indie Game of the Week - Roman Sands Re:Build - (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/Roman_Sands_REBuild...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:23:35 - The latest Nintendo Direct shows that Nintendo's B-Team runs circles around other manufacturer's A-Teams 0:56:26 - Indie Game of the Week - The Posthumous Investigation (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2466900/The_Posthumous_Investigation/) 0:59:40 - The Elden Ring difficulty discourse is hilarious 1:01:36 - Alone In The Dark (2024) Review 1:11:32...

We're raising money for Special Effect! Donate to help an awesome cause and help us hit milestones that will turn into awesome livestreams (and eventually awesome YouTube videos): https://justgiving.com/page/wagspecialeffect2024 Check out our Indie Game of the Week Steam curator page to see all of our previous selections: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7857031/ Want to hang out with us...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:13:29 - Housekeeping 0:15:23 - Overall thoughts on the weekend of games 0:27:47 - Thoughts on Summer Game Fest 2024 0:38:57 - Summer Game Fest 2024 highlights 1:02:07 - Amy's Rapid Fire Indie Game Recommendations (Day of the Devs, Devolver Digital, Wholesome Direct, Latin America Showcase, Women-Led Games Showcase, Future Games Show, PC Gaming Show) 1:30:45 - Tho...

The podcast gang chat about the latest State of Play, the sheer disappointment of the Silent Hill 2 remake, becoming The Veilguard in Dragon Age, Crow Country, and more. Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:15:01 - Housekeeping 0:22:06 - State of Play thoughts 0:58:18 - Silent Hill 2 trailer :( 1:11:39 - pop quiz! 1:13:28 - Indie Game of the Week - Tiny Bookshop (https://store.steampowered.com/app/21337...

The podcast gang are here this week to talk about what they think we'll see, and what they want to see, out of the next couple of weeks of gaming showcases (note: this episode was recorded prior to the PlayStation State of Play and Silent Hill Transmission). Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:14:08 - Summer Game Fest Predictions 1:13:51 - Indie Game of the Week - Aikyam (https://store.steampowered...

Vitz and Moody take over for the first section of this episode thanks to technical issues, and the very end of the podcast also basically falls apart. I'd apologise for that, but Discord is turning into a worse and worse product as time marches on. Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:06:00 - Call of Duty 2024 will launch into Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft has reportedly decided 0:17:46 - IGN Entertainm...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:22:22 - Amy's Animal Well Review (spoiler free section) 0:31:25 - Animal Well SPOILERS START HERE 0:52:20 - The PS Plus category names are confusing 0:55:30 - Indie Game of the Week - Crowsworn (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1614330/Crowsworn/) 0:59:50 - Square Enix "aggressively pursuing" new multiplatform strategy after reports FF7 Rebirth underp...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:20:36 - Housekeeping 0:23:14 - Xbox shutting down four Bethesda studios 1:19:15 - Indie Game of the Week - Compound Fracture (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1460210/Compound_Fracture/) 1:22:58 - this was not my fault 1:24:19 - Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 1:26:45 - Nintendo announce the Switch 2 1:41:55 - PlayStation Cancels Helldivers 2 Mandator...

Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:09:59 - Free Palestine 0:22:46 - Video games 0:24:02 - Housekeeping 0:26:45 - Todd Howard thinks Starfield was divisive because it was too different from past Bethesda games 0:37:00 - Xbox Series S parity is an anchor holding back games 0:42:24 - Amy pitches her version of the Indiana Jones game trailer for the Xbox Summer Showcase 0:45:18 - Good faith criticism is f...

Apologies for Moody's slideshow-like appearance, Discord decided to play a cruel trick on him this week I suppose Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:14:00 - We're raising money for Special Effect! 0:23:39 - Sony mulling Paramount buyout - reports 0:33:55 - Sony Says Stellar Blade Art Referencing Racist Language Was Unintentional, Will be Patched Out 0:44:21 - Bethesda remembers Starfield exist...

We're raising money for Special Effect! Donate to help an awesome cause and help us hit milestones that will turn into awesome livestreams (and eventually awesome YouTube videos): https://justgiving.com/page/wagspecialeffect2024 Time Stamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:17:24 - We are raising money for Special Effect! 0:20:24 - Former Blizzard boss reckons you should be able to tip developers 'anothe...

Time Stamps:0:00:00 - Intro0:18:25 - Hellblade II Dev Says People Want Shorter Games0:33:15 - Life is Strange devs Deck Nine accused of crunch, sexism and abusive behaviour amid allegedly toxic culture0:57:37 - Are we going to watch Fallout (the TV show)?1:02:54 - Indie Game of the Week - inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2723430/inKONBINI_One_Store_Many_Storie...