New Game Experience

El skill based matchmaking es un tema que genera cierta controversia entre jugadores casuales, hardcore, competidores y streamers de juegos que se enfocan en multijugador en línea, ya que al unirte a jugadores con un nivel parecido al tuyo, las partidas cada vez se vuelven más tensas o "sweaty". Exploramos este tema desde varios puntos de vista pero llegó un punto en que cada partida la perdíamos,...

Los ciclos de desarrollo en la industria no sólo requieren cada vez más inversión sino cada vez se hacen más largos. Esto ya en sí, es un fenómeno a tomar en cuenta, sin embargo ¿cómo se sostiene la idea original entre el origen y la salida del título en cuestión? The Callisto Protocol es censurado en Japón debido a su contenido violento y gore.

Con cada generación de consolas suelen venir una cantidad de beneficios y mejoras a la calidad de vida que luego se hacen estándar hacia el futuro de la industria. Al principio de esta generación, tener modos de performance y quality era una de las novedades, que si bien estaban presentes en selectos títulos de la generación pasada, ahora se convertían en la norma. Sin embargo, con un par de títul...

Cyberpunk 2077 ha dado a la industria de los videojuegos tanto de qué hablar, que por supuesto tuvimos que dividir nuestra discusión en 2 partes. En este primer episodio nos enfocamos en el gameplay, los cambios que ha tenido el juego, nuestra experiencia con los distintos parches, cómo bajarse la versión correcta de la PSN y muchísimo más. Tenemos de invitado al sabio Fabio Díaz.

Coinciden en la misma semana Ubisoft Forward, Nintendo Direct, State of Play asi como la edición del Tokyo Games Show de 2022 y con ellos, por supuesto, varios anuncios. Aquí les traemos otra mesa redonda donde vamos revelando uno a uno nuestros anuncios favoritos de esta confluencia cósmica de anuncios videojueguisticos.

¿Tenemos las sonrisas de nuestras mamás o somos los niños del ayer? Cuando tienes suficiente tiempo en un fandom, muchas cosas empiezan a cambiar y no siempre de la manera que uno hubiese esperado.

En los últimos años, uno de los modelos de juego más prevalentes han sido los juegos live service donde se espera que tanto la geografía, modos de juego, armas, historia, etc... vayan evolucionando a lo largo del tiempo, manteniendo al juego fresco y renovado. Nos sentamos a hablar de los juegos que lo hacen bien, los que lo hacen mal y el porqué de todo esto.

Summer Game Fest, Xbox Bethesda Showcase and many other separate events took place in the last few weeks of "not E3" offering numerous announcements for the future of the video game industry. We compile the ones most exciting to us and discuss them at length. We hope you enjoy this episode.

In this episode we discuss the most satisfying feelings in games like hitting a perfect combo or finally getting that platinum trophy we've been striving for.

A new State of Play took place on June 2nd, 2022 and with it came a couple of very exciting new announcements. Check out this episode to hear more about what we thought about it.

Thankfully we live in an era where if you're a gamer and you're paying attention, there's always something to play and to look forward to. In this episode, we discuss a couple of things we are personally excited about the future of gaming.

We live in one of the best times to be a gamer. Whether it's the outstanding releases coming consistently, services like Gamepass, backlogs filled with precious hidden gems etc. there's no shortage of great things to play. However, there are still some games we wish we could get. We sit down to discuss the ones we daydream when we should be working.

Witnessing and participating in an engaging narrative is one of the best feelings we can get in art and entertainment. When it's masterfully executed this can even bring us to tears and give us moments we'll never forget. These are the games that did that for us.

Is it OK to enjoy a product when we vehemently disagree with the people who created it?

We’ve already had more than a year with both PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, so it’s time to check how we’re feeling about them. How has the beginning of this new generation been? How does the future look like?

Like any other avenue of escapism sometimes gaming becomes the scapegoat of many of our problems. Is there a responsibility on the development side that should be taken into account when it comes to taking our currency (whether it is our money or our time)?

With the release of both Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring, we have two very different design philosophies executing an open world. Guerrilla has distilled what makes traditional open world games great and has given us probably one of the best iterations of it kind, while Elden Ring flips most of these paradigms on its head and gives us a very different experience where you're left to your own...

Platinum Games used to be the golden standard for fast-paced action combat fun games in an era where Japanese game development went through a dark phase. They gave us many brilliant games, however in the way they stumbled and what used to be banger after banger then became inconsistent. We arrive in the present where they've released Babylon's Fall, a once promising Platinum experience turned into...

Critics are an integral part of any media coverage. However, in gaming the discussion often devolves into what low or high score a specific game got. Is this a productive way of discussing whether a video game is worth your time?

With video games becoming more and more expensive to make, big marketing campaigns are employed to maximize the company's return on investment. This brings us to today's topic: the hype. Is it good or bad? Does it help the game it is trying to sell? Do we buy into it?

Hearing that any type of content gets censored is always disappointing. In gaming, this used to come from Nintendo in past decades, however in recent years Playstation has been the platform where games are arbitrarily censored for unknown reasons. Of course, we couldn't discuss this topic without covering how some games edit themselves (sometimes pre-emptively) in order to cater to political sensi...

New Bloomberg report by Jason Schreier reveals Assassin's Creed codenamed Rift. After an appearance on both David Jaffe's stream and Last Stand Media's Sacred Symbols+, Jeff Ross reveals some information that contradicts a past report made by Jason Schreier regarding how Sony was managing Sony Bend.

Making video games is hard. Very ambitious visions that aren't carried out properly during development result in messy launches, which in most cases means doom for the game and sometimes the dev team. However, there have been cases where a company doubles down on a specific project, fix the issues, actually redeem the game and become quite beloved.

Sony announces plans to acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion. The makers of Halo went from being under Microsoft's umbrella to a long-standing relationship with Activision to being independent to now to being acquired once again. What could this mean for the future of Bungie and Sony respectively?

Female representation has been a hot topic in the video game industry, which for decades has been a very male centric environment. We invite Valentina Aguana to the podcast to explore this fascinating topic from different perspectives.