Phil Spencer channels his inner sigma energy, Logan Paul drops $3.5 million on fraudulent Pokemon cards, Lego drops Blizzard, and gaming has infiltrated the makeup space. Later, we talk about foods we got addicted to during the pandemic, make some gaming New Year's resolutions, and things take a dark turn into The Road territory.
It's time to wrap up 2021 with a bow, so we reveal our BLURSTIES winners for last year, review how accurate our predictions were, and talk about our gaming highlights for 2021. Then we make some new predictions for 2022 and JD fantasizes about the new Fallout TV series.
JD delivers some heartbreaking Star Wars Eclipse news, Henry Cavill wants to play Commander Shepard, and we figure out that NFTs are bad. We talk about what real-world achievements we unlocked in 2021, which debuffs we picked up, and what new skills we upgraded. Later, Jenna gives her First Impression Rose to Biomutant, and then we roll some fresh Dice of Destiny.
It's the Bobby Complex episode. In Blursties part 2 we cover nominations for: Most Overrated, Least Favorite Character, Worst Decision, Worst Writing, Worst Bug, and Worst Feature. Make sure to go to our website to vote for your favorite nominees!
It's that time of year again, when we run through our annual Worst in Gaming awards!! For part one, we're submitting nominations for Worst Studio, Worst Launch, Worst Sequel, Worst Name, Worst Gamer Rage, and Biggest Disappointment.
Peterson and Trent join JD to talk about all the games that were announced at the VGAs, including Wonder Woman, Alan Wake 2, Star Wars Eclipse, and of course, Sonic Frontier. JD gets tricked by a tech demo. We finally figure out a way to limit how much we talk about Activision (thank goodness), but there's still GameStop news. Later, we wrap up by pondering which game IPs need an open world treatment.
This week is only bad news, but the one bit of good news is that Peterson is here to help soften the blow. We talk yet more Activision Blizzard nonsense and dig into PlayStation's Game Pass. Later, JD asks which game series you'd want to end after its first entry, and then we play Crew Carry Kill with Christmas movie characters. Peterson gives a First Impression Rose to Forza Horizon 5 and JD gives kudos to White Castle.
Jackson is back with JD and Trent to break down a small slate of news from Thanksgiving weekend, including a trucker in Japan who stole a truckload of PS5s. Then, we talk about Christmas gifts we couldn't live without and finish up by turning Christmas movies into tabletop games. Oh and Trent finally gets around to his Dice of Destiny review of Deathloop!
Peterson returns! Joining Aaron and JD, the indomitable Peterson dives right back into the mess that is the gaming industry by breaking down the latest Activision drama from Bobby Kotick. We also dig more into the GTA remaster debacle and talk about what Warner Bros. properties we want to see in the Smash Bros.-esque Multiversus. Then we wrap up with foodio games straight outta the 7-Eleven - stick around for JD's ICEE mind bender.
This week JD and Trent welcome on the man behind the laugh, Jackson, who brings his wisdom of Conker's Bad Fur Day and Pokemon to the table. Ubisoft is still a mess, and Activision Blizzard is no longer the most valuable gaming company in the US. We also talk about the disastrous GTA Trilogy launch and some great news for Hogwarts fans. Later, we discuss things from older games that developers wouldn't be able to get away with today.
Aaron's back! New World is dropping 100k players/week, Blizzard's only female executive is leaving after just 3 months in the role, and Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 have both been delayed. Then we step into the metaverse to talk about what our second life might look like, and what battles we'd want to reenact in VR. Oh! Apologies about the sound issues - we lost our audio halfway through and had to recover it.
Jenna, Trent, and JD take on leaf season and pray for winter. BlizzCon was cancelled, Nintendo's new online service is broken, and Activision's CEO has taken a huge paycut. We get into the Good, Bad, and Ugly of playing older games, then we talk about beating games in a single sitting. JD also reviews Injustice: Gods Among Us.
This week JD and Trent try and fail to understand how NFTs work, talk about Xbox's failure to meet sales targets, and dig more into the Twitch leak. Then we reveal the best year in both our respective gaming careers, and finally compare difficulty in video games to food. We get really mad at Wendy's.
Jenna returns once again to talk with Trent and JD about all the awesome games out this month. Trent gives a shoutout to Smoked Taco and we dig into yet another Twitch hack, FIFA FUT news, plans for the Fortnite movie, G4TV, and a Go-go-go-google lawsuit.
Peterson's out this week, and Jenna does a great job filling in his gigantic shoes. We talk about the massive Twitch leak, Amazon's New World servers, and JD gives Carl's Jr. a fudos. Later, Jenna compares and contrasts Ghosts of Tsushima and Kena: Bridge of Spirits, then JD and Trent give a First Impression Rose to Metroid Dread.
This episode has our best song parody yet. Seriously. So good. In the news - EEOC hops on the Blizzard suit, Alan Wake remaster, Alex Jones visits for a real deep rumor scoop, Pokemon card drama, and a JD sales report. Peterson explains the hype around New World, JD asks what PS3/Xbox 360 games need a remaster, and Peterson picks a card game for his Dice of Destiny pick.
Jackson is finally back on the show with us and he's talking about Madden (spoiler - it's not great). But first, news about the Super Mario cast, Blizzard Executive Exodus, Twitch policy change that does almost nothing, new League of Legends penalties for going AFK, HASBRO making video games, Epic is blacklisted and more. We do a Dear Game Devs for tabletop games, make up some possible HASBRO games, and then Peterson reviews Battle for Middle Earth.
Enter the Matrix with us cause we talk about the Matrix a lot this episode. We have news about Life is Strange, a wacky Genshin Impact lawsuit, COD has a bit of a cheating problem, Cyberpunk Minecraft, IKEA gaming, FUT Cash, the Twisted Metal Cinematic Universe, and the Pokemon TCG on mobile. Then Peterson does a 2 on 1 First Impression Rose, we spoof a Matrix scene, and then we pitch a Matrix game. Also, You're Welcome, Devs. Peterson picks his Dice of Destiny game.
This week in the news - Sony rolls back HFW decision, employee mistreatment at Paradox and Broken Token, power chips are still hard to get, No Man's Sky finally hits positive ratings on Steam, China - "Stop focusing on profits. Psh", and the Playstation Showcase full of hits. We parody another song because we gotsta use Trent's pipes, we talk tech we'd like to see in the next 10 years, and Peterson reviews Warhammer 40k: Battlesector.
News - Halo Infinite with an XP-less battle pass, fried 3090 comes down to soldering, Netflix acquires some toxicity, Horizon Forbidden West's upgrade strategy, and Cyberpunk needs to be more...wet? We get a voicemail from Tim, we break down the good/bad/ugly of game controllers, and we play some foodio (drinkio?) games.
It's finally time for another Listener Questions episode!!! And boy did you all deliver. We got so many questions we needed a lightning round to finish them. But first some news about Twitch, Gamasutra, Activision Blizzard lawsuit and China game restrictions. After news we answer all the questions and even get a few amazing voicemails. Peterson picks a Dice of Destiny game.
We have drama in WoW - the other one - World or Warships, Amazon has bad game dev policies, GTA trilogy remastered, Cyberpunk sex drama, Argentina is the place to buy games, The Reckoning continues, and JD does some sales report thing (idk what he's doing to be honest). JD asks what types of things take you out of a game and he reviews Desperados III.
This week we're talking about Idris Elba a lot...probably too much. There is more Blizzard reckoning, JD makes a pitch to be in Overwatch, a shelved Power Rangers game, Frostpunk 2, Cookie Clicker, and the voice of Mario passes away. We make some pitches to turn 90s games into movies and Peterson reviews the Back 4 Blood beta.
We're finally back in person!! Some news about Tencent, South Park, more on Blizzard, plus delays (we even do a little song parody about it). Peterson asks about getting the abilities from a game you're playing and it goes off the rails. We give our first impressions of Pokemon Unite. JD picks his dice game.
Amidst the rise of Covid cases the cons are back on, Newegg loophole found, Shepard stats, updates to the Blizzard saga, Zuck's Metaverse, AoE fans are mad about...water? Then Peterson reviews the Against the Storm demo he couldn't stop playing, JD reviews his Dice game Unforeseen Incidents and we re-roll.
This week we go monster hunting in the news. We're hunting Ubisoft, Blizzard, and Amazon in our news segment which is interspersed with some radio plays. Then JD gives out a first impression rose and Peterson reviews Buddy Simulator 1984. JD picks his Dice of Destiny game.
Buckle up cause this is a wild ride. In the news segment we talk US gamer stats, Twitch the casino, the Netflix of gaming, the Steam Deck, the Stream Deck, scalpers gonna scalp, Tencent, and JD's regular (?) sales report. We do some Foodio games for discontinued food and Peterson reviews his Dice of Destiny game ATOM RPG. We reroll the dice.
This was supposed to be a shorter episode, but we got carried away with the news. Tencent being creepy, Apex hackers from Titanfall, WoW disappointment, Ubisoft's toxic work environment, sexy Cap, and shooting Lebron. Then JD Asks what game was ruined by the story and Peterson picks his Dice of Destiny game.
Loads of news this week with non-mini Nintendo announcement, file archiving, Playstation don't play, Houser studio 2.0, EA talking ads again, new First Amendment Twitter clone infested by Sonic smut, Bobby Kotick, and ES6. Then we play Love It, Leave It with puzzle games, JD gives his first impression of Infra, and reviews Pirates!
A video game press event for the books, Oculus ads strike 1, Marvel's Avengers screws up again, Cyberpunk's launches 6 months later, Windows 11, and Pokemon Go all in the news this week. In Dear Game Devs we pitch games that would benefit from the Chivalry treatment and JD calls us out on our Steam buying habits/wishlists. JD does a pseudo-review for Sea of Thieves. Big Ladies Good.
