We have the amazing John Phillips from the Super Deformed Gamescast on the show with us this week to talk about the amazing work they are doing with their podcast. How calling our Robert E. Lee can get you banned on Twitter and why Notch and PewDiePie deserve no sympathy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we're joined with The Koalition's Tony Polanco to talk all about what we've been playing. Lots of MK 11 love, what Rick Fox's departure from Echo Fox could mean for eSports and we talk all about Days Gone (spoilers ahead)! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Creator of the ArtificialNext show and podcast Bernie Su joins us to talk about his amazing project that tells the story of an AI character come to life. We talk about how this innovative show came to life on Twitch and what it means for interactive storytelling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This biannual Indie MEGABOOTH and pals panel brings together a new diverse group of indie dev allies who are actively working in the indie game space to help bridge cultural gaps and create positive communities. Moderated by Allegra FrankFeaturing: Kelly Wallick, Blair Durkee, Steve Filby, Zhenghua Yang, Jennifer Schneidereit & Stephanie Tinsley-Fitzwilliam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we dedicate the entire hour to the amazing Kotaku piece written this week by Jason Schreier talking all about the missteps and issues surrounding development on Bioware's game Anthem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shareef and Cicero give you all the thoughts on grinding in Division 2. We share thoughts on the EA layoffs and talk about how excited we are about the No Man Sky expansion dropping this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reef and Cee discuss the new Google Stadia and what it means for gaming. Are they doing too much? Will it even work as advertised? An Xbox and Switch partnership is in the works, what does this mean for both consoles? Also, the release date for the rumored Xbox One S All-Digital Edition has been announced. How do we think it should be configured and how much will it cost? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After watching the announcement of the Google Stadia, our captain gives his impressions of what the tech giant is proposing for gaming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The incomparable Andrea Rene of What's Good Games makes her debut in Brookago this week. We talk all about her gaming origin story and a bunch about The Division 2. Make sure to check out the second half of our conversation over on Patreon as well. www.patreon.com/spawnonme Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We bring on the founder of the Video Game History Foundation, Frank Cifaldi to talk about how important it is to archive digital media and games. We also connect him to SouljaBoy, Indiana Jones and Sharknado! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we talk about the controversy of the Rape Day game and Valve's response, NBA 2K drafting its first woman into the 2K League, Xbox going disc-less and EA ditching their press conference at E3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We bring on Charles Singletary from Shacknews to share his story of how he got into the industry. We dig into why Apex Legends is so great. Ask the question of if Anthem can get out of its own way and chat about a bunch more of what we've been playing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gabi Michel from the Microsoft Devices Team joins us this to share her story and give us the origin story of the transformative Xbox Adaptive Controller. *We stripped out a section of the show where Gabi goes into depth about how the Adaptive controller was packaged and some of its functions due to it not coming across well via audio. Here is a link to see the Twitch highlight for this section. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/382448293 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Industry veteran Stephanie Tinsley-Fitzwilliam, president of Tinsley PR is making her Brookago debut this week and dropped GEMS on all of us. We dig into how public relations has changed in the age of social media. What is the new normal when it comes fo influencers vs legacy press. Stephanie also gives some great advice to content creators on some tips to help them navigate PR spaces. This is a must listen for everyone in the industry, so spread the word! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
IGN's own Ryan McCaffrey joins us this week to talk about how his career has changed and grown over the years. Why journalistic integrity still matters and we chat about the art of conducting a good interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We bring O'Dell Harmon of the Game Fanatics and the Full Circle podcast on the show this week to talk about his rise in the gaming industry. We talk about Kingdom Hearts and Anthem expectations too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We wrap up our Spawnies awards with part 2! We share thoughts on our favorite mobile, emotional and game of the year! Thank you all so much for listening, we had a blast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With the beginning of 2019 here and kicking we drop our 2018 GOTY contenders and winners for all our Brookago residents! Be sure to check out this episode and our finale tomorrow! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kah and Reef dedicate a WHOLE episode to the conversation around the Activision and Bungie breakup. How will this affect Destiny 2? Is it a good move for Bungie? We ask and answer all the questions! We also dig into how dope Awesome Games Done Quick is!Lots of goodness incoming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We come back with a vengeance this week to talk about Rami Ismail's newest collaborative project called Meditations. We discuss the wild west that is Twitch moderation after a domestic abuser gets his banned channel back. Soulja Boy gets snatched by the Nintendo cops and we ask if Netflix's Bandersnatch means FMV is back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In our first episode of 2019 we chat about Epic getting sued again for dance stealing. Epic bringing the ill-fated TellTale Walking Dead game to their store. The ESRB getting a nod from Congress and we dig into how shooting games are changing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kotaku's Paul Tamayo joins us this week to talk about his fantastic podcast The Optional. What it's like to make a name in the gaming industry. We talk about how the gaming community has grown and changed in New York.
Reef and Cee are manning the ship and that means you get some more impressions of games that were announced on around The Game Awards 2018! We then talk about the nonsense that is the corporate culture at Riot Games as well as if it’s ‘personnel’ thing or if it’s a ‘culture’ thing there. Reef talks Content Creator of the Year, Ninja and things don’t go as planned, plus Cee wants to extoll the greatness of the infamous E.T. the Atari 2600 game? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...
Cicero and Shareef break down their thoughts on The Game Awards while Kahlief attends the show.
This week we tag and bag more Fallout 76 mess, share some of our experiences finding people to play with online with "Looking For Group" gaming services and wrap up episode 265 with what we've been playing!
Shareef and Kah revisit the Thanksgiving gaming lineups of the last five years and declare a victor.
Shareef and Cicero talk about the future of E3 without Sony, the Game Awards nominees, and the Brookago Buyer's Guide for your holiday console purchases.
This week we dig back into Red Dead Redemption to see how the crew feels after more game time. We talk about if Blizzard did their fans a disservice with announcing Diablo: Immortals at their big con. Kahlief gives some Fallout 76 Beta impressions and we dig through more games we've been playing.
Episode 261 is full steam ahead and we welcome our captain back to the helm. We dig into our thoughts about Red Dead Redemption 2, Deltarune and a bunch of other games in our queue. We talk about Overwatch's latest character and how we still don't have a Black woman in the mix. Rounding out the conversation about Blizzcon is trip to the lair of who else.....Rastakhan.
Reef and Cee are back again to talk about the story that doesn’t seem to want to end -- Rockstar’s crunch culture. We find out even more information thanks to Kotaku and that rabbit hole is deep, y’all! We also learn what you’re risking if you regret your PSN name bad enough to want to change it. Buyer Beware! We find out what our two Brookagoans have been playing recently and we get a #Stubnostication? What could it be? Also, Reef has BARS and much more in episode 260!
