A nice little collection of news stories from this past week to sink your teeth into. We’ve got possible new rules for Airline cancellations and delays, the final season of Jack Ryan, lagging Switch sales resulting in no new hardware, Microsoft shenanigans, and a rebooting of Mortal Kombat.
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Ford’s Last Rodeo, Game Pass Woes, and Microsoft?
A lot of strange news this past week. Hi-Fi Rush doesn’t do as well as expected, Warner Bros disses themselves, Bam gets in trouble, Microsoft fails to monopoly, Harrison Ford hangs up his Indy hat after the newest film, and Disney and Desantis go to war.
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New Harry Potter Series, Overwatch Hero, and XBOX Controller?
Some controversial and interesting announcements make up Yesterday’s News. First we’ve got the ever-increasing possibility of a Harry Potter TV series with oversight from J.K. Rowling. We’ve got a new Overwatch hero announcement. And then to wrap things up we’ve got an announcement about a new XBox Controller made from recycled materials. Neat.
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Avatar 2, E3 Troubles, and Star Trek?
How many times did YOU see Avatar 2 when it came out? Well now you can watch it even more as it has been released digitally. Can you beat Bryan’s view count? Also, we’ve got news about ‘Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,’ more Star Trek, and more E3 dropouts.
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Mind the Messy of PsychOdyssey
Here’s a newsflash for you that is probably super obvious: game dev is messy. Like, extremely messy. It’s all chaos all the time and then suddenly WHAM, out comes a game. Even throwing super regimented and organized individuals into the fray doesn’t seem to stem the tide of just pure, unadulterated chaos. I read books like Press Reset and Blood, Sweat, and Pixels and see some of the fallout from all this chaos and I can’t help but wonder…why? Why do people subject themselves to all of this…(please don’t say chaos again…) disarray for some pretty bleep bloops?
Enter PsychOdyssey, the enlightening 32-episode documentary series about Double Fine during the creation of Psychonauts 2. You read that correctly. Thirty-two. Episodes. 2 Player Productions, the documentarians in this venture, followed Tim Schafer et al. around for seven years, recording the ups, downs, and all the diagonals of the video game creation process. And boy are there a lot of diagonals.
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Episode 74: Wrestling Games with Nav the Poet
My favorite Tik Tok friend, Nav the Poet joins me to talk about wrestling games throughout the years. We talk about the highs and the very low lows of the genre.
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Episode 73: The Console Wars with Bryan and Jon
Two juggernauts of After the Hype, Bryan and Jon join us to talk about the console war between Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. They discuss the positives and negatives of each console while Brok sits there still very poor and without either console.
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Episode 72: Twitch Streaming with Tim!
Today I am joined by my old friend Tim. We talk about what it’s like to try and build an audience on Twitch. We also share some old stories from our college days!
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Episode 71: Fallout 4 with Kevin Hartwig
My Favorite Fallout man Kevin Hartwig stops by to talk about the best Fallout game, Fallout 4. Enjoy as we gush for hours about this game and why it has a special place in our hearts.
Special Thanks to anyone on reddit who doesn’t bring up New Vegas when discussing Fallout 4.
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Episode 70: Twisted Metal (1995) with Alex From Super GG Radio
New Papa Alex from Super GG radio stops by to talk about Twisted Metal (1995). A game with some old school live-action cut scenes and inconsistent story and name thanks to constant changes in development. Don’t be fooled though, this game is an instant classic that ended up spawning one of Playstation’s most recognizable mascots in Sweet Tooth. We decided to focus mostly on the lore and the effort put into the story because it’s a perfect combination of interesting and ridiculous.
Special Thanks to the actors who put real personality into the characters in this game.