Cardboard is expensive, yo!
0:10 – Andrew really, really doesn’t like baby Haruto in Yakuza 6
17:26 – Let’s talk about marijuana. ‘Cause why not?
32:21 – New Call of Duty rumored to drop the single player campaign. It is not rumored to drop the price.
52:52 – Nintendo Labo is super cool but super overpriced!
They’re selling “Pancakes & Syrup” flavored Peeps. I’m not kidding.
1:53 – Andrew reads his first romance novel!
29:24 – Shenmue has earned it’s place in history but the games are honestly not very good
46:29 – FTC tells Sony, Nintendo and others that they can’t void customer warranties by removing stickers or using third-party services/parts
54:51 – Steam’s privacy changes kill Steam Spy service
See? Andrew doesn’t hate all DLC!
11:29 – EZK finally saw The Last Jedi. We discuss.
46:30 – Famitsu poll: What to westerners like about Japanese games? Boobs!
56:57 – Wayforward does costume DLC right with Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
1:06:33 – WB walks back loot boxes over half a year after it releases Shadow of War. Appears to want a cookie
1:18:12 – ESA joins the fight to save net neutrality
Yesterday was Good Friday so…
19:15 – Gal*Gun 2 DLC gets weird translation error
28:37 – Lindsay Lohan’s GTA5 lawsuit thrown out by NY appeals court (yeah, this was STILL a thing…)
35:35 – What do we think of Fortnight and PUBG?
41:34 – Ubisoft finally avoids Vivendi’s hostile takeover attempts
1:01:04 – FXX cancels Deadpool cartoon
Did someone say something silly about video games? Well, I guess we’ll just have to poke fun at them!
00:13 – Andrew attended the March For Our Lives and only saw one pug. We also talk a bit about the intersection of the march and Black Lives Matter.
10:28 – Andrew talks about the addition of Deviljho to Monster Hunter World and the problems he has with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
42:39 – Metropolis: Lux Obscura dev says that, despite the box saying there’s sexism in his game, there’s no sexism in his game, only sexual objectification of women who have no agency and are dependent on men. Yeah…
53:17 – Video games violence may not be a problem but perhaps toxic meritocracy is. It’s certainly a perspective we haven’t heard before. Let’s discuss!
1:19:24 – EZK finally sees Thor: Ragnarok
1:37:55 – We discuss the second season of Jessica Jones
We actually had a bunch of topics planned but we ended up spending the entire podcast chatting about movies, books, and comics instead.
There was a Nintendo Direct this week. What else is there to talk about?
0:00 – Andrew talks about the various problems he had with his first two hours with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
36:36 – We discuss the recent Nintendo Direct
1:31:58 – Yep, time to talk Smash Bros.!
Andrew has caught the flu so it’s an EZK solo show this week!
On the agenda, Trump is meeting with the games industry next week, but no one told the games industry and the ESRB has added “In-Game Purchases” to the list of non-content descriptors.
It’s like they’re trying to piss us off.
0:00 – Monster Hunter World’s DLC is grossly overpriced.
10:18 – YouTube’s recommendations algorithm sucks.
28:38 – Game developer uses malware as DRM. It goes about as well as you’d expect.
41:34 – ESA doesn’t want you to enjoy anything it can’t make money off of, bemoans it sees no revenue from admission fees of museums displaying video games that have long since been end-of-life’d.
56:28 – Konami is monetizing extra save slots. Seriously.
1:02:38 – Assassin’s Creed: Origins’ educational spin off saddled with unnecessary censorship.
1:09:26 – Politicians are being dumb about video games. Again.
Everyone but the video game industry saw this coming.
20:30 – Loot Boxes and potential legislation
59:56 – Publisher banned from Steam for strong-arming employees to review their own game
1:07:20 – What do we think about the upcoming Five Nights At Freddy’s movie?
