Lusipurr and Ethos travel to Los Angeles to cover E3 2014, and then they record this podcast in the lobby of their hotel (also in L.A.). Join them as they reflect on the first day, and the conferences of Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, and Sony. Pink drinks ahoy!
When wells of ingenuity dry up after a game is done, prequel sequels need some sort of resource to exploit for the stories of new games. So, they go to the past instead of pressing forward, despite all wisdom to the contrary.
Ethos is disillusioned with the Mass Effect series after returning to the third entry, but he also likes Dragon Quest more and more, so maybe he has a problem. What can be made of all this? Who cares?
Mel examines his own gaming habits this week, both the good ones and the not so good ones. What tendencies does he have while playing some of his favorite RPGs and which ones has he managed to move on from? Click on through!
Mel is a grump this week as he discusses a few things in games he wishes would just go away. Maybe the holidays are to blame or maybe the grump quota at the site was recently increased. Either way, grump on over and give a look see.
Hot on the heels of last week’s GameCube retrospective, Mel has decided to look back at current gen systems. This week he starts with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and how it went from his first HD console to that thing he does not use anymore.
Ethos continues to play Chrono Trigger, but feels his editorial space should be Chrono-free until the end of the playthrough, so instead he turns to Mass Effect to honour his favourite character in the trilogy.
Celebrities are paid to promote products in every market imaginable, including our own. Imitanis looks at how they have become involved in our industry and how a few have grown because of it.
When a lunatic kills some innocent people, the world’s media weigh in, wrongly blaming Mass Effect for the heinous crime on the basis of a FaceBook ‘like’. The panelists instead suggest that the world’s media and their uncritical audiences are even worse.
Bioware talk monetising the consumer, Bioware reveal a drop in interest toward Mass Effect 3, and the Hyrule Historia knocks Fifty Shades of Grey from the top of Amazon’s best sellers chart in this week’s out of touch news regressions.