For Show Date: 06/18/2024

1. Games We Played
2. Life by You No Longer Among the Living
3. Senior Riot devs say the League of Legends playerbase is getting older, with fewer newbies jumping in
4. Discovery Queue

Time Stamps will be in the show notes following their respective topics when remembered

Rage:

Linkito

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2312770/Linkito/

Jared:

Earth Defense Force 5

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1007040/EARTH_DEFENSE_FORCE_5/

Dyson Sphere Program

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/

Life by You No Longer Among the Living

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/hours-after-cancelling-its-only-game-paradox-shutters-its-24-person-life-by-you-studio/

https://www.eurogamer.net/sims-like-rival-life-by-you-has-been-cancelled-after-indefinite-delay

Senior Riot devs say the League of Legends playerbase is getting older, with fewer newbies jumping in

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/moba/senior-riot-devs-say-the-league-of-legends-playerbase-is-getting-older-with-fewer-newbies-jumping-in-candidly-its-not-the-same-situation-it-was-10-years-ago/

Topics list:

For Show Date: 06/11/2024

1. Games We Played
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 always online, including campaign, due to "continuous" texture streaming
3. PlayStation's CEO drastically underestimates the Steam crowd's patience
4. Community Corner
   1. New Worlds Community Review Bombs the Game on Steam
   2. Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall

Time Stamps will be in the show notes following their respective topics when remembered

Rage:

Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

https://store.steampowered.com/app/289070/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI/

Jared:

Class of 09

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443200/Class_of_09/

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 always online, including campaign, due to "continuous" texture streaming

https://www.eurogamer.net/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-always-online-including-campaign-due-to-continuous-texture-streaming

PlayStation's CEO drastically underestimates the Steam crowd's patience

https://www.gamesradar.com/platforms/playstation/playstations-ceo-drastically-underestimates-the-steam-crowds-patience-thinks-pc-gamers-will-buy-a-ps5-for-exclusive-sequels/

New Worlds Community Review Bombs the Game on Steam

https://www.reddit.com/r/newworldgame/comments/1dbveng/the_reaction_to_this_weekends_big_announcement/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/11/21/new-world-just-massively-increased-its-difficulty-and-players-are-mad/?sh=292f7b732150

Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall

https://www.vg247.com/starfield-update-creation-club-bounty-hunting-quest

This week work schedules get in the way for Rage so we're running a Franken Episode. I still hadn't deleted any uncompressed audio from last week, so you get what may be the freshest franken show yet. Maybe that should have been the title!? Oh well, enjoy!

For Show Date: 05/28/2024

1. Gameclub: Open Roads
2. Next Gameclub: Another Crab’s Treasure, BG3
3. Parents and victims of Uvalde school shooting sue Activision
4. Atari Acquires Intellivision, Burying a 45-Year-Old Hatchet
5. Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets

Parents and victims of Uvalde school shooting sue Activision

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/victims-and-parents-of-uvalde-school-shooting-sue-activision

Atari Acquires Intellivision, Burying a 45-Year-Old Hatchet

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/atari-intellivision-acquisition

Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets

https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/05/24/square-enix-final-fantasy-unrealistic-sales-targets-jacob-navok

For Show Date: 05/21/2024

1. Final Redfall Update Will Grant Arkane's Shooter Offline Immortality
2. EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO
3. Community Corner
   1. KSP 2 Lost in Space?

Final Redfall Update Will Grant Arkane's Shooter Offline Immortality

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/final-redfall-update-offline-mode

EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/ea-is-looking-at-adding-in-game-ads-in-aaa-games-well-be-very-thoughtful-as-we-move-into-that-says-ceo

KSP 2 Lost in Space?

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/take-two-confirms-kerbal-space-program-2-is-safe-despite-seattle-layoffs

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/take-two-denies-roll7-intercept-closure

Discovery Queue

Rage:

Mullet MadJack

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2111190/MULLET_MADJACK

Seablip

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1471270/Seablip/

Cozy Caravan

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2788520/Cozy_Caravan

Children of the Sun

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1309950/Children_of_the_Sun/?queue=1

Shrink:

Gray Zone Warzone

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2479810/Gray_Zone_Warfare/?queue=1

Men of War 2

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128860/Men_of_War_II/?queue=1

Baladins

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1866320/Baladins/?queue=1

Manor Lords

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363080/Manor_Lords/?queue=1

Little Kitty Big City

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177980/Little_Kitty_Big_City/?queue=1

Mech Engineer

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1428520/Mech_Engineer/?queue=1

This week it's my fault we didn't record. It's spring time in the south, and I had a sinus infection. I took some time off and got some meds, so fingers crossed to wellness and recordings next week. We have many topics we'd like to discuss!

This week Rage had a weird work schedule so we were unable to record this week. I pulled franken content from the newest and oldest episode on the backlog, so we have some things from last week, and things from January. Hope you enjoy, and we'll see you next week!

Topics list:

For Show Date: 04/30/2024

1. April Gameclub: Endless Space
2. Next Gameclub Game: Open Roads
3. Embracer Group splits into three
4. Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE
5. Todd Howard says Bethesda is focused on finding ways to increase its output
6. Community Corner
   1. Garry's Mod is removing 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related items from its Steam Workshop

Time Stamps will be in the show notes following their respective topics when remembered

Embracer Group splits into three

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/embracer-group-splits-into-three-everything-you-need-to-know

Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/escape-from-tarkov-studio-boss-says-he-did-not-foresee-players-would-get-mad-about-charging-extra-for-pve

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/how-escape-from-tarkov-wiped-out-years-of-goodwill-in-one-catastrophic-week/

Todd Howard says Bethesda is focused on finding ways to increase its output

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/todd-howard-says-bethesda-is-focused-on-finding-ways-to-increase-its-output/

Garry's Mod is removing 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related items from its Steam Workshop

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/garrys-mod-is-removing-20-years-worth-of-nintendo-related-items-from-its-steam-workshop-following-takedown-request-its-nintendo-need-more-be-said/

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/nintendo-garrys-mod-takedowns

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/garrys-mod-removing-all-nintendo-content-after-takedown-notice