Black Box Signal

It's Super Bowl Sunday in the States, so we have a slugfest(not really) to determine what makes a good controller, and we discuss what kind of sports games us not sports people found ourselves oddly getting into.  We also go over the Nintendo Direct, what's going on with EA, sales metrics, cancelations and shut downs, and Gears of War 6?

This week we check back in with The Last Of Us show, Tactics Ogre and Fire Emblem:  Engage, as well as spend a decent amount of time talking about Season: A Letter to the Future.  We also discuss E3 expectations, new announcements from Ubisoft, as well as what makes(and doesn’t make) a great boss fight!

This week we check in with Crisis core, Fire Emblem, Pokémon and Silent Hill findings.  Then we follow up on some stories from last week.  More out of Ubisoft and Microsoft, the second episode of the Last of Us and pro wrestling?  Yeah it was an interesting one...(we apologize for the missing sound between 32:35 and 33:10)

This week we played some Tactics Ogre, Pokémon Violet, Crisis Core Reunion: Final Fantasy 7 and Fire Emblem: Engage.  We also talk about the mess that is the games industry, including delays, cancelations, layoffs and acquisitions.  We also discuss the recent TV offerings from various video game IPs.