Egghead Anarchy

Alex & Bryan discuss VR, contemplating the following questions:

Why are people so passionate about VR?

Who is VR's target market?

Where does VR offer the greatest benefit?

Why might it fail this time?

What are some challenges for VR to overcome?

Why might it succeed this time?

Intro music: river of sine waves (The Serpent Trench)

Outro music: Tastes Like Victory (Fanfare)

Available for free as part of the compilation Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin https://ff6.ocremix.org

This week Alex & Bryan discuss games they're playing and dive into a selection of topics from GDC 2016.

From GDC:

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice trailer: http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/16/11246564/hellblade-senuas-sacrifice-trailer-motion-capture-demo

Online harassment in virtual reality: http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/16/11242294/online-harassment-virtual-reality-gdc-2016

Video tribute to Satoru Iwata: http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/17/11251864/iwata-gdc-video-in-memory

Referenced in episode:

'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative: http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/

Intro: Eet's a Nu World (Super Mario World)

Outro: It's-a-Me (Super Mario World)

Both tracks available free as part of Super Cartography Bros. from OverClocked Remix: http://cartography.ocremix.org/

This week Alex & Bryan discuss the closing of Lionhead Studios, the fallout surrounding Bear Simulator, and the Ghostbusters trailer.

Lionhead closing: http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/7/11172408/fable-legends-canceled-lionhead-studios-closing

Bear Simulator fallout: http://kotaku.com/successful-100-000-kickstarter-dev-calls-it-quits-due-1763162848

Ghostbusters trailer: https://youtu.be/w3ugHP-yZXw

Intro clip: Forever in Your Mind [Sonic - You Can do Anything]

Outro song: Night of the Ninth [Little Planet]

Both tracks available for free from http://soniccd.ocremix.org/

Alex schools Bryan on Pokemon, Alex & Bryan discuss what makes classic games different from retro games, and two very special guests visit Alex & Bryan for the last segment to share their thoughts on VR as well as tell us what games they're playing!

Alex and Bryan Debate the state of the AAA game industry (specifically related to charging full price for incomplete games), the Trial of the Century (Apple fighting to protect our rights against our government), and Deadpool (the Toy Story of super hero movies).

Bryan and Alex discuss Global Game Jam 2016: what games they made, what the experience was like, and what games they enjoyed.

Alex did not enjoy Jessica Jones. Can Bryan convince him to change his mind?