ESN Master Feed

This week we dedicate the entire hour to the amazing Kotaku piece written this week by Jason Schreier talking all about the missteps and issues surrounding development on Bioware's game Anthem.

Shareef and Cicero give you all the thoughts on grinding in Division 2. We share thoughts on the EA layoffs and talk about how excited we are about the No Man Sky expansion dropping this summer.

After watching the announcement of the Google Stadia, our captain gives his impressions of what the tech giant is proposing for gaming.

The incomparable Andrea Rene of What's Good Games makes her debut in Brookago this week. We talk all about her gaming origin story and a bunch about The Division 2. 

Make sure to check out the second half of our conversation over on Patreon as well. 

www.patreon.com/spawnonme

We bring on the founder of the Video Game History Foundation, Frank Cifaldi to talk about how important it is to archive digital media and games. We also connect him to SouljaBoy, Indiana Jones and Sharknado!

This week we talk about the controversy of the Rape Day game and Valve's response, NBA 2K drafting its first woman into the 2K League, Xbox going disc-less and EA ditching their press conference at E3

We bring on Charles Singletary from Shacknews to share his story of how he got into the industry. We dig into why Apex Legends is so great. Ask the question of if Anthem can get out of its own way and chat about a bunch more of what we've been playing.

Gabi Michel from the Microsoft Devices Team joins us this to share her story and give us the origin story of the transformative Xbox Adaptive Controller. 

*We stripped out a section of the show where Gabi goes into depth about how the Adaptive controller was packaged and some of its functions due to it not coming across well via audio. Here is a link to see the Twitch highlight for this section. 

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/382448293

Industry veteran Stephanie Tinsley-Fitzwilliam, president of Tinsley PR is making her Brookago debut this week and dropped GEMS on all of us. We dig into how public relations has changed in the age of social media. What is the new normal when it comes fo influencers vs legacy press. Stephanie also gives some great advice to content creators on some tips to help them navigate PR spaces. 

This is a must listen for everyone in the industry, so spread the word!