GamesBeat Decides

It's only five weeks until E3, and that is both exhilarating and frightening for the GamesBeat Decides podcast crew. On this week's episode, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti, try to figure out what is happening in the world of games so you don't have to think for yourself.

The duo dive into the latest updates for Fortnite and PUBG, Mike talks about his concern that Ni No Kuni 2 isn't challenging, and they both wonder which game is the most flammable.

In the news, the Decides team talks about Red Dead Redemption 2's new trailer, God of War sales, and paying to end an NPC's strangulation. It's always a good time here on the GamesBeat Decides show.

Here's everything we talked about:

- BattleTech

- PUBG

- Labo

- Ni No Kuni 2

- Axiom Verge

- Stardew Valley

- Red Dead Redemption 2

- Beyond Good and Evil 2

- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery monetizaion

- God of War sales

- Stardew Valley multiplayer

Until next time, paisanos.

It took us until well into spring, but Mike Minotti and Jeffrey Grubb finally did two episodes together back-to-back. On this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast, your hosts spend a lot of time talking about God of War.

In the second segment, the squad digs into the best reboots of all time. They also try to define a reboot in the age of the "sequel" that resets almost everything. The past week also had major stories like our Battlefield V Battle Royale report and Valve acquiring Firewatch developer Campo Santo that takes up a chunk of the news segment.

Join us for all of that and more, won't you?

n this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti are mad, but they're also dads -- so they feel guilty about it. Hey, that's just like Kratos from God of War!

Mike has played a lot of God of War and written a review, so expect a lot of non-spoilery talk about one of the biggest

Here's everything that we talked about:

God of War

Wolfenstein 2 on Switch

Underworld: Ascendant

The Messenger

Trailermakers

Scum/teethmeter

Ghost Recon: Wildlands

Radical Heights

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 won't have traditional single-player campaign

Raven is working on battle royale mode for Black Ops 4

Billy Mitchell is bad

FTC: Those warranty-voiding stickers are illegal

Shenmue I & II HD

Xbox backward compatibility update

Shovel Knight sales

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 sales

MapleStory 2 coming to the North America

This special edition of the GamesBeat Decides podcast comes to you live from the bowels of Boston. This live recording captures the PAX East panel where we decided what makes a core Mario game. Join us, won't you?

On this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast, co-host Jeff Grubb prepares for PAX East by getting a cold. As co-host Mike Minotti points out, this is probably the big one, so it's time to start the GamesBeat Decides farewell tour.

In addition to Jeff's impending doom, the crew also talks about buying houses, "Bob Ross rooms," and this new video game thing ... turns out that they're not just Pac-Man anymore.

Here's what we discussed on the show this week:

Fortnite

Star Wars: Battlefront II

The Curse of Monkey Island

Eco

PixARK

PUBG Savage map

Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Edition

PlayStation VR bundle price drop

Shadow of War changes

SpyParty release date

Dragon Quest 11 details

Valve removes Steam Machines section from Steam

It's time for another GamesBeat Decides podcast because games are happening and someone has to figure out what the heck it all means. 

On this week's episode, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti talk about Mike's first Victory Royael in Fortnite that happened right before they recorded. Jeff also dives into Far Cry 5, which he is conflicted about for a lot of reasons. The industry is recovering from Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week, and Mike shared some stories from the event. The crew also talks about the growing momentum for unions coming out of GDC 2018. 

Join us, won't you?

Here's everything we talked about this week:

Far Cry 5

Sea of Thieves

Fortnite

The Messenger

Guacamelee 2

Wolfenstein 2

Kirby: Star Allies

GDC

Game Workers Unite

Vivendi exits Ubisoft

Valve has a lot of hardware fighting cheaters

Most of GamesBeat is off at GDC in San Francisco (Frisco, as the locals call it), so host Jeffrey Grubb has brought in some of the fine citizens of his Eco server to talk about the labor-intensive, ecological and economics simulator.

The GamesBeat Decides podcast is back on its schedule of recording on Mondays, and we've got Mike back from his trip to Valve.

Mike was in Bellevue to talk about Valve's upcoming trading card game Artifact. We break down everything he learned in the first segment of the show. Jeff meanwhile has ... well, it's complicated. He started capitalism in the game Eco, and he was met with a communist uprising that wants to put him in a dungeon.

Join us, won't you?

Here's everything that we talk about:

-Eco

-Artifact

-Nintendo Direct

-The Division 2

-Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIIIIIII

-Rainbow Six: Siege is more popular than ever

- Trump's meeting

- Hearthstone expansion

We're back with one dang busy week. We broke a couple of big stories, and the White House is bizarre even when it comes to planning meetings.

Here's what we talked about this week:

- Into the Breach

- Stardew Valley

- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege

- Mike's GPU died at an inopportune time

- World of Warcraft on the lowest settings

- Battlefield V is coming this year; it's a World War II game

- White House claims it is meeting with the gaming industry next week, but the gaming industry says it was not invited

- ESRB adds stickers to games with in-game purchases

- Cryptocurrency miners bought 3 million graphics cards worth $776 million in 2017

- Metal Gear Survive flops at UK retail

- After 10 Days Of Its Release, Kingdom -

- Come: Deliverance Surpasses 500K -

- Units Sold On Steam Alone

- PSN Plus games for March: Bloodborne and Ratchet & Clank -- No more PS3/Vita games starting soon

- How Activision Blizzard Has Become a Safer Stock | Blizzard's plans for 2018 and predicted revenue streams heavily rely on the expansion of microtransactions

- Chrono Trigger releases on Steam today -- it’s bad

- New Overwatch hero: Brigitte

- Sega: Yakuza 6 Demo allowed access to full game, pulled from PlayStation Store

On this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast, hosts Mike Minotti and Jeffrey Grubb talk about some recent releases and some that are not quite as recent. The duo also examine the pending loot-box regulation in Hawaii.

Here's a full rundown of what we talk about this week:

World of Warcraft

Celeste

Steep

Descenders

Age of Empires

Bayonetta 2

Shadow of the Colossus sales

Loot box regulation

Spyro trilogy

THQ Nordic acquires Koch Media, Deep Silver, and Saints Row

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Talk to you next time, kiddos.