Input: A Video Games News Show

Logan and Jarrett are joined by the beautiful and wonderful Cameron Abbott from KGN and proceed to roll around all the bizarre, strange, and delightfully messy story of Randy Pitchford's legal problems and possible misdeeds at Gearbox.

Topics Discussed: 

Ex-Gearbox lawyer and Randy Pitchford engage in legal battle royal with buckwild accusations across the board.

Works Mentioned: 

Gearbox CEO says personal assistant stole millions by Owen Good

Amidst legal battle, Gearbox CEO says he left USB stick of porn at Medieval Times by Sam Machkovech

Ex-Gearbox lawyer, CEO Randy Pitchford enter legal battle over contract violations, corporate irresponsibility by Rebekah Valentine

Gearbox CEO allegedly mocked ex-lawyer's Christianity with slurs, "ridiculing" gifts by Sam Machkovech

Gearbox vs Callender

Callender vs Pitchford/Gearbox

David Eddings spicy tweet

Jarrett, Jurge, and Logan are all together for the first episode of the brand new magical year of 2019. The boys come together to talk about the constantly updating, bizarre, and upsetting story of Ellie joining OWL and the ugly and vicious side of games and those who played them it revealed.

Stories Discussed:

Ellie joins OWL team Second Wind and games proves yet again it sucks sometimes.

Works Mentioned: 

Overwatch Contenders Player "Ellie" Was a Fake Person by Genevieve Scarno

The Second Wind statement

First, a fast-rising female esports star was threatened. Then she quit. Then she didn't exist by Noah Smith

A gamer tried to go pro by pretending to be a woman, and the scandal exposed an ugly truth about esports by Kevin Webb

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Jurge and Jarrett were off dashing through the snow for Christmas, so I invited one of my dear dear friends, loves, and also editor in chief of Irrational Passions, Alex O'Neill to sit down in front of the fireplace and discuss the year that was 2018, look ahead to what 2019 has in store, and share our thoughts, feelings, and dreams for what IP has done and also where its going next.

No works mentioned, no shoutouts, just me and Alex talking and sharing our ~feelings~

Enjoy this very special holiday episode of Input.

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Jarrett, Jurge, and Logan are proud to usher in the first Inputies. THE internet gaming award ceremony that really matters, recognizing such important categories as Please Stop, Excuse Me, and Biggest Story.

Part recap, part satire, and part genuine reflection on 2018 and all of its many lows and occasional highs, we are proud to present the Inputs. So sit down, kick your shoes off, and settle in for the longest, most action packed, and decorated episode of Input ever made.

INPUTIES Categories and Nominees: 

The Big Mood Award: This Award highlights the biggest theme through the news this year.

Unionization

Exposing abusive work practices

Fucking Fortnite

Billy Mitchell

Winner: Unionization 

The "Please Stop" Award: Winner of this award was among the most obnoxious pests of the cycle this year. They are doing too much and it's almost certainly bad.

Billy Mitchell

PewDiePie

David Cage

Dr. Disrespect

CliffyB

Winner: PewDiePie

Biggest "L" Award: Winner of this award lost big this year, or at the very least, lost very publicly.

Telltale Games

Riot Games

That hacker that Epic sued

The Culling 2

E3

LootBoxes

Nolan Bushnell

Filip Miucin

ROMS

Drake

The Houser Bros

Winner: Filip Miucin; Runner Up: The 13-year-old Epic Games Sued

Biggest Winner Award: The opposite of taking an L is winning. Recipients here succeeded, whether they thought they would or not.

Tyler1

SonicFox

Ninja

Nick Chester

Ok Beast

OWL

The Houser Bros

PopAgenda

Winner: Sonicfox; Runner Up: OK Beast

The Joseph Ferris Award for Keeping it Real: Doctors say that winners of this category are the illest, cuz they suffer from realness.

Rob Zacny

Johnnemann Nordhagen

SonicFox

2 Milly

Jason Schreier

Kaceytron

Jessica Price

Winner: Sonicfox

Du Hast Zeitgeist Award: This award is to commemorate the most aggressive point of interest that fingerpoped the culture this year.

Bowsette

PlayStation Dumping E3

VR Chat

Red Development Redemption

Winner: Red Development Redemption

Best Cecilia D'Anastasio Joint: We clearly love this woman and her work, but what's the shining star of her bylines this year?

Inside the Culture of Sexism At Riot Games

Kids on YouTube Keep Making Videos About Scamming Fortnite V-Bucks From Their Parents

"Titty Streamer" Kaceytron is Nourished By Bitter Gamer Tears

Sex, Pong, And Pioneers: What Atari Was Really Like, According To Women Who Were There

We Tried To Uncover The Long-Lost 'American Sailor Moon' And Found Something Incredible

Winner: Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games

The Closed Video Game Studio Memorial Service

Visceral Games

Motiga

Gazillion Entertainment

Runic

Boss Key Productions

The Bartlet Jones Supernatural Detective Agency

Wargaming Seattle aka Gas Powered Games

Carbine

Capcom Vancouver

Telltale Games

Prima

Hanger 13*

Starbreeze Studios*

The "Excuse Me!?!?!" Award: Winners of this award are the strangest, wildest, most surprising, or most ridiculous story of the year.

IGN ousts Steve Butts

FF14 Community Manager Sexual Assault Scandal

Jacksonville Madden Shooting

Donald Trump wants to collude about game violence

Billy Mitchell definitely didn't not cheat at Donkey Kong

The Quantic Dream Saga

Winner: FF14 Community Manager Sexual Assault Scandal

Guest of the Year Award: Winner of this award gets a cash prize of $0, but also our love and respect.

Seamus Mullins

Logan Moore

Steven Santana

Caitlin Galiz-Rowe

Genevieve St-Onge

Mike Burgess

The Holy Ghost of Killscreen Daily

Jono Pech

Trevor Starkey

Blessing Adeoye Jr.

Winner: Seamus Mullins; Runner Ups: Caitlin Galiz-Rowe and Genevieve St-Onge

Biggest Story: The winner of this category is the single biggest news of the year.

Steve Butts ousted from IGN

IGN Plagiarism Scandal

Sony Dumping E3

Loot Boxes

Epic/Fortnite

Quantic Dream

Toxic Culture at Riot

Winner: Toxic Culture at Riot

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On this week's very special episode of Input, Jurge and Logan are joined by Geneviève St-Onge - Co-Founder of the video games PR and Marketing consulting group, PopAgenda - to talk about her career in games, how her team came together, and how the heck do you sell your game in the current market.

Shout Outs:

• Reviews

• Gris Review

• Input Stories Kyle Seely

Pop Agenda Website

• Twitter - @popagendaco

• Gen's Twitter - @gankstrr

• Guacamelee 2

• The Messenger

• Blood Roots

• Outlast II

Jarrett and Logan talk Epic's potentially huge news that it is going to be offering up a marketplace to challenge Steam on the newest episode of Input, recorded as some of us(cough not Jarrett cough) eagerly look forward to the Game Awards happening moments later.

Works Discussed:

Epic Games takes on Steam with its own fairer game store by Nick Statt and Sean Hollister

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Jurge is missing this week, but Jarrett and Logan sit down to talk about the breaking news that some Ziff Davis sites are unionizing.

Works Mentioned: 

Editorial Staff of Mashable, PC Magazine, Geek.com & AskMen Form Union Join the NewsGuild of New York

Mashable, PCMag Employees Move To Unionize by Dave Jamieson

Shoutouts:

The Legacy of PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, in 24 stories by Matt Leone

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All three of the boys came together for this special thanksgiving week episode where they give shoutouts to a series of pieces that they are thankful for.

We'd also all collectively like to say how incredibly thankful we are to each and every one of you who takes the time to read, listen, and share our thoughts and opinions. You all give us the fuel and passion to keep going. Thank you so much. From the Input crew.

Shoutouts: 

Why Red Dead Redemption is the Greatest Western Ever Made by Spencer Hall

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a criticism of power fantasies by Ben Kuchera and Jeffery Parkin

The Inexplicable Sexiness of Ivy Valentine by Maddy Myers

Closing the monetization gap in eSports by Philippe Collet

How Players Used Shotguns to Tear Open the Fabric of Reality in Spelunky by Patrick Klepek

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Jarrett and Logan muse about what an E3 looks like without a Sony press conference. What's the future of E3 without the Big Three? What's Sony have up their sleeve? Was this all inevitable?

Works Mentioned:

• Sony Skipping E3 2019  by Imran Khan
• Greg Miller Twitter Thread
• PlayStation is Skipping E3 2019 Kinda Funny Games Daily

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On this episode of Input, Jarrett and Logan are joined by Dualshockers' Steven Santana to discuss his news story on the decision made by the Library of Congress to make exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and what that means for video game preservation.

Work Discussed

• Library of Congress Adopts Exemptions to DMCA That Expands Game Preservation Rights - Steve Santana
• Video Game Companies Seek DMCA Exemption for Online Video Game Preservation - Heather Smith-Carra/Gene Quinn

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