John and Garnett Podcast

After a two-week hiatus, we're back. And just in time to talk about all the stuff announced at Gamescom this week. Lots of stuff from Sony and Microsoft to discuss, plus a throwback to old Listen Up and 1UP Yours shows.

An aliterative theme this week. We start with DOTA 2, move on to Destiny, and later talk about the new Doom. There are probably other games we mention that begin with the letter D, but we can't remember what they are right now.

We're back on the regular schedule again this week, and we're all over the place. Lots of Divinity enthusiasm (and some doubts), plus Garden Warfare, the Destiny Ghose Edition, and much discussion about pre-orders and all the nonsense that seems to surround them these days. Plus, prompted by Game Informer's story, we ponder the best games of the last generation.

We're back! After a 2-week break, we've finally got back together to record another episiode. This one's a bit shorter than usual, but we wanted to get back onto a normal schedule rather than have episodes popping up at weird times when you're not expecting them. Moving forward, the schedule will continue to be: live recording on Wednesday afternoons, and the audio version going up around the middle of the day on Thursdays.

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We're back from E3, and slightly late this week...but that doesn't mean we don't have plenty to talk about; Evolve, Destiny, Nintendo, Plundernauts, and plenty of other goodies.

Our special E3 2014 episode is a crossover with the awesome 8-4 Play podcast. This epic 2.5 hour show is the same show on both feeds. This is also the first time on this particular show that we've been able to record while being in the same room at the same time. Enjoy!

With one week to go before the hugest of huge videogame extravaganzas in LA (E3 starts on June 9 with the big press conferences) we talk about what we'd like to see, rather than making predictions, and then we settle into some calm and collected criticism of all the millions of annoying things that Watch Dogs does that drives us both crazy. Also: why are games so grim?

Lots to talk about Watch Dogs...like the fact that Garnett hasn't played it yet - so John conveys it's hundreds of tiny problems, while still trying to retain some enthusiasm for what lies beneath a large number of issues.

Also this week; more leaks to ruin any semblance of surprise from the announcements at E3 the week after next. New Batttlefield (with cops,) and a new game from Bethesda.

Some unintentioal aliteration in the epsidoe title there; Wii, Wolfenestein and Watch Dogs. This week, we talk about the enjoyment of games, and how "timeliness" of conversations shouldn't be a factor (prompted by Garnett playing a two year old Wii game) PLUS: John enthuses more than expected about Wolfenstein: The New Order. Also this week; we speculate on the way the phone hacking mecahnic came about in Watch Dogs, we make excuses for not having played Transistor yet, and make plans for E3 in a few weeks. All this packed into a longer-than-usual episode.

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This week, Microsoft dropped its pre-E3 bombshell of releasing a Kinect-less Xbox One SKU (coming June 9) - so, of course we talk about that, and other Xboxiness. Naturally, this segues into E3 predicitions, and we pick-apart the totally fakey "leaks" that seem to be popping up online every other day. It's not they're not credible lists of games - they're just not "real" lists. Also this week: we're joined by the handsome Simon Cox who introduces everyone to the notion of a "Marmite game." What's a Marmite game? Well, it's something you either love or hate; so something like Mirror's Edge, for example.

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