Welcome back to Journal Updated! This month, Nora and Molly are joined by guest Hannah as they all set out on a one-way trip to the stars with Mass Effect Andromeda! Will this be the best Mass Effect game? Well yeah, but no one knows what that means. This game was twice the size of the last one and we all struggled to finish it, but we did! That's a wrap on Mass Effect, and a wrap on 2020. We'll be back January 1st! See you in the future!

Welcome back to Journal Updated! This month, Nora and Molly pull off one last job in the Empire of the Isles: kill God. To do it they'll need a handful of sweet new powers and some of the coolest levels in the Dishonored series, and Arkane was happy to oblige. Join us for a final sendoff of the Isles, the Void, the Outsider, and Billie Lurk!

Next month's game: Mass Effect Andromeda
After that: Pyre
Music: Limit 70 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Welcome back to Journal Updated! This month, Nora and Molly finish the fight and close out the Mass Effect trilogy for good. No more biotics, robots, broken models, swerve endings, or genocide apologia. Just questions. Lots and lots of questions. What a weird messy thing.

Next month's game: Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
After that: Mass Effect Andromeda
Music: Limit 70 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Welcome back to Journal Updated! This month, Nora and Molly set sail for the edge of the world to stop a conspiracy hell bent on putting a bad king on the throne! It's Dishonored 2! Grab some bonecharms, crack open a nice refreshing Addermire Solution, and join us as we talk shop about Arkane's return to the Isles.

Next month's game: Mass Effect 3

After that: Dishonored: Death of the Outsider

Music: Limit 70 by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Welcome back to Journal Updated! This month, Nora & Molly continue their journey through the Mass Effect series with 2010's Mass Effect 2! Come on by and give us a listen as we talk about what a reprehensible piece of shit this game is and how absolutely evil the industry that made it is.

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Welcome back to Journal Updated! This month, Nora & Molly dig into Dishonored, an industrial fantasy revenge quest released in 2012! They talk about power, kings, and individualist fantasies. Do you think they'll get their own squad after what happened last night? Write in to [email protected] and let us know!

Next month's game: Mass Effect 2
After that: Dishonored 2
Music: Limit 70 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Welcome back to Journal Updated! This month, Nora & Molly dig into the game that launched a thousand ships: it's Mass Effect! Does this late 00s landmark still hold up? Well, no. Actually it's shallow both mechanically and morally, with a side of race science and extra troop respect. But at least we had fun, right?

Next month's game: Dishonored
After that: Mass Efect 2

Music: Limit 70 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Welcome back to Journal Updated! This month, Molly & Nora learn about bodies, brains, immortality, and fish. We talk SOMA, a spooky game from 2015! We also talk at length about the inevitability of death and the fleeting nature of existence and ask, "are we cynical?"

Next month's game: Mass Effect
After that: Telltale's The Walking Dead: Season One

Music: Limit 70 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Welcome to the first episode of Journal Updated! This is a new podcast about narrative agency and choice in video games. And we’re starting things off by staring right down the barrel of video game’s assumption of centrism as natural law by digging into Obsidian’s recent ‘yeet the rich’ RPG: The Outer Worlds.

Nora’s Outer World’s piece: https://medium.com/@norafblake/not-the-best-choice-the-outer-worlds-the-toxin-of-centrism-77b454f4d1a7

Molly’s Outer World’s piece: https://medium.com/@MollyJade/there-will-be-no-revolution-in-the-outer-worlds-ad926fcf7163