LBR Podcast Network

This week in gaming news Grand Theft Auto V reaches a major milestone. Telltale Games makes cuts and loses 25% of it's staff. SAG AFTRA also approves the new deal, but only 10% of it's members voted. Also, Tencent is developing a battle royale style game for mobile. Lastly, Microsoft talks of a gaming stream service that won't require a console.

This week in esports two organizations deal with controversy, the first being the San Francisco Shock who fired their manager amid sexual assault allegations, the second is KESPA offices as they were raided by police. Souel's Overwatch team also lost two players to PUBG. We also go over all the results of Blizzcon's tournaments.

With Blizzcon mere days away, the cast of Checkpoint Radio tell you what to expect from all of Blizzards big hitters including; Overwatch, World of Warcraft and Hearthstone.

This week in the gaming world Microsoft announces that it will be shutting it's Kinect production. On the Nintendo side, the Switch sells more units in it's first year than the Wii U did in its lifetime. Indie hit title Hellblade is set to break even just months after release. Finally, EA actually listens to fan feedback and changes up the way legendary loot works in Star Wars Battlefront 2.

This week in esports EA and FIFA announce the first E-World Cup. In other news out of Europe, Riot finally confirms the EU LCS will also adapt a franchising model. In other League of Legend news the Worlds finals have been set and will repeat last years match up of SK Telecom versus Samsung Galaxy. Lastly, esports in the Olympics continues to be a hot topic as the Olympic Council decrees that esports are indeed sports.

Today's show is an homage to the great Opie and Anthony. Inspired by Limit Break Radio, the minds behind RPMMORadio submit one of their episodes for scrutiny under the the fiery eye of Aniero and Co. With an absent Nika from the show the kid gloves are off and it gets brutal very fast. Not for the feint of heart.

Paying homage to an O and A shtick, the FEC crew listen to a fan's podcast titled ‘The Blind Monkey Show’. It’s ruthless, brutal, tasteless and overall, the Blind Monkey will be better for it. Other headlines include; Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp coming to mobile devices, an interview with a Mass Effect dev sheds light on the proliferation of loot boxes in games and Hellblade exceeds sales expectations.

Due to the low hardware requirements of the 16 year MMO is rife with Real Money Traders and some Venezuelan's are taking advantage of the easy access to the game in order to make just enough money to feed their families. Tune in to find out how the Runescape community is reacting to this terrible side effect of the countries persisting economic woes.

In video game news this week another classic World of Warcraft is shut down, but this time it's not Blizzard hitting the switch. A new research also shows that Twitch has more users than several popular media streaming services. Plus, could Legacy of Kain be making a return in some way? Finally, Nintendo announces the next property to get the mobile treatment, Animal Crossing.

This week in esports we bring you the results of the recent Dreamhack Denver. Plus we talk about the two newest Overwatch team brandings. Cloud9 see's an injection of 25 Million Dollars in funding from various sources. Finally, the first convention of it's kind, GG Expo is centered on the player themselves.