MacGameCast

The gang’s all here for the monumental episode 20! We continue the conversation around problems in game studios, Blizzard, Riot, Ubisoft and more. And don’t miss Caspers WINE adventures with his shiny new 24-core M1 Max. Finally, we review the excellent new Arcane on Netflix.

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Ted deep dives Apple Arcade and Lily lends her insight into gaming subscriptions. Our gaming bubble walls have been broken by all the Crypto nerds and we realize that releasing game modes separately is actually great. Finally, we start to cover harassment and abuse in gaming workplaces, starting with Blizzard.

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Lily is back for an episode, hooray! We hear from her and Ted if they consider games as art and then we dive into our backlog strategies (if any) as well as games we consider ageless. There’s some Apple and gaming tidbits sprinkled in too.

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The gang discusses some Apple related tidbits then dives into the big question: are games art, or just entertainment?

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The team gets hands on with the new 14" and 16" MacBookPro's with M1Pro chips. We discuss all the lovely new design elements and its roaring performance in productivity and gaming. Sam drops some Apple related news tidbits and we end with a great Halloween game suggestion.

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The MGC Team deep-dives Apple's latest hardware reveals of the M1 Pro and M1 Max! Hear all our thoughts and commentary. Most of the team has ordered a new machine, so will have even more to say in the future. We wrap it up pondering about Mac gaming possibilities and some updates to GeForceNow.

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Casper, Sam & Jon catch up after a long hiatus from some team members. Then we have a long discussion surrounding Oct 18th's upcoming reveal, which should be the next step in Apple Silicon Tech! We cover hardware, performance, displays and some tech details.

Actual Apple discussion starts about minute 37.

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Ted and Jon teamup to do have a “Have you played..?” episode where cover two games each! Hear about the best Tomb Raider in the series, the dark turn based action in Warhammer 40K Mechanicus, The goofy adventures in Amulet of Chaos and the heavy narrative of Crying Suns!

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Jon & Ted dive into the details of Free to Play vs Paid games, have a long chat about DRM and then finish things off with a followup to our Metro Exodus review from a previous episode.

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Jon & Casper discuss the conclusion to Epic vs Apple and the benefits of the App Store and Steam ecosystems. Next is some tech notes around Anti-Cheat and Steam starting to have some Silicon support. And we wrap up with some talk around the upcoming Gloomhaven Digital having Mac support!

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