Middle Aged Gaming

Crian surprises Adam with a few news snippets including a recent Sony reversal, XClouds expansion to android and iOS, and the upcoming character in Apex Legends.

But today's real meat and bones: the recent chip shortage.

What does this mean for gaming? One can only speculate but we have a few theories. So tune and and share your thoughts in the comments.

What’s up…. Good people… This is Crian and I am back editing this week’s episode of our fabulous podcast. Today we go over some news and dive straight into the games. This episode was recorded on April 13th 2021. If you were hiding under a giant turtle, you wouldn’t know about the short-lived boycott of Genshin Impact or the huge losses the Epic Game store has endured due to its exclusives. Besides that, we dive into Freefire, Control and Apex Legends. If you’ve never played these games and have been thinking about picking them up then why not have a listen. If you have any thoughts, questions or comments, please don’t forget to send us a message on social media. We’d love to hear from you and promise to write back to every single one of you. Now, get ready for the show!

Topics Covered Today:

1.   https://www.businessinsider.com/genshin-impact-boycott-gamers-allege-colorism-in-twitter-campaign-2021-4

2.   https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-games-store-exclusives-apple-lawsuit/

3.   Freefire

4.   Control

5.   Apex Legends

Your favorite hosts are back doing what they love most - talking about games!

Crian's Picks

Godfall

Ever want to just beat your sibling senseless while wearing a magical suit of armor? Who hasn't? Well now's your chance in this hack in slash loot fest. Is it perfect? No. But is it fun. Oh yeah!

Cyberpunk 2077

This game just can't seem to get enough bad press. Unfortunately, Crian wasn't particularly impressed with this title either. This time, though, it's not a technical problem, but a lack of power fantasy. What? No power fantasy in a dystopian world infested with cyborgs? If that doesn't make sense to you, listen to Crian's review and you'll understand.

Adam's Picks

Windbound

There's nothing like the sound of crashing waves and the feel of the breeze at your back as it fills your sail. Adam really had a lot of fun with this little indie title - enough that he played it through at least six times. If that's not a glowing review I don't know what is. Even so, it isn't without it's flaws. Is it a game for you? Listen and find out.

Haven

Yu and Kay are two star crossed lovers trying to make it on a lonely planet they call home. Unfortunately for them, their excusion is kinda a threat to society as a whole. A surprisingly mature game given its first impressions, it took it's sweet time growing on Adam. Will you be able to find a place in your hear for Haven?

Hey everyone! It’s me, Crian, I am back! I want to give a quick shoutout to Adam for editing last week’s episode which enabled me to get a lot of work done. This episode was recorded on March 30th 2021. Today we continue the trend of unstructured discussions and dive into the idea of digital ownership. When you buy something online in its digital form? Do you truly own it or are you just licensing it? What are you entitled to as the owner of a digital product? Do company’s play into that and take advantage of consumers? Are NFT’s the key, the latest hot trend in blockchain technology. Can they help ensure our digital goods remain ours? These are some of the few topics we get into on today’s show. If you have any thoughts, questions or comments, please don’t forget to send us a message on social media. We’d love to hear from you and promise to write back to every single one of you. Now, get ready for the show!

Topics Covered Today:

1.   Sony shutting down the PS3, Vita and PSP store

2.   NFT’s

3.   Digital Collectible Card Games (DCGs)

4.   Intangible Value

5.   Battleborn and Evolve

6.   The death of physical games

While nothing is perfect, we're still perfectly happy here in our adopted home.

That said, we all need to air our grievances once in a while. In today's episode, Crian and Adam go into some of the trials and tribulations of living abroad, ranging from medical care to spelling and all the way round to interpersonal relationships.

Were there any things you'd been wondering about that we haven't gotten to? Leave us a message in the comments or on our Facebook page and we'd be more than happy to get back to you. Who knows, you may even inspire a future episode!

Hello listeners and welcome back to another trailer from yours truly Crian. We did another unstructured episode today going over a variety of topics which I am not going to spoil in this trailer. It will be well worth the listen so please enjoy. This episode was recorded on March 16,2021 at 10am Taipei Standard Time. It is recorded and streamed live every week at the same time slot. If you would like to join us live, please feel free to do so, we love an audience. As always if you like what we do, talk about, or for any other reason, please send us a message on your favorite social media. Stay tuned for next week when we talk about Life in Taiwan once more. We go in-depth about our difficult times during the past decade. Exciting stuff! See everyone next week.

Crian and Adam surprise each other by popping topics without prepping each other in advance. Lucky for you, we'll give you a little advanced warning.

Adam brings up a recent article on the xenophobic origins of the cyberpunk genre and asks a variation of the classic "Can you separate an artist from the art?"

Crian asks Adam to give us his experience with the Outriders demo and wonders, "Is it solo-able, better with friends, or strictly social?"

Will their questions be answered?

Hey listeners, we are back with the second part of our show focused on our lives in Taiwan. If you missed the first episode, please go back and listen to that since some of the stories do connect. This episode was recorded on March 2nd 2021.Today we are joined by friends of the show Ben and Alice (in the chat) who ask some questions about our lives here. We talk about some delicious food and end the show comparing the changes that have happened to our home city Kaohsiung. These are just some of the things we talk about so please do listen to the whole show. This might not be the last we talk about Taiwan so if you like this kind of show please do let us know via social media. Enjoy and we will see you at the same time next week.

Topics Covered Today:

1.   Politics in Taiwan

2.   Taiwanese Independence

3.   Newspapers and other media

4.   Taiwanese food

5.   Kaohsiung before and after

Crian and Adam get into some recent news in the gaming sphere.

Crian's News

Nintendo Switch  games are more expensive than Wii or WiiU games

Switch games are more expensive than they were on Nintendo's previous consoles. But whose to blame? Is it corporate greed or fanboys wililng to pay any price at the center of the problem?

GPU Shortage Reaches Taiwan

Thanks to crypto currency mining, GPUs have been hard to come by. In Taiwan, however, things were a little better... for a while.

Adam's News

PS5 drift investigation suggests DualSense sticks ‘have a life of 417 hours

Recent reports indicate that the DS5's stick drift issue may be pretty common. What's worse, it doesn't seem like they're designed with longevity in mind.

Investor At Center Of GameStop Stock Fiasco Says He "Barely" Understands It

Keith Gill, one of the investors behind the recent surge in GameStop's stock, claims he isn't quite sure how the whole thing happened.

Some viewers of Metallica’s BlizzCon performance heard the least metal music imaginable

Metallica was set to perform at this year's online BlizzCon event. In a twist of poetic irony, their music was stripped from the main Twitch stream and replaced with royalty free music.

Alice may be on the lighter sider of casual when it comes to gaming, but here at MAG we love to share our passion with all types. That said, she does have some experience with the Extra Life gaming marathon for charity which she would love to share with us. She also shares with us some of her background and experiences working on her own podcast Going Terribly.