Power Cycle

This week we discuss whether or not games are fun experiences anymore or if that's being sacrificed for gaming as a service prioritizing monetization of content over a complete product/experience. Also we talk about whether game genres die due to innovation and whether or not a new Megaman game can survive in this gaming atmosphere. Also beyblades....

This week we discuss why games are becoming too stagnant and what it could mean for the video game industry.

This week on the podcast we discuss the trend in games moving to a more competitive focused field, EA's blunders with the Star Wars license with Battlefront 2's micro-transactions and Visceral games shutting down as well as whether or not the loot box system is slowly ruining games.

This week we take a stab at discussing what makes a good game GREAT, the best marketing in gaming history and start our chart of the current gaming eras/generations and what they're defined by.

This week we discuss what has become a controversial opinion of a game Dev over whether or not gamer's toxicity is what causes a lack of candidness in the games industry or if there may be another reason. All we remiss on games we were hoping for that never came to be as well as games that should have got sequels but didn't.

What do you think balances out good microtransaction content or games as a service? And what pulls you into playing digital trading card games like hearthstone or gwent?

This week Jack and Mike talk about what kinda games they keep going back to, how the types of games that exist have changed, the evolving gaming industry and SGDQ.

We recap everything we saw in the first half of E3 and our impressions so far.

Mike and Jack discuss the upcoming games at E3, how they think the conferences will go and what they love about the event! Let us know your favorite E3 memories and your own predictions down below!

This week we discuss what Jack was able to check out at the 2017 Tribeca Games Festival, the future of interactive game immersion and Youtube vs COD content.