Starting Point

Brian and Corey are joined this week by Geek.com's Tony Polanco to discuss the Pre-E3 hype or lack thereof. We surf through the press conferences and major publishers to analyze what might and what we hope will happen at the show. It's not the cleanest edited episode but we wanted to get it out as soon as we could.

Here is Tony's work at Geek.com, follow Tony on Twitter, and listen to Tony's podcast!

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Brian and Corey are singularly focused (ish) this week on a bill in the US Senate surrounding pay-to-win transactions and lootboxes aimed at minors. Finally, something all politicians can agree on.

Link for you: Polygon's article on the subject

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Brian and Corey focus in on just one story regarding bullying in school using Fortnite as a status. It affects the guys in different ways as Corey is closer to the "action" in this regard.

Article in Question: Bullying in and around Fortnite

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Brian and Corey are rejoined by Steve (aka DrLevelUp) to discuss the "hidden" City of Heroes server, Borderlands 3, the Valve Index VR headset, Division 2, and Sekiro.

Link you can learn from:

City of Heroes server

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Brian and Corey sound like 2 old men this week as they discuss how everything is for the younger generation. Brian discusses the rumors on a cheaper version of the Switch while Corey talks about his Switch playtime with Mortal Kombat 11.

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Brian and Corey are joined this week by Eric "Glovebox" Glover from the Bad Fodder Figures podcast to discuss the newly announced Xbox One S All-Digital, the PS5 specs, and Eric's love of VR.

Links to follow and enjoy

• Glovebox on Twitter and Instagram
• Xbox One SAD
• PS5 specifications

NB: We apologize for any poor voice quality. We tried a different recording strategy and it didn't work as well as we would have liked.

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Brian and Corey are talking about the early access to Elder Scrolls Blades on their mobile devices. Corey then discusses his foray into couch co-op on consoles. Then we wrap up with the level of Sekiro's difficulty and people's reaction to it.

No links this week.

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Subtitled "F*ck White Supremacists," Brian and Corey are joined this week by CEO of Gylee Games, Chris Bergman. We talk Chris' travels to GDC and PAX East, as well as getting deep on starting and running a game studio.

Links for you 

• Chris on Twitter
• Chris on Mixcloud
• Gylee Games
• Chris Schrier on Anthem
• Ben Kuchera on Press is not the enemy

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Brian and Corey are joined this week by music composer John Montoya. You may know him from such things as the intro music to this podcast, among other things. We talk life, indie development, heroes in the industry, PS State of Play, and Apple Arcade. Also huge thanks to John for mixing this episode.

Links to live and learn:

• John's organization - Surviving Indie
• John on Soundcloud
• John on Twitter
• Apple Arcade
• PlayStation State of Play

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Brian and Corey are discussing Google Stadia, exclusives on the Epic Games store, The Division 2, Nintendo's Nindies Direct, and possible resurrection of Lucasfilm Games.

Links to learn from:

• Google Stadia Keynote
• Epic Games exclusives
• Nindies Trailers
• Lucasfilm Games making a comeback?

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