the boys go over their initial thoughts on the Discord store page, the Parsec program, and the final Super Smash Bros Ultimate hype episode

The boys talk about the practice of Crunch and its prevalence in the gaming world, and how we should talk about it going forward. What goes into art and how people think about the artists behind it, and how that should affect our consumption of it.

The Jason Schreier article:https://kotaku.com/inside-rockstar-games-culture-of-crunch-1829936466

The boys talk about the issue of game length and how our perceptions on it have changed over the years

Frog and Snacks shout out their favorite video game content creators! a LOT of them!

The boys finally do the MH series justice by giving Monster Hunter: World and Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate the game club treatment. They talk about how the series has evolved to provide for us these two titles and how they differ. Snacks tries to say the word recidivism.

The boys go over the new Data and info from the EEDAR report, which lays out who plays what and how, but not before doing a long overdue rap update

The boys go over the most recent Nintendo Direct, as well as the new Nintendo Online service before talking about how Ninty has went ahead and created a pretty remarkable shared universe of all of its properties. Stop in for another all Nintendo episode!

meme links: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiu-PC6r8jdAhXxQd8KHaX5ANMQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpowerrangers.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FShell_Shocked&psig=AOvVaw3Xj4pzw8IKMaowa8ZJFQmC&ust=1537491269260957

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Frog and Snacks discuss some of the current projects in the industry that look like they may be shaping up to be competitors to Steam. Get ready to hypothesize wildly in today's episode

The boys revisit the Emulation discussion due to recent events, and discuss how preservation could work in a perfect world.

In the age of game streaming, what could more streamlined data acquisition mean for curation, game development, and platform design? find out here, frogsnackers!