We welcome Scott back from California this week, and we don’t waste any time getting to the good stuff. In the news this week, Ubisoft talks about punishing exploiters in The Division, and Dean Hall’s studio RocketWerkz releases a Vive-exclusive strategy game out of the blue. The Steam controller may be getting a hardware revision, Titanfall 2 gets teased, and Rust baffles us with the design decision to assign players a random permanent gender. All this news and much more awaits you on this week’s cast!

Viewer questions dive into the most rewarding skill-based techniques in games, the true identity of taco pie, and our fondest memories of childhood vacations and now-defunct online games. The cast closes out with two remarkable iTunes reviews that you won’t want to miss.

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With only Brandon and KDZen to occupy your ears, this week’s cast reaches new levels of intimacy. We start with a lengthy discussion about returning defective electronics and meeting up-and-coming trickshotters before taking the opportunity to fill our weekly quota of Dark Souls discussion. The news this week involves questionable spending from a vaping Congressman, a popular private WoW server getting shut down by Blizzard, Killing Floor 2 gaining Left 4 Dead-style versus multiplayer, and much more! In the viewer questions, we take a look at the developer motivations for games with multiple endings and espouse about our final plans if the world was about to end.

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Brandon, Scott, and Brad kick off this week’s cast with a heavy dose of opinions about the DOOM multiplayer closed beta, which leads nicely into a discussion about balancing games differently between PC and console. The news this week is dense with a recap of the MLG CS:GO Major, a truly terrible April Fools’ Day joke for Gmail, Microsoft making a lot of promises with the Universal Windows Platform, and more! In the viewer questions, we debate the legitimacy of a chocolate caramel muffin and marvel at an impressive piece of memorabilia. Lastly, in the iTunes review section, we’re left in awe by a couple of truly inspiring stories.

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On this Easter Sunday, we have the full crew here to dive into all sorts of topics. The news this week includes some truly bizarre stories, like an AI chatbot from Microsoft turning into a racist Nazi and a man getting arrested for an overdue VHS rental from 2002. And in gaming news, we take a look at Frictional Games’s refreshingly honest update on their game SOMA, try to understand an unnecessary blog post about Quantum Break, say goodbye to Intel’s “tick-tock” development model, and much more!

The new releases coming to Steam this week are full of promise, including beautiful games like ADR1FT and Hyper Light Drifter and some serious local co-op bait like NeuroVoider and Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure. The viewer questions include an important ice cream flavor debate, a slightly more serious discussion about depression, and a slightly less serious discussion about egg yolks. Lastly, for the first time ever, we feature not one, but two iTunes reviews this week that you won’t want to miss.

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With Scott absent, this week’s episode is a little more intimate with just Brandon, Brad, and KDZen. In this week’s news, sources point toward a PlayStation 4.5, and the cast discusses what this more powerful system could mean for VR on the console. Newly announced details for the Razer Core have consumers scratching their heads at Razer’s business strategies for all of the wrong reasons. Nvidia’s GameWorks source code is being released publicly, LawBreakers will no longer be free-to-play, The Division launches with some record-breaking numbers, Domino’s tests out a revolutionary new way to deliver pizza, and more!

The new releases section this week is full of promising titles and a couple of…unbelievable ones. Lastly, we close out the cast with viewer questions that lead us into some vigorous cake-based discussion and what might happen when Brandon and KDZen meet in real life for the first time.

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On this week’s cast, the news covers AMD announcing its new XConnect technology, Sony finally compensating users affected by the 2011 PSN hack, and a bit of drama involving the developer of Bear Simulator. We also discuss Microsoft closing two game studios, Riot Games acquiring Radiant Entertainment, Hearthstone announcing a new expansion, and more! In this week’s viewer questions, we tackle esports on television and address a concerned letter challenging KDZen’s credibility. And last up, we try to wrap our heads around an iTunes review from a possible time traveler.

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This week’s episode of the cast features a man’s struggle against learning third grade-level art and a journey of fondue-related self-discovery. In conventional news, the CEO of Epic Games bashes Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform, Quantum Break takes online DRM to a new level, and a senator notorious for blaming violent video games for the downfall of civilization was prosecuted for weapon smuggling and political corruption. Neat!

In other news, all future CS:GO majors will have a prize pool of at least $1 million, the HTC Vive seems to be selling quite well, and some evidence points towards Far Cry 4’s map being recycled into Far Cry Primal. Viewer questions are some of the best that we’ve seen in a while, including topics like permanently swapping faces with someone and fictional games recreated in real life. We finish off the cast with a couple of email submissions and an iTunes review that are truly legendary.

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In this two hundred and twenty-fifth entry of the podcast, AllShamNoWow joins us to talk PC Gaming and chicken wings. In the news this week, we break down the recent events involving Apple opposing the FBI’s order to create a backdoor to the security of iOS, the HTC Vive’s leaked price tag. and Black Ops 3’s multiplayer mode costing only $15 for a limited time (and what that might mean for the future of Call of Duty). Other news includes the upcoming competitive beta for Team Fortress 2, important info for TwitchCon 2016, and more! Viewers questions this week ask about baby arms, the difference between a beta and a demo, and the legitimacy of boneless chicken wings.

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The podcast is back after a couple of weeks off, and while John and Nick might be missing, we do have a special guest appearance from world-class video game maker Dave Oshry. We’ve got a fair bit of news to cover after a two week absence: Amazon launched Lumberyard, a free game engine based on CryEngine that features built-in Twitch integration. GameTrailers is shutting down after 13 years of service, Quantum Break won’t be available on Steam, Dying Light is releasing a ridiculous $10 million special edition, and Batman: Arkham Knight is no longer coming to Mac and Linux. However, all of this news pales in comparison to the shocking announcement of a Circuit City comeback. All this news and more awaits you on this Long John Silver’s-fueled episode.

Viewer questions this week see the cast discussing their favorite convenience store snacks, naughty dreams, and the validity of socks as an article of clothing. Lastly, this week’s iTunes review is a great listen that manages to say more in a few words than most reviews do in a paragraph.

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In this week’s episode, we cover the newest release in the *cough* critically acclaimed Five Nights at Freddy’s series–the newest entry was released early, but then pulled from Steam shortly after due to its “unsatisfactory quality.” Ubisoft has partnered with Elijah Wood’s production company to develop virtual reality games and other content. Other news includes your weekly CS:GO drama involving a team quitting after being asked to throw an upcoming match, Skype finally hiding users’ IP addresses by default, and more! Our viewer questions involve living inside our favorite games, the latest albums we’ve listened to, and a dad’s options for his return to gaming.

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