The Kotaku Australia Podcast

Welcome back to the Kotaku Australia Podcast for Episode 35! It was Halloween when Emily and I recorded this episode, and we used it as an opportunity to talk about some of our favourite scary games, including Amnesia and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem!

Meanwhile, I've been playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and I'd like to yell about how good it is for a bit. Thank you for indulging me.

A bit of a sad announcement: though the show concludes with Emily and saying we'll see you next week, it turns out we won't. This is the final episode of The Kotaku Australia Podcast. Our aural experiment has come to an end -- for now. We have plans to create more video and pod content in the future, but for now, we are putting this particular project to bed. Where will be pop up next? Who knows.

This feed will be come an archive of every episode of the show, and we may update it from time to time in the future when we have an interview or review we feel is podcast worthy.

Thank you for listening, for watching, for reviewing, for telling your friends about our show. We're grateful and we've loved making it for you.

See you round, Space Cowboy.

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Welcome back to The Kotaku Australia Podcast. It's a show about video games, and this week, Lauren Rouse from Lifehacker Australia returns to screech obsessively with me and Emily about Spider-Man 2 and why we think it's one of the year's best games.

Also: we're on the road for SXSW Sydney! Keep an ear out for fun interviews and more from the show!

Thanks as always for giving our weird little show a listen.

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Welcome back to The Kotaku Australia Podcast. It's a show about video games, and this week, we've got a special episode for you!

This week on the show, we're doing something a little bit different. During PAX Aus last weekend, we caught up with South Australian game developer Chantal Ryan. You might have heard of her game DarkWeb Streamer -- you may have even played it, if you stopped by their booth at the show. Chantal's interview with Emily was so fascinating and wide ranging we decided that make it this week's episode of the podcast. If you've not heard of Chantal before, or heard her speak about her craft, we're very excited to introduce you.

Chantal is as much an anthropologist as she is a game designer, interested in people and what makes them tick. It is this willingness to burrow into the human psyche that has made DarkWeb Streamer, the first game from her South Australian studio We Have Always Lived In The Forest, one of the most hotly anticipated local titles in years.

In this interview, Chantal speaks with Emily on her extremely unorthodox pathway into gamedev, how her deep study of the Geocities-era of the internet informed DarkWeb Streamer, and why she thinks the internet of today feels so bereft of personality by comparison.

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Welcome back to The Kotaku Australia Podcast. It's a show about video games, and this week, we're talking about Payday 3 and why the time has finally come to play Cyberpunk 2077.

Discussion topics

• Emily's back in her Tears of the Kingdom era
• David's been playing Payday 3 (when the servers let him)
• and we chat through Cyberpunk 2077's new expansion, its 2.0 update and why now is the perfect time to jump in if you've been waiting for it to Get Good.

Thanks for listening! We really do appreciate you being here.

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Welcome back to The Kotaku Australia Podcast. It's a show about video games, and this week, we're recording IRL! Emily's audio might be a bit weird! We're figuring it out!

This week on the show:

- David's been playing Mortal Kombat 1
- Emily previews Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- We talk about the industry's current obsession with paid early access as a preorder bonus

and much more!

Thanks for stopping by; we really do appreciate you being here.
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Welcome back to The Kotaku Australia Podcast. It's a show about video games, and this week is OUR 30TH EPISODE! Can you believe they've let us make 30 of these things? Bananas.

To celebrate this little milestone, we are dedicating the ENTIRE episode to a brand new format: we've invited some friends over to talk about Starfield.

This week on the show:

• David moderates a roundtable discussion about Starfield
• Emily is back and ready to fight
• We are joined by Zachariah Kelly from Gizmodo Australia and Lauren Rouse from Lifehacker Australia
• How are we feeling about Starfield so far?
• What does the game get right and what does it get wrong?
• Will Starfield come to be regarded as a Bethesda classic, or can it even measure up to a library so storied?
• Should Bethesda be taking mods into consideration during development?
• And much more! We've got takes! Come hear us argue!

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Welcome back to The Kotaku Australia Podcast. It's a show about video games, and this week, we are live from low earth orbit.

This week on the show, we are diving headfirst into the brand new Bethesda RPG Starfield. David is about 40 hours into the game, and gives his thoughts on the early game, before he dives back in for more this weekend.

We also chat through next week's biggest releases, including:

• The Crew Motorfest
• Baten Kaitos 1 & 2 HD Remaster
• Fae Farm
• Gunbrella
• and more!

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Welcome back to The Kotaku Australia Podcast. It's a show about video games, and this week, we're feeling the tremors. It's The Week Before Starfield.

This week on the show:

• We're once again joined by Zachariah Kelly from Gizmodo Australia!
• Zac and I chat through our time with Jumplight Odyssey, game we really like so far
• I have gab about how much I already like Armored Core VI after only a few hours
• Zac tells us about his racing game fixation (that's right, there's TWO of us on this podcast now)
• And we chat about Starfield's imminent release and what the next week is going to look like

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Welcome back to The Kotaku Australia Podcast. It's a show about video games, and this week, we're talking about Emily's continuing adventures in Baldur's Gate and David's adventures in Immortals of Aveum.

This week on the show:

• Emily's obsession with Baldur's Gate 3 continues
• David's been playing Immortals of Aveum and the Mortal Kombat 1 closed beta

We also chat through next week's biggest releases, including:

• Sea of Stars
• Goodbye Volcano High
• Capybro
• Elon Sim
• and more!

Thanks for stopping by and giving our weird little show a listen. We appreciate each and every one of you showing up, coming back, and leaving us comments and reviews. It all helps us out, and we take none of it for granted.

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Welcome back to The Kotaku Australia Podcast. It's a show about video games, and this week, we're talking about all things anime! What's good, what's new, and what's an unmissable classic for anyone just getting into the hobby.

This week on the show:

• Emily is back! Hooray!
• Joining us for this week's episode is freelance games writer and senior Kotaku Australia anime correspondent Courtney Borrett!
• We chat through some of 2023's newest and greatest shows, and why you should check them out.
• Then we get into some unmissable anime for anyone that's never dipped a toe into the hobby!
• David, who hasn't watched anime consistently in many years, learns a lot.
• Emily's camera cuts out during the record! Sorry about that, video podcast enjoyers!

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