Firstly… Steve apologizes profusely for his terrible audio quality. Having just moved, his mic set-up isn’t what it should be and it’s resulted in levels being blown out.

As you know, Steve has just recently moved to Montréal which is in the French region of Canada. This poses the question of what is it like moving to French Canada as an English speaker?

In this episode we discuss the milestone of our kids first starting to talk and the idea of raising them multi-lingual. This leads into a discussion of what it was like learning French as a child in English Canada and how things have changed with being an adult that travels the world.

Steve talks about quitting Japanese, and Matt talks about interests in language and then we discuss whether or not there is a language barrier in Montréal and some of the cultural differences we’ve witnessed between Montréal and Vancouver.

This leads into a small talk about Silence before we catch up on what Matt’s been playing this week.

Huzzah! It’s 2017 (for realsies!)

Steve’s finally relocated his nerdy butt over to Montréal and while he hasn’t gotten around to building himself an Ikea bed just yet, he is in a position to allow us to finally get back to our recording routine. That means that yes, this episode was actually recorded this week.

In this week’s 54+ minute gamecast we talk about Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Nintendo’s primitive rules for buying digital games, and moving.

Rolling further in to the new year with some random Star Wars talk? Sure, why not.

After rounding out last year with some on-topic discussions of recent happenings and some reminiscence of the year in gaming, this week we visit the business of Star Wars sequels and prequels, and do our take on the topic that everyone has talked over to death: “Where were you when Episode 1 came out?”. Or, more accurately, “Why were all the prequels so bad?”

Hello again, faithful. So the end of the year is finally upon us, and it’s time to reflect on all of our gaming exploits throughout 2016. Not the hottest selection of games from Matt (Parenting! Thank you!) but Stephen has done a pretty respectable job of fitting in some good time for a variety of gaming delights. This time around, our conversation focuses on the games we finished, the games we didn’t, and our favorites from the year.

Stephen has a well documented list of respectable length while Matt’s finished games selection can be counted on one hand. (more…)

It’s a New Year, it’s a New Season! It’s us catching up for the first time in a couple of weeks!

In this week’s Gamecast we catch up on our holiday adventures, hangouts, and loot. Steve’s back from a short apartment hunting trip and about to embark of his family’s big move and Matt was inspired to play some of his Kickstarted boardgames. Did you find any good gaming deals over the holidays? Did anyone get you something particularly awesome? Let us know!