Dan "Echo" Burch knows his business. A longtime journalist, now producer at Mugen Studios, here him talk about the cost of promotion, how not to do things, and the travails of entrepreneurship and making games...the dark side, if you will!

Reuniting childhood friends is always a delight, Zach talks with Joe Mazzaglia and Ryan Egnet about a wide variety of topics, from our own childhood memories to the artistic qualities of video games like The Last of Us, Journey, Braid, and Devil May Cry!

So I made Joshua Cauller buy the game...then I talked about the game on a day he wasn't around. In the interest of fairness, here is that discussion just for you fans! We talk about all sorts of things, from the Chaldean language to Darren Aronofsky.

Our objective was to talk about El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron and its relation to the actual book of Enoch.What Zach, Ted, and Joe talked about instead was a variety of stuff, from the new Tomb Raider to canonicity to Jesus kissing people (huh?)

Zach, Josh, Joe, Patrick Gann, and Alex (Zach's brother) talk much of Mega Man 2, game mechanics, the concept of "cheap", difficulty and challenge, and the theological import of it all -namely, the idea that maybe life is constructed with particular rules

Surprise: a lot of talk about thatgamecompany's Journey along with criticisms and applications. Starring Wild Man Ted, Joshua Cauller, and Yann Wong (from Singapore)! Also, lots of indie game talk (Antichamber, Miasmata).

Zach, Joe, and Wild Man Ted talk about Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Wii U, the THQ bankruptcy, Patch the Pirate, cyborg bodies (with theology, somehow), and hilariously intricate nonsensical Japanese titles!

My friend Joe and I talk about random things - mostly as a test. All video game talk, folks! And some stuff about academia too!