Tim and Phill Talk About Games

Are you ready? Ready for the most intense gaming experience of your life? Ready to immerse yourself into the best graphics, the most skill-based PvP, the most intuitive and addictive gameplay mechanics ever made? Here, watch this trailer and get REALLY EXCITED because this episode we're talking about hype! Hype is a bit of a dirty word in the industry, but we're here to give it at least a little bit of consideration from the point of view of both the marketers that use it, and the gamers who inevitably lose to it. CHOO CHOO all aboard the hype train!

*tap tap tap* Is this thing on? We're back! And heading back to our roots, too. This week we're reviewing an actual, bona fide game. But not just any game, a game that has captured our imaginations and a longing we didn't know we had for the ancient days of CRPGs: Pillars of Eternity. Listen in as we sploosh all over its shiny, clay-looking glory.

It's no secret that mobile games are pretty hot right now. Whether it's the latest massively multiplayer, Liam Neeson-backed pay-to-win, or a casual clicker to play at the bus stop, mobile games are here to stay. So what sets the mobile platform apart from more traditional ones? And what do mobile games offer that tethered games don't?