Have you ever been to a gaming convention? Lots of people go to them these days to interact with their favorite games. Zac and Darren discuss the future of conventions, how they effect eSports, and when we might see a Sony Direct.

To start, we apologize for the technical issues that occurred during this episode. Darren and Christian are two men on a mission this week. They’re trying to decide if a post-modern format is going to happen, and if it does, what the outcome would be.

Yeah but only you can understand what I say. At least that’s what Pikachu will have us believe. With Zac, our resident Pokemon master, in tow. We dive into the Detective Pikachu trailer.

As we eluded to, this episode is mainly covering the Smash Bros direct that occurred on November 1st, 2018. We go over the new character, online modes, single player, and all the other goodies that were revealed this week. As a side note, this was the last week of our predictions bet. So stay tuned to the end to see who the big looser is!

There’s been a lot of talk about Fallout 76 recently, so we decided to give our take on the matter. We go into whether or not we believe Fallout 76 is the right direction for Bethesda, and where they’ll potentially head in the future. Darren and J also take a moment to preview the Smash direct and the discussion around Soulcalibur VI characters.

With Red Dead Redemption 2 on the horizon there’s been a number of conversations around crazy work hours. We break down every side of the argument to give a full perspective on the issue. In the end, the validity of long work hours depends on your personal preference and life style, but how Rock Star is going about things isn’t ethical.

Many people have pulled all night-ers in their time, but doing it for charity is another animal. In this episode we go over how gaming and charity efforts are connected. Either through streaming for charity, or companies selling micro-transactions.

What would you do if you could spend 50 billion dollars to create a gaming giant? The Squad discusses, for ASA, how they’d spend that crazy amount of money if they were fortunate enough to be in charge of it. For the Rest of the Show, they predict what’s going to happen during the next console cycle. Will consoles be more like cell phones where there’s no hard cut on compatibility?

The boys are deciding what game we’re the most like personality wise for ASA. Then for the Rest of the Show we talk about which game world would be the best and worst to live in.

Due to the closure of Tell Tale Game, we boys discuss what property would make a good walking sim for ASA. After that we drop a 2 topic special for The Rest of the Show. Sony joined the cross play world, what’s the future hold for multiplayer games? After that, are new Pokemon very creative? Has Gamefreak run out of design space?