Videogame Roundtable

This week's episode of Gaming Podcast features the first news of 2019 for the podcast, and there's some juicy items to discuss. There's no Gaming Flashback, but there is more discussion of the latest Civilization VI: Gathering Storm civs to be discussed.

The news includes:

"Exciting Halo: The Master Chief Collection news" teased for SXSW 2019

EA cancels open-world Star Wars game

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is getting turn-based combat later this week

Let us know what you think.

This week's episode has no news, despite the beginning of 2019 having some earth-shattering news items, which will be discussed next week, probably.

Instead, Jonah, TJ and Scott talk about their favorite games of 2018. Let us know which game was your favorite last year.

This is the last podcast of 2018, and the next episode will be our Games of the Year announcement. Until then, we snark at Pewdiepie, and check some of the news ending the year. This week's news includes:

Steam Xbox One cross-play tools hinted

Americans can get Assassin's Creed Odyssey free from Google

Discord Store to offer developers 90 percent of game revenues

Inca announced for Civilization VI: Gathering Storm

Let us know what your Game of the Year is.

Valve continues to have problems in the wake of Epic (and now Discord) giving developers more of the earnings pie, as the year draws to a close. Meanwhile, T.J. explains his gamertag. This week's episode includes the following news items:

Developers do not believe Steam is worth it anymore

Canada announced for Civilization VI: Gathering Storm

Studio Wildcard’s Atlas is delayed by a week

Rainbow Six Siege chat filter and toxicity update

Let us know what your favorite game of 2018 was.

This week's episode is full of industry news in the wake of The Game Awards. There wasn't many news items but there was plenty to talk about with the Awards, especially with this week's Gaming Flashback, Unlimited Adventures. This week's news items include:

Rumor: Starfield in trouble

Epic launching Steam rival

Maori announced as second civ for Gathering Storm

Let us know what you think.

Last week's podcast couldn't be uploaded thanks to some good old-fashioned California power outages. This week's episode is full of snark -- enjoy. The news items include:

PlayStation Classic using PAL versions for several games regardless of region

Bethesda apologizes about Fallout 76 launch

Fortnite surpasses 200 million players

No Man's Sky Visions update improves diversity

Let us know what you think.

The news cycle has begun to explode, as the holiday season looms and Black Friday in sight. Jonah and TJ get into a heated argument about Destiny 2, to liven up the proceedings after the bummer of Stan Lee's death. This week's news include:

Obsidian and inXile join Microsoft Studios

Stan Lee dies at 95

Destiny 2 director assures players Bungie is "not disappointed" with Forsaken

The Question of the Week is indeed "How would you fix Destiny 2?"

Jonah and TJ finally got to play Red Dead Redemption 2, and discuss how great it is and how disappointing it is at the same time. Great and disappointing can also describe the Gaming Flashback with 2008's Mirror's Edge, along with its awesome theme song, which Jonah is addicted to. The news this week includes:

Nintendo recommits to “keep the business going” for 3DS

Capcom has “high expectations” for Devil May Cry 5 and Resident Evil 2

Pachter: Red Dead Redemption 2 coming to PC in April

Let us know if you've been playing Red Dead Redemption 2.

It's seems like old times as there's a new IntelliVision console coming out to compete with the Atari VCS. The funny part, of course, is that the new IntelliVision will feature Atari 2600 games on it published by Atari. I guess we're all friends now. This week's Gaming Flashback is Dead Space. As for the news:

Intellivision Amico console coming in 2020

Jade Raymond leaves Electronic Arts

Splash Damage ends development of its team-based shooter Dirty Bomb

Fortnite's Save the World Mode won't be going free-to-play in 2018

The Question of the Week is: "Which cancelled game would you wish have been completed: Starcraft Ghost, Fallout 3 (Van Buren), Warcraft Adventures, Scalebound, Fez 2, Prey 2, The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive, Full Throttle 2, or something else?"

Unfortunately, Skype decided that since Jonah's webcam was connected, he wanted to use the webcam's mic instead of the actual mic Jonah uses, making it sound like he's in the next room talking to the others. It's unfortunate, since this was the 350th episode of the Videogame Roundtable and longtime co-host Paul Nowak took the time from his busy schedule to join in the landmark episode. This week's news includes:

Skybound Games will finish the final season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead

Star Citizen’s latest promise rakes in almost a million dollars

Blizzard denies Diablo: Reign of Terror is a BlizzCon leak

Microsoft looking to partner with new Japanese studios

Report: PS4 users are setting messages to private after discovering new bug that bricks consoles

Let us know what you think.