Words About Games

This week Amy and Moody talk about their Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League thoughts, try to figure out what Pokemon Sleep actually is, wonder what it will take for VR to go truly mainstream, and more.

Time Stamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:17:50 - State of Play Impressions

0:35:21 - Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League Gameplay Reveal Impressions

0:51:05 - What Even Is Pokemon Sleep?

0:56:43 - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree announced

0:59:08 - Indie Game of the Week - It's A Wrap (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1684270/Its_a_Wrap/)

1:03:28 - EA fires over 200 Apex Legends QA Testers

1:10:01 - Union sues Activision, claims it unlawfully fired two QA testers

1:13:48 - Telltale Games delays The Wolf Among Us 2 to avoid crunch and burnout

1:18:46 - Humble’s Turkey and Syria earthquake Bundle offers Gotham Knights and 68 other games for $30

1:22:17 - Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok sweep the board at 2023 DICE Awards

1:28:34 - Final Fantasy 16 demonstrates that sometimes an accessibility menu is better

1:40:46 - Is VR gaming destined to remain niche?

1:56:30 - Cool games out next week

1:58:34 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head

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Amy and Moody chat about the ever increasing ridculousness surrounding Microsoft's attempted purchase of Activision Blizzard, Amy reviews the excellent A Space For The Unbound, and more.

0:00:00 - Intro

0:20:02 - The Activision Blizzard merger is getting ridiculous

0:50:50 - A Space For The Unbound Review

1:03:48 - Indie Game of the Week - In Stars And Time (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677310/In_Stars_And_Time/)

1:06:26 - Blizzard workers furious after ‘demoralizing’ Q&A meeting

1:24:17 - Would you rather have Dead Space 4 or a Dead Space 2 remake next?

1:31:25 - Elden Ring has sold 20m copies worldwide

1:34:57 - Sega Says It Will Give All Employees A 30 Percent Pay Rise

1:42:42 - Civilization 7 is already in development, Firaxis says

1:53:04 - Cool games coming out next week

1:56:40 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head (Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty)

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This week, Amy & Moody chat about open world game design, Game Pass cannibalising sales, fun video game movie trailers (and spoof trailers) and more.

Time Stamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:17:18 - Forspoken Impressions

0:23:58 - Talking about open world design that does and doesn't work for us

0:49:31 - Indie Game of the Week - Coven (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1785940/COVEN/)

0:54:32 - ???

0:55:55 - Microsoft confirms Game Pass cannibalizes sales

1:05:14 - Nintendo responds to falling profits with 10% raise for Japanese staff

1:08:42 - Saudi Arabia reportedly increases Nintendo stake for second time in a month

1:15:17 - Atomic Heart composer Mick Gordon donates fee to Ukraine aid

1:18:57 - Let's talk about the weirdness surrounding the Atomic Heart developer

1:27:10 - Metroid game developers call out Switch remaster's failure to credit

1:33:26 - Tetris movie trailer thoughts

1:36:36 - Super Marios Bros movie Superbowl trailer (and the "HBO" Mario Kart trailer)

1:39:54 - Horizon Forbidden West arrives on PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium on February 21st

1:44:22 - Cool games coming out next week

1:51:10 - OpenCritic Head-to-Head (Like A Dragon: Ishin! & Octopath Traveller 2)

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Time Stamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:18:45 - Hogwarts Legacy

0:54:29 - Cooling off

0:55:51 - Indie Game of the Week - Shadows of Doubt (https://store.steampowered.com/app/986130/Shadows_of_Doubt/)

0:59:03 - Oops

1:00:37 - Nintendo Switch is officially the third-best-selling console of all time

1:05:38 - Nintendo Direct round-up 

1:26:34 - Microsoft’s Activision acquisition in peril after UK regulator warns of harm to gamers

1:40:13 - Bramble: The Mountain King launches April 27 (Moody is working on this game get hyped)

1:42:14 - Cool looking games coming out next week

1:46:44 - OpenCritic Head-to-Head (Wild Hearts)

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Amy and Moody sit down to review Dead Space, whatever is going on with E3, how we think Bioware could handle Mass Effect 3's endings in Mass Effect 5, and more.

Time Stamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:08:47 - Moody has thoughts about The Last of Us episode 3

0:18:38 - Dead Space Review

0:55:08 - Indie Game of the Week - Shardpunk: Verminfall (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1183800/Shardpunk_Verminfall/)

0:57:27 - Goldeneye 007 Review

1:09:05 - Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo reportedly skipping E3

1:19:05 - Have Starfield and Forza Motorsport been delayed?

1:26:16 - There was a clip which might be a new Uncharted in a PlayStation advert

1:29:57 - Are live service games even worth getting into at launch?

1:37:46 - How are Bioware going to handle Mass Effect 3’s ending in Mass Effect 5?

1:51:06 - Microsoft’s post-layoffs Halo studio is smaller and switching to Unreal Engine

2:02:40 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head

2:05:30 - Fantasy Critic Check-In

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This week, Amy and Moody are joined by the awesome Scott Sedman to talk about accessibility in video games.

Time Stamps:

0:00:00 - Intro

0:14:07 - Let's chat about accessibility

0:38:52 - The Last of Us and the "video game adaptation curse"

0:42:20 - Hi-Fi Rush Impressions

0:49:01 - Forspoken('s dialogue) Impressions

0:57:00 - The Yu-Gi-Oh tangent

1:06:51 - Indie Game of the Week - The Star Named EOS (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1619230/The_Star_Named_EOS/)

1:10:44 - Crystal Dynamics confirms end of Marvel’s Avengers later this year

1:31:28 - What Is Going On With Xbox Game Studios?

1:59:23 - Xbox & Bethesda Developer Showcase thoughts

2:06:05 - Cool Games Out Next Week

2:09:17 - Open Critic Head-To-Head (Deliver Us Mars)

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Amy, & Moody are joined by special guests Elfdaughter, Feywald, Russell and Vitz to draft their teams for this year's Fantasy Critic showdown.

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We're joined this week by the wonderful Vitz Patel, who helps us countdown our favourite games of 2022 & speedrun through some of the games we're most excited for in the coming year.

Time Stamps:

0:00:00 - Intro & Just Chatting

0:12:22 - Moody & Joe argue about the new Avatar while Amy hides in the corner

0:22:44 - Moody has some news

0:25:15 - A messy conversation about the games we like to play and why we like to play them

1:00:09 - Case of the Golden Idol

1:06:47 - The Entropy Centre

1:13:23 - What's on our Christmas gaming backlog?

1:21:11 - Indie Game of the Week - Imperial Grace (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1652580/Imperial_Grace/)

1:22:45 - The Google doc broke (it must have known this was the last podcast of 2022)

1:22:30 - The Pokémon Anime Bids Farewell To Ash With The Reveal Of A New Series

1:33:36 - The Next Tomb Raider Will Be Published By Amazon Games

1:40:20 - Xbox addresses lack of Game Awards presence, promises "incredibly exciting" 2023

1:49:18 - Henry Cavill is set to produce and star in an entire Warhammer 40K cinematic universe

2:04:24 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head (Final Results)

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Time Stamps:

0:00:00 - Intro & Just Chatting

0:20:04 - General thoughts on the Game Awards

0:33:20 - Talking about the Game Awards awards

0:44:06 - Game Awards trailers and stuff

1:05:05 - Indie Game of the Week - Europa (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2214880/Europa/)

1:07:21 - Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

1:14:39 - A Little To The Left

1:17:47 - How To Say Goodbye

1:23:33 - The Last of Us (TV Show) official trailer thoughts

1:29:25 - Call of Duty is coming to Nintendo (apparently)

1:32:48 - Days Gone wasn't a hit because reviewers were too "woke", director claims

1:38:04 - Diablo IV developers allege mismanagement, crunch and disturbing creative decisions in new report

1:51:02 - FTC is suing Microsoft over Activision Blizzard deal

1:53:50 - Games Out This Week

1:55:29 - OpenCritic Head-To-Head (High On Life)

1:58:53 - Fantasy Critic update

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