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Rick "The Hadou" Thiher -- General Manager of EVO and the founder of ComboBreaker - joins the show to talk about the logistics behind planning the biggest FGC tournament in the world, the nature and popularity of fighting games, the business of esports and a whole lot more!
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0:00 Intro
2:20 Planning EVO in a post COVID world
4:20 EVO as a convention
9:49 How did the FGC avoid the esports franchising model?
12:15 How do you choose what games will be at EVO?
16:29 Are fans committed to games or their own favorites?
17:40 The Nintendo Question
19:10 How has venture capital money changed the esports space?
22:14 Lessons from grassroots to scale in event planning

26:55⁠ The Future of EVO

⁠29:15⁠⁠ The PLG Interview Question
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Learn about the history and story behind the making of one of the Playstation platformer classic: Spyro the Dragon

In a new episode of [a conversation with], Solo is joined on the show by Osama Dorias, the Lead Content Designer at Blizzard, to discus a range of topics on gaming and diversity! •• 0:00 What game are you playing now? 5:00 The evolution in gaming development and testing 22:08 What makes you prefer video games to other mediums? 26:50 How did you get into gaming? 35:30 Representation and Diversity in Gaming 49:00 Advice for people who want to get into the gaming industry 59:45 Favorite game of all time 1:01:20 What's one piece of art you'd love to see made into a video game?

After a three year hiatus, Solo and Lilo reunite to take a look back at all the top gaming stories of 2022 & make a few speculations on what to expect in gaming in 2023 | - 0:55 call of duty league, esports future in trouble? 5:05 bayonetta (?) scandal  7:55 Netflix in gaming  13:20 Google stadia and cloud gaming 18:40 G4 shutdown, why isn’t there money in gaming media  19:30 FTC/ Activision blizzard, modern monopolies and competition in gaming  24:00 how gaming fits into unionization movement  29:50 Halo  34:30 EA loses fifa  35:47 steam deck  38:40 gta (Slow year in gaming, impact of Cyberpunk, but idk if really separate topic)  40:35 top games of 2022 47:17 2023 predictions (man lilo is obsessed with breath of the wild isn’t he)

Learn the brief yet informative history behind the childhood FPS we all got to play — LASER TAG •••  Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/peoplelikegames  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peoplelikegames • Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/peoplelikegames 

In a new episode of Story-Mode, Solo shares the history and story behind the making of one of the greatest video games of all time | The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker! • Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/peoplelikegames • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peoplelikegames •  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/peoplelikegames