What's Good Games: A Video Game Podcast What's Good Games
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Join Andrea Rene, Brittney Brombacher and Riana Manuel-Peña as they analyze the week's video game news, give hands-on impressions of upcoming titles, discuss your questions, and have a little bit of "off-topic" conversation. With over 30 years of video game industry experience, the conversation is sure to be insightful and passionate, but never takes itself too seriously.
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GDC 2024 with Alexa Ray Corriea
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Andrea sat down with WGG Alum and Writer Alexa Ray Corriea at the 2024 Game Developers Conference. They chatted about the GDC Talk Alexa gave, some of the cool narrative tools she saw on the show floor, and so much more. Andrea also got the chance to chat with Abubakar Salim, the Creative Director at Surgent Studios about his game Tales of Kenzera: ZAU.
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Thank you to this month's Super Producers:
Bored Ape Gamer’s Club
Faris Attieh
Joshua Franklin
Justin Foshee
Punkdefied
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Time stamps:
00:00:00 - On the Floor from Game Developers Conference 2024
00:01:58 - Ideas for Talks at GDC
00:03:45 - New Tools for Narrative Systems
00:05:31 - Amy Hennig's Exciting Project
00:07:35 - Excitement for 1943: Rise of Hydra from Skydance New Media
00:09:32 - Unreal Engine's Powerful Tools for Game Development
00:11:28 - Supporting Developers in a Tough Industry
00:13:19 - GDC and Connecting with the Dev Community
00:15:14 - Tales of Kenzera: ZAU Interview with Abubakar Salim
00:17:12 - Learning the Language of Game Development
00:19:04 - The Rewarding Moments of Creation
00:20:52 - A Personal and Connective Gaming Experience
00:22:47 - Following Your Passion in Game Development
00:24:34 - GDC Talks: Writing Authentic Characters in Apex Legends
00:28:15 - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Spoilercast Tease
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Rise of the Ronin Reviewed: A Fun Mixed Bag
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Andrea and Britt have been playing Team Ninja's new samurai open world action RPG Rise of the Ronin. The latest PS5 exclusive published by Koei Tecmo and PlayStation brings a whole new (open) world to Team Ninja slate with a bevy of gameplay elements. Is their combat-focused new title too ambitious, or just the right balance?
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Timestamps:
00:14 - Koei Tecmo's Team Ninja's Rise of the Rōnin
01:47 - Gameplay
01:58 - Storyline
10:41 - Skill Trees
11:32 - Narrative
15:32 - Open world map
16:37 - Traversal mechanics
26:20 - Unlocking the longhouse?
31:18 - Framerate
32:50 - Technical Issue
36:01 - Character development
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Fortnite's Poseidon is...Sexy?
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Andrea and Riana are excited that Summer Game Fest is coming back in June 2024! In the news: Stig Asmussen opened a new AAA studio, Activision QA workers unionized, a new Super Mario Bros movie is coming, and Warner Bros. is delisting video games. The new season of Fortnite is upon us and Riana is having a blast with the new Myths & Legends weapons...and is *very* excited about Poseidon and Korra.
Thank you to this month's Super Producers:
Bored Ape Gamer’s Club
Faris Attieh
Joshua Franklin
Justin Foshee
Punkdefied
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Timestamps:
02:36 - Summer Game Fest 2024 dates and livestream announced!
04:13 - Day of the Devs 2024
07:18 - Stig Asmussen left Respawn to form Giant Skull
11:42 - Break 1
11:55 - 600 Activision QA workers unionize with recognition from Microsoft
13:18 - A New Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Officially in Development
15:52 - Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles
21:06 - The 2nd annual Ablegamers Gala
22:49 - Break 2
24:07 - Fortnite Myths & Mortals
28:03 - Avatar: The Legend of Korra coming soon!
36:43 - Brandon Sanderson's new secret book!
39:22 - GDC & Pax East next week
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DUNE: Awakening Preview
Andrea is joined in studio by Riana and special guest Naomi Kyle! She talks about her new show "This Week in Gaming" and discusses the news of the week including: Xbox Partner Preview recap, WB Games focuses on live service games, Yuzu Switch emulator shutting down, and more. Andrea has first look at upcoming survival MMO Dune: Awakening to kick-off hands-on. All the ladies are loving their time in Helldivers 2 and Naomi recounts some fond memories of Final Fantasy.
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Punkdefied
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Time stamps:
0:00 - Start
00:55 - Naomi Kyle is back! Plus she's got a new podcast called This Week in Gaming!!
04:54 - Xbox Partner Preview March 2024
06:41 - Unknown 9: Awakening
11:28 - Creatures of Ava
12:51 - Sinking City 2
13:03 - Roblox: Griefville x Chuckie
13:18 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
14:21 - Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
15:41 - Warner Bros. Discusses "Volatile" AAA Console Games, Will Lean Into Free-To-Play And Mobile
21:16 - Break 1
21:27 - Baldur's Gate 3 is getting a physical Deluxe edition
22:21 - MLB The Show 24 unveils Road to the Show: Women Pave Their Way
23:57 - Steam is going to let you hide the games you don't want your friends to see
24:50 - Nintendo shuts down Yuzu Switch emulator
28:35 - CEO of Twitch Open Letter
32:01 - Rooster Teeth Is Shutting Down After 21 Years
38:02 - Break 2
38:07 - Preview: Dune: Awakening
46:38 - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
53:44 - Helldivers 2
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Pokémon Legends Z-A Explained
Pokémon Presents means deep thoughts from Britt to kick off the show! DocBrook and Riana join Andrea to discuss the multitude of industry layoffs, a long awaited update is coming to Stardew Valley, and Remedy buys rights for Control. DocBrooke chats about her time in Tekken 8, Riana is loving Helldivers 2, and Andrea really wants you to go see Dune Part 2.
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Timestamps:
01:06 - The Spawnies 2024
02:15 - The Danny and Riana Show, New Podcast!
02:51 - Women's History Month
03:24 - WGG is migrating from Patreon to Supercast
05:01 - What's DocBrooke been up to?
08:06 - Pokémon Presents February 2024 with Britt
19:18 - Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket: Announcement
23:02- Break 1
23:18 - Sony Interactive Entertainment, EA, and SuperMassive Layoff's
32:52 - Call of Duty veteran announces new studio BulletFarm
34:16 - Stardew Valley: Update 1.6 gets March 2024 release date
37:22 - Remedy Entertainment buys Control series rights from 505 Games
40:06 - Break 2
40:12 - Tekken 8
46:55 - Helldivers 2
51:19 - Fortnite x Lady Gaga
53:24 - Avatar: The Last Airbender Live-Action
57:20 - Dune: Awakening Survival game coming next week!!
57:34 - Dune Part 2 Movie
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Helldivers 2 is HELLA FUN
Andrea and Britt chat about the Xbox + Nintendo news, new details from FromSoftware on the upcoming Elden Ring DLC, and more. Britt has been loving her time in Helldivers 2 while Andrea got reacquainted with her favorite airplane game Grindstone.
Thank you to this month's Patreon Producers:
Bored Ape Gamer’s Club
Faris Attieh
Joshua Franklin
Justin Foshee
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Time stamps:
04:24 - Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase
05:29 - Xbox Games Pentiment and Grounded Confirmed for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation
05:36 - Hi-Fi RUSH comes to PlayStation 5
08:46 - Endless Ocean Luminous
09:43 - Nintendo Switch Online Adds Battletoads In Battlemaniacs, Blast Corps, Killer Instinct, & more
10:40 - Epic Mickey: Rebrushed is Coming in 2024!
13:03 - Monster Hunter Stories Is Coming To Nintendo Switch
13:10 - Unicorn Overlord Demo Available Now
13:29 - ATLUS Umumkan Shin Megami Tensei V
14:07 - World of Goo 2
14:57 - Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Launching in October
16:01 - Another Crab's Treasure
21:06 - Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC
21:38 - South Park: Snow Day!
22:16 - Princess Peach + Luigi's Mansion 3
22:23 - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
23:01 - Break 1
23:17 - Mother 3
27:03 - Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree is FromSoftware's "largest expansion” Ever
32:41 - Xbox's Hi-Fi Rush is coming to PSS on March 19
33:51 - Fortnite Festival Season 2 Adds Lady Gaga!!!
37:50 - Break 2
38:00 - Helldivers 2 Video game
46:38 - Grindstone
49:16 - Andre’s and Britt's thoughts about the Borderlands trailer
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