Player Ready Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Here’s your friendly reminder that the nice people over at Epic are giving away two top tier games for free right now. You will need nothing more than an Epic Games Store account and patience as the games download. You can find both titles, For Honor and Alan Wake, here. We gave For Honor 8/10 in our review way back in February 2017. “For Honor joins Rainbow Six Siege, Overwatch, and Destiny, as a game that is destined to grow over time,” said Jim. “Right now it offers a strong core experience, but will ultimately be defined by months of rebalancing and a steady flow of new content. Having such a long tail will make For Honor even more enticing further down the line as it continues to snowball. That said, it’s refreshing and addictive enough at present to lure in anyone looking for a multiplayer game that defies the norm.” Epic have been throwing money at the Store in an attempt to break Steam’s monopoly and recently announced that they would cover any refunds for dissatisfied backers of Shenmue III and any other crowdfunded games that go exclusive to the store. Tetris Effect, Twim Mirror, Heavy Rain, Control, Metro Exodus, and the final season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead are all exclusive to the store and other games are expected to follow including selected releases from Ubisoft. Rebellion CEO and co-founder Jason Kingsley said he would need a “bloody good reason” to make their future games Epic Games Store exclusives but they have decided to do just that for the upcoming Zombie Army 4. Generally I think I would prefer not to do exclusives but I understand Epic’s position with it, and quite frankly they are paying through the nose to build their store,” Jason said. “We’ll take some of their money, thank you very much,” he added. Source: Epic
It’s been a while since we’ve played host to a good old fashioned podcast, and so today we’re proud to release the first episode of Player Ready Podcast, a new show dedicated to the developers and the people behind the games that we know and love. Playing host to this is a name and a character that some of you may be familiar with: BigWelshMike (the artist formerly known as bunimomike). He has a terrible affliction of not being able to shut up. People go about their day, minding their own business and next thing you know, he’s won them over with his dulcet tones and they find themselves spilling their life story to him within moments. It’s both alarming and possibly a bit wrong, but we felt morally bound to help this poor soul so, we’ve stepped in and decided to rescue the general public by giving him someone to talk to in the games industry. Two someones, in fact. So relax and listen to Mike chatting with Phil and Oli from Ghost Town Games – better known as the sadistic swines behind the Overcooked series – as he sifts through the torturous machinations of this devious couplet, their history as game developers and more. You can listen in a variety of different ways, but please note it will take a little time to proliferate through some of these services. Grab the MP3 file here (right click to download). Subscribe with any good podcasting app and the RSS feed. Subscribe through iTunes. You can also leave us a review, if you want to be particularly nice. Listen through Acast. Find us on Spotify. Subscribe through Stitcher. Make sounds happen through TuneIn. And finally, listen through our audio-only YouTube videos with this episode embedded below. You can also find us on Twitter, if you want to say hello.
Since childhood, video games have delighted me and millions of others around the world, and my curiosity for getting to know the industry and the people that the people that made these wonderful games for us showing no signs of abating. So join me, BigWelshMike (the deep, booming voice formerly known as bunimomike), for Player Ready Podcast. Episode 1 will feature Ghost Town Games, the small indie studio behind the devilishly charming Overcooked, where developers Phil and Oli chat with me about their journey so far. You can grab the MP3 file for this intro here (right click to download). Subscribe with any good podcasting app and the RSS feed. Subscribe through iTunes. You can also leave us a review, if you want to be particularly nice. Listen through Acast. Find us on Spotify. Subscribe through Stitcher. Make sounds happen through TuneIn.