The Scrapyard: A Blizzard games fan podcast: Recent Episodes
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A big new year for Hearthstone. Unquestionably biggest yet. So The Scrapyard gets some Hearthstone specialists together to talk shop. Demon Hunters. Outland. Priest reworks. Ranked ladder changes. New / returning player experiences. And lots more! Come share our excitement at what's coming next for Blizzard's fantabulous digital card game.
Seamus is joined by Stirling Coates (@stirlingcoates) and Kosta Andreadis (@toadovsky).
We talk about why we're not angry, we're disappointed, when it comes to Warcraft 3: Reforged – but how the issues with the remake don't mean it's a terrible game. And how we hope there's light somewhere at the end of the tunnel. And speaking of tunnels, how about that coronavirus? It comes up not once, not twice, but in THREE different aspects of Blizzard news this week.
Plus somehow we talk way too much about the movie Outbreak. Kosta seems to really, really love it.
Check out Kosta's Warcraft 3: Reforged review here:
https://www.ausgamers.com/games/warcraft-3-reforged/review/
Find Kosta via @toadovsky
Find Seamus via @seamus
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This week we've got Seamus, Zhiana and Kosta together to dig into some of the juicy details delivered by the Diablo team in the February quarterly update. So many details!
While Diablo is on our mind we also take a look at Season 20 for Diablo 3 and some of its cool new features, and we ask that age old question - what is the actual deal with Diablo Immortal at this stage?
Finally, a spoileriffic look at the conclusion to the Year of the Dragon in Hearthstone and a look at the WoW Classic Phase 5 timing news and what that might mean for running out of content sooner than we thought?
Find Zhiana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zhiana
Find Kosta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/toadovsky
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All the key news links:
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23308274/diablo-iv-quarterly-update-february-2020
https://us.diablo3.com/en/blog/23319442/season-20-begins-313-2-28-2020
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/upcoming-content-unlocks-for-wow-classic/456077
Seamus and Zhiana catch up after a long break to find they've been two sides of the WoW coin – getting a lot done in Retail and Classic. So this return episode goes deep on recent WoW efforts, from the grind to 60 and raiding in Classic, to cleaning up Allied Races and mount hunting in Retail. With diversions galore along the way, of course!
If it's not too late, here's Spirit of Eche'ro info for your hunt!
https://www.wowhead.com/item=131734/spirit-of-echero
Catch Zhiana via: @zhiana & https://instagram.com/itszhiana
Catch Seamus via: @seamus & https://instagram.com/seamusbyrne
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Dave Jansen stops by to dive deep on 8.2 and the state of the raiding scene just as Mythic Eternal Palace gets set to drop. With a fresh Race To World First kicking off, we look at the controversy around Method and Red Bull falling out, wanting to see more guilds being involved, and what we hope the right way to run this all might be.
Plus we enter a big old rabbit hole around the lore of the expansion and where we think, and where we hope, things will take us as we head toward the next expansion.
Find more of Dave's stuff at his Twitch channel: twitch.tv/lactv
Find Seamus on Twitter: @seamus
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It's just you and your old pal Seamus, recapping and catching up on all the latest Blizzard news from recent weeks. Enjoy!
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HCT Worlds recap w/ Stirling Coates from The Roar
Recapping the key moments and crazy action from the Hearthstone World Championship in Taiwan. With special guest Stirling Coates, esports writer for The Roar who was there at the finals in Taipei.
Check out Stirling’s great daily recaps here:
https://www.theroar.com.au/2019/04/26/five-takeaways-from-day-1-of-the-hearthstone-world-championship/
https://www.theroar.com.au/2019/04/27/did-day-2-of-hearthstone-worlds-show-us-how-to-solve-control-warrior/
https://www.theroar.com.au/2019/04/28/short-preparation-time-claimed-its-first-hct-victim-on-day-3/
https://www.theroar.com.au/2019/04/29/hunterace-matured-and-grew-over-the-four-days-of-hct-thats-why-hes-the-world-champion/
And find him on Twitter here: @stirlingcoates
And find all the HCT World Championship VODs on the schedule / results pages here:
https://playhearthstone.com/en-gb/esports/tournament/hct-world-championship-2019/?matchInfoTab=1&eventTab=0#MatchInfo
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Overwatch shoutcaster Genome is back to catch up on all the latest Overwatch news. We explore the state of the meta, the Contenders S1 finals at Intel Extreme Masters Sydney, and the upcoming Pacific Showdown and what that means to Overwatch's Path to Pro promise. Plus Overwatch League, Overwatch World Cup, and Overwatch, Overwatch, Overwatch.
Find Genome on Twitter: @GenomeGG
Catch his Contenders coverage at https://snowballesports.com/
A fun chat with Zhiana, a great cosplayer and part of the Geek Bomb brigade, about all the latest developments in World of Warcraft. What have we been up to? What are we hoping for in 8.2 and where the story will go next? Why did Seamus make a Dark Iron Monk? All this and plenty more random Warcraftery so tune in and catch up.
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Liv Breeden is part of the initial design team, so she works on concepts and ideas from their earliest stage and prototyping, while Stephen Chang is in Final Design, so he’s all about perfecting ideas, making sure they’re well balanced, and bringing the final package together.
From concept to finished cards, with a particular deep dive into the evolution of Twinspell, we explore some of the latest arrivals in the newest set, Rise of Shadows, as well as the general art of creating cards for the game. Wait ’til you hear how excellent their concepting tools are! That should be a game all its own…
This week I popped into the IGN studio to get face to face with Cam Shea and geek out about all the latest news around Hearthstone. We dive into the Year of the Dragon, the Specialist esports format, the Rise of Shadows announcement and the idea of a whole story threading through the year ahead. Plus how important this year's rotation is as well as those early Hall of Fame moves.
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Over at IEM I caught up with two of the Aussie casters covering all the action from the Starcraft stage. Usually we only ever get one of these great Australians calling on the world stage at a time, so it was special to be able to catch both Jared 'PiG' Krenzel and Leigh 'Maynarde' Mandalov behind the scenes on the other side of the world.
The guys were great to squeeze me in between Starcraft quarter-final calls, so we were catching up backstage from the great Spodek Arena. And that's why there's a lot of noise in the background.
We explore the state of Starcraft esports, being Aussies behind the casting desk and sharing the stage with a very international line up of talent, and plenty more about what's on their minds.
PiG on Twitter: @x5_pig
Maynarde on Twitter: @MaynardeSC2
Seamus on Twitter: @seamus
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I touch on the big, bad news out of Blizzard from last week to kick things off, then the show is a feature interview with Countdown 2 Classic podcast host, Josh Corbett.
Here's a couple of his episode links to shows he said were good places to start if you're not catching his show already.
Josh Recommends...
Episode 63 - John Staats interview
Episode 84 - Warriors
Episode 85 - Paladin PvP
His Twitter: @Count2Classic
His Website: CountdownToClassic.com
Find Seamus on Twitter: @seamus
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Dazar’alor and the amazing race to world first; Mekkatorque has a stunning mount drop; Year of the Pig is everywhere; Hakkar wants to infect you with a cardback; Heroes community esports is heating up; Starcraft vs DeepMind was not a fair fight; and Overwatch patches and OWL All-Access fun!
Luke Lancaster, Content Manager at ReedPop (ComicCon, PAX Aus) is our awesome guest host along with a Seamus having a very bad microphone day.
Find Luke via: @lglancaster on Twitter
Find Seamus via: @seamus on Twitter
And lots more at byteside.com!
Here’s some links mentioned in the show.
Method kills Jaina
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/375490246?t=06h39m26s
Method’s Jaina kill reaction video is everything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu_561AV6Eg
Mekkatorque mount drop (Farm this mount until forever please) https://www.wowhead.com/item=166518/g-m-o-d
The Corrupted Blood incident on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
Ars analysed the Starcraft vs AstroStar situation
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/an-ai-crushed-two-human-pros-at-starcraft-but-it-wasnt-a-fair-fight/
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We’re back for 2019! A delay after a fractured collarbone, but we’re here once again, starting off with a quick update to look at the big picture of 2019. Blizzard had a tough end to last year and there’s no question that this year will be very important - what can they come up with to get their mojo back?
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Another Hearthstone focused episode as Rastakhan's Rumble launches! Decks we're lusting after, experiments we're planning, and what we're hoping for from the Rumble Run when it launches next week.
Follow Seamus on Twitter: @seamus
Find our guest Jay Cagatay on Twitter: @jayktweets
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With Rastakhan's Rumble going live on December 4 we're lucky to have Hearthstone Creative Director Ben Thompson in town and I got to sit down with him to talk about the game. From arriving at Team 5 as the first artist on the team with the job of making a prototype digital card game look good, through his hopes for how fans react to any new expansion and how he feels about a surge in competition out there, we get into some interesting turf on his philosophy on doing Hearthstone the right way. Plus a concluding as I make him pick favourites from Hearthstone history, it was a really fun chat and I think you're going to really enjoy what Ben has to share.
Find Seamus on Twitter: @seamus
Check out our other show: Jetpacks Are Overrated!
Genome is back to help dive deep into all things Overwatch, and we explore all the recent big events - Overwatch World Cup, new OWL teams (and their colour schemes), all the movements of Aussie players around the global scene, and Contenders S3 kicked off this week so we take a close look at what to expect there too.
All that and a run down on the latest news across Blizzard games - lots of great deals for anyone looking to lighten their bank accounts!
Follow Genome on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/genomegg
Follow Seamus on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/seamus
Check out the big sales at the Blizzard Gear store while they're hot:
https://gear.blizzard.com/
Catch up on the Overwatch Contenders schedule:
https://overwatchcontenders.com/en-us/schedule
Check out the Runaway shirt Genome mentioned in the show:
https://www.harum.io/products/custommansion-overwatch-runaway-sweater-light-pink
And get the details on the Heroes of the Storm bundles:
https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/22764999/new-items-and-limited-time-discounts-2018-11-19/
A short episode while I'm travelling for work, so I'm sharing a personal tale of the role World of Warcraft played in helping me to lock down a career in tech journalism.
Got your own story of a game that changed your life? Share it.
Email: scrapyard@byteside.com
Tweet: https://twitter.com/seamus
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It's our post-Blizzcon wrap up, with a fast and loose exploration of all the big news from the show.
Luke Lancaster, Content Manager for PAX Australia and Oz ComicCon, joins Seamus to talk about all the nostalgia service coming soon to Warcraft, the magic of Ashe and B.O.B. - and Custa on Torbjorn! - and, yes, the Diablo Immortal fallout. Plus Serral makes history, Hearthstone's ready to rumble, and the unique new hero for HotS.
All that and plenty more.
Find Luke on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/lglancaster
Read Luke's comic, The Badguys:
https://www.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/the-bad-guys/episode-1/viewer?title_no=701&episode_no=1
Find Seamus on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/seamus
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It's a final round before Blizzcon 2018, exploring the ways you can watch the big event, and when to tune in for the Aussie esports action. Plus a last blast of speculation before we find out what's really lurking behind the curtain on Saturday morning at 5am.
This week Seamus is joined by Tegan Jones, Deputy Editor of Gizmodo Australia, and Fergus Halliday, Editor of PC World Australia and the Good Gear Guide.
Find Tegan:
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/
https://twitter.com/Tegan_Writes
Find Fergus:
https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/
https://twitter.com/Cvamped
Find Seamus:
https://twitter.com/Seamus
Instagram: @seamusbyrne
Share your thoughts!
Email: scrapyard@byteside.com
One week to go before BlizzCon! Last week we covered off the state of Overwatch, Starcraft and Diablo in the lead up. This week we cover off the rest of the best.
In this show we're talking to shoutcaster and analyst Vandie about Heroes of the Storm, cosplayer and Geekbomb Zhiana about WoW, and Editor-in-Chief of IGN Australia, Cam Shea, is having a chat about Hearthstone.
Here's our guests on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/vandie_
https://twitter.com/zhiana
https://twitter.com/jazzebration
Get in touch with The Scrapyard!
Email: scrapyard@byteside.com
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https://twitter.com/seamus
The biggest event on the annual Blizzard games calendar, Blizzcon, is right around the corner. So to kick off The Scrapyard, we're taking a close look at all six games in the stable to think about the year so far and what we expect from the big show.
This we're talking Overwatch, Diablo, and Starcraft. Featuring shoutcaster Kale 'Genome' Morton, games industry stalwart Giselle Rosman, and streamer and caster Jared 'PiG' Krensel.
Find our guests via Twitter
https://twitter.com/genomegg
https://twitter.com/jazzrozz
https://twitter.com/x5_pig
Get in touch with The Scrapyard!
Email: scrapyard@byteside.com
Tweet Seamus
https://twitter.com/seamus
And here's a link to that article I mentioned was appearing at GOAT:
https://goat.com.au/video-games/the-diablo-4-anticipation-is-getting-so-out-of-handgame-c-blizzard-had-to-step-in-to-calm-us-all-the-hells-down
Start your engines. The Scrapyard is coming soon!
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