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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 145: Vita Means Life (Video)

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Link to Vita Means Life Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52911390/vita-means-life 

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 145: Vita Means Life

There's no one in or around video games -- not even me (Colin!) -- that has shown the PlayStation Vita as much love as Sandeep Rai. That's why I absolutely had to invite him onto Sacred Symbols+, because I can count the number of people who love Vita more than I do on one hand. Thing is, Sandeep isn't a Vita expert. He's the Vita expert. In fact, he's written three books about the handheld, and his ultimate fourth book -- the hardcover, 400+ behemoth Vita Means Life -- is on Kickstarter right...

Defining Duke, Episode 49: Hellblade 2's Incredible Reveal + The Game Awards Fallout (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 49: Hellblade 2's Incredible Reveal + The Game Awards Fallout

In an episode chockful of time traveling, we breakdown all that transpired during the bemoaned Game Awards. It was advertisements galore, television, celebrities and movies aplenty, where you had a sneaking suspicion that Joel McHale was going to make a surprise return somewhere throughout. Despite all of this, we at least had games and many promising ones at that! Among those was the highly anticipated reveal of Hellblade 2's gameplay which many thought were pure cinematics. Indeed, Ninja Th...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 180: The Lame Awards

Have the Game Awards officially lost their charm? For as likable as Geoff Keighley is, this year's offering was a gratuitously advertisorial affair, and we simply have to call it like it is. What's the purpose of holding an audience captive for three hours, only to bombard them with commercial after commercial... other than bean-counting, of course? Still, through it all, it was still cool to see Quantic Dream's Star Wars: Eclipse, hear about Monolith's Wonder Woman game, get an official reve...

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KnockBack: December 2021 Primary Election

Hello!

As usual, we're giving you -- our beloved audience -- the opportunity to help select an upcoming episode of our retro and nostalgia podcast, KnockBack.

Here's what you do: Submit a single topic idea in the thread below, and then use Patreon's "like" system (which is a heart) to show support for others' submissions that you like. Near the end of the month, we'll round-up your answers and distill everything to the five most-popular choices, which you can then vote on.
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Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 45: PlayStation Game Pass Has Entered The Chat

Microsoft has long enjoyed the dominance of Game Pass with no real competition standing in its way, but it appears PlayStation may have something to say about this finally. In a solo episode of Defining Duke Ultimate, Matty digs into PlayStation's potential game plan involving a large catalog of games, a library of classics across PS1, 2, 3, and PSP, as well as the future of cloud gaming. All of this arrives via a leak from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier who got his hands on documentation describ...

Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 45: PlayStation Game Pass Has Entered The Chat (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 144: The Psychology of Gaming (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 144: The Psychology of Gaming

Please welcome Jacob Ignagni to Sacred Symbols+. Jacob is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska, where he's studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling. A major point-of-interest for Jacob is the intersection of games and mental health, and our discussion on + focuses on this nexus. We separate things into three categories: The black skies of monetization and retention, the fairer skies of escapism and economy, and the blue skies of literacy, problem solving, and acuity. For th...

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KnockBack, Episode 200 | Avatar: The Last Airbender (Season 1) (Video)

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KnockBack, Episode 200 | Avatar: The Last Airbender (Season 1)

Surprise! For our 200th episode, we decided to cover one of the most-requested topics from our audience since we began KnockBack some four years ago. Avatar: The Last Airbender came to Nickelodeon in 2005, and its first season immediately raised the bar of what could be expected from a 21st century Nick that helped define the previous 20 years of children and teen television content. Full of heart and soul, beautifully animated, and charming to the max, Avatar is undeniably appealing and...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 143: Award Shows Are Failing Us

Subjectivity brings with it a whole host of inherent quarrels. Indeed, fundamental to subjectivity is an understanding of the texture and nuance of things. In other words, there really isn't a right or wrong answer, because video games aren't math. Yet, in this industry, we're endlessly bombarded with scores and awards and this and that, all of which suggest otherwise. In the shadow of this year's Game Awards, it's all a little perplexing, especially with some notable absences on the Game of ...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 143: Award Shows Are Failing Us (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 179: Spartacus and Shock (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 179: Spartacus and Shock

This is a big episode of Sacred Symbols, so big that we've done the unprecedented: We've gone back and edited a half-day old podcast to incorporate some smashing news: Sony is indeed planning a rival to Xbox's Game Pass. It's codenamed Spartacus, and details are scarce, but we've obviously got to discuss what we know so far. Likewise, we have brand-new information about the upcoming BioShock game to chat about, including the 'anatomy' of how such a story is chased in the first place, and why ...

Defining Duke, Episode 48: Our Predictions For The Game Awards + R.I.P. Xbox FPS Boost

The Game Awards marketing showcase is soon upon us which means significant game announcements are inbound. Xbox fans in particular should keep a close eye on this show as Microsoft has made important reveals on Geoff Keighley's stage in the past such as with the Xbox Series X and Hellblade II just in 2019. Matty and Cog pick apart both the nominations for the popularity contest and possible announcements to be made in what should be a fun cap to the year. Let it be known that Dragon Age Origi...

Defining Duke, Episode 48: Our Predictions For The Game Awards + R.I.P. Xbox FPS Boost (Video)

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Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 44: Going To The Big Screen

Often times, video games and movies/TV have been best left separate. Both mediums failed to respect the source material provided whether it be a rushed movie tie-in game or a movie based off a game that never made sense to begin with. In recent years, we have spotted an uptick across the board in the collaboration of these two avenues of entertainment. Whether it is The Witcher that brought its now 6 year old game to new heights that no amount of marketing or game awards could bring it to or ...

Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 44: Going To The Big Screen (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 142: 15 Predictions For The 2021 Game Awards (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 142: 15 Predictions For The 2021 Game Awards

In a week and change, Geoff Kegihley's annual gala-type affair (once called The VGAs and now simply called The Game Awards) takes place. Within, we expect the usual: Lots of industry fart-sniffing, incestual voting, and the rest. However, there's an important component to the show that we care a great deal about: Game reveals and other pieces of important news. We've dedicated this episode of + to just that, each selecting five games we think will be revealed, expanded-upon, dated, ...

KnockBack, Episode 199: Forks in the Road

Choice A or Choice B? We're met with this conundrum over and over again in life, and yet, there are certain choices that are far more consequential than others. This episode of KnockBack is dedicated to such forks in the road, where two or more options are presented, and whichever choice you make will resonate far beyond that point in time, perhaps for the rest of your life. From jobs and living situations to education and the start and stop of relationships, these are 10 moments from the liv...

KnockBack, Episode 199: Forks in the Road (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 141: Tales of Arise Spoilercast and Review Discussion

Since its origin in 1995, the Tales series has been a consistent fan favorite of JRPG lovers. Unfortunately, the series never seemed to reach the mainstream appeal of titles like Final Fantasy. Now in 2021, it's clear Bandai Namco and the Tales team were ready to push the series to new heights with the release of Tales of Arise. With a much larger budget and marketing push, the title became the fastest-selling Tales game ever, with over a million copies sold in less than a week. With all eyes...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 141: Tales of Arise Spoilercast and Review Discussion (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 178: BioWhere? (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 178: BioWhere?

What happened to Electronic Arts-owned studio BioWare? Once the crown jewel of EA's family of devs, BioWare has experienced nearly a decade of consistent struggle, and now it's been hit with yet another punch: The loss of Dragon Age's Creative Director, seemingly on not-great terms, injuring a game that's already been in development for some six years. Needless to say, BioWare is a shadow of its former self with no true identity, begging the question: Is it even worth saving at all? Plus: Oth...