This week Brad is joined by Dustin and Colin and talk Animal Well, Metal Gear Solid, Sker Ritual, and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:39:40 - Animal Well
1:09:40 - Metal Gear Solid
1:42:11 - Sker Ritual
2:02:18 - Keep It Up/Sort It Out
3:03:34 - Ninja Gaiden Sigma
3:27:15 - Stellar Blade
03:36:34 - Ending Questions
2024-05-21 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-20 16:01:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. This week's chat is packed to the brim with fun topics, so gather around the water cooler! Kicking off the discussion, Cog wants to commiserate about "that dude", aka that person in our lives that we just can't seem to gel with. Inevitably ,we all have that one incompatible coworker, neighbor or friend of a friend that we'll probably never click with, and is it us or them? (Spoilers,, it's probably t...
2024-05-20 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Pop a coin into a nearby vending machine, take a seat, and join us for a lengthy chat all about Stellar Blade, the new Sony-published PlayStation 5 game from South Korean studio Shift Up. It's me (Colin) writing this, but taking up today's hosting mantle is none other than Summon Sign's Brad Ellis, joined by familiar faces Dustin Furman, Gene Park... and myself. So, we've all beaten the game and lived to tell the tale. But what did we think of the experience? There's a lot to get to...
2024-05-18 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-18 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-17 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Jim Ryan's tenure leading PlayStation is officially over (as is Hiroki Totoki's stewardship), and he'll be replaced by a co-CEO format moving forward. Sony veterans Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nashino hope to divide and conquer, turning an ever-growing brand -- and Sony's flagship -- into an efficient gaming powerhouse. But can they deliver? Good question. We discuss. Other news this week revolves around Sony's jam-packed fiscal year financials, Square Enix's abandonment of their by-platfor...
2024-05-17 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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The dust has settled since Xbox closed four different Bethesda studios. Many expected the team to go into hiding as there is no good answer for this outcome, but they did the opposite. Xbox President Sarah Bond showed up to a Bloomberg interview and gave a mind boggling non-answer that has sent this already wounded fanbase into another outrage. Naturally, the Dukes dive into this as well as your many questions about how the optics have shifted for the Xbox business moving forward. We also div...
2024-05-16 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-15 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Nintendo recently presented their yearly financial results and set a new net profit record. In fact, the Switch era has been more profitable than 1981 to 2016. With that, there’s lot riding on the transition to the “Switch successor”. Join us as we discuss the financial results, the upcoming June Direct, and much more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:09:30 - Paper Mario gut check
0:28:11 - Nintendo Financial report
1:19:38 - Square Enix Multiplatform appr...
2024-05-15 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This week Brad is joined by Lock and Jimmy Champane and talk V Rising, Crow Country, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:12:57 - Quick Xbox thoughts
0:26:21 - V Rising
0:44:47 - Crow Country
1:00:28 - Kingdom Come Deliverance (contains early game spoiler)
1:24:23 - Sort It Out/Keep It Up
1:52:36 - Wasteland 3
2:11:01 - Unicorn Overlord
2:24:53 - Persona 3 Reload
02:45:59 - Ending Questions
2024-05-14 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-14 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 176 of Defining Duke.
Great ways to get your write-up used: Be pithy, be topical, and be insightful. Walls-of-text, posts littered with poor grammar and punctuation, etc., are promptly (though respectfully) ignored.
As this is an Xbox podcast, be sure your submission makes sense within that realm. You have until Tuesday, May 14th at 1PM ET ...
2024-05-13 17:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostYo!
Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this week's episode of Punching Up in this thread.
As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc. are politely ignored.
You have until Tuesday, May 14th at 9:00 AM ET to submit.
Talk to you soon!
2024-05-13 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s time for another episode of Constellation, welcome back to the discussion! This week, Colin gets things started by sharing an unbelievable tale of grand adventure featuring his dogs, Treble and Rush. Do we all create intricate and possibly fictional back stories for our pets like Colin and Micah do? Next, Dagan wants us to quiet our minds with some talk about meditation. What are the potential benefits of embracing the ancient practice of TM, and is it worth exploring what all the hype...
2024-05-13 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello,
This week Lockmort and Jimmy Champane will be my guests.
Games this week include:
Brad - Crow Country, Unicorn Overlord
Lock - Kingdom Come Deliverance, Wasteland 3, and Persona 3 Reload
Jimmy - V Rising
Send in your thoughts, ideas, comments, and questions. Always taking fun warmup questions and Sort it Out and Keep it Up as usual. I'll also be talking to my guests about the recent Xbox news if you want to submit something for that topic.
Please welcome legendary games writer, designer, and director Ken Levine to our show. Today, Ken joins me (Colin) almost a year after our last conversation on Sacred+, and now that his upcoming title Judas has been more thoroughly shown-off to the world following its announcement back in '22, he's able to chat more openly. Obviously, we focus quite a bit on Judas itself, and all that surrounds it -- "narrative LEGO" and generation ships and the like -- but we also get into a variety of other ...
2024-05-11 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-11 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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What a week! It seemed like we were just done recording last week when Helldivers 2-related drama broke out, and yet by the time we were ready to record this time around, the situation had mostly settled. How serendipitous for us and our analysis. Now, we're left to reflect and ask some questions, starting with why Sony had to push the first domino in this scenario over at all. Couldn't they just leave well enough alone? And how does this portend the reception of future PC releases from the P...
2024-05-10 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-09 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A nightmare year for Xbox continues. The latest chapter in this story is Xbox's shuttering of four Bethesda studios in Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, Roundhouse Studios, and Alpha Dog Games. The message is clear that the experimenting days of Xbox are done as the strategy deployed by its leaders continues to fail. The focus is Call Of Duty, Fallout, DOOM, and other high profile titles while the future of surrounding creative studios like Obsidian, Compulsion, Ninja Theory, and others have un...
2024-05-09 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-08 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the rub: I (Colin) recorded an episode of + with Ken Levine. However, because of the nature of our conversation, I am allowing Ghost Story to vet the episode first (just like the last time he appeared), and this will take some time. This left us without an episode for this past Saturday, which I subsequently recorded on-the-fly with Brad, and which we posted that evening. However, this in turn interfered with when Dagan and I typically record KnockBack, and because he's now workin...
2024-05-08 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 175 of Defining Duke.
Great ways to get your write-up used: Be pithy, be topical, and be insightful. Walls-of-text, posts littered with poor grammar and punctuation, etc., are promptly (though respectfully) ignored.
As this is an Xbox podcast, be sure your submission makes sense within that realm. You have until Wednesday, May 8th at 3 PM ET to make your submission.
2024-05-07 17:18:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-07 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode Brad is joined by Matty and Micah, and talk Sandland, Hellbalde: Senua's Sacrifice, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and more!
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:33:29 - Sand Land
0:58:50 - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
1:12:19 - Xenoblade Chronicles 2
1:46:26 - Keep It Up/Sort It Out
2:28:07 - Smite 2 Alpha
2:38:49 - Stellar Blade
2:53:03 - Ending Questions
2024-05-07 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-05-06 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post