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2023-09-13 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-13 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's me, Colin! Based on the surprisingly voluminous and positive response Cog and I received after we posted Sacred+ 318 -- Health Is Wealth -- I figured I'd double-down with an 'ultimate' episode dedicated to wellness in the gaming space. Thus, I invited two people to our show that represent the yin and yang of holistic well-being: Walt Chambers and Michael Pekin. I interviewed them separately and stitched our chats together for one big punch. Walt is the founder and lead designer of an int...
2023-09-13 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-11 16:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Rejoice, Forza Bros! The Dukes have played a few hours of Forza Motorosprot on Xbox Series X and we have some thoughts. Could these two racing casuals find some love with the more hardcore side of racing games? Join us as we stumble our way through cars, racetracks, physics, and more!
2023-09-11 16:03:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-11 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for Constellation! This week, Punching Up co-hosts Gene Park and Micah Watson join the Brothers Moriarty for Last Stand's conversational podcast. As usual, topics are varied. Micah wants to discuss homesickness, how it's affected us in the past, and whether we long to go back to where we come from. (Naturally, such a personal topic veers widely into parallel conversations.) Gene chronicles his years of social media activity, and wonders whether such wide exposure has been a net posi...
2023-09-11 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 141 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.
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2023-09-11 15:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-09 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Please welcome friend-of-the-show Sandeep Rai back to Sacred+. This is Sandeep's third appearance around these parts, and he returns packing a new Kickstarter that I (Colin) think will appeal to a great many of you. It's called RPM: The Unofficial Retro PlayStation Magazine, it's a print mag aiming at a quarterly release schedule, and each issue comes packed with 60 pages of retrospectives, impressions, reviews, interviews, and more concerning Sony's storied history in the games space. PlaySt...
2023-09-09 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-08 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hollywood's labor problem may not be an isolated event in the entertainment industry for much longer. A recent press release from actors union SAG-AFTRA indicates that their members will vote to authorize a strike upon further negotiations with 10 major entities in gaming, including the likes of EA, Take Two, and even Sony-owned developer Insomniac. After all, the guild represent voice and performance actors in many of our favorite games. Yes, the consequences for not getting a deal...
2023-09-08 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-07 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Starfield is now out for everyone! While last week was more of a review discussion, this time around we are diving into the scuttlebutt surrounding the conversation. While there's a lot of talk about other's reviews, the most important one is your own and thanks to Starfield being a Day 1 Game Pass game, it's never been easier to get involved. The Dukes dive into the infamous 7/10 reviews hailing from major outlets such as IGN and GameSpot. Is it worth all the frustration Xbox fans are facing...
2023-09-07 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this week's episode of Sacred Symbols in this thread.
As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc. are politely ignored.
You have until Thursday, September 7th at noon ET to submit.
Talk to you soon!
2023-09-06 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-06 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It wasn't entirely clear how PlayStation Productions would or even could execute on a watchable, interesting, and quality film rendition of Gran Turismo. After all, the license was first optioned more than a decade ago to no avail. But by leaning on a compelling plot rooted in the deep history of GT and its emphasis on realism, the powers-that-be made the undoable doable. The Gran Turismo movie tells the tale of a gamer-turned-racer named Jann Mardenborough, a dedicated series player who was ...
2023-09-06 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-05 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Nintendo surprised us all this past week by giving us a deep dive into the highly anticipated new game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder. With details about new characters, game mechanics, and locations, there's a lot to look forward to. Is it possible that Nintendo could have another Game of the Year contender? Also, this week, there's a new NES-style Rugrats game coming, and unfortunately, the Suikoden remasters have been delayed. As always, we love to take your questions and comments as well. Why ...
2023-09-05 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 140 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, September 6th at 1 PM ET<...
2023-09-04 20:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-04 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Gather 'round for more Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by LSM executive producer Dustin Furman and associate producer Ben Smith. Ben would like to reminisce about our roommate experiences, recollecting the memorable people we've lived with in years past. Dustin wants to analyze the very meaning of the term 'masculinity' and explore why we sometimes employ such a narrow definition of the word. Dagan's topic delves into the p...
2023-09-04 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-03 16:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to KnockBack! This week, instead of focusing-in on a specific game, movie, TV show, or whatever, we thought we'd do another one of our reminiscing episodes instead. Thus, today, our focus is card collecting. At different stages of his childhood, Dagan collected Star Wars cards, Garbage Pail Kids, Wacky Packages, and even caught the Smurfs bug. Colin, meanwhile, went through three distinct card-collecting phases: Sports (baseball and hockey), IP (Marvel Universe and GI Joe), and o...
2023-09-03 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-02 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Dustin and Ben are back with another call in! For just over an hour, we took your questions over Discord. How would we want to see our favorite franchise come back? What's our history with consoles over the years? How do we manage our time between work, family and gaming? Would Ben prefer being called Benjamin? Enjoy!
2023-09-02 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostYo!
Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this coming week's episode of Punching Up in this thread.
Also, we are taking submissions for podcast games to play. Please include full questions and highlighted answers.
As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc. are politely ignored.
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2023-09-01 16:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-09-01 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For the first time since 2016, Sony has increased the price of its PlayStation Plus subscription, and the torches and pitchforks are out en masse. See, there's no doubt the increases are large -- $20 a year more at minimum is nothing to sneeze at -- but it's also important to assess what the service was when it launched in 2010 at $50, and what it's become today at $80 and above. Now's a better time than ever to truly assess what you even get out of PS+ to begin with; the answers people arriv...
2023-09-01 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-08-31 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post