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2023-07-19 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-19 03:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to another rousing rendition of Sacred Symbols x Defining Duke, our recurring Sacred Symbols+ subseries that we bring to you each month. This week, the five co-hosts of Sacred and Duke join for a lengthy episode about a topic most of you are clamoring to hear us cover: Microsoft's near-complete acquisition of Activision. Now, anything can happen -- as of the time we recorded, Microsoft and Activision were negotiating an extension to their deal after nearly running out the clock -...
2023-07-19 03:06:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-17 21:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Please welcome Matt Stoller to Sacred Symbols+. Stoller is director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project, an anti-monopoly thinktank. Already renowned in political circles -- Politico describes him as "a unique blend of historian, analyst, organizer, and carnival barker for... progressive antitrust revivalism" -- he's recently come to the attention of the games industry due to his unabashedly outspoken opposition to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, a purchase potential...
2023-07-17 21:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 133 of Defining Duke.
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2023-07-17 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to Constellation! For the first time in our brief run so far, Colin is in fact not joined by Dagan (who's away with his son at Boy Scout camp), instead welcoming in a trio of people from the Last Stand stable as opposed to merely a duo. This week, our guests are executive producer Dustin Furman, associate producer Ben Smith, and coordinator Micah Watson. As usual, the topics are varied. Dustin wonders if we consider ourselves frugal -- or even cheap! -- and where one draws the li...
2023-07-17 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-16 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Which handheld is best for you? That's a question we haven't really been able to ask ourselves since the early 2000s with the likes of the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PSP. However, there has been a renaissance of sorts with handheld gaming and who better to bring in than Jimmy Champane of Deck Ready to talk all things modern gaming handhelds? From Valve's Steam Deck to ASUS' ROG Ally and even Logitech cloud based handheld, we discuss our respective experiences across all these devices ...
2023-07-16 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-15 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to Sacred Symbols+! It's been a while, so Chris Ray Gun is back with a mailbag! What game is universally acclaimed but does not click for him? What are the best and worst Spider-Man video games? Where are the best places to eat in NYC? Will Chris sell his car to a listener?
2023-07-15 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-14 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sony finds itself in a pickle, or so it seems from the outside. With ever-burgeoning development costs comes the reality that new IP is an increasingly-risky endeavor. The safer and more reliable route, it could be argued, is in doubling-down on what works. And let's be real: Guerrilla-developed Horizon works. The two core games have sold 33 million units combined across PS4, PS5, and PC. The question, though, is how much does Horizon work? Could a good thing become a bad thing through simple...
2023-07-14 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-13 16:02:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, it’s finally happened. Since January of 2022 it has been an absolute bloodbath, but now we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to the Activision Blizzard deal. With the FTC vying for a preliminary injunction that would effectively lead to the death of this deal, the two opposing forces did battle in court. Following Microsoft's victory, the FTC has moved to appeal the decision as this saga continues. As the July 18th deadline quickly approaches, it's very ...
2023-07-13 16:00:11 +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, July 13th at noon ET to submit.
Talk to you soon!
2023-07-12 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-12 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Please welcome Roman of the Russian gaming podcast SplitSkrin back to the show. Roman first appeared on Sacred Symbols+ in the Spring of 2022 (Episode #197), and I (Colin) invited him onto the show to discuss what's happening in Russia from a gaming industry perspective. I'm having him back more than a year later to talk about how things have evolved, and our conversation breaks down the four major platforms' varied realities on the modern Russian market. Between embargos, sanctions...
2023-07-12 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostYo!
Chris will be recording a mailbag for an upcoming episode of Sacred Symbols+!
You know the drill: Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas to Chris, and as always, pithy and well-written submissions have the best chance of being used. Walls-of-text and poorly-written submissions are ignored!
Please submit your questions before Wednesday, July 11th at 1 PM EST.
2023-07-11 17:21:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-11 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to another episode of Punching Up! Nintendo has a spotty history of backwards compatibility. We've seen examples where they went above and beyond, like on the Wii with GameCube backwards compatibility, but also completely left the prior console behind, like NES to SNES. However, the world has changed, and we have a glimmer of hope that Nintendo is changing with it. Recently, during a shareholder's meeting, it seems like Nintendo intends to bring our accounts forward with their "n...
2023-07-11 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-10 23:06:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Let us gather once more for an all-new episode of Constellation, Last Stand's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by Punching Up co-host Gene Park and Defining Duke co-host Lord Cognito. Based on a tangent occurring just last week on this very show, Cog wants to talk about our interpretation of the so-called moral compass, and how we conduct ourselves when it comes down to honor and honesty. Meanwhile, Gene is curious about the neighborhoods we grew up in, from...
2023-07-10 23:05:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 132 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, July 12th at 5 PM ET to make...
2023-07-10 17:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostYo!
Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this week's episode of Punching Up in this thread.
Note: Dagan is away at this week with his family!
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.
You have until Mond...
2023-07-09 16:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-09 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The great American author Cormac McCarthy recently passed away at the age of 89. In his decades as a writer, he penned a dozen novels, and we've actually covered a couple of them on this show in the past: The Road (Episode #78) and No Country For Old Men (Episode #233). In ode of such an inspirational and talented creator, we thought we'd thumb through what many consider his finest work, Blood Meridian. Written in 1985 -- before McCarthy was a truly known literary quantity, but nonetheless we...
2023-07-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-07-08 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Ahoy Everyone, Mama Micah here! I’m back for another mailbag and we’ve got some fun inquiries to ramble about. Today, we’ll dive into a variety of topics: how did I get into grilling/smoking? Do I ever replay old games? Why is the boat from Wind Waker so hot? We’ll even talk about Subway! Grab your oven mitts and a chimney of charcoal, you’re gonna need it!
2023-07-08 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post