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Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 13: Analyzing Resident Evil Village's Leaked Contract w/ Hoeg Law (Video)

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Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 13: Analyzing Resident Evil Village's Leaked Contract w/ Hoeg Law

For the first time, we are able to see what goes into drafting up a contract for the likes of exclusivity on a console, DLC exclusivity, and so on. Richard Hoeg of Hoeg Law joins this episode to analyze the leaked contract between PlayStation and Capcom. Curiously, it prevents Resident Evil Villa...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 91: Challenging Colin III (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 91: Challenging Colin III

It's that time again! Come tell me (Colin) how wrong I am. I dare you! On this adversarial episode of +, listeners challenge me, my opinions, views, and thoughts on all sorts of topics: My Trophy obsession, why I think PlayStation 5 should have been delayed, the financial cost of gaming, my ...

KnockBack, Episode 168: South Park (Bigger, Longer & Uncut) (Video)

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KnockBack, Episode 168: South Park (Bigger, Longer & Uncut)

South Park rages on even today, but it was during a more embryonic stage in the mega-franchise's history that we got its one and only film: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Released to theaters in the summer of '99, South Park's movie foray is basically the length of three regular 'ol episodes, but pr...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 147: Phoenix Down

Let's face it: It's been a pretty dour few weeks in PlayStation Land. That's why it's such good news that -- this week -- things are far more positive. For starters, Sony has wisely reversed course on its intent to close the PS3 and Vita digital stores down this summer. They also recently entered...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 147: Phoenix Down (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 16: What The Hell Is Happening Between Xbox & Nintendo? (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 16: What The Hell Is Happening Between Xbox & Nintendo?

Xbox’s executives have earned a reputation for teasing upcoming announcements in the background of their set-ups. This week, the games continued with a Nintendo Switch appearing in the studio during Microsoft’s Game Stack event. The boys sit down to investigate! In other updates throughout th...

Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 12: How Xbox Game Pass Impacts Game Developers (Video)

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Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 12: How Xbox Game Pass Impacts Game Developers

Mike Rose of No More Robots (Descenders, Yes Your Grace, Hypnospace Outlaw, and more!) joins this week's Defining Duke Ultimate to tell the story of how Xbox Game Pass has impacted the games his publishing label works on. What kind of financial deals are struck for developers and how do the natur...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 90: The Woke Infection

For millions, gaming was (and still is) an escape from the real world, where we can put away our daily troubles and concerns and be someone else, somewhere else, doing something else. So why does it seem like so many people who don't like games, those who play them, or the ecosystem everythi...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 90: The Woke Infection (Video)

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KnockBack, Episode 167 | The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (film) (Video)

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KnockBack, Episode 167 | The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (film)

Way back in 1954, JRR Tolkien released the first of three seminal books that are referred to colloquially as "the trilogy," but that is otherwise collectively known as The Lord of the Rings. And, believe it or not, it took decades for this wonderful fantasy franchise to see life on the silver scr...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 146: Recharted

We know it seems like everything is on fire recently, but does that feeling match reality? On the back of explosive reporting concerning Naughty Dog, Bend Studio, and an unacknowledged (by Sony) second team in San Diego, PlayStation fans are left questioning just what's going on with a company th...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 146: Recharted (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 15: Is PlayStation Pushing People To Xbox?

So, we're an Xbox and PC show. You've read the title, you know this. However, a large chunk of the audience write-ins were reflections on the Don Mattrick era and PlayStation's major shifts that have dragged Xbox into a favorable position. I thought for this episode it would be fun with a slower ...

Defining Duke, Episode 15: Is PlayStation Pushing People To Xbox? (Video)

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Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 11: Gears Of War Ranked

It’s that time again! A popular Xbox series is being ranked and this time it’s Gears Of War. Joining Matty is one of his close friends, Trex, a Gears Of War nut! From the mainline series, to Tactics, and maybe even Pop, we’d love your questions, comments, etc. on the series and what is your...

KnockBack, Episode 166: Freaks and Geeks (Video)

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KnockBack, Episode 166: Freaks and Geeks

Some television shows come along that are way ahead of their time, and Freaks and Geeks -- which ran for a scant 18 episodes between 1999 and 2000 on NBC -- is one such program. That's especially ironic, of course, since it's actually about the past. Taking place in 1980 and 1981 in and arou...

Sacred Symbols+, Episode 89: Sending Out an SOS (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 89: Sending Out an SOS

A new report from Bloomberg has us reeling, so much so that we decided to record (and release) Sacred Symbols+ some four days early (you're welcome). Here's the rub: It appears that the secret San Diego-based PlayStation team we've been talking about for a couple of years has indeed been working ...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 145: Green Monster

Sony's arch-rival Microsoft is beginning to make key moves that directly encroach on PlayStation's turf. Nailing down MLB: The Show 21 -- a game Sony itself develops -- as a day-one Game Pass offering is the ultimate insult. Worse yet, the swings are coming in hot from two directions: Their corpo...

Sacred Symbols, Episode 145: Green Monster (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 14: Xbox & Bethesda's Big E3 Show Has Major Potential (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 14: Xbox & Bethesda's Big E3 Show Has Major Potential

E3 was one of the victims of the pandemic, but with a new digital strategy in place, it will be making a return in June of 2021. Xbox will be attending and Bethesda will follow them up leaving a lot of opportunities available to make a major impact. Will Xbox ditch their CGI trailer ways of the l...

Vita Means Death

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You’ve all heard the somber news by now: PlayStation Vita will be a storeless husk (drama!) beginning in late August. It sucks. We’re really bummed about it. Over at Lillymo, we even had ...