Breakout is a new podcast from The Escapist featuring Marty Sliva, Nick Calandra and KC Nwosu. Breakout is a freeform podcast show where Marty, Nick and KC will discuss whatever is on their minds that week, with a central focus on video games, tv, movies, books and even feature a craft beer taste test every few weeks.
This week on Breakout, we're talking all about the recent layoffs, which we believe indicates the live-service bubble has truly burst.
This week on Breakout, we're talking all about Spider-Man 2 and Mario Wonder, and how these are perfect examples of franchises done right.
This week on Breakout, we've been playing a lot of soulslikes lately and wonder where the genre goes from here.
This week on Breakout, we interview the development team behind Outlast following the release of their documentary to learn more about the franchise, and making horror games in general!
This week on Breakout, we discuss a bunch of different games we've been playing as 2023 continues to deliver hit after hit.
This week on Breakout, we discuss games that do difficulty in interesting ways.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the big Xbox leaks.
This week on Breakout, we discuss Lies of P, which is yet another fantastic game in a wave of great games over the past few weeks.
This week on Breakout, we discuss Starfield which seems to just keep getting better the more time you put into it.
This week on Breakout we discuss Sea of Stars, which has completely lived up to our expectations as one of the best indie games of the year.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the games we think have been overshadowed by major releases this year... so far.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the current discourse surrounding developers supposedly "panicking" over Baldur's Gate 3, and everything else we've been playing and watching.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the breakout success of Baldur's Gate 3, the musical indie gem Stray Gods, and we've put some time into Atlas Fallen.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the recent trend of a lot of older games suddenly getting revitalized.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the games that took a while to click for us, our closing thoughts on Final Fantasy 16 and anything else we come up with. You know the drill.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the games that blew our minds and wonder if that era of games is over.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the recent updates on the Microsoft acquisition of Activision, and what we think that will look like should the CMA approve it.
This week on Breakout, we discuss today's news and remember Xbox's great Summer of Arcade initiative.
This week on Breakout, we discuss today's Nintendo Direct showcase which signaled the Switch still has some life left in it before the inevitable follow-up console.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the Final Fantasy 16 demo, our thoughts on Summer Games Fest and more.
This week on Breakout, with the year at the half-way point, we discuss the current state of games and how over the last few weeks, things have really started heating up in a great way.
This week on Breakout, we discuss our predictions for what we'll be seeing during Summer Game Fest which starts next week.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the PlayStation Showcase - what we liked, didn't like and the noticeable lack of any news about first party studios.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the mess that is Overwatch 2 and frequent broken promises from publishers.
This week on Breakout, we discuss "console wars" and how they've been over for a long time now and people just haven't seemed to realize it yet.
This week on Breakout, special guest Tina Sanchez joins Marty, Nick and KC to discuss the launches of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Redfall, as well as other recent AAA games that have really just been unacceptable.
This week on Breakout we discuss Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Microsoft's latest hurdle in the ongoing Activision-Blizzard saga, and more.
This week on Breakout, we discuss the weird, old and dumb gaming trends that we wish would come back in some form.
This week on Breakout, we discuss our favorite video game mechanics, the news about Redfall only being 30FPS at launch, and whatever other topics come to mind.
This week on Breakout, we discuss how the Gamecube is finally getting the love it deserves in 2023.
This week on Breakout, we got some hands-on time with Dead Island 2, The Finals, Resident Evil 4 and more.
This week on Breakout, we're looking at the Starfield delay and what it means for the year going forward.
This week on Breakout, we're looking at how so many AAA games of late have cookie cutter design and are just utterly bland.
This week on Breakout, we're looking back at Elden Ring which launched one year ago this weekend and has now sold a whopping 20 MILLION copies.
This week on Breakout, we're discussing a bunch of games we've been playing including Wild Hearts, Wanted: Dead, Hogwarts and more.
This week on Breakout, we're discussing today's Nintendo Direct.
This week on Breakout, Nick has finally played and finished Death Stranding, 343 Industries is getting a reboot and we've been playing a lot of great games in January.
This week on Breakout we're taking a look at Games as a Service titles following the leak that yet another game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, has a battle pass included.
This week on Breakout we're taking a look at Games as a Service titles following the leak that yet another game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, has a battle pass included.
This week on Breakout we're taking a look at Sony's upcoming slate of games, with a focus on their big investments into new multiplayer games after years of focusing strictly on single player adventures.
This week on Breakout we're talking about our gaming plans for 2023.
This week on Breakout we're talking about our favorite games of the year for 2022.
This week on Breakout we're talking about Xbox, and how 2022 has been a very quiet year for the platform that's failed to instill much confidence despite all the investment and previous announcements made.
This week on Breakout we're talking about The Game Awards, which airs tomorrow!
This week on Breakout we're talking about video game adaptations in media, along with a discussion about the expectations of live service AAA games which have more often than not recently had really rough launches.
This week on Breakout we're talking about season passes and The Callisto Protocol specifically locking down content for a linear single player game...
This week on Breakout we're talking Elden Ring and the debate around its "Best Narrative" nomination at The Game Awards.
This week on Breakout we're talking about our early impressions of God of War: Ragnarök, Sonic Frontiers, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and more.
This week on Breakout we're taking about the price point of PSVR 2 and why we think it will be dead on arrival. We've also been playing a bunch of the latest releases, as our backlogs re-fill as we head towards the end of the year.
This week on Breakout we're talking about remakes following the announcements of the Silent Hill 2, The Witcher and more being remade. We'll also provide some recommendations on spooky games to play for Halloween.
This week on Breakout we're taking about the Silent Hill news that dropped today, along with some discussion about the closure of G4 and what we've been playing/watching this week.