Metaverse Reverie

Most of this week's episode is taken up by discussion on the most recent wave of harassment and controversy.

The luminary, artist, and friend Dominick Rabrun joins us for a sit down session of gab. Dom's known for his work on Dom's Sketchcast and, most recently, on Hip Hop RPG.

Aleks has a fireside chat with artist Jack Cooke, formerly of Firaxis games. We discuss his experiences working at the venerable game studio, game jams, project scope, growing up with and without technology, and all sorts of other stuff.

This week, we begin the discussion with Heavy Rain and episodic vs. long form experiences, continue on to more L.A. Noire and Assassin's Creed, and then transition into some dark and soulfully confessional Dark Souls confessions. It gets pretty real.

Aleks and Arie celebrate their fourth episode (making for a full month's worth of delicious content), and discuss replaying old classics, and exploring new ones. They also spend a fair chunk of the podcast gushing about Divinity: Original Sin.

Join Aleks and Arie on a horrifying and exciting thrill ride as they battle through legions of rabid spiders and face their darkest fears.

We take an extra half hour as Aleks gushes and raves about The Secret World, and somehow manage to find the time to discuss the Steam Summer Sale, the problematics of impulse buying and digital media "ownership," solipsism, and the ephemeral nature of life.

Our inaugural episode is here, and it's chock full of Aleks and Arie's profound insight and puckish mischief! This week, we discuss various aspects of Watch Dogs with the aid of a brilliant Multimedia Sandwich analogy (and go on a fair number of tangents).