Podcasts about gamehounds

Streamed live on Nov 5, 2023 — Edie's back and whole, and now we can get back to talking about news.

Streamed live on Oct 1, 2023 — Last Week for Edie!!! Next week: Nick gets spooky.

Sep 24, 2023 - Oh man. That leak of Microsoft documents! So many interesting revelations -- and contradictions of what Phil et al have said in public! Let's talk about it!

Good lord, can't anyone make a decent f#%king game, lately? I know the pandemic was bad, y'all, but seriously... what the frick? Anyway... Redfall reveals more bad news, Suicide Squad delayed a emeffin' YEAR... and in shocking, North Dakota is apprently the the tech hub of the United States. Who knew?! Edie and Nick wrap the week's news.

  The title is a little misleading... we won't be talking about fart jokes the WHOLE time. We also have the roundup of news, including Naughty Dog's apology for the Last of Us Part 1's PC port, the return of an OG Dragon Age dev to the team, and the unofficial final curtain for E3.

So much bad news coming this week. First, we have Studio Wildcard doing everything it can to completely piss off fans, and then we have Monster Energy drink suing indy devs because they think they own the word "Monster."

Nick and Edie are in person and reviewing this week's news.

Yaaaaa... that happened.

If you didn't know any better, you might think there's trouble at Square Enix. In one week they close.... uh, make that "absorb"... the Forspoken studio and boot their CEO. Strange things are afoot at the Circle S.

This week, do you say "It's a live service game" without saying "live service"? Well Rocksteady Games showed us how, and the gaming world HATES it. Microsoft attempts to blunt the whole "CoD monopoly" holding up their Activision buyout in the most cynical way possible. And E3 is not dead; it just smells that way.

We are late!

The epic saga of Wizards of the Coast's complete bumbling of their brand was like an epic screenplay, with the little guy winning. But is this win really the end of the battle? No. Absolutely not.

Nearly every day last week we've had new developments in the DND OGL firestorm. The latest moves put Wizards of the Coast on the back foot, but the damage is done. We discuss whether it can be repaired as well as why this probably isn't a win for a community but a tactical retreat for WotC.

Lots of news: First and foremost, Wizards of the Coast learned very quickly that games can be made (and broken) by consumers, Chinese government will soon have a controlling interest in many game studios, and Skull & Bones once again fails to make it's scheduled landing, leaving us to wonder if this boat will ever get to shore.

It's slow days for news, but that's when all the crazy stuff bubbles to the surface. Another studio gets bought up by another international conglomerate, January's free Amazon Prime games, Steam Awards 2022, and the strange tale of Microsoft losing its ever-lovin' mind in a court filing.

Yes, we're hungover... Well... Edie is. But we have two weeks of news to catch up on. Epic hit with a massive judgement, gamers sue over the Microsoft-Activision acquisition, and C-suite departures from Activision. Yes, there's more than Activision in the news, but when there's a shitshow, lean in.

It's been a really, REALLY weird week. Elon Musk loses his mind, launches a new Twitter service, and it (predictably) goes off the freakin' rails. Then we find out this Control title is not a spin-off but a sequel. Then Ubisoft says Prince of Persia isn't cancelled, but they refund all the preorders. We're livin' in CRAZY TOWN!

There's rumors afoot and they all come down to The Game Awards in December. Also, check your Destiny 2 version; you may be playing "the wrong one."

We're back and ready to rumble. We dish the dirt over Bayonetta's voice actress calling for a boycott of the title, Brazil approving the ActiBlizz buyout, and how some of the shittiest people on consoles actually HELPED People Can Fly.

We knew there seemed to be more to the story of Bayonetta 3 and VO actress Hellena Taylor, and there very much was.  

Yes, V Rising is free to play this weekend and we have another chapter in the Bayonetta 3 Shitshow... do we need a new banner? Also, Games with Gold and PSPlus free games for November, and Modern Warfare 2 proves why disks are dead.

It's one thing to shut down your service; it's a whole other to say it's not shutting down, signing contracts with developers, and then shutting it down and not letting people working for you know until they read it in the news. That's just evil. On the plus side, one of the more evil people in games just lost her job. Sayonara, a&*hole. And Twitch launches a new feature that is THE STUPIDEST THING EVER!!!

This week we see if Nick has softened at all about Stardew Valley and Edie revisits The Forgotten City for a more complete ending. We also cover news, including Ubisoft Forward announcements, Sony's displeasure at the CoD contract XBox offered, and all the mobile cashgrabs... er, I mean, games... announced this week. Our Discord: Our Patreon: Our Website:

APOLOGIES: AFTER THIS SHOW MY HARD DRIVE MELTED DOWN. FIVE SHOWS COMING THIS WEEK. STORY IN A FUTURE EPISODE. This week, Edie and Nick discuss the news, including Edie's review of The Forgotten City, Ubisoft confirms "Assassin's Creed Mirage" leak is real, what's staying and leaving from PS Plus and Game Pass, and how some Diablo Immortal whales were put in tens of thousands in debt by Blizzard.

If this is real, this is a heeeeelll of a big leak for GTA. Like Half Life 2-big. But we also recap what happened at this week's Call of Duty Next and Nintendo. Oh, and Shaaaaaawwwwn!

We talk an arrest in the GTA 6 leak and how it had a surprisingly good side-effect, how a big content creator destroyed his career with one tweet, and all the other big news of the week. We also review Pillars of Eternity 2 and Hellpoint.

We've got two weeks of news stored up, and it's ready to blow! Price hikes everywhere on hardware AND software, Amazon may -- or may not -- be purchasing EA, Gamescom reveals some (but not many) surprises, Nintendo's squeeky-clean image may be just that... an image, and WHAT THE FUCK IS MARK ZUCKERBERG DOING, FFS??!!?!?

Kojima takes a shot at Konami on PT's eight-year anniversary, and the fight between Sony and Microsoft over the Activision sale is getting juuuucy. Get your popcorn!

So many things that aren't dead yet this week. And some that are. Beyond Good and Evil is apparently, not dead. Playstation accolades is. And the Guilmot family being part of Ubisoft... that's a bit up in the air. Edie and Nick chat the news.

It's a massively news-filled week. We have release dates for God of War Ragnarok and Skull and Bones, we have new gameplay videos for both, and we have a cautionary tale about checking your damn facts before you tweet (Sorry, Hideo Kojima. This just sucks.)

Sometimes you just gotta call out the idiots. Electronic Arts puts it foot firmly in its mouth by insulting fans (and by extension, developers) of single-player games. And we have a special guest host, Mr. Maynard, who offers up a extensive and detailed review of the Steam Deck. 

News: Skull and Bones re-reveal coming soon, Bungie files suit against DMCA takedown fraudster, and the Diablo Immortal five-star-gem struggle is so much more real than you could ever imagine.

It's a holiday weekend, and honestly, we are elsewhere. We apologize for being so behind schedule on uploading. We will be dumping the last three shows all at once. Sorry to do this to you. Last time; we promise.  

The summer E3-legacy season is here, and sooo many games to cover. Plus huge announcements in tech for Game Pass and Switch. We apologize for being so behind schedule on uploading. We will be dumping the last three shows all at once. Sorry to do this to you. Last time; we promise.

It's a month of "days." Steam Summer Sale, XBox Summer Game Fest, Amazon Prime Day. So much dealzzz! Also.. ahem... DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 IS REAL! We apologize for being so behind schedule on uploading. We will be dumping the last three shows all at once. Sorry to do this to you. Last time; we promise.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that with tall the cash being flung about like a stripper's cleavage, EA would be thinking of taking a turn on the pole. Who are they talking to? And could this really happen? Edie and Nick debates the likelihood of somebody makin' it rain for EA.

We got some bad (but arguably good) news that Starfield is now delayed until 2023. Why this doesn't make us angry at all. But with its departure, things on XBox are now... really weird.

It's been yet another crazy week, with yet another major studio acquisition. Embracer Groups buys Square Enix studios and IPs, and with all the latest sales, it's no surprise the feds are starting to look hard at them. Also, Nvidia gets slammed with a multi-million fine for hiding how much cryptomining has been a part of their GPU sales. Edie & Nick cover it all.

When is a 30-day pass not a pass for 30 days? When Sony converts your pre-paid PS Plus voucher to its new PSPlus system. Edie and Nick cover that and the rest of the news of the week.

Edie and Nick cover this week's news, including a sordid story of impersonators shutting down dozens of Destiny 2 streamers by exploiting YouTube's appallingly lax DMCA takedown process, causing Bungie to file suit. A can of whoop-ass has just been opened.

It's Easter for Edie and Nick, but fortunately for you, we workship at the altar of video game news. We discuss the latest developments in the Activision Blizzard shitshow.

Yeah, we could talk about games (and we will) but the big news is the recently unveiled PlayStation Plus program that's, in theory, supposed to hit XBox where they live. Will it?

Andrew is back this week, so we have three chairs and lots to talk about. We discuss Chivalry 2's free weekend, the skeevy cash-grab that is Grand Tourismo 7, buckets of donations raised for Ukranian relief efforts (and more coming), and Andrew's pro-gaming childhood (whatup...).

Edie and Nick today, and we're talking news, including how the ESA says it's still doing E3 despite cancellation reports and a new freebie for PS4 users from Apple TV.

Edie, Nick, and (maybe) Andrew cover this week's events, including a new Activision lawsuit that provides more details about events leading to the DFEH charges, gaming journos strike and nobody covers it, and more companies boycott Russia (while others inside Ukraine scramble).

Or, as we like to call it, the Holiday DrunkCast.

We have a show. This is a thing. Holidays suck.

GameHounds 621: NO SHOW

Edie's back in the USA and Nick is... well, he's just Nick. We talk Battlefield 2042's bad Santa, free games, and what at shitty, shhhhiittty company Take Two has proven itself to be.

It's Edie's last show from Iceland, and between the darkness, the cold, and the lack of sleep, she's gone just a tad nuts.