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Hello Enthusiacs!There have been a string of bruising stories in the industry lately, and we have community management specialist Chris back to discuss the issues at ArenaNet, Riot Games, and Telltale Games.

Hello Enthusiacs! It’s finally time, just before Life is Strange 2 we have the long teased crossover with Judge Greg, and Nick from Gamers Without Borders to talk all things Life is Strange. Is Max the worst? Did Rachel Amber live up to her billing in Before the Storm? Is Chloe a good person or not? What do we think about Captain Spirit? Why does Judge Greg find angsty teen girl drama so compelling? We hit on all that and more! Spoilers ahead, you’ve been warned! Also, Hooray, BTL Radio is over 50!

Hello Enthusiacs! After the last episode, I spoke with Dave Guilland (I may not pronounce it right, but at least I can spell it right), the writer for the Extra Credits episode on QA, and he agreed to continue the discussion with Judge Greg and myself. I am always up to discuss testing, so we dive back into the topic here, get some insight into the how the QA episode of Extra Credits was made, and as always share a few fun work stories. Also of note, with this episode, depending on how you count it, Behind the Line Radio turns 50! Woo!

Hello Enthusiacs! I wrote about the Extra Credits QA video already, but I felt there was more to discuss, and that the topic lent itself more to a discussion format than an article anyway. With that in mind, I got Judge Greg to come on to take another swing at the topic of QA and our thoughts on the Extra Credits video.

Hello Enthusiacs! It has been mentioned here and there for a long time, but it is finally here. Kynetyk and Vega Goose have played through Killer7. This special presentation of BTL Radio is the recap and analysis from that experience. If you would like to see the video of the play through, you can find the whole playlist at the Enthusiacs youtube channel.

Hello Enthusiacs! This week we welcome a very special guest, long time industry veteran Jason Kaehler joins to discuss the Battlefront 2 debacle, and a lot of the implications with it. From loot boxes, gambling, monetization, game prices in general, and the changing nature of game sales the conversation covers a lot of ground. I think we even hit on PVP matchmaking in there.

Hello Enthusiacs! Judge Greg and Bill are back again to discuss the differences between games and movies, this time focusing on presentations of mental illness. It is a difficult subject, and each medium brings different tools and strengths to the table.

Hello Enthusiacs! This time Nick and Jeff discuss the shutdown of Visceral by EA in detail in their usual unusual way. As more background information of what happened comes out, it seems the "no more single player" initial reaction was more than a little off the mark. How bad were things going at Visceral, anyway?

Hello Enthusiacs! Today we welcome Warren to BTL Radio to discuss the crossroads between marketing and analytics that is User Acquisition, including exactly what is it, what role does it serve, and how does it work.

Hello Enthusiacs! The topic of toxicity in gaming is going to be with us for a while. There are a few levels that this can be approached from, and today we start our conversation off talking about how a particular game community can go toxic, and how good community management can reduce the toxicity. Chris comes back as a follow on to the last episode as we start off with the recent news from Jeff Kaplan having attempted to address the impact of community toxicity on Overwatch developers, and their comfort interacting with the players.

Hello Enthusiacs! Another day, another Youtube controversy. This week we welcome community expert Chris back to join our sequel discussion to managing Personality as a product. From PewDiePie, to former Googlers putting themselves in front for a tone deaf headline for their company Bodega, we wade back in and dig deeper into the implications of these events.

Hello Enthusiacs! After an unintended hiatus, behind the line radio is back. Kynetyk details his adventure to see there solar eclipse in totality, and then he and Baron Fang discuss recent headlines including a piece from polygon about crunch that sparked a backlash, the secret of Mana remake, and the SNES classic repeating the availability word of the NES classic.

Hello Enthusiacs. This week we return to the topic of Analytics. Last time in episode 37 we discussed a lot of terms and definitions, technical considerations and so forth. This week we dig more into the effect that this can have on the game design. Steve joins us to talk about this, and we discuss some of the baffling ways that this can play out. Also, Baron Fang gets a better answer to one of the questions he asked earlier about analytics intelligence vs design.

Hello Enthusiacs! After way too long talking about it, we've finally got a guest on to talk about analytics. John (not the same one as an earlier episode) was kind enough to join in and talk about a number of general concepts that go into business analytics, and concerns around it. This is a big topic, so there will be more guests on it in the future, that's for sure!

Hello Enthusiacs! This week Kynetyk and Baron Fang discuss the news coming out of that wretched hive of hype and marketing: E3. There is a lot to go over, so we discuss the 5 major food groups: Bethesda, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.

Hello Enthusiacs! Tekken 7 is out and being a big fan, we start off the show discussing that. However there has also been a lot of news coming out over the past few weeks.  Looks like I picked a hell of a time to miss a week. From the Switch game service developments, to Steam Direct news, and more crammed into this hour. And that is after we cut half of what we had planned to talk about. And, if anyone wants to play Tekken on PSN, hit me up. My ID is Kynetyk. Hopefully a direct match will get around the match making issues.

Hello Enthusiacs! Valve has been making some tweaks to how they present their Steam Customer Support information, so we brought Blake back to discuss the new information Steam is sharing and to put it in context for everyone else.

Hello Enthusiacs! Lorenzo returns to discuss the changes coming to Steam Greenlight, namely the coming replacement Steam Direct, and as usual looking at it from an angle that most coverage does not take. After that, we also discuss localization again, given the news of a localizer demanding his name be removed while arguing against cultural adjustments, over the wishes of the developer it seems.  Lorenzo caps us off with a story about how he got into the industry, with some advice for people wanting to enter the industry.

Hello Enthusiacs! This week I finally decided to rant on the tools used on testing, including one particular pain in my backside... Fortunately Baron Fang helped to keep the conversation from devolving into frothing madness.

Hello Enthusiacs! This week we have Damon back to join Baron Fang and myself to discuss the topic we touched on last time Damon was here, what goes into sunsetting a game.

Hello Enthusiacs! GDC 2017 is in the books, so this week we welcome engineer Damon joins Baron Fang and yours truly to discuss what the professionals get out of GDC, why we have it, and some more about what goes on there.

Hello Enthusiacs! GDC is around the corner, and with it perhaps the most prestegious game awards show. Baron Fang joins us to discuss the Game Developers Choice awards and the IGF independant game awards. Also, we talk about the off beat Ctrl.Alt.GDC entries, which apparently includes an arcade machine that could have come from a cartoon show.

Hello Enthusiacs! This week we have a pair of guests, and a pair of topics, making this behind the line squared!

Hello Enthusiacs! At long, long, long last, The Last Guardian has been released.

Hello Enthusiacs! Our guest this week is Stephen, who works at a third party QA agency.

Hello Enthusiacs! This week we have Marco back to discuss a few smaller news stories, and to discuss the possibilities for VR in the future.

Hello Enthusiacs! The Nintendo Switch is finally revealed. Does this excite you? Are you not entertained? What is Nintendo trying to do with this handheld, console hybrid? Should we call it a hand-con?

Hello Enthusiacs. We have all heard about projects getting stuck in development hell, and sometimes we spare a thought for the people working on those projects.

Hello Enthusiacs! In this overdue edition of Behind the Line Radio, Marco joins us to talk about his experience at E3 this year, both as an attendee, and from manning a booth this year.

Hello Enthusiacs! This week we discuss review scores with Judge Greg.

Hello Enthusiacs! I have returned to the airwaves, and have a new guest for you. Eric, a video game engineer, comes to talk crunch time, Alex St. John, industry trends, and the causes of these trends.

Hello Enthusiacs! This week we have a jumbo sized BTL Radio as Judge Greg comes back to discuss his experiences at PAX East last weekend. Greg came with reams of notes for a plethora of games to talk about.

Hello Enthusiacs! If there was one constant at the GDC awards shows this year, it was Her Story.

Hello Enthusiacs! Today, our announcer Dave joins us to discuss the process of localization. Of course a voice like that would know a thing or two about the challenges of communicating, right?

Hello Enthusiacs! SuperCell has the mobile games industry abuzz with their new game Clash Royale, currently in Softlaunch.

Hello Enthusiacs! Sometimes we have news stories that are big and can take a long time to discuss, but sometimes there are other stories that are worth discussing, but do not take so long.

Hello Enthusiacs! This week Kynetyk welcomes competitive Street Fighter player DJ to the show to discuss the recent purchase of Major League Gaming by Activision.

Hello Enthusiacs! This week, Kynetyk and Bill discuss Don Bluth, old arcade games, physics, the development of animation in the computer age, and political fundraising.