Facebook bought Oculus Rift this week for $2 billion. That’s weird. Also James gets into Titanfall, Simone gets into some pixelated piracy and Paul revisits Little Big Adventure. Lots more game talk and some rocking crowd funding projects await those who dare to listen.
Crowd Funding Picks
Ben: Serpent in the Staglands
Simone: Cosmochoria
James: Choice Chamber
Paul: Still Alive
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If you love something set it free… and then promptly forget about it. I don’t even remember what I was doing in the first place.
Next Week: Top 5 Mining Games
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James is back from GDC and boy is he sleepy. Paul plays some Luftrausers, James gets Bravely Default and Ben watches more Youtube videos of Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze because that’s how he rolls. New VR gear, game engines, Assassin’s Creed, Gauntlet, Simulated bears and all other sorts of things are included.
Crowd Funding picks
Ben: Chaos Reborn
James: The Red Solstice
Paul: The Seed
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Embrace the despair of Dark Souls 2, the destruction of Titanfall, the sadness of The Dragon Cancer, the hard reality of This War of Mine, the confounding shapelessness of Dominique Pamplemousse and the fractions of Frog Fractions 2. All this and more as Simone joins us for our most devastating episode ever!
Crowd Funding Picks
Ben: Duelyst
Simone: Dragon Fin Soup
Paul: Frog Fractions 2
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Why is no one ever impressed by my ability to travel forward in time? I bring technologies from the recent past! Why is nobody amazed? I lost an entire weekend in the time well for nothing.
Next Week: Top 5 briefly burning fires
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Professional handsome man Rob O’Hara joins us to talk South Park: The Stick of Truth, Batman: Arkham Knight, Hotline Miami, Mad Max and some of the most controversial crowd funding projects we’ve seen since the last ones. Oh and did we mention Bronies?! Because we have now!
Crowd funding picks
Rob: Kill the Bad Guy
Ben: Axe Princess
James: Garage Online
Paul: The Unearth Initiative
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I hope you’re not too buzzy to enjoy the best ever episode of Eight and a Half Bees! There’s a hive of exigent in as the boys bumble about seeking the flower of enlightenment on the subject of bees in videogames!
Next week: Top 5 Games with Time Travel!
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What is going on with 3DRealms? I feel like I’m going crazy here! Paul gets chilled out with Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, Ben is Banished and James plays some more MMOs or something (more ESO and FFIVX). Throw in some news attack and crowd funding and some epic disappointment in the general reaction to Lords of Shadow 2 and you’ve got a podcast. This one!
Crowd Funding Picks
Ben: Tulpa
James: Gunscape
Paul: Toby’s Island
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