Remap Radio

Welcome back to Worth Reading, where Patrick chats with people doing interesting writing, reporting, and criticism in the world of video games. This week, Patrick’s talking with longtime video game reporter Keza MacDonald, who is currently the games editor at The Guardian and, despite being a parent to several children, also the author of a new book about Nintendo. Is Nintendo a technology company? Why is “play” so important to the company’s longevity?

Make sure to check out Keza’s book, Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play, which is available wherever books are sold https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753986/super-nintendo-by-keza-macdonald/
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Where else to begin this week’s episode of Remap Radio than with the massive backlash to Nvidia’s big DLSS 5 announcement? Join Patrick, Chia, Rob, and Janet as they slop their way through a rare moment of unified horror on the internet. Plus, Patrick’s been playing Crimson “The Everything Game” Desert, Chia’s spent extended time with Pragmata, Janet’s already very deep into a Slay the Spire 2 rabbit hole, and more.
Links: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-heart-emergency-abroad
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft-ends-game-development-at-tom-clancy-studio-red-storm-resulting-in-105-job-losses/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dTTfjBAFzc
Discussed:
4:02 - Ubisoft Shutters Game Development at Tom Clancy studio
16:35 - The DLSS 5 Debacle
1:33:25 - Subnautica 2 Wrongful Termination Suit
1:39:05 - Crimson Desert
2:04:19 - Slay the Spire 2
2:27:38 - Minishoot Adventures
2:29:30 - Pragmata
2:44:42 - Marathon
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Rob sits down with Duncan Fyfe to discuss his piece on the lore and world building of Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and the tension that can form between developers and fans when there's competing visions on what a game's narrative and lore focus "should" be. They also discuss the shift in Bethesda's games to start including more and more incentives to keep players in the game that exist outside of their authored narratives, the way the specter generative AI looms over this shift to expansiveness, and what it could mean for the future of Bethesda.
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Janet's at GDC and the crew is joined by games critic, let's player extraordinaire, former Waypoint contributor (and recent Remap contributor) and longtime friend of the show Dia Lacina to talk Project Helix, the wild and increasingly expensive world of Fortnite V-Bucks, the state of New York suing Valve, Star Trek, and more. We talk about seven video games this episode.. seven! That's a lot!
Links: Project Helix, V-Bucks price increase to help pay the bills, New York sues Valve, Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Blizzard, Dia's Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown review
Discussed:
1:19:30 - Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown (and general Star Trek discussion)
1:52:44 - Pokémon Pokopia
2:13:45 - Marathon
2:14:55 - Slay the Spire II
2:17:06 - Minishoot' Adventures
2:18:14 - Super Battle Golf
2:25:57 - 1348 Ex Voto
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Welcome back to Worth Reading, where Patrick has a 30-minute chat with people doing interesting writing, reporting, and criticism in the world of video games. This week, Patrick’s talking with investigate journalist Jack Ryan about his excellent (but distressing) piece in Aftermath about the way casinos, crypto, and AI are junking up your favorite web sites. Make sure to read Jack’s piece at Aftermath, entitled “The Secretive Company Filling Video Game Sites With Gambling And AI” https://aftermath.site/gameshub-clickout-media-seo-gambling-ai/
Link to Jack's Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/continuemagazine/continue-a-defiant-new-videogames-magazine
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