Jerrett Calloway (Blade206), Charles King (DCI), and Wynton Harris (Worsecase) come together once again to bring you the best infotainment podcast on the net. The SYGU crew is excited to return and give you the latest news and honest opinions about the video game industry and culture while bringing the fun back to gaming. Listen and Laugh! In this episode we talked about the following:
The Good and The Bad: Infamous Second Son
Amy Henning working for EA
Layoffs in the gaming industry
Microsoft lacking Research and Development
Nintendo not at E3… Once again
Sony’s relationship with Square Enix
Gender Issues Vs Race Issues in the video game industry
Microsoft Cloud Demo.. Smoke and Mirrors
As usual, we have a Step Ya Game Up and much more
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.
Wardens Rising is looking like a promising new take on the ARPG genre, especially when played with friends.
I didn't think you guys still did the podcasts lol.It's been like what..half a year since the last one?
Only thing I find wrong with Infamous is how it failed to hold my interest and attention. MGS GZ being such a short game I still play it even after gaining all trophies and 100% completion ratio