Despite two new consoles on the horizon, the biggest news this week is Sakurai’s announcement of Minecraft Steve for Smash Bros. Billy Mitchell drops in on AEW Wrestling, Spider-Man Remastered gets a new Peter Parker, Google’s new Chromecast with Google TV won’t officially support Stadia at launch and the Tokyo Game Show gives Animal Crossing: New Horizons game of the year. All that and more on episode 238 of Rated G.
On this week’s episode, we have on special guest Lily Zaldivar to talk about her time with Viz Media, IGN, and Nintendo Voice Chat. In the news, Microsoft buys Bethesda, the Tokyo Games Show kicks off and Amazon unveils it’s new gaming service. All that and more on episode 237 of Rated G.
Microsoft’s been making all the first moves. Console reveal, system teardown, now the first next gen gaming showcase for the Series X. Dan and Dave weigh with their thoughts on the whole quarantine style presentation. Also in the news, more confirmed cancelled conventions, Mortal Kombat 11 gets all friendly and Nic Cage may just be playing the Tiger King!
Oh we got a good one today. We got some personal stories involving Amazon Echo, Broken Age, and Gamestop. The Tokyo Game Show invades our news, Nintendo pays a beautiful tribute to former president who passed Satoru Iwata, and gaming website The Sixth Axis get in some hot water over their NBA 2K18 review. In our convo of the week, we try to guess each others favorite gaming franchise and our favorite game of all time and wax a little poetic on why we love them.