Episode 028 What We Learned from a bunch of Gaming News, Bolt Action and Vindictus

In which we got lost in Gaming News (in a good way) and then resurface to discuss a WWII table top war game and a dated eastern developer MMORPG.  We also get an email from Greg about Might and Magic 3 and his experiences with that game when he was younger.

 

Games discussed this Episode:

Little Samson for NES

Bolt Action for table top play

Vindictus for PC

World of Tanks for PC

Might and Magic 3 for PC/DOS

Portal 1 and 2 for PC

Cypher for PC

Hexcells for PC

Terraria for PC

Starbound for PC

Stellaris for PC

Octopath Traveller for Switch

Hollow Knight for everything

Dragon’s Crown Pro for PS4

 

Items discussed in What we Learned this Month:

Nintendo decides to go after ROM sites: https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/15/17693556/emuparadise-roms-shut-down-threat-nintendo

Chris Kohler’s Defense of ROMs and the problems of Copy Right Laws in 2018: https://kotaku.com/in-defense-of-roms-a-solution-to-dying-games-and-broke-1828340811

How video games‘ positive impact research is being cooled because the findings aren’t what those paying for it want: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xb89b/two-researchers-challenged-a-scientific-study-about-violent-video-gamesand-took-a-hit-for-being-right

Jason Shreier’s article on Filip Miucin and Plagiarism: https://kotaku.com/ign-pulls-ex-editors-posts-after-dozens-more-plagiarism-1828357792

What we Learned from You Discussion:

We get an email from Greg about Might and Magic 3.

 

Shoutouts:

Thanks to Greg for the email!

Thanks to Fred Rojas at Gaming History 101: https://gaminghistory101.com/

Thanks to Joe Gottli for doing our art!

Thanks to Dmitry for doing our intro/outro music!