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!
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