About this episode
Everywhere you look, decay. Games we played this week include: Creatures of Ava (34:30) Paper Trail (40:45) Shadow of Rome (44:05) Doom/Doom II (50:40) --- News things talked about in this episode: New Valve game gets 20k concurrent players over weekend, bans anyone who talks about it (54:55) https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219016/valve-deadlock-hands-on-secret-new-game Roblox banned in Turkey to protect children (1:06:55) https://www.eurogamer.net/roblox-responds-to-platform-ban-in-turkiye Equity sets new minimum rates for video game performers in UK (1:10:40) https://www.eurogamer.net/uk-actors-union-equity-introduces-minimum-rates-to-address-systemic-low-pay-for-video-game-performers Bloober Team president asks gamers to trust them with Silent Hill 2 remake (1:12:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/bloober-ceo-dreaming-that-gamers-will-trust-us-to-deliver-silent-hill-2-remake Retro games based on Halloween and Ash vs Evil Dead announced (1:18:35) https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/halloween-evil-dead-retrorealms-game-series-1235079059/ --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise at https://thejimporium.com Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on https://LauraKBuzz.com, and you can catch Access-Ability on YouTube every Friday. Follow Conrad at ConradZimmerman on Twitter/Instagram/BlueSky and check out his Patreon (https://patreon.com/fistshark). You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at https://mercenarycreative.com.