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This episode was filmed on 16/11/21, and we talked about how every AAA+ game is being released either broken or with exploitable systems.  

0:00 Intro
0:50 Forza Horizon 5's Willy's
18:57 New World's Economy was shut down
26:50 Break
27:26 Battlefield 2042 XP Exploit
29:49 Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy  

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This episode was filmed on 10/11/21, and we talked about the WWE's approach to their talent's digital media efforts, write the design doc of our ideal wrestling game and we glimpse at the first that Netflix Games has offered.

0:00 The Good Life (We haven't played it yet)
2:23 Forza Horizon 5 Is Too Big
14:41 Break
15:19 The WWE Sucks
37:40 Netflix Games Exists

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Alex P (he/him) and Shay join Alex CG (they/them) to reflect on Eastward (2021).

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Welcome to the Window into Glass House, where we recap all the latest gaming news.  

This episode was filmed on 04/11/21, and we talked about how there's a YouTuber skincare line, how Ubisoft can't just leave you alone, Facebook turning into Meta, Fortnite leaving China and bad emulation.  

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Welcome to the Window into Glass House, where we recap all the latest gaming news. 

This episode was filmed on 25/10/21. We talked about how Inscryption is hard to review, the pressures that puts on critics and how the experience of playing games pre-release and for fun is different based on just the environment and information available at the time. We also talk about Far Cry 6's weird single-player account creation stuff, how it's probably too long to finish and if the GTA Remasters retain the spirit of the original games. 

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0:00 Intro
0:31 You really should play Inscryption
20:10 Break
20:27 Far Cry 6's GTAness 

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This week on our review show Reflections, Astrid (they/them), Shay, and Mat chat about Deathloop, other immersive sims and ludonarrative dissonance. 

This episode contains spoilers. 

00:00 Welcome to Reflections
2:55 What's the deal with immersive sims?
5:34 The problem with morality systems 7:07 Multiplayer 
8:55 Puzzles and the illusion of choice 
12:37 Endings 
16:01 Verdicts 

Reflections are scored individually on a scale from love to hate, and then a group Glass House Games verdict is determined using our magical algorithm.

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Welcome to the Window into Glass House! We recap all the recent gaming news! 

This episode the team talks about EA maybe no longer keeping the FIFA licence and whether people would still enjoy the game if they can't play as Messi. We also talk about how Nintendo's new Switch Online price increase is another example of their weird relationship to cost. Also, we talk again about how piracy can be justified and the games industry's inability to properly credit people for their work. 

And for some reason we also talk about 100 Gecs & Disney Land for a bit. 

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5:03 What's the next FIFA going to be called? 

12:50 Animal Crossing! 16:11 Nintendo's Weird Pricing 

24:47 Weird tangent about 100 Gecs and Disney Land 

27:50 More Nintendo 

38:58 Break 

39:20 Getting credited properly for your work 

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Mat and Samantha (she/her) join Alex P (he/him) to reflect on Psychonauts 2 (2021) a troubled follow-up to a beloved platforming adventure.

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Welcome to the Window into Glass House! This is our new show where we recap all the recent gaming news. On this episode we're talking Metroid Dread first impressions, Nintendo emulation versus piracy and Back4Blood.    

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Alex P (he/him) and Shay (she/her) join Samantha (she/her) to reflect on Lake (2021) another entry into the Strand Genre. 

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Alex CG (they/them) and Mat join Astrid (they/them) to talk about how games coverage has a bias towards the English language. We're joined by our guest Diego Nicolás Argüello (he/him).

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Alex P (he/him) and Mat join Shay (she/her) to reflect on The Forgotten City (2021) a game about time looping over and over, but this time it's in a magical ancient Rome.

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Alps (he/him), Astrid (they/them) and Mat join Samantha (she/her) to talk about how profit isn't the only way to measure success.

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Content Note: There's a brief mention of this game's themes, including incest and drugging. 

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The GHG Crew wraps up the important games and news stories of August!  

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Mat and Shay (she/her) join Samantha (she/her) to talk about how design of free-to-play treadmills doesn't arrive by accident and we could decide not to do it.

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Alex P (he/him) and Astrid (they/them) join Samantha (she/her) to reflect on No Longer Home, (2021) a game about difficulty moving out and leaving things behind.

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Alex P (he/him) Mat and Shay (she/her) join Astrid (they/them) to talk about Multi Level Marketing companies and the overlap with a lot of games and gaming culture.  

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Astrid (they/them), Samantha (she/her) and Shay (she/her) join Alex P (he/him) to talk about some rare objects from their collection and what the point of collecting these things is.

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Alex P (he/him) and Astrid (they/them) join Samantha (she/her) to reflect on Biomutant (2021) a game with a little guy running around.

00:00 Intro and Reflections explanation 
01:47 Biomutant explanation 
03:05 Artistic intent 
05:12 Labour of love
07:18 Set pieces
08:59 Moral choices
9:43 A Bezos Ending
11:19 Support us on Patreon!
11:33 Verdict and outro

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The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek likes to tell a joke about a customer in a cafe who asks for coffee without milk. The owner replies that they've run out of milk, but they can have a coffee without cream. The games industry uses a similar idea, selling the absence of something back to the consumer. Alex P (he/him) and Astrid (they/them) join Samantha (she/her) to talk about "No Crunch" as the bare minimum acceptable way to create games and not a celebration, along with a list of bad industry practices that developers can use as a marketing victory for their lack of inclusion.  

0:00 Intro
2:10 Milk and Oranges
3:48 No Crunch Gold Sticker
19:47 Break
20:18 Horse Armour and “Cosmetics”
35:32 Manufacturing Consent
38:00 An Honourable Developer
45:32 Online Passes
48:39 Break
49:00 How do we change any of this?  

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It's Christmas in July! This is the 2nd part of two episodes where we address some glaring omissions from our all-time (2019-2020) list of top games. 

00:00 Intro and explanation
02:48 Project Winter
12:51 Tetris 99
20:34 Metro Exodus
32:29 Void Bastards
40:01 Break
40:28 Wilmot’s Warehouse
50:43 Superliminal
57:37 Wide Ocean Big Jacket
1:05:43 Griefhelm
1:09:59 Disc Room
1:17:10 Sackboy: A Big Adventure
1:23:55 Break
1:25:06 Yakuza: Like a Dragon
1:42:04 Glass House Games Rankings Top 10 review
1:43:29 Outro and thanks! 

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A lot happened in July that we didn't get a chance to talk about. We're wrapping up the month in this month's Gamer's Digest!

00:00 Intro and
03:25 Tarzan VR
08:44 Death’s Door
11:45 Pokemon Unite
20:37 The Forgotten City
26:27 Omno
29:14 No Longer Home
32:28 Last Stop
37:12 Break
37:37 Clash: Artifacts of Chaos
42:40 Dr Mario only has three months to live
47:30 Netflix plans to add video games to its catalogue
57:39 SEGA vs Takuya Kimura dispute regarding Lost Judgment PC release
01:07:28 OLED Switch and Steam Deck
01:27:33 Break
01:27:50 Final Fantasy XIV digitally sold out
01:33:31 Activision Blizzard harassment lawsuit and company walkout
01:53:47 Thanks and outro

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It's Christmas in July! This is the first part of two episodes where we add games to our all-time (2019-2020) list of top games. This first part is us checking and making sure we all still agree with where our existing game selections sit. 

00:00 Intro and explanation

10:46 Call of Duty Modern Warfare

11:23 Mosaic

13:09 Cyberpunk 2077

16:10 Pikuniku

19:45 A Plague Tale: Innocence

22:52 The Outer Worlds

25:55 Man of Medan

27:19 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

29:11 Fall Guys

33:17 Astro’s Playroom

36:11 Ghost of Tsushima

39:11 Final Fantasy 7 Remake

41:28 Break

41:55 Animal Crossing: New Horizons

44:06 Death Stranding

47:08 Apex Legends

50:24 Luigi’s Mansion 3

52:21 Spelunky 2

55:02 Life is Strange 2

58:52 Streets of Rage 4/Untitled Goose Game/Noita

1:08:55 Hades

1:15:10 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

1:18:46 Islanders

1:20:23 Break

1:21:37 Control

1:28:52 Sayonara Wild Hearts/Stillness of the Wind

1:30:54 Astrologaster

1:35:44 Spiritfarer

1:40:18 A Short Hike

1:43:23 The Last of Us: Part 2/Fire Emblem: Three Houses

1:46:21 Baba Is You

1:48:46 Ape Out

1:50:28 Ape Out v Umurangi Generation

1:52:15 Disco Elysium vs Kentucky Route Zero

2:03:30 Outro and thanks!

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SESTA/FOSTA are pieces of American legislation which impact online communication in a multitude of ways. 

Alex CG (they/them) and Shay (she/her) join Astrid (they/them) to talk about how laws purported to prevent sex trafficking not only fail at their aim but have glaring ramifications to free speech in how games are sold and reported on, as well as impacting the culture surrounding them. 

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Jazz Mickle (she/her) is a musician and game designer, working on Disaster Engine, a tool that ensures anything made with it is highly moddable. Alex P (he/him) and Shay (she/her) join Mat to talk with her about engines, tools, the problems with curating decentralised work, Nintendo's Game Builder Garage and Candle's Flickguy. 

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https://twitter.com/terrycavanagh/status/1391690434238287874?lang=en

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Alex P (he/him) and Astrid (they/them) join Shay (she/her) to reflect on Backbone (2021) a noir detective point and click game by Egg Nut, their first game as a studio.

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Alex P (he/him) and Shay (she/her) join Samantha (she/her) to reflect on Outriders (2021), a games as-a-service game, where the most interesting thing about it is it's a game-as-a-service. 

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It's long past time we stop letting game developers dictate the conversation about whether their game is political and instead automatically treat their work with the obvious reality that politics are inescapable.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-06-01-far-cry-6-narrative-director-issues-statement-after-politics-backlash 

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What does it mean that a game is wholesome? Can it still uphold negative ideas of the world while being non-violent? What does any of this comfort mean if the conditions it was made in are coercive or unhealthy?  

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Alex P (he/him), Astrid (they/them) and Samantha (she/her) join Mat to reflect on Hood: Outlaws and Legends (2021). We recommend after watching this episode that you pick up a copy of Pocketwatch Games' Monaco instead.  

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This episode was recorded live! We watched a lot of E3 moments, but also, wrap up the big stories of June! 

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Alex P (he/him) and Kit (he/him) join Shay (she/her) to reflect on It Takes Two (2021), the latest game by Auteur Game Developer Josef Fares. It's kind of all over the place, in a way that's endearing but also, not very good.  

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Product placement is a part of life now. Is it ever good? Why would they make a fantasy game about skittles?  

Quick note - when we talk about Metroid at around 16 minutes in - Samantha’s totally right. We later realised that Other M would be a good example, but there’s probably far more.  

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-01-shooters-how-video-games-fund-arms-manufacturers  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/03/six-of-the-best-product-placement-video-games  

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Alex P (he/him) and Shay (she/her) join Samantha (she/her) to reflect on Resident Evil Village (2021), the latest entry in the Resident Evil Series. A departure from the norm in some ways, along with being a total pastiche of everything that came before it. 

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A lot happened in May that we didn't get a chance to talk about. We're wrapping up the month in this month's Gamer's Digest!  

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-05-18-ubisoft-has-reportedly-made-minimal-changes-following-abuse-allegations 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avwpb/ign-staff-pissed-after-meeting-about-deleted-palestine-charity-post 

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This week we talk about how games, no matter the size and scale of development, don’t really exist until a month before they come out. How do you feel confident you can meet your stated goals enough to release an announcement, but then not take it all the way? Are announcements just for the audience or are they proof of work for investors? 

http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=3006 

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Here's some hidden Glass House Games lore: Mat met both Samantha (she/her) and Astrid (they/them) on the same night in 2018. We talk about how gaming conventions are basically for that and not really for anything else, unless that becomes a priority for the promoters and attendees. 

https://kotaku.com/this-is-what-video-games-are-a-dispatch-from-a-crowded-1442715308 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnke4g/why-dating-games-were-the-best-thing-at-2016s-tokyo-game-show-333 

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Alex P (he/him) and Shay (she/her) join Samantha (she/her) to reflect on Outriders (2021), a games as-a-service game, where the most interesting thing about it is it's a game-as-a-service.

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“What does Mass Effect have to say about Racist Genocide and Supercops?” - Samantha

You ever stop to think about how Mass Effect is a hugely popular series but has a lot of strange positions that go unexamined by it's own characters? Samantha (she/her), Astrid (they/them) and Mat talk about the politics of Mass Effect and the missed opportunities for better storytelling. 

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“What's going on with Overwatch and the Blizzard Executives?” - Alex P 

A lot happened in April that we didn't get a chance to talk about. We're wrapping up the month in this month's Gamer's Digest! 

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“The video game Prey is a foundational queer text” - Samantha

What does it mean to depict an experience? Can that help to give someone empathy? Probably not. But... why not? We talk about what games do when they try to become "Empathy Machines". https://radiatoryang.itch.io/the-tearoom 

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“Drifting dogs and the filmography of Paul WS Anderson" - Alex P Alex CG (they/them), Mat and Samantha (she/her) join Alex P (he/him) to reflect on Monster Hunter: Rise (2021), with a little chat about Monster Hunter (2021) starring Milla Jovovich thrown in for good measure.

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