Power Cycle

This week Jack finally returns to chat about Nintendo's online services, Animal Crossing Switch, Twitch burnout, gamers ruining GTA and much more!

This week Mike sits down with special guest Dan Miller to talk about everything we know about the upcoming Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Blackout Battle Royale, Enderall coming to steam, concerns around Overwatch League teams making huge cuts to their rosters, a new Lord of The Rings MMO in development and..... Cartoon Network's Fusion Fall???

This week we discuss Nintendo leveling a $100 million dollar lawsuit at ROM hosting sites, Epic's new evaluation of $8 Billion thanks to Fortnite, Faze Censor's breakup "controversy" and Valve's new loot boxes for DOTA2........ and Megaman Fully Charged

This week Mike and Jack assess the state of Nintendo in the gaming industry after their E3 presentations.

This week Mike and Jack discuss their time gaming in 2017 and what it means for the culture and industry moving forward.

This week we talk about the state of video games when it comes to their goals and where that leaves gamers wanting certain experiences in reference to triple A or indie games. We also react to the Death Stranding trailer from the Video Game Awards.

This week we discuss whether or not games are fun experiences anymore or if that's being sacrificed for gaming as a service prioritizing monetization of content over a complete product/experience. Also we talk about whether game genres die due to innovation and whether or not a new Megaman game can survive in this gaming atmosphere. Also beyblades....

This week we discuss why games are becoming too stagnant and what it could mean for the video game industry.

This week on the podcast we discuss the trend in games moving to a more competitive focused field, EA's blunders with the Star Wars license with Battlefront 2's micro-transactions and Visceral games shutting down as well as whether or not the loot box system is slowly ruining games.

This week we take a stab at discussing what makes a good game GREAT, the best marketing in gaming history and start our chart of the current gaming eras/generations and what they're defined by.

This week we discuss what has become a controversial opinion of a game Dev over whether or not gamer's toxicity is what causes a lack of candidness in the games industry or if there may be another reason. All we remiss on games we were hoping for that never came to be as well as games that should have got sequels but didn't.

What do you think balances out good microtransaction content or games as a service? And what pulls you into playing digital trading card games like hearthstone or gwent?

This week Jack and Mike talk about what kinda games they keep going back to, how the types of games that exist have changed, the evolving gaming industry and SGDQ.

We recap everything we saw in the first half of E3 and our impressions so far.

Mike and Jack discuss the upcoming games at E3, how they think the conferences will go and what they love about the event! Let us know your favorite E3 memories and your own predictions down below!

This week we discuss what Jack was able to check out at the 2017 Tribeca Games Festival, the future of interactive game immersion and Youtube vs COD content.

What do you guys think about the whole Call of Duty WWII reveal, the Witcher's author going on a video game tirade and the whole situation on fair use with Persona 5's streaming policy.

What do you guys think about the next iteration of Call of Duty from Sledgehammer games? Are there certain features or game mechanics you're hoping will be there? And what are your opinions on the roles of nostalgia and whether there are pros and/or cons to it?

What do you guys think about the new Star Wars Battlefront 2 announcement? What are some features you really wanna see in the game? And what are you opinions on DLC these days and what makes GOOD downloadable content?

What do you think is the best strategy for project Scorpio as a product? Do you plan on getting one? And what should Microsoft/the Xbox team do the take advantage of their position in this console race?

What do you guys think? Are Esports real sports to you and whats keeping them from really breaking out? And whats your opinion on physical vs digital media and how do you want it to play out? Let us know down below!

Thanks for tuning in to the Power Cycle Podcast! In this episode we discuss the ever lingering development hell that games like Kingdom Hearts 3, Final Fantasy 15, The Last Guardian and many other games have lived and died. Plus how much is too much marketing for games like that. Then we talk about the recent Youtube controversies around Pewdiepie (Felix Kjellberg), Colin Moriarty (IGN/Kinda Funny/Colin's Last Stand) and Jontron (Jonathan Jafari) and the responsibilities, ethics and standards that are applied to youtube personalities

This week on the Power Cycle Podcast, we discuss the release of the Nintendo Switch, how it will play into the overall console gaming environment and the future of Nintendo and it's games.

This week on the Power Cycle Podcast, we discuss how gaming has changed as we grow older, Overwatch's worldwide success, the repetitiveness in game play occurring in new games, the future of VR due to Zenimax's lawsuit over Facebook's Oculus Rift and the current state of beta's and early access programs.