Ep. 465 - It's Not Called Peacehammer
Show notes
Only the Insert Credit panel could cover the fan response to Bioware’s closure, explain all of Warhammer 40,000 in six minutes, and design a Nathan Fielder video game.
Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
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SHOW NOTES:
- Harlem Globetrotters
- Washington Wizards
- Washington Commanders
- Washington Senators
- Washington Generals
- “Take a good look everyone! Here I am…the tragic clown!”
- The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
- TurboGrafx-16
- Bloody Wolf
- Steam Deck
- Switch 2
- Nintendo DS
- PSP
- Analog Pocket
- Game Boy
1: When making a game, how big should the numbers go? (04:41)
2: How do you design a miniboss? (10:11)
3: What does a fanbase do after a video game studio dies? (13:14)
- Mass Effect series
- CNET: Fanfic Hub Archive of Our Own Faces Weeks Offline
- Dragon Age series
- Sonic the Hedgehog series
- SAGE Xpo
- Star Wars
- Variety: Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’s’ Captain Picard and ‘X-Men’s’ Charles Xavier, Dies at 86
- EXODUS - Official Extended Gameplay Reveal
- Kotaku: Former BioWare Devs Are Taking An Unusual Approach To Develop Their Next Game
- The Snyder Cut
4: Ash, explain the Warhammer 40,000 universe in six minutes. (20:56)
- Warhammer 40,000
- The Horus Apocrypha
- Emperor of Mankind
- Primarch
- Jaghatai Khan
- Psylocke
- Super Sentai
- Miles Edgeworth
- Phoenix Wright
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Judge Dredd
- Star Trek
- Doctor Who
- Orks
5: Room Check! (29:23)
- Vulcanus - Seek & Destroy
- Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure
- Batman: The Telltale Series
- Game of Thrones
- The Wolf Among Us
- Minecraft: Story Mode
- Baldur’s Gate III
- Jeep Thrills
- Sports-A-Roni
- Jet-Boys
- Castle Excellent
6: Which video game would be most likely to have a branded codpiece? (41:12)
7: Bigger J asks, how should Valve announce Half-Life 3? (42:08)
- Half-Life series
- USA Today
- Beyoncé
- Nintendo 3DS
- Playdate
- Tim Sweeney
- Deadlock
- Half-Life: Alyx
- Portal
- Artifact
- Dota: Underlords
- Arifact: Foundry
- Aperture Desk Job
- Counter-Strike 2
8: What would a video game designed by Nathan Fielder be like? (49:53)
- You Can See Everything (2026)
- Nathan Fielder
- The Rehearsal
- Nathan For You
- Pokemon GO
- The Sims
- Wordle
- Candy Crush
- Red Dead Redemption series
LIGHTNING ROUND: Ranthill (53:41)
Recommendations and Outro (01:05:43):
- Brandon: Tube Mapper, 52nd Street - Somethings Going On, Karyn White - Ritual of Love
- Frank: Tom the Postgirl
- Ash: The Horus Heresy, I, Claudius
- Jaffe: Send questions about comics to [email protected]
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