"Safety gone!" Hub Worlds and Safe Houses; Environmental Storytelling

This week on the program, Mark starts playing Spider-Man, Stephen ignores your narrative, and Martha is very smart.

• The 'Spider-Man' Puddle Controversy Is One Of Gaming's Dumbest

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  Dave Thier

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  Forbes

0:09:09

Hub Worlds and Safe Houses

Destiny 2 Will Let You Play 'Fully Scored Soccer'

Alex Walker

Kotaku

Gearbox and Claptrap honor late Borderlands fan with eulogy, NPC in sequel

Jessica Conditt

Engadget

Sea of Thieves is fun until you meet other pirates

Fraser Brown

Rock Paper Shotgun

0:38:20

Environmental Storytelling

An image of some of the narrative-assisting collectables in Widget Satchel

Mark talks about the subtext of Metro Nexus' overworld maps in our episode topic on research for games.

"That gets real meta, real fast."