Ep. 306 - David Crowncried, with Shannon Liao

Journalist Shannon Liao joins the panel to cover game journalism, the Twitch meta, and hot sauce recommendations. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Shannon Liao. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. What is, and what is not, video game news? (06:40)
2. When was the last time a screenshot of a video game was enough to drive interest? (14:18)
3. The concept of video game unions is still pretty new. How do you see it paying off? (19:57)
4. What is the Twitch Meta in 2023, and where is it headed? (25:40)
5. In the song “Player of Games,” Grimes claims to be “in love with the greatest gamer.” Assuming that you did not know anything else about Grimes, who would you think this song was about? (30:57) Insert Credit Quick Break - Hypnospace Outlaw (36:49)
6. LeFish asks: What can the average person do to preserve videogames outside of financial contributions? (38:36)
7. Who is the Christopher Nolan of video games? (44:34)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - City Pop Hits (54:58)

Recommendations and Outro (01:04:23)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Cholula Hot Sauce
• Fly By Jing
• El Yucateco Hot Sauces
• Tapatío Hot Sauce
• Valentina Hot Sauce
• Unity announces its revamped pricing model
• Splatoon 3’s single-player expansion launches in 2024
• Hideo Kojima
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles licensees
• XFF Chili Oil & Crisps
• Metal Gear Solid
• Metroid Dread
• Neopets
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder
• Elden Ring
• Starfield
• Mortal Kombat 1 On Switch Seems To Look Worse Than MK11
• The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
• Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
• Sega workers form largest multi-department video game union in the US
• The Ninja Warriors
• Wild Guns: Reloaded
• Pocky & Rocky Reshrined
• Assassin’s Creed series
• TwitchCon
• Museum of Pop Culture
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Stephen’s Sausage Roll
• xQc
• Minecraft
• Juice Wrld
• Elgato
• Grimes - Player Of Games
• Grimes
• Lana Del Rey
• Lana Del Rey - Video Games
• Call of Duty series
• Undertale
• My Chemical Romance
• StarCraft series
• League of Legends
• Pete Davidson
• Machine Gun Kelly
• Megan Fox
• Grand Theft Auto series
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Girls
• The Video Game History Hour
• Atari Lynx
• Donkey Kong
• Chrono Trigger
• Internet Archive
• The Legend of Zelda
• The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
• David Lynch
• Christopher Nolan
• Todd Howard
• Todd Howard Is the Video Game World’s Christopher Nolan
• Christopher Nolan filmography
• Batman: Arkham series
• Ken Levine
• David Cage
• Death Stranding
• Getting A Lot Of Boss Baby Vibes From This
• Barbie (2023)
• Dave Gilbert
• God of War series
• Cory Barlog
• Skyrim series
• Fallout games

Recommendations: Shannon: Updater, Shannon Liao’s gaming newsletter, Baldur’s Gate III Frank: Don’t complete with Frank for the things he needs on eBay, if you have any family who might have a Polaroid Freeze Frame Video Recorder please get in touch, say hello and visit the snuggle tent at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo Tim: Taeko Onuki - Aventure

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