NEXT Generation 31 - Blasto [S1E16]

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Ty Schalter & Aidan Moher

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Ty Schalter (VICE, FiveThirtyEight) and Aidan Moher (WIRED, Vulture) review what rocked and what sucked about the classic video game magazines that inspired them to become professional journalists, authors, and critics—and what they can tell us about today's digital media and games.

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NEXT Generation 31 - Blasto [S1E16]

FunFactor

1 hour 34 minutes

2 days ago

NEXT Generation 31 - Blasto [S1E16]

ISSUE LINK: https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_31/mode/1up

Great jumpin' ray guns, or some similar 1950sesque exclamation!

Captain Blasto, everyone's favorite James Bond-meets-Inspector-Clouseau-meets-Flash-Gordon, except make it a parody, and also it's Looney Tunes, superhero got a big, splashy cover and a huge preview spread in this issue--and why wouldn't it? A bold, new, original-IP action platformer from Sony's top U.S. studio, led by legendary programmer Dylan Cuthbert.

Except, well, it didn't turn out great--and the seeds of why it didn't were right there in the preview. How did they handle it? And how did WE handle how they handled it?? Listen to find out!!

We also go long on journalists' role in the PR hype cycle, then and now, as well as dig in to NG's big interview with Sid Meier, and super-ambitious feature declaring the six essential elements of great game design.

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