Big Boss Babble

It might simply be, that's there's just too many bloody games for everyone to play and so we're missing them and ohmygoshthatisterrible.

If a limited edition, steel, collectable dvd-case falls in the woods and there is nobody around to pre-order it, does it make a sound?

If a trailer is released early to appease investors, should we really hold it at face value? The team talk over the dangers of any impressions from early footage.

>observer_ the latest game from Layers of Fear developer Bloober Team is a discussion point in this part of the latest Big Boss Babble

Should AI be allowed to teach itself competitive gaming? Is that too ethical a question for the B3 team to be discussing?

Game of the Year; Is it really time to talk about such things? No, frankly it isn't, but we've gone and done it (badly) anyway.

Love the blue, spiky brute or not, Sonic Mania is —in the words of Terry— a return to the blue beasty's platforming hay day.

Are games becoming too cheap? Some certainly are, others less so.

Does a redeem code cut it?

Strange aliens, deadly takedowns, and a mysterious substance which can bring people back from the dead. All of this in a 4vs1 asymmetric multiplayer shooter, phew.

Final Fantasy XV Comrades is a perfect example of how popular games should adapt themselves over time to maintain and reward their userbase.

Microtransactions, love them or hate them they're here to stay. The team talk over their overbearing presence and how there IS a place for them.

Can spiders be sexy babes? I dunno. Should spiders be sexy babes? I dunno, almost definitely not though.

eSports? They're great, but are people too desperate to rush their games towards a market that may not adapt to, or accept, their product?

In which the team discuss permadeath, 'good ol' fashion gaming', and the concept of having to start from scratch.

'Sundered, an unforgiving platform title that just won't give you a break' was the final topic in our inaugural podcast, hear all about it within.

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock launches at the end of the month, and it's a brief discussion of that which led the fifth topic of our recent podcast.