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Zenkaikon 2024! Join DJ Ranma S, Mako-chan, and Ari Rockefeller and they tell you about their amazing experiences at this con! If you've never been and were curious, come participate tonight! And if you've been to the con, we want to hear from you!
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A radical shift in editorial content at one major gaming news website has caused the Editor in Chief to resign. We discuss this shift, and the potential reasons behind it, as well as the rise of guides in what people look for online. This also brings us to a talk on how we consume headlines altogether, including a bit of a tangent on some of the biggest headlines of our time. All this and more make up another week of the longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio!
We revisit the emulator settlement from last week with some clarifications from someone who is more knowledgeable in the inner workings of that scene than we are.
Some emulator developers have gotten spooked enough to take their emulators offline, others have more resolve with more safeguards.
Digital Eclipse's second entry in the Gold Master Series is out - Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. It shows that Jeff is a master of the VIC20, but ends abruptly in 1994 - even though Jeff's story is still being told.
The Museum of Play has announced the 2024 World Video Game Hall of Fame finalists - who would you vote for?
Then we talk to OLR about Llamasoft games that we might have played as kids, and who we would pick for the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
The gaming news seems to have slowed down a bit, but that doesn't stop us from tackling the headlines of the week, including a confirmed date for a show where will likely be lots of gaming news, Summer Game Fest. The creator of Summer Game Fest has finally broken a silence on the layoffs occurring in the industry, but are folks on social media holding him to an unrealistic standard? We discuss this and so much more on another week of the longest running podcast about video games, Orange Lounge Radio!
We start off this episode by remembering Akira Toriyama and all of his contributions to gaming and anime.
Happy MAR10 Day! Several Mario themed announcements were made, such as adding more Mario games to Nintendo Switch Online, and bringing some Gamecube and 3DS titles to Switch, and a LEGO Mario Kart set (a building set, not a video game) coming in 2025.
However, earlier this week Nintendo and the Yuzu emulator team settled for $2.4 million, shutting down the emulator team that worked on Yuzu and Citra for the 3DS.
Warner Bros Discovery has informed independent developers that published through Adult Swim Games that their games will be delisted, and the publisher has informed them that they will just delete the Steam pages rather than do the three clicks to transfer ownership to the indie developers. (The indie developers still own the IP and can republish, starting from scratch.)
Then we talk to Rob about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and why I'm now burned out on it.
Noggin the Nog was a Smallfilms series that ran from 1959 to 1965 and briefly returned in 1982. Noggin, King of the Nogs befriends a talking bird and an ice dragon! He goes on all sorts of adventures, and tries to thwart his evil uncle Nogbad the Bad. Please send us your comments, questions, requests […]
We say goodbye to one of the greats, Akira Toriyama, passing at the age of 68... Also, Cowboy Bebop collaborates with Overwatch, Team Angel, the American live-action Sailor Moon documents found in The Library of Congress, and One Piece's Sanji gets an official FOOD WARS spinoff! Plus, an overseas anime piracy site is prosecuted for the first time, and Toho Godzilla's wins an Oscar! Meanwhile in Japan, a Prefecture Governor wants foreigners to pay special fees, and enjoy Sakura season without allergies, and a toll is officially added to Mt Fuji?!
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This week's show was recorded on March 10th, or MAR10 day. A day to celebrate Mario because... it's not his birthday... nor an anniversary... just another silly nerd holiday like some others out there. Nintendo does embrace MAR10 day though with some announcements of their own, including the obvious (a new movie, of course), and the "well that makes sense" (a new lego set). We celebrate Mario and ALL things great in the gaming industry... and drag those things bringing the gaming industry down (certain CEOs). It all makes up another week of the longest running podcast about video games, Orange Lounge Radio!
I finished Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth and moved on to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and no, you don't actually know the story, so be wary of spoilers. (Not from me, though!)
Octopath Traveler has been delisted temporarily from the Nintendo eShop, most likely due to the change in publisher.
Toys For Bob, the studio that brought us Skylanders, is leaving Microsoft after the Activision merger.
Sony Interactive performed a Reduction in Workforce this week, closing several studios and canceling other projects in flight.
EA has also performed layoffs this week, cancelling several licensed games that were in development. The interesting part of their announcement is how much it actually costs to lay off employees and cancel license deals.
This leads to a discussion about if games are really more expensive to the consumer or not, and if the rising game budgets are sustainable given inflation.
Then we talk to Rob about how he hasn't started Final Fantasy VII Rebirth yet.
"...Atari released a modern version of their classic system. (my first game system actually) Now by 'modern' I don’t mean high-end graphics and AAA titles. This is functionally the exact same system that was released back when I was a kid."