With Rob out for personal reasons and Danika down with a migraine, it’s time for Remap Radio to throw a pokeball onto the field and see what comes out. Join Patrick, Janet, and Chia as they react to the ray of political hope from this past week, before digging into a slew of gaming news, including PlayStation Portal getting proper cloud streaming, EA promising Saudi Arabia won’t erase queer people from its games, and Fortnite getting backlash by overly monetizing pets. Plus, we’ve been playing a lot of games, including Janet finishing Silksong, Patrick being super impressed with Dispatch, and Chia’s many hours spent playing online mahjong with anime girls.Reminder: In early April, the a pro-Palestinian human rights movement BDS that’s pressuring Israel by promoting boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the country added Xbox to its boycott list. Learn more here: https://www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott-microsofts-xboxDiscussed: Mamdani Minute - 6:40Playstation Portal Can Now Stream Games From The Cloud - 32:44EA Responds to Concerns around sale to Saudi Arabia - 55:42Fortnite Faces Backlash over new Sidekicks cosmetics - 1:05:53Silksong - 1:37:50Keeper - 1:47:21Silksong - 1:50:07Dispatch - 2:05:14Vampire's Best Friend - 2:17:50Mahjong Soul - 2:25:28End of Year Wishlist - 2:35:32 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Sports! — Is This Real?
Once again, the Chicago Bears have been involved in a very weird football game. But once again, they have prevailed in a game that, in years past, they would have lost. Is this real? Are the Bears actually good? The answer is probably somewhere in the middle, but amidst the stress, we’ll be thankful for the lack of heartbreak—for now, anyway. Plus, the World Series is over and it was incredible. Is Shohei Ohtani keeping the Dodgers from entering their villain arc?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Remap Radio 116 - Ball Pit Patrick
The Remap Crew really gets into the Halloween spirit, mostly by dying from laughter and being otherwise childish. After an appropriately somber news section discussing the massive Amazon layoffs, Microsoft's ridiculous profit margin targets, and moral at EA deteriorating after workers are forced to use AI, we try our best to talk about the games we've been playing, or at least, have tried to play. Chia finds a new obsession, Janet continues her Silksong journey, Danika can't stop herself from laughing while Patrick tries to explain Ball x Pit, and Rob finds himself being left behind by a Paradox game.Discussed: Amazon hit with massive layoffs, including Games Division - 2:36Microsoft Set 30% Profit Margin for Games Division - 33:03Halo coming to PS5 - 46:15The DHS Memes - 52:09Internal Attitudes at EA Deteriorate around AI - 1:10:29Silksong - 1:29:08Pokemon Legends: Z-A - 1:37:53What Chia Did On Her Flight - 1:39:37Pokemon Legends: Z-A - 1:49:11.230Ball x Pit - 2:02:48Slots and Daggers - 2:16:07Absolum - 2:18:43Europa Universalis V - 2:24:35Master of Command - 2:44:36Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 - 2:51:04Battliefield: Redsec - 2:56:15See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Remap Radio 115 – RNGenius
We’re sad to report that Danika is struggling through the brutal norovirus at the moment, but fortunately, Janet’s returned from the whole “getting married” thing to join Patrick and Rob to chat about a recent slew of developments about how video games are using AI and how we should feel about it. We’ve also got Silksong updates from Janet (deep into act two) and Patrick (done!), while Rob’s trying to figure out his role in Battlefield 6. Plus, is Ball x Pit actually good?Discussed: 1:55 - The Current State of "AI" in Games55:31- Pokemon Legends ZA1:11:12 - BallxPit1:29:09 - Silksong1:45:03 - Battlefield 62:04:21 - The Question Bucket See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Remap Radio 114 - Who Needs a Robot, Anyway?
On today's episode of Remap Radio, Danika's filling two pairs of shoes while Chia and Janet are out. Things get a bit unhinged as we veer into unexplored territory talking about jack-off bots. We also discuss Remedy's recent profit warning, friend-slop, game cancellations, the beauty and terror of palace intrigue, and more.Discussed: Jack-off bots 00:57; Remedy's FBC: Firebreak 23:43; ESA Power of Play report 42:32; Discord age verification and leaks 53:00; Ubisoft's cancelled Assassin's Creed 1:04:50; Road to Empress 1:25:38; games we're playing 1:48:30; Question bucket 2:11:52See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Remap Radio is a new podcast from the creators of the long-running video game podcast Waypoint Radio. Join Rob Zacny, Chia Contreras, Patrick Klepek, and their friends and colleagues as they set off on a new adventure that has them obsessing over the video game Dragon’s Dogma nearly as much as they question the nature of capitalism.
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