#106: Epic Moves

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Games, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Summary

Until Fortnite, the primary fuel that made Epic Games run was Unreal Engine, its ubiquitous and flexible framework on which hundreds of notable, successful, and popular titles have run for more than two decades. But these days, Epic's many initiatives have the North Carolina-based company accelerating at light speed, and now, Sony owns a sliver of 'em. We discuss what this modest acquisition means, and why owning just a little bit of Epic can go a very long way. Then: A tension is growing in the industry concerning next-gen game pricing, and we've gotta jump back into the fray. Also: Horizon's writer has left Guerrilla, Kingdoms of Amalur is getting new DLC 8+ years after launch, Mafia: Definitive Edition gets delayed, Infamous may be coming back, and more. Plus: Listener inquires! Could episodic releases help adjust rising game dev costs? Are some gamers being completely over-the-top in their reactions to The Last of Us: Part II? Should Sony attempt to acquire WB Interactive? Does Long Island have the world's best pizza? (The answer to the last question is a simple and emphatic "yes".) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast is brought to you by Well You.
0:04.1	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to CollinslastStand.com.
0:25.0	Greetings and salutations! Welcome back to Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast. This is Episode
0:30.0	106. My name is Colin Moriardium. I'm joined as always by Chris Racon and Chris. I want to
0:35.4	apologize because it might be a little noisy for the audience. I don't know if Dustin can do, but I
0:41.1	live in basically a construction zone right now. So it's, I don't know, there's like a buzzsaw
0:47.1	going on out there and all sorts of shit people are laying down concrete. Yeah. And you're in
0:53.6	like a developing neighborhood basically, right? It's like it's not even on the map yet. Really?
0:58.2	Yeah. It's not even, yeah, it's not on Google Maps yet or anything. And so it might as well not
1:02.0	even exist. When I get delivery for Asia just get groceries delivered, I actually have yet to get
1:07.8	Uber Eats or Postmates here, although they're the same company now. Uber Eats just or Uber just
1:11.6	bought Postmates, but yeah, I give them like these really detailed instructions. It's very old school
1:16.4	and half of them can't find the place very quickly. So anyway, I just want to apologize about
1:20.8	that because it's annoying as hell. I'd like to record earlier in the day, but for the time being,
1:25.8	we have to let these people do their work. And so if any, that's coming through, I do apologize.
1:30.2	But Chris, how are you? How's the new apartment? How's everything going in your life?
1:33.6	Doing good. I've got a lot of videos I'm trying to get done. It's a little bit stressful, but I just,
1:40.6	I'm in this point where I'm like working on so many things at once. It's hard to really make any
1:46.4	any amount of progress on any of it that feels substantial enough to feel like, ah, those good days work,
1:51.3	you know, definitely. It's like, oh, I got like a minute of, I got like a minute of writing or
1:57.2	like a minute of video time written down for every video that I'm working on. It's like, that seems
2:00.4	like a lot. It feels like a lot, but it's also like, ah, none of them are done. Yeah, I feel like
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