Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only podcast to draw the connection between video game

micro-transactions and campaign finance reform. It's January 25th, 2018, and we've got a jam-packed show for you today.

First, we'll talk about Nintendo's

new Labo-Di-Y cardboard craft toys, Microsoft adding Day 1 Games to Xbox 1 Games Pass, and Jason's

new scoop about the development of Biwheres' upcoming service shooter anthem. Then we open up the mailbag

to answer your questions about creating RPG characters that don't look like you, Assassin's

Creed Origins, Teaching History, Destiny 2's Weapons System,

the whales who support microtransaction games,

and how long to give a game before you decide it isn't for you.

It's going to be a lot of fun, so stick around.

Welcome back for another episode. My name is Kirk Hamilton. I am editor at large at kataku.com.

Joined as ever from New York by Kataku News editor Jason Shire. Hello, Jason. Nice to see you.

Hello, Kirk. It's good to be back after you stole the show from your spoiler cast without me. I performed an Assassin's Creed hijacking so that we could talk about that game. Yeah, for anybody who is

subscribed to us, you probably saw in your feed a little present, which was a standalone spoiler cast episode with Luke Plunkett and Stephen Totillo

talking about Assassin's Creed Origins. I thought that was kind of fun. It'd be fun to do those

whenever there's a game that enough people have played and there's something to talk about.

We had a good time. Yeah, I mean, we always talk about wanting to do spoiler cast for all these

games. Yeah. But there's only so much time. It is true.

I like that standalone format because then it can be, you know, if you haven't played

the game where you don't want to get spoiled, you just skip that episode instead of what

we do sometimes, which does work too, but to tell people, okay, now we're going to spoil

whatever game, skip ahead 30 minutes and miss this part of this week's episode, which is sort of more onerous.

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