116: Hunting Monsters And Writing Games

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4.6 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Kirk and Jason talk about weather, Roombas, and football, just like you wanted! Then they get to news (16:44) on the Nolan Bushnell controversy, a revoked world record, and Paragon shutting down because Fortnite was just too popular. After that, writer Leigh Alexander joins the show (32:57) to talk about her work on the clever narrative game Reigns: Her Majesty, and then Kirk and Jason talk through some new games (1:02:41) including Monster Hunter: World and Celeste. 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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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Kataku split screen, the only podcast that's much better on the switch.
0:14.9	Today we're talking about Rumba's weather and football.
0:17.8	Also, we get into some video game news, including a Nolan Bushnell controversy,
0:22.0	the dragster world record getting removed from Guinness, and Epic Games canceling Paragon,
0:27.1	because Fortnite was just too popular. Then we bring on writer and journalist Lee Alexander
0:31.8	to talk about her work on the game, Reigns, Her Majesty, and much more. Then we close things off by talking about Celeste,
0:39.6	Monster Hunter World, and Shadow of the Colossus, along with some other games we've been playing.
0:46.1	All right, let's go.
0:57.5	And we are back for another episode.
0:58.6	My name is Jason Dreyer.
1:01.1	I am the news editor at Kotaku.com.
1:05.5	I am joined, as always, by Kotaku's editor at large.
1:06.5	Kirk Hamilton.
1:07.1	Hello, Kirk.
1:07.9	Hello, Jason.
1:08.5	How are you?
1:09.7	I am good.
1:11.4	Are you feeling large today?
1:12.7	I'm feeling large and in charge.
1:20.6	So I heard recently that we have not talked about the weather or Rumbas or football enough on this show.
1:22.7	So very briefly, I'm just going to mention. Yeah, let's crank them all out right now.
1:23.6	Let's just, I'm just going to crank them out.
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