Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only podcast with sun on the east and snow on the west.

It's February 22nd, 2018, and we've got a lot of stuff to talk about today.

First we hit the news of the week with layoffs hitting Mafia 3 developer Hanger 13, Kentucky's governor blaming violent video games from mass shootings,

and Nightdive's Kickstarter System Shock remake being put on hiatus. We also answer some listener

questions, including how to get a new gamer into The Witcher 3, whether Destiny 2 shows

the limit of games as a service, and how we balance playing games on PC versus console. We close out with some discussion of the cool new indie detective game, A Case of Distrust,

as well as Assassin's Creed Origins' new museum-like discovery tour mode.

It's going to be a lot of fun, so stick around. Welcome back to Kotaku Split Screen for another episode.

My name is Kirk Hamilton.

I am editor-at-large at kodaku.com coming to you from Portland where it's snowy,

and I'm going to sneak that in here before my co-host can yell at me about it.

That co-host, of course, is news editor at Kotaku, Mr. Jason Schreier.

Hello, Jason.

Hello, Kirk.

It's hilarious that it's snowing there because it is 65 to 70 degrees in New York City today.

Yeah, we're kind of, everything is upside down, is what I gather about the weather these days.

Upside down world, yes.

So, before we get started, first things first, I want to promote our upcoming live

appearance at South by Southwest, which is very exciting.

We will be doing a live show in Austin at South by Southwest on March 15th at 11 a.m.

in the Fairmont Wisteria Room.

And you have to have a ticket to South by Southwest to

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