147: The Death Of Telltale Games

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Kirk and Maddy start off by talking about the biggest news of the last week: the sudden closure of Telltale Games, a move that left more than 200 game developers out of work with no severance. (Well REALLY, they start out by talking about comically huge mouse pads, if we're being totally accurate.) After talking about the Telltale debacle, they discuss Sony finally opening up the PS4 to cross-play with other consoles, how a Shadow of the Tomb Raider fan found an unintended post-credits cutscene by playing the game without the day-one patch, and how Nintendo's tight-lipped approach to explaining their games lets fans create things as wonderful as Bowsette, a.k.a. Peacher. They close out with some talk of how Destiny 2 has become life-devouringly good, how Maddy has been charmed by last year's Battle Chef Brigade, and some off-topic TV, podcast, and music recommendations.

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Kirk's podcast breaking down why Toto's "Africa" is a great song

"Telltale Employees Left Stunned By Company Closure, No Severance," by Ethan Gach for Kotaku

Gita Jackson's article about Bowsette/Peacher

Sony finally relents and allows Fortnite cross-platform play

Kirk's review of Destiny 2: Forsaken and breakdown of all the cool new stuff added to the game this week

"My Hideous, Comfortable Gamer Chair Fills Me With Existential Dread," by Maddy Myers for Kotaku Compete

"n1c" By deerful on Bandcamp

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0:45.7	That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only video game podcast recorded live from The Good Place.
1:03.4	It's September 27th, 2018, and there is just so, so much to talk about this week.
1:08.3	First up, guest host Maddie Myers and I talk about the dramatic
1:10.9	closure of telltale games, which left more than 200 game developers unexpectedly out of work
1:15.4	with no severance. We also talk about Sony finally adding crossplay to PS4, really, really
1:20.6	big mouse pads, the rise of Bouset, and the Tomb Raider fan who discovered a different end credit
1:25.1	scene than almost every other player saw. We close out with some thoughts on making space for endless games like Destiny,
1:31.3	Battlesheft Brigade, and some off-topic TV, podcast, and music recommendations.
1:35.5	Stick around.
1:52.3	Welcome back to the show. As always, we're so glad to have you here to listen to us talk about video games and, you know, sometimes other things.
2:01.4	My name is Kirk Hamilton. I'm editor at large at kataku.com. And I am joined once again by Kotaku editor Maddie Myers, subbing in for Jason Shrier. Hello, Maddie. How's it going?
2:18.5	Hey, Kirk. Jason's still not back. So it's still me. I know. It's still you. So far, so far so good. Maybe he'll just never come back and you can just keep posting the show. I don't know. I don't think he can bear to stay away, given all of the news that's happened this week. I think he's being tortured on his honeymoon that he can't be our news editor. Yeah, of all the people I can imagine having to sort of learn the
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