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77: Stories From LucasArts And Bethesda

Kotaku Splitscreen

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Leisure, Video Games, News, Tech News

4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Kirk and Jason start off the show by talking about the new indie games What Remains Of Edith Finch and The Sexy Brutale before jumping into this week's news: the announcement of Call of Duty: WWII (13:01), an Overwatch player's racist tirade (21:48), and Persona 5 localization complaints (28:02). Then they bring on veteran programmer Brett Douville (38:12) to talk about the stresses of LucasArts, his work at Bethesda on Fallout 3 and Skyrim, and his lovely podcast, Dev Game Club. 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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Music Welcome one and all to Kataku's split screen, the only video game podcast that has been

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perfectly translated from the language of dragons. It's April 27th, 2017, and we have got a

1:09.2

great show for you as always.

1:13.9

Our guest this week is veteran video game programmer Brett Duvill,

1:16.5

who will talk to about his time at LucasArts,

1:18.8

the technological leaps of the early 2000s,

1:22.8

and what it was like working at Bethesda on games like Fallout 3 and Skyrim.

1:24.9

Before that, we'll talk about the news of the week,

1:27.9

specifically the final reveal of Call of Duty World War II,

1:33.0

the Overwatch bro, whose racist rant got him kicked off of his team, and the ongoing discussion of Persona 5 localization.

1:35.0

Riuji sucks.

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