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Ep. 206: 'Overwatch,' E-sports, and the NES Classic

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion talk to former pro gamer and coach and current 'Call of Duty' and 'Overwatch' caster Matt "Mr X" Morello about the appeal and future of 'Overwatch' and E-sports (1:31). Then, they bring on Kotaku news editor Jason Schreier to discuss Nintendo's NES Classic, the risks of going retro, and gaming nostalgia (32:12). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:26.5

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0:43.5

Hello and welcome to Cheapment Oriented, the Channel 33 Gaming Podcast. My name is Ben

0:48.9

Lindbergh, and I'm a staff writer for TheRinger.com.

0:51.2

I joined as always by my fellow Ringer writer, Jason Concepcion. Hello Jason.

0:55.2

Woo! Is everyone okay? We all okay out there? Just ready to play video games for hours

1:02.5

and hours a day, I think. That's what we all need.

1:05.6

I think that's what we need right now.

1:07.6

Yeah, and we've made it to episode three. Now that we're at trilogy, I guess we can

1:12.0

just act like we've been there before. We don't have to keep acting as if we're not going

1:16.4

to be back. We're going to be back. We've made it. We're established. So we're happy to

1:20.4

be here and we have a couple guests to talk to today. Later in the episode, we are going

1:26.5

to talk to Jason Shryer, who's the news editor at Kotaku and we're going to ask him about

1:31.7

the NES Classic, which just came out. Some retro gaming talk. But before we get to Jason

1:37.6

and old school gaming, we are going to talk about the present, talk about the future, talk

1:42.6

about esports. So I'm teeing you up to introduce our first guest.

1:47.1

Today we have with us Matthew Mr. X Morello. He is a esportscaster, former esports athlete.

1:55.6

You might know him from Call of Duty World Championships. You might know him from the

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