Ep. 245: 'Achievement Oriented' on Video Game Agents and Boss Battles

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🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion talk to Blake Rochkind, a video game agent for United Talent Agency, about how his job works, Hollywood's appetite for movie adaptations of video games, VR's bright future, and his favorite games from last year(0:50). Then they bring on Josh Hano, the creator of new platformer 'Nefarious,' to discuss video game tropes and games that let the player be the bad guy (36:22). They also welcome eight former guests back to the podcast to pick their all-time favorite boss battles(53:15). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The People Have Spoken and Jeff Ross has returned for roast battle 2.
0:05.0	The Fortnite event features top comedians getting verbally violent until just one is left standing,
0:09.9	featuring a star-studded lineup of judges including Snoop Dogg, Sarah Silverman and Jason
0:14.0	Stakeis.
0:15.0	This is a battle you won't want to miss.
0:16.6	Not unlike the big boss fights we're about to be talking about.
0:19.0	The Fortnite event begins January 26th at 10-9 Central on Comedy Central, and don't
0:23.9	miss the live finale on Sunday, January 29th at 10-9 Central.
0:27.8	You see who gets crowned the king or queen of cruelty.
0:30.8	Hello and welcome to Achievement Oriented, Channel 33's video game podcast.
0:53.6	My name is Ben Lindbergh, and I'm right here for the wringer.com.
0:56.4	And on the other line, he's the hidden boss.
0:58.4	It's my colleague, Jason Concepcion.
1:00.4	Hello.
1:01.4	Hi.
1:02.4	So I got Overwatch.
1:04.4	This is the week's.
1:05.4	Excited for this.
1:06.4	It actually arrived.
1:07.4	I sent you a picture, and then I proceeded not to play it.
1:10.4	Oh, you didn't play it at all.
1:13.4	I'm taking this in stages.
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