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Episode 41: Console Wars Suck

Kotaku Splitscreen

Kotaku

Leisure, Video Games, News, Tech News

4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Kirk and Jason try to figure out why so many people care about who wins the console war. Then they dig into all the new Destiny: Rise of Iron info, talk some Overwatch, and ponder whether Titanfall 2 will have more lasting appeal than its predecessor. 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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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of Kotaku Split Screen.

0:12.0

It's August 4th, 2016, and my name is Kirk Hamilton, and we have got a cool show for you today.

0:18.1

Cool, cool show.

0:19.7

We're going to be talking about Overwatch's new

0:21.5

Lucio Ball game mode, which is basically just Rocket League in Overwatch, and it's very fun.

0:26.8

We'll be discussing the Rise of Iron expansion for Destiny, which a whole much of new information

0:31.1

just hit about. You'll be surprised to hear that Jason and I have a lot of opinions about

0:34.8

destiny, so we'll be talking about that quite a bit and what we can expect.

0:38.4

We'll be doing more reader mail with talk of the console wars, how to set up an ergonomic PC

0:42.7

gaming desk, and how long to give a game if you're not sure if it's going to get good. Stick around.

1:04.1

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Welcome everybody. Welcome to Kataku Split Screen. Hey, Jason.

1:10.3

You are such a dork. I'm cool. I'm not a dork. I am feeling cool. Are you feeling cool?

1:16.5

Cool, cool, cool. I'm feeling cool. Hey, did you see that story that I sent you before from Gizmodo about journalists dossiers and like how Microsoft's PR people accidentally sent them a journalist dossier from

1:22.9

someone else? I did see that. I had heard that before that PR firms keep dossiers on journalists, but I did enjoy that that happened.

1:32.1

They do.

1:32.6

It's a thing, and it made me wonder.

1:34.6

Seeing that Gizmato Story, that was about the tech side of Microsoft, but seeing that

1:38.8

made me wonder, and it made me really want to see all of the gaming PR companies dossiers on journalists.

1:45.0

Like, do you think they have one that says, Kirk Hamilton loves jazz?

1:49.0

I wonder about mine.

1:50.0

I mean, I'm guessing that Microsoft does.

1:53.0

If they have them on tech journalists, they probably have them on gaming journalists as well.

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