Episode 513 - Disco (Elysium) Is (Maybe) Dead
Waypoint Radio
VICE
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a busy week for gaming news, from shakeups at ZA/UM, the studio behind Disco Elysium, to rumors of a Horizon Zero Dawn remake, and the acquisition by Fandom of various websites, including Giant Bomb and GameFAQs. After the break, Rob realizes he might’ve have made a mistake the first time he played Isonso, Patrick is enjoying working through trauma via dream dodgeball in Desta, and Ren is praying that more indie horror devs let vibes carry them instead of chases and puzzles in The Fridge is Red. Then, a quick dip in the Question Bucket has us contemplating what we’d do with infinite baked goods.
Discussed: ZA/UM 0:39, Fandom Acquisitions 12:06, Horizon Zero Dawn Remake 23:06, Pokemon Unite 34:00, Isonzo 43:18, Desta 55:22, The Question Bucket 1:13:32, Outro and Announcements 1:52:49
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| 0:00.0 | What's good internet it's October 4th and you're listening to Waypoint Radio |
| 0:21.0 | episode 513 I'm your host Rob Zachney and I'm joined by Ricardo Contreras. Hello Patrick |
| 0:27.9 | Lopich. Hi. And we're not a prize. So you know we're coming back from a from |
| 0:37.0 | weekend and over that weekend some some news broke or at least someone broke |
| 0:42.8 | some news from from I guess no longer inside ZAUM more like from very much |
| 0:48.5 | outside the ZAUM. Is that how we pronounce it? I've never had to like actually say it |
| 0:52.6 | out loud before the slash makes ZAUM impossible. And I say ZAUM. Yeah ZAUM. ZAUM. |
| 0:59.8 | ZAUM. That's a much cooler way of saying it than ZAUM. So I I I accept ZAUM as our |
| 1:08.8 | is our new way of saying it. So yeah. Have you want to explain what sort of set off |
| 1:18.7 | this this new cycle and where things stand now? Yeah it's a little messy you know |
| 1:24.7 | discoliseum obviously a game much liked here at Waypoint and much liked and many |
| 1:31.2 | other places and you know including had that really great moment at the at the |
| 1:34.3 | game awards. You know when you get shout outs to Karl Marx on the stage of the |
| 1:38.5 | game awards you know a game is built a little different. And so that game was |
| 1:43.8 | not just a critical success but enough commercially that the you know that's |
| 1:51.0 | going to transform the the culture of of any studio. And so we may be seeing |
| 1:55.6 | some indications of that over the weekend there was a medium post from one of |
| 2:00.7 | the developers. I someone else may have to explain the clarity for me on this |
| 2:06.1 | there is a culture what is the cultural. There are two organizations. |
| 2:11.0 | ZAUM. We do all that I'm getting our our disco |
| 2:13.4 | a lesium expert we are patching in now ran take it away. There are two entities |
| 2:19.4 | in place here. ZAUM Studio the game development studio which has investors |
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