This is the Gameres with Jobs conference call for Wednesday, July 10th already somehow?

What the heck?

I am your host, Richard Lovejoy.

This is episode 926, and I have Beto O'Burn and Darrell Lathen with me.

Hi, gents.

I've also got a special guest from Wired magazine and a number of other like really great places. We have Julie Muncie. Hello, Julie. How are you

doing? Hi. I'm doing great. Happy to be here. Awesome. We are so excited to have you

and to just talk about some games because we're going to kind of have a nice, easy, strolly, naval-gazy reflection on the first half of 2024 in terms of video games.

But before we get into that, let's talk about some games that we've been playing right now.

And Julie, you've been playing something that I have been dying to hear about because it seems like Morowind reborn in some ways.

And that is Dread Delusion.

Can you tell us a little bit about dread delusion?

Yeah, I think the Morowind comparison is extremely apt, rather.

It is a single-player open-world RPG very much in the ilk of games that are too weird for Bethesda to make anymore, but that they did use to make.

And it's in this very odd fantasy world of like sky islands around like a neutron star. So the sky is this like sickly

pink and red all the time and it's just a lot of very bizarre fantasy conceits stuff about

gods and worshiping them and sort of that as a political structure and

interrogating that and playing with that. And it's wildly interesting. I like it a lot.

Yeah, it looked like, so the first thing that stuck out to me when I, when I look at screenshots

of dread delusion is like what you talked about,

like that sky color, that the color palette choice and the graphical similarities.

But hearing you speak about it, I'm really interested to like how this game operates as like an exploration of politics. because it seems like it's like set in a very

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