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Welcome to podcast unlocked episode 238 for March. It doesn't matter. I'm on vacation. And it doesn't matter for you. We'll talk about why in a second.

Where is everybody?

Last week was GDC, as you know, and it was crazy busy. We had all kinds of cool people in IGN. We met, we went down GDC, played a lot of cool games, all kinds of stuff.

So in the interests of sharing some of those experiences with you, this show is going to be about five or ten minutes of intro with Mitch and I here as we're doing right now.

And then next up is an interview with Donald Mustard. He came in and if you don't know Donald Mustard, he is the co-founder of Chair Entertainment, the incredible folks behind the even more incredible Shadow Complex. And before that, Mitch, undertow for live our game.

And near and dear to my heart, a flawed but in my opinion, very impressive game for a number of reasons. Advent rising.

Yes, a beauty. Yes. And OG Xbox Beauty. So Chair, you know, of course, I'm going to ask about Shadow Complex too. I would not be doing my job or a Norwood, I'd be a fan if I had to ask that question.

So I really hope you enjoy the interview with Donald Mustard. Then immediately following that, Jamie Griesmer was in here and Jamie is one of the original designers on the original halo.

He was there up through three. He is fantastic. He is. Jamie is sort of the guy credited with inventing the halo's famous 30 seconds of fun loop. So a bunch of cool halo stories.

We do get into a little bit of their new project, which is golem for PlayStation VR. I realize that's not an Xbox thing. So should you desire when it gets to the part about PlayStation VR and golem, you can stop listening to the show because that'll basically that's the last thing.

In the show this week still recommend to do because PlayStation VR super important in the future of video games absolutely. And the meantime, Mitch Dyer, yes, you put out a tweet recently. Yes, caused a bit of a stir. Yeah, in my certainly for me.

Yeah, I wasn't that excited about Batman V Superman. That's not the tweet number for my bad. No, it's that you have well, you know what you take it away. I'm not going to steal it.

Yeah, Friday, April 1st is my last day at IGN. And that's so much really, really hard thing to say out loud because I've been doing this for almost five years. Like I did has been my home. And it's like where I grew up and became like a real adult person and honed my skills and became an on camera person and learned to do more things that I was doing when I was freelancing when I was just an excited little nobody who's just like I like to review games. That's cool, right?

So yeah, I came to IGN in 2011 as a contractor moved to the States in 2012 and I've just been doing everything here since I think I'm in on on locked since I got here.

Well, that that was going to be the thing I was going to bring up was to not only thank you for being on this podcast because so the quick story not to make this about me, but like I when I came in, I started at the very tail end of May, right before you three in 2012.

First day here, I said that there was this podcast on lock thing that had changed from three red lights, but it was sort of.

I for no disrespect, everybody kind of leaderless like it was just sort of this thing that you guys occasionally did it was very scattered like when I was doing unlocked it we went in and it was just like we're going to talk about.

Spalunky or whatever you're playing that week battlefield three because Peter did the review and just kind of figuring out like games are cool. Let's talk about those Xbox. All right, have a good one. Yeah.

So then I came in and I'm just I've I love radio and podcast so much. I just want to like, okay, I have an idea for this. Let's do it and you've been there with me since since the beginning you are actually you are technically the longest tenured mem- longer than me. Yeah, up until next week or up until when I get back from my vacation because you were on it before I got here. So you are the the longest tenured member of podcast unlocked and it has been a pleasure doing shows with you every single week.

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