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The Government's Coming For Your Loot Boxes

Kotaku Splitscreen

Kotaku

Leisure, News, Tech News, Video Games

4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Episode 178: Jason, Kirk, and Maddy talk about the new Kotaku piece about what it was like to work on Mortal Kombat 11's ultra-violent scenes, then get into the games they're playing: Danganronpa, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and a potpourri of Kirk video games. This week's big news (35:05) includes a U.S. senator introducing an anti-loot box bill, Riot employees walking out, and the Sonic movie changing course. Finally, lots of off-topic talk (1:01:28) on all sorts of TV shows and movies.

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chills to far-off romances, every story comes alive through world-class narration.

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0:48.9

Music Welcome to Kitaku Split Screen, the only video game podcast to hide a Starbucks

1:02.6

cup on the set of every major spring TV show.

1:05.7

It's May 9th, 2018, and there may not be a ton of new games out, but that doesn't mean that

1:09.3

we don't have anything to talk about.

1:14.8

First up, we talk about the emotional toll of animating video game scenes of ultraviolence,

1:19.9

how Maddie finished Dangan Rompah, Jason's return to AC Odyssey and my own current inability to commit to a game.

1:29.0

Then we discussed the news of the week from anti-loopbox Senate legislation to an organized walkout at Riot Games to a Sonic the Hedgehog movie redesign. We close out with some off-topic discussion of the HBO show Sharp Objects,

1:30.9

Beyonce's concert film Homecoming,

1:32.5

and of course, a music pick of the week.

1:34.4

Stay tuned.

1:47.2

Welcome back to Kataku Split Screen.

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