Critically Speaking Podcast
1) Push Button, Make Thing Happen
Maturity and violence have long gone hand in hand in the gaming industry. But do they have to? If the only axis on which we judge our games' maturity is how violent they are, it is unlikely that we wi...Show More
2) To Hell with Tim Curry
Controversy. How does an industry with games that feature so many guns and so many deaths not have controversy? According to this week's feature article, there are no controversial games. Nate and Sco...Show More
3) Don't Insult our Intelligence
Theme is more than a simple bullet point to be added amongst the various graphical effects, multiplayer modes, and stat systems. When big name titles aim for thematic resonance, is there ever a possib...Show More
4) dEc3ption
When does marketing become sheer deception? It's one thing to manipulate the audience in benign ways, getting them excited for a product that the creators are equally or more so excited about. It's en...Show More
5) Three Bucks by Christmas
What qualifies someone who is passionate about a topic? Be it art, film, or gaming, there is a tendency to designate between those who feel strongly about a medium—and demonstrate those feelings by sp...Show More
6) I Hate Your Opinion Flavor
If purchasing decisions tie less and less to the opinion of a published review, what place do reviews have in the gaming industry? This week Scott and Nate discuss the neccesity of gaming reviews and ...Show More
7) Griefing Adam and Eve
Every genre has a defining title that sets the stage for a new, more polished generation. But at some point, the product reaches a quality that requires more effort to improve than the return benefit....Show More
8) Ads Inches From Your Face
Games have always striven toward the goal of creating believable virtual worlds, but with the recent advancements from Oculus and Sony's Project Morpheus, VR is closer to becoming a reality than ever ...Show More
9) A Powerful New Crisis
Sometimes the best topics come straight from the news. This week's episode does just that. CryEngine on SteamOS, a crisis for the console market, and a handful of PC and iOS games fill out the discuss...Show More
10) Vampiric Social Progeny Experiment
Time will outlast us all, if it even exists, but in gaming, time is often a tool or a feature or altogether absent. What happens if games focus on time in a different way? In life, we grow, we live, w...Show More