About this episode
The episode discusses the criticism of Highguard, the layoffs at Intrepid, and new game announcements including Emberville and Nioh 3.
Highguard released this week to extreme criticism, is it warranted, is there a good game there? The breaking news this week, however, is the sudden mass layoff and shuttering of Ashes of Creation studio Intrepid. Is this a uniquely bad situation or is it another failure in a long list of MMOs failing? Cohh officially announced the game he's working on: Emberville and we get some more info about his and his team's project. Nioh 3 expands into an open world, Cairn is great and more! 0:00 - Intro 1:40 - Nerd detection 11:10 - Highguard 53:20 - Ashes of Creation devs mass layoff 1:14:30 - Cohh's Emberville 1:39:00 - Nioh 3 2:06:10 - CD-Rom-a-Thon 2:24:00 - The numbers 2:28:50 - Cairn 2:44:10 - Tainted Grail 2:46:20 - Fish Hunters 2:56:10 - Shoutouts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
People in this episode
Hosts: itmeJP, Cohh
Topics covered
- game criticism
- MMO news
- game development
- new game announcements
- video game updates
Keywords
- Highguard
- Ashes of Creation
- Intrepid
- Cohh
- Emberville
- Nioh 3
- Cairn
- video games
- MMOs
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Highguard, Ashes of Creation, Intrepid
Products: Emberville, Nioh 3, Cairn, CD-Rom-a-Thon, Tainted Grail, Fish Hunters
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