About this episode

The episode discusses the fragility of the digital gaming landscape amidst outages and game releases.

PSN and Xbox Live outages heighten awareness of just how fragile this all-digital future of ours really is! Meanwhile, Halo gets a remake, Splatoon Raiders is rad, and Marvel Tokon on PC was completely busted. Will it be fixed by launch? What’s the best racing game ever made? Let’s dig into it this week! F*%k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code JEFFG15 at theperfectjean.nyc/JEFFG15 #theperfectjeanpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Gerstmann

Topics covered

• digital future
• video game outages
• game remakes
• racing games
• game performance

Keywords

• PSN
• Xbox Live
• Halo
• Splatoon Raiders
• Marvel Tokon
• racing games
• digital gaming

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PSN, Xbox Live

Books & works: Halo, Splatoon Raiders, Marvel Tokon

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