Episode 43: Question-mark Interrobang?‽
Alice is away this week, so three grown men get to sit around and puzzle over a particularly baffling week of news items and become steadily less certain that we were describing reality. There were some positives: Nate got to let a year’s worth of Hearthstone annoyance off his chest, Brendy got to drop an unexpected Halo deep cut, and I got to talk about a nice cat that I met. All solid therapeutic behaviours.
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Links!
Blizzard announced a bunch of stuff at Blizzon including a Starcraft FPS that is not a service game, World of Warcraft Forever and new levels of Hearthstone depravity. PhysInt is coming to Xbox because Sony dropped it for being too expensive. Here’s how to unlock the Skyrim companion which is an IKEA bookcase voiced by Matt Berry, which was made by Kinggath Creations. IKEA already made some Xbox furniture. The Breaking Benjamin guitarist will complain about his Fallout 4 mod on stage until the user rating improves. Here’s the battle they soundtracked in Halo 2. Post Malone played his $2m Magic: The Gathering card. We played Wardogs without spending any money. Brendy has previously written about Foxhole.
Games!
Wardogs does not contain any actual dogs, sorry. Starcraft Ghost never came out. World of Warcraft. Hearthstone. Operation Flashpoint. Battlefield. Foxhole.
Recommendations!
