Episode 19 - What We've Been Playing, Magfest Recap, and More!

The Joy of Gaming Podcast, Episode 19:

What We’ve Been Playing, Magfest Recap, and More!

We (Rich, Tim and Jordan) would like to welcome you to 2013, and a brand new year of The Joy of Gaming Podcast! And we’re ringing in the New Year in fine style, with four jam-packed segments of our usual enthusiastic gaming-related discourse.

We start as we always do, with a nice long session of “What we’ve been playing,” including a discussion of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Dragon Quest 9, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Borderlands 2, Dead Island, and more.

Then it’s on to news, including Nintendo’s recent announcements of upcoming game releases, our outraged take on Final Fantasy: All The Bravest and Versus XIII “news,” The THQ auctions and the future of their many properties, a discussion of the newly announced Pokemon X and Y 3DS titles, etc.

We also attended Magfest 11 earlier this month, so it’s only fitting that we delve into that event for a bit. This year, we had the tremendous privilege of introducing a screening of Indie Game: The Movie with Get Lamp director Jason Scott, so we discuss that experience along with other assorted convention happenings.

And finally, we spend a bit of time looking back at the games and franchises of yesteryear that showed such tremendous promise, but for one reason or another, haven’t received a follow-up or sequel in a long, long time. Yeah Advance Wars and Suikoden, we’re looking at you!

It’s time to get back into gear for the New Year, and back to doing what we love the most. Namely, playing and talking about video games. This…is the Joy of Gaming!