"It's Hell Inside My Head"... The State of Media - The Side Escape Gaming Podcast EP 162

We were going to just talk about the new Final Fantasy, I was really going to dive into what Cloud and his funky friends were getting up to. Then I had a moment of existential crisis... Such a crisis I had to voice to text Ted and beg to talk about it on this week's episode.

Time Codes:

0:00 - Intro... "It's Hell Inside My Head"

3:05 - Cord Jefferson at The Oscars

4:15 - Video Game Layoffs in 2024

10:30 - Corporation Games as a Service

12:56 - Money! Games are Expensive!

16:11 - Game Cancelations

22:15 - Franchises Rule Everything! (Final Fantasy and Prince of Persia)

29:51 - Moving Forward, What's the Future Like?

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The Future is now! Or at least it arrives June 21st. The whole SEGP crew is back and discussing the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC trailer. Jake and James give their impressions on the biggest game since Palworld... HELLDIVERS 2!

Ted and Jake discuss Xbox's discussion about the state of Xbox video games business! Will Halo come to Switch? Will Bango be a antagonist in Call of Duty? Will Xbox announce kind of cloud gaming console? Probably not but, lets talk about it!

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James is back from the dead! He has reunited with Co-Hosts Jake and Ted to bring news of PlayStation directly from the underworld! This episode of The Side Escape Gaming Podcast we discuss PlayStation’s first State of Play of 2024. We also bring you news from the frontlines of the internet’s hottest new video game about collecting pocket sized monsters. The boys are talking about Palworld!

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Ted and Jake are back for another Bro Show Type week! We are talking about the 5 games Xbox featured in the latest Developer Direct. This is Xbox's 2024 lineup (for now) and we're here to chat about our hype levels and if these games are worth our download. Jake will also give you all his thoughts on the Indiana Jones Franchise.

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The trio is back in action and looking forward to the future. This time it's to 2024! It's our annual predictions episode in which Ted, Jake and James review their predictions from 2023 and create 5 new predictions for the upcoming Gamer year of 2024. Will Skull and Bones be the best video game of the year? Is Valve going to release a title with the number 3 in it? Will Destiny 2 ever end? Find out on this week's episode of the Side Escape Gaming Podcast!

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It's time, we've waited 365 days to crown one game The Side Escape Game of the Year. Each of our hosts; Jake, James and Ted bring their top 10 games of the year, we will go round robin revealing each in descending order until we agree on a singular Game of the Year. This game will join our previous winners: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019), The Last of Us Part 2 (2020), Inscryption (2021), Elden Ring (2022).

Time Codes:

0:00 - Intro / What We Learned This Year

2:48 - The Rules and Honorable Mentions

6:34 - Number 10

9:58 - Number 9

13:59 - Number 8

20:25 - Number 7

26:13 - Number 6

33:28 - Number 5

41:31 - Number 4

45:18 - The Final 3 Games

59:33 - Our Game of the Year

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