Gamers Week Podcast
Video games are fun. Video game news should be, too. Join Blue, Ryan, and Donnie as we analyze the week's best, worst, and weirdest gaming headlines. New episodes every Friday!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 182
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Episode 21 - It's On Like Donkey Kong: A Conversation With Rare's Kev Bayliss
Any child of the '80s and '90s knows that these years were the golden age of Rare, the British video game development company. Kev Bayliss is the creator of Diddy Kong and a long-time g…
Episode 20 - Square Enix Sells Western Studios To Embracer Group, Will Focus On Blockchain And Magic Beans
Square Enix has been making major headlines this week, and unfortunately, it’s not because the pixel remasters of Final Fantasy 1 through 6 are finally coming to consoles. The Tomb Rai…
Episode 19 - Sony's PlayStation Plus To Require 2 Hour Game Trials
It seems Sony will be making a few other changes to go along with its newly revamped PlayStation Plus subscription service. The company announced this week that any game costing $34 or …
Episode 18 - Dear Sony and Microsoft, No One Wants In-Game Ads
Remember a time before microtransactions? Yeah, neither do we. That's why the news that Microsoft and Sony are considering including ads in Xbox and Playstation games has us more than a…
Episode 17 - Activision Blizzard News: It's Not ALL Bad??
Thanks to numerous allegations of misconduct and abuse, Activision Blizzard has been a mainstay in the headlines for the last year. This week was no different, except... it's only PARTI…
Episode 16 - E3 2022 Canceled: Is This The End Of E3?
E3's efforts last year to keep its showcase alive in digital form in the midst of a global pandemic were lackluster at best. Perhaps then it's not all that shocking to hear the event is…
Episode 15 - A New Foe Has Appeared! Sony's Revamped PlayStation Plus Subscription
For years, Microsoft's Game Pass has been the king of video game subscription services. The internet has long been filled with chatter over if/when Sony's PlayStation would throw its ha…
Episode 14 - Yeah, Science! Rage Quitting Video Games Is Actually Good For You
For decades, governments and media have made video games a scapegoat for the ills of modern society, and violence in games is blamed for all kinds of real-life violence. But what does t…
Episode 13 - Pretend To Be Shocked: Facebook Gaming Overrun By Scams
Facebook Gaming was supposed to be the social media giant's answer to Twitch. Four years after its launch, however, it's a weird wasteland of diet pill ads and sketchy viewership stats.…
Episode 12 - "I'm Not Dead Yet!" A Conversation With Atari's Howard Scott Warshaw
In 1982, the video game adaptation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial released for the Atari 2600 to commercial and critical failure. But is it really the worst game of all time? We sit down…
Episode 11 - I'm The Winner! Guinness Names Mario The Top Video Game Character Of All Time
Guinness just announced their list of the Top 50 video game characters of all time based on the results of a public poll, and well... we have thoughts. We go over the list's snubs, surp…
Episode 10 - Sonic The Hedgehog 2, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, & Just Dance: The Good And The Bad Of Upcoming Video Game Movie Adaptations
One week (and $139 million) into the Uncharted movie's theatrical run, it seems that there's still a rabid audience for film adaptations of beloved video games. So get your popcorn read…
Episode 9 - Pour One Out For Nintendo's 3DS And Wii U eShop Stores
We all knew the day was coming when Nintendo would close down the digital storefronts for its 3DS and Wii U consoles. However, it hurts a bit more to realize that up to 1000 digital-onl…
Episode 8 - The Nintendo Direct February 2022: Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Mario Strikers Battle League, And The Birth Of Carby
The first Nintendo Direct of 2022 is finally here, and it was a whopper! We're going over every single announcement, including Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the Booster Course Pass for Mario …
Episode 7 - Why Did Sony Buy Bungie?
Just when we'd started to wrap our heads around Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Sony announced they'd bought Bungie (maker of Destiny and Halo) for $3.6 billion. Consid…
Episode 6 - The King Of Sneak King: A Conversation With Wrestler Leroy Patterson
How many copies of Burger King's 2006 advergame Sneak King is too many? For AEW wrestler and reality show stuntman Leroy Patterson, the limit does not exist. Leroy joins us to discuss h…
Episode 5 - The $75.5 Billion Flex: Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard
Mergers and acquisitions have been especially big business in the video game industry throughout the last year. Nevertheless, when Tuesday brought the news that Microsoft had agreed to …
Episode 4 - Video Games Do What The Metaverse Don't
The metaverse is being touted as the do-all, be-all platform of the future where we will work, play, live, and get married. There's only one problem -- video games have already been off…
Episode 2 - Thanks, We Hate It: The Future Of Gaming Is Mobile
To gain clues about the future, it's helpful to look at the past. But if the dominance of mobile, digital, and free-to-play video games in 2021 is anything to go by, the future of video…
Episode 1 - The NFT Invasion
We’re excited to welcome you to the very first episode of Gamers Week Podcast! Like the name says, we analyze the best, worst, and weirdest headlines of the past week in the video game …