Episode Details

This week! Not one but two special guests join us to talk about the games and news of the week - Greg Rice, producer at Double Fine Productions, and Kevin Larrabee of The Fitcast (and Back In My Play). Things we talk about: How Greg got into the industry, Double Fine’s Day of the Devs event, the perception of indie games in Sony/Microsoft’s free game lineups, Nintendo’s first mobile title Miitomo, Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair movie Kickstarter, and all the Sony announcements from Paris Games Week - Detroit, Dreams, Gran Turismo Sport, Driveclub Bikes, Matterfall, and more. Plus: Halo 5, Until Dawn, Undertale, N++, Persona 4 Golden, Persona 4 Dancing All Night, Guitar Hero Live, games on the 4th generation Apple TV and loads more. Join us, won’t you?

Links of interest:

• Double Fine and iam8bit's Day of the Devs event / twitch.tv page
• Shortpause.com - should PS+/GwG stop doing free games (because of the bad response when they are indie games)
• Detroit, from David Cage
• Gran Turismo Sport
• Media Molecule’s Dreams
• Matterfall from Housemarque
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Michel Ancel’s Wild
• Boundless
• Opinion pieces on Miitomo from ferricide and toastyfrog
• Mathnet "The Problem of the Missing Baseball"

• Dragon’s Lair Kickstarter - $500k goal for pitch video on $70m feature

Check out Back In My Play at backinmyplay.com, The Fitcast at thefitcast.com, and follow Kevin Larrabee on Twitter @kevinlarrabee.

Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 (Episode 16 now available) - click here. Also check out Greg Sewart's Extra-Life Participant Page. And take a trip over to Phil's YouTube Channel to see some awesome retro game vids.

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