Episode 267 - Twisted Metal & Downsized Battlefield
Pinball: We discuss a bunch of listener emails. Video Games: We talk about virtual pinball, Pokopia, New York suing Valve, Microsoft's new gaming hardware, the background of Overwatch, the shutdown of Highguard, a major win for the National Videogame Museum, PlayStation walking away from a PC release strategy, and EA downsizing their Battlefield team. Jeff Kaplan interview: Website: EGP T-shirts: iTunes: SoundCloud: Facebook: YouTube: Email: eclecticgamerspodcast@gmail.com
Kineticist’s take
Eclectic Gamers EP267: Light pinball chat (leaks, TMNT, Pokemon Pro issues) amid heavy video game discussion.
Synopsis
This Eclectic Gamers Podcast episode (267, March 15) covers primarily video game topics with minimal pinball content. Listeners submitted pinball-related questions about Stern's leak management, TMNT's difficulty, Pokemon pinball issues, and potential pinball themes (Buffy, Twisted Metal). The hosts also discuss virtual pinball updates from Zachariah and Zen, Pokemon Pocopia's massive success, and a five-hour Jeff Kaplan podcast about Overwatch League's financial failures.
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- Valve· company
- Zachariah (virtual pinball developer)· company
- Zen Pinball / Zen Studios· company
- Pokemon (Stern pinball game)· game
- Pokemon Pocopia· game
- TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pinball)· game
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer· intellectual_property
- Twisted Metal· intellectual_property
- Brent R.· person
- Butts· person
- Cliff Bleszinski (Cliffy B)· person
- Dennis· person
- Doug· person
- Jeff Kaplan· person
- Peter Molyneux· person
- Richard A.· person
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi· person
- Tom H.· person
- Tony· person