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79: HOME OF THE CLASSY TAKE Apr 25, 2018

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It took us until well into spring, but Mike Minotti and Jeffrey Grubb finally did two episodes together back-to-back. On this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast, your hosts spend a lot of time talking about God of War.
In the second segment, the squad digs into the best reboots of all time. They also try to define a reboot in the age of the "sequel" that resets almost everything. The past week also had major stories like our Battlefield V Battle Royale report and Valve acquiring Firewatch developer Campo Santo that takes up a chunk of the news segment.
Join us for all of that and more, won't you?

78: 90/100? WHY SO LOW! Apr 18, 2018

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n this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti are mad, but they're also dads -- so they feel guilty about it. Hey, that's just like Kratos from God of War!
Mike has played a lot of God of War and written a review, so expect a lot of non-spoilery talk about one of the biggest
Here's everything that we talked about:
God of War
Wolfenstein 2 on Switch
Underworld: Ascendant
The Messenger
Trailermakers
Scum/teethmeter
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Radical Heights
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 won't have traditional single-player campaign
Raven is working on battle royale mode for Black Ops 4
Billy Mitchell is bad
FTC: Those warranty-voiding stickers are illegal
Shenmue I & II HD
Xbox backward compatibility update
Shovel Knight sales
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 sales
MapleStory 2 coming to the North America

77: THE YOSHI'S ISLAND SHADOW REALM Apr 10, 2018

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This special edition of the GamesBeat Decides podcast comes to you live from the bowels of Boston. This live recording captures the PAX East panel where we decided what makes a core Mario game. Join us, won't you?

76: RIP JEFF GRUBB Apr 04, 2018

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On this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast, co-host Jeff Grubb prepares for PAX East by getting a cold. As co-host Mike Minotti points out, this is probably the big one, so it's time to start the GamesBeat Decides farewell tour.
In addition to Jeff's impending doom, the crew also talks about buying houses, "Bob Ross rooms," and this new video game thing ... turns out that they're not just Pac-Man anymore.
Here's what we discussed on the show this week:
Fortnite
Star Wars: Battlefront II
The Curse of Monkey Island
Eco
PixARK
PUBG Savage map
Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Edition
PlayStation VR bundle price drop
Shadow of War changes
SpyParty release date
Dragon Quest 11 details
Valve removes Steam Machines section from Steam

75: MIKE MINOTTI VS. ROSEANNE Mar 27, 2018

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It's time for another GamesBeat Decides podcast because games are happening and someone has to figure out what the heck it all means.
On this week's episode, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti talk about Mike's first Victory Royael in Fortnite that happened right before they recorded. Jeff also dives into Far Cry 5, which he is conflicted about for a lot of reasons. The industry is recovering from Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week, and Mike shared some stories from the event. The crew also talks about the growing momentum for unions coming out of GDC 2018.
Join us, won't you?
Here's everything we talked about this week:
Far Cry 5
Sea of Thieves
Fortnite
The Messenger
Guacamelee 2
Wolfenstein 2
Kirby: Star Allies
GDC
Game Workers Unite
Vivendi exits Ubisoft
Valve has a lot of hardware fighting cheaters

74: NO ROBOT MAYORS Mar 21, 2018

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Most of GamesBeat is off at GDC in San Francisco (Frisco, as the locals call it), so host Jeffrey Grubb has brought in some of the fine citizens of his Eco server to talk about the labor-intensive, ecological and economics simulator.

73: FARMERS ONLY; NO FASCISTS! Mar 12, 2018

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The GamesBeat Decides podcast is back on its schedule of recording on Mondays, and we've got Mike back from his trip to Valve.
Mike was in Bellevue to talk about Valve's upcoming trading card game Artifact. We break down everything he learned in the first segment of the show. Jeff meanwhile has ... well, it's complicated. He started capitalism in the game Eco, and he was met with a communist uprising that wants to put him in a dungeon.
Join us, won't you?
Here's everything that we talk about:
-Eco
-Artifact
-Nintendo Direct
-The Division 2
-Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIIIIIII
-Rainbow Six: Siege is more popular than ever
- Trump's meeting
- Hearthstone expansion

72: TRUMP'S SECRET MEETING Mar 02, 2018

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We're back with one dang busy week. We broke a couple of big stories, and the White House is bizarre even when it comes to planning meetings.
Here's what we talked about this week:
- Into the Breach
- Stardew Valley
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege
- Mike's GPU died at an inopportune time
- World of Warcraft on the lowest settings
- Battlefield V is coming this year; it's a World War II game
- White House claims it is meeting with the gaming industry next week, but the gaming industry says it was not invited
- ESRB adds stickers to games with in-game purchases
- Cryptocurrency miners bought 3 million graphics cards worth $776 million in 2017
- Metal Gear Survive flops at UK retail
- After 10 Days Of Its Release, Kingdom -
- Come: Deliverance Surpasses 500K -
- Units Sold On Steam Alone
- PSN Plus games for March: Bloodborne and Ratchet & Clank -- No more PS3/Vita games starting soon
- How Activision Blizzard Has Become a Safer Stock | Blizzard's plans for 2018 and predicted revenue streams heavily rely on the expansion of microtransactions
- Chrono Trigger releases on Steam today -- it’s bad
- New Overwatch hero: Brigitte
- Sega: Yakuza 6 Demo allowed access to full game, pulled from PlayStation Store

71: THAT PAVLOVIAN STUFF Feb 16, 2018

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On this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast, hosts Mike Minotti and Jeffrey Grubb talk about some recent releases and some that are not quite as recent. The duo also examine the pending loot-box regulation in Hawaii.
Here's a full rundown of what we talk about this week:
World of Warcraft
Celeste
Steep
Descenders
Age of Empires
Bayonetta 2
Shadow of the Colossus sales
Loot box regulation
Spyro trilogy
THQ Nordic acquires Koch Media, Deep Silver, and Saints Row
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70: YOUR FILTHY BOY Feb 10, 2018

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On this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast, host Mike Minotti has returned from vacation to talk about going into VR with his family. Co-host Jeffrey Grubb, meanwhile, plays with his steering wheel for the entire show. The squad gets into a lovely platforming game, the news, and the best game from January as part of a new monthly segment.
Games a rundown of the show:
Celeste
Dandara
Spintires
Rainbow Six: Siege
Super NT
Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire
Bandai Namco is working on Metroid Prime 4?
Fortnite hit 3.4 million concurrent players
Monster Hunter: World overtakes PUBG as the Xbox Store's No. 1 top-paid game
Red Dead 2 will have a Battle Royale mode?
GTA V sells 90 million copies
Marvel isn't at Evo
Capcom is cutting back on the next Dead Rising
Mike and Jeff decide the top 3 best games of January 2018
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