This week in Argue the Toss, Corey Brotherson flies into the studio to discuss his career writing about games and how he created and published his own comics series. Drew and Chella find out just how you get a job working for PlayStation and what it takes to move from comics nerd to writing your own stories and getting them published.
It’s October already, and as we close in on the spookiest day of the year, it’s time to turn our attention to something truly terrifying – genuine human emotional connection. This week’s Argue The Toss is all about gaming romances – the best, the worst, they’re all here, so cast your ear this way.
This week on Argue the Toss, the team try to untangle the Virginia mystery. Drew and Chella discuss the Twin Peaks, X-Files mash-up and narrative noir-fest that is Virginia from Variable State.
GiN’s own Chella Ramanan moderated a panel on diversity in videogames at the European Women in Games Conference this year. We chat with her in the lounge this week about how well the industry is doing, and where we can improve.
Drew and Chella discuss their Doritos TV – those shows that are just easy-watching after a hard day’s work – Elementary and the BBC’s The Musketeers. And then Drew talks about Dark Souls…again.
We connect with GiN Reporter Marion Constante live at the Call of Duty XP 2016 event out in LA, where she is both checking out the pending Infinite Warfare game and covering the Call of Duty World League Championships. We are running and gunning CoD-style this week in the lounge.
John joins the Argue the Toss team to be their guide to No Man’s Sky, as they discuss 10 things they wish they’d known when they set up. These are the tips you need to get to the centre of the universe.
Drew and Chella discuss Inside, the latest game from Limbo developer, Playdead. From the puzzling ending and the artsy intentions, can the Argue The Toss team agree to disagree?
Regular reality’s just not real enough, so this week Argue The Toss returns to the virtual, this time with special guest, Dr. Wendy Powell, senior member of the IEEE and senior lecturer in applications of VR at the University of Portsmouth.
Can you believe that 2016 is more than halfway over already? Luckily for gamers, we have experienced some really great games already this year, though not all of them were expected. We dive into which games gave our reviewers a surprise this week in the GiN Lounge. And we welcome to new GiN reviewer Marion Constante!
