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We're doing our first Book Club episode. In this episode we talk about Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier. Also in this episode our usual stand-up and more Apex Legends.

A new battle royale has entered the arena! Danh, Zach, and Dave are smitten over Respawn's newest game, Apex Legends. We discuss this and try to predict how long we're going to be playing it.

Danh, Zach, and Dave headed to PAX South to do Games Journalism™ and get a look at what's new in video games in 2019.

First episode of the year and we're talking about where to get hot new bootleg controllers and gripes about the Switch's online system. Also some big news in this week's Overwatch Minute.

Danh, Dave, and Zach sit down and share their 2018 Game of The Year picks.

Minit the Game, the Overwatch Minute, and some more games and frustrations.

We're back! Danh played a new puzzle fighting game. Dave is stuck on a game, played a new indie game, and has strong opinions about using Game FAQs. We also give another Overwatch update on Operation: Alt Accounts.

Together Danh and Dave played almost every genre of video games this week: JRPGs, Dating Sims, Roguelikes, Sports, Puzzle, and an FPS.

We're back after a 3 week unintended haitus. During that time E3 happened! We'll talk about the games we played and what we liked about E3 2018.

This week we talk about climbing out of Bronze in Overwatch, our new Alt Accounts, Pokémon, IKEA, books, and more.

We're back from a week off and boy do we have some games to talk about: A game set in space, violent games with kids around, and Japanese Dating Simulators.

Danh played Splatfest this weekend on Splatoon 2 and there were Ninja Turtles. Interesting? Heck yes. We talk about it. We also recap our Season 10 Overwatch placements.

Busy week! Danh and Dave had a couple of birthdays this past week. Celebrated at a pinball arcade.

This week Dave and Danh played Nintendo Labo with Dave's 4.5 year old son Otis. We share a lot of thoughts and impressions about this new future of cardboard gaming accessories, maker culture, and gaming for fun.

In this episode we talk about the economics of Twitch. What are bits? Why bits? We also talk about how Overwatch has plummeted from the most viewers list. How does popularity effect a game's ecosystem? Has Overwatch League cannibalized streamers? Is Fortnite's success due to the fact that it's free?