Hey All!
It's that time once again. Between now and February 3rd at 11:59p ET, you'll be able to vote on a topic Dagan and I will add to the list while we recording a future wave of KnockBack.
The five choices below are the five highest-voted suggestions from the Topic Primary Election earlier this month. The na...
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2021-01-29 22:32:13 +0000 UTC View Post
All anyone wants to talk about is the recent GameStop stock market fiasco. Well, fine! We'll do just that. Let's chat about capitalism, "the market," class, and much more, sifting down into the actual nitty-gritty: How did a dying brick-and-mortar video game store find itself at the center of one of the most memorable global ...
2021-01-29 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-01-28 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It was an incredibly busy week for Xbox! The Xbox Live Gold fiasco, their first major Xbox Series X/S exclusive released, and Microsoft shared the company's recent earnings painting a clear picture of where Xbox stands as a division within the company. Even more crazy is that amongst all of this, there are rumors spreading of...
2021-01-28 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while since just you and I (Colin!) spoke, hasn't it? So let's chat for a little bit, just me (Colin!) and you, all about the things you want to talk about. Gran Turismo 7? Sure, we can touch on that. The definition of "second party?" I think we can do that. Possibilities for a PlayStation 5 Pro? Let's go there. R...
2021-01-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Long Island, New York is the nautical homeland of The Moriarty Boys, and it comes up on KnockBack constantly. Almost every one of our childhood and teenage stories, memories, and events happened there, and -- at the request of the audience -- we thought we'd take the opportunity to do a non-IP-driven episode of our show all a...
2021-01-25 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-01-22 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
If we're being totally honest, Capcom's recent Resident Evil Village event was largely a waste of time, considering we could have just watched gameplay and gotten a release date without the false promise of an "event." But it was awesome to more thoroughly see the newest entry in the company's long-running survival horror fra...
2021-01-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: This is a reupload of an old episode that was accidently deleted by Dustin a few months ago. Please feel free to make fun of him in the comments.
It wasn't even a year ago that prolific Polish developer CD Projekt and The Witcher's creator Andrzej Sapkowski found themselves in a legal battle over ...
2021-01-22 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-01-21 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, Defining Duke invites in their very first guest to show, Chris Ray Gun! Chris sits down with Matty and Karak to mull over the 29 confirmed exclusive games dropping in 2021, but it always came back to Halo. Whether it is a flagship IP or not is up for debate, but the reality is that Halo Infinite is currently Xbox's big...
2021-01-21 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
When futuristic scholars look back on 2020, they'll no doubt remark that it was one of the best years in human history, what with the global pandemic and political anarchy and all of the other uplifting pillars of the last 365 days or so. Yet, 2020 did unironically glow in one significant way: It was a hell of a year for...
2021-01-19 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The term 'action movie' is sometimes used as a pejorative in order to hand-wave away bombastic and violent films that don't have some sort of deeper meaning. Yet, 2014's John Wick -- starring the seemingly-affable Keanu Reeves -- may just have redefined the term for a modern era. The titular Wick's head-first dive into the un...
2021-01-18 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
When Electronic Arts signed a 10-year exclusive development and publishing deal with Disney for the Star Wars license, it had the potential to be something huge for the lucrative (but oft-under siege) companies. Eight years later, though, it's clear both sides (and EA in particular) have largely squandered the deal, with a co...
2021-01-15 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-01-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
After a busy holiday season, there is an expected lull for gaming in January, but 2021 seems to be playing by its own ruleset. Xbox's acquiring of Bethesda may already be paying dividends with the announcement of Machine Games' brand new Indiana Jones game. For years Xbox has sought an answer to Uncharted even going to the le...
2021-01-14 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-01-14 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The so-called 'One Sony' initiative is a long-discussed attempt to unify all of the Japanese conglomerate's many operations into one coherent commercial vision. From music to television -- and from movies to games and beyond -- Sony has sometimes-competing interests that don't always pull in the right direction,&nbs...
2021-01-12 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In the late '90s and early '00s, writer and director Wes Anderson came out swinging with his beloved comedies Bottle Rocket and Rushmore. His third film, however -- 2001's The Royal Tenenbaums -- is perhaps his most beloved project, a movie all about an equally talented and troubled family of two estranged parents, three pecu...
2021-01-11 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Sacred Symbols on video for the very first time.
2021-01-08 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
For some peculiar reason, Sony simply refuses to officially announce how many PlayStation 5 consoles have been sold, which leaves us only one choice: We've gotta speculate. Really, we can actually do a little bit better than that -- reliable inside sources note PS5 is a meteoric success -- but we're left to wonder why Sony wo...
2021-01-08 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
World War II raged from 1939 to 1945, and as its name aptly suggests, there was fighting pretty much everywhere: the Pacific, North Africa, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, France and the UK, and on and on. However, HBO's 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers -- released in 2001 -- explores one piece of one of the theaters of...
2021-01-07 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-01-07 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Game Pass, the popular and successful Xbox subscription service, has a knack for rolling in more without asking for additional money from its users. That trend seems to be continuing after EA Play was packaged in and now Xbox has their eyes set on the next logical step — adding in uPlay. Ubisoft owns a suite of tantalizing ...
2021-01-07 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Good news: 2020 is over! One of the worst years ever (for many people) is finally behind us, and so now we get to stare longingly at 2021. Now, 2021 promises to be quite the year in the world of PlayStation. We've got first and second party exclusives en route, lots of third party love, and a few surprises lurking around the ...
2021-01-05 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
One of Sacred Symbols' and KnockBack's great traditions is intensive audience interaction, and obviously our new Xbox podcast Defining Duke is gonna follow suit.
Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas to the show using weekly threads like this one, so that Matt and ACG can figure o...
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2021-01-04 14:24:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here at Last Stand, we don't like to encroach on territory unless we think we can provide particular value for our audience. Back in 2018, we launched Sacred Symbols and KnockBack because we felt like there was a demand for high-quality PlayStation and nostalgia podcasts (respectively), but since then, we've halted our expans...
2021-01-04 14:05:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
First off, Happy New Year. I hope you and yours are doing great. It's awesome to have you here with us! Right off the bat, allow me to direct your attention to the video associated with this post. If you don't see it, you can find it 2021-01-04 14:02:00 +0000 UTC
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