If you wanted to ask your friend to play in 1990, you had to call his house phone and hope for the best. Was anyone there? Who would answer? Would your friend be available? Maybe you'll leave a message... It was a weird tradition we repeated ad nauseam, one of many peculiar and lost customs we were subjected to in our analog ...
2023-04-03 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-04-01 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy gang, Micah here! What do canned foods, fantasy books, and JRPGs all have in common? They are some of my favorite things! Today, I’ll be responding to some listener inquiries and covering many topics from cooking to time travel, and of course video games. Crack open a can of bread and let’s get into it!
2023-04-01 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a week of surprise turnarounds and unexpected outcomes. First up: Has Sony flown too close to the sun? In trying to halt Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, it may have exposed itself to critical governmental and social scrutiny it would have otherwise never garnered. And the deal's probably going to go through anyway...
2023-03-31 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-03-30 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
There's no denying the Dukes have tried to rally behind E3, but doubt began to seep in following Xbox's exit from the show floor. This week, we learned of three major players pulling out of E3. Those being SEGA, Ubisoft, and Tencent. With reports from IGN stating that there has been next to zero communication from the ESA and...
2023-03-30 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this week's episode of Sacred Symbols in this thread.
As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc. are politely ignored.
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2023-03-29 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-03-29 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's get wild: Please welcome legendary game director and designer David Jaffe to Constellation. As you might expect, Jaffe comes packing an interesting topic: What happens when we die? Specifically, what do we make of scientific and anecdotal evidence alike suggesting that dying may not be as straight-forward as we think? L...
2023-03-29 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostYo!
Micah will be recording a mailbag for an upcoming episode of Sacred Symbols+!
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2023-03-28 16:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in 2016, Sony did the unthinkable (at the time) and created a reasonably affordable console VR headset using established hardware and retooled peripherals, appropriately called PlayStation VR. While the headset itself wasn't a game changer in terms of specs, it helped to create an entire new vertical in the gaming ecosys...
2023-03-28 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey All! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 117 of Defining Duke.
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2023-03-27 21:07:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-03-25 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Are you obsessed with numbers, statistics, and trends? Then The Sacred Sales Saga is for you! Our monthly foray into PlayStation software sales data can be tracked at https://www.sacredsalessaga.com, and you can play along at home by connecting your LSM ...
2023-03-25 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In late February, Last Stand Media gathered in Houston, Texas to discuss the most overrated games of all time. Not only did members of the crew present their cases, but we also gathered your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts and ideas live. Some of the audience were in agreement, but some also let us know their staunch ...
2023-03-24 23:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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In September of 2018, one of the biggest PlayStation games of all-time -- Insomniac's Spider-Man -- came to PlayStation 4. Along with its '1.5-style' follow-up Miles Morales, the fledgling franchise has sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 million copies, and it seems like the original's direct sequel will launch five yea...
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2023-03-23 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Xbox and PlayStation may have their differences, but they admittedly stay at the same pace when it comes to the release of new hardware. Outlet Insider Gaming has reported a "PS5 Pro" of sorts is inbound by the end of 2024 and naturally our audience has inquired if Xbox can expect much of the same. The report also says that t...
2023-03-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this week's episode of Sacred Symbols in this thread.
As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc. are politely ignored.
You have until Thursday, March 23rd at n...
2023-03-22 19:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-03-22 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to introduce you to The Old Heads Council, as the Brothers Moriarty are joined on this episode by Defining Duke's co-host Lord Cognito and Washington Post games reporter Gene Park. Gene kicks things off with a comprehensive conversation about marijuana: Our past and present with it, our thoughts on its efficacy, and...
2023-03-22 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-03-22 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Dukes alongside Lord Sovereign were invited out to an event in NYC to try out Redfall for a little over an hour! With two immersive sim purists and a lover of loot driven games, did Redfall manage to leave us encouraged after our play session? We dive deep into our experience during this bonus episode of Defining Duke Ult...
2023-03-22 14:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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2023-03-21 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Please welcome Last Stand Media's tech analyst, Tom from Moore's Law Is Dead and Broken Silicon, back to Sacred+. I (Colin) invited Tom to the show for the first time this year to delve deeper into recent rumors surrounding PlayStation 5 Pro, rumors that were actually first discussed in a looser form on this very program and ...
2023-03-21 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey All! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 116 of Defining Duke.
Great ways to get your write-up used: Be pithy, be topical, and be insightful. Walls-of-text, posts littered with poor grammar and punctuation, etc., are promptly (though respectf...
2023-03-21 01:41:04 +0000 UTC View Post
