Obsidian Entertainment is often referred to as "Xbox's #1 draft pick" by the Dukes. While Starfield and Redfall have left 2022 more vacant than Xbox would have liked, Obsidian is showing a bit of Insomniac Games energy with two releases this fall. Those two being Grounded and Pentiment! While not entirely sexy games, these ex...
2022-09-29 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Games media has long called for the death of E3. For them, it resembles a sweatshop where you tuck away in the back rooms cranking out op-eds at the behest of a publication. However, Matty and Cog come from a different walk of life and, for them, E3 was the "North Star." In Cog's case, it served as the birthplace of his succe...
2022-09-28 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-09-27 21:39:25 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time once again for Sacred Symbols x Defining Duke. We welcome Matty and Cog to the show with an agenda in mind: To dig through our most-anticipated games of October, November, and December, and 'map a path' through which titles we're planning on playing. Between the five of us, we discuss 18 separate products (17 games ...
2022-09-27 21:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey All! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 91 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 re...
2022-09-26 19:16:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Learning the value of a dollar is a fundamental lesson for all fully-functioning young people. While some parents choose the allowance route (with chores mandatory or not), many teens are eager to score a part-time gig as soon as they're legally allowed (and often before they're not). Today's episode of KnockBack is dedicated...
2022-09-26 16:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-09-24 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to Sacred Symbols+. As promised, I (Colin) endeavored to get our two favorite subject matter experts -- Hoeg and Moore's Law -- onto the show to discuss the recent Rockstar hack/leak from a more academic perspective. We begin with our legal analyst Rick Hoeg of Hoeg Law and Virtual Legality, who dives into the po...
2022-09-24 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-09-23 16:01:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Life is full of choices. And a fundamental choice is what you do for a living and who you work for. So it was disappointing to see Shawn Layden -- a champion of PlayStation's first party games for a run of very good years -- choosing to sign with Tencent as a Special Advisor. As an ex-Fortune 500 executive, Layden is already ...
2022-09-23 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-09-22 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
With the continued back-and-forth, Xbox and Sony are truly reviving what we thought was a bygone time: The Console Wars! It's clear now that the modus operandi for PlayStation is to obstruct the Activision deal by any means necessary. This means even taking the public "egg in the face" as they continue to sink their public im...
2022-09-22 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
As usual, we're giving you -- our beloved audience -- the opportunity to help select an upcoming episode of our retro and nostalgia podcast, KnockBack.
Here's what you do: Submit a single topic idea in the thread below, and then use Patreon's "like" system (which is a heart) to show support for others' subm...
2022-09-21 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Soon, we'll be recording an episode of KnockBack dedicated to the second season of Lost, which aired on ABC in 2006 and 2007.
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2022-09-21 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-09-21 16:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to a wonderful write-in from our audience, Cog and I have a fun one for you all. Given it's the start of the football season where friendships are being tested via fantasy football, we thought we should bring that energy to an episode of the show. The rules are simple. Cog and I shall draft from a pool of Xbox exclusiv...
2022-09-21 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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1989's Lethal Weapon 2 is one of the most beloved buddy-cop (and action) movies of all-time, and for good reason. A trio of excellent performances from the likes of Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Joe Pesci set the stage for two hours well-spent, another ride through 1980s Los Angeles full of crime, violence, and of course a ne...
2022-09-20 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey All! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 90 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 respectfully) ignor...
2022-09-19 20:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-09-19 17:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This past weekend, something unreal happened: A nefarious digital actor scraped and released a ton of material -- stolen directly from developer Rockstar -- showing an in-development Grand Theft Auto VI. Obviously, this is a very big deal. Indeed, this is one of the largest breaches a games company has ever experienced in the...
2022-09-19 17:33:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-09-17 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh dear: It's time to talk about Naughty Dog again. But fear not! We're not haters. Rather, today's episode of + is a two-hour ride through The Last of Us: Part I -- recently released on PlayStation 5 and coming soon to PC -- featuring me (Colin) and Last Stand's Coordinator and Shopkeep (and my fiancé), Micah. We get d...
2022-09-17 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-09-16 16:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Just when you thought mega-publisher Ubisoft finally 'got it' when it came to Assassin's Creed, they went ahead and simultaneously announced three brand-new AC games for console. This is of course a change from their more recent strategy of treating this particular franchise with more care; they now seem fine with potentially...
2022-09-16 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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2022-09-15 16:07:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Showcases, showcases, showcases! Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2022, State Of Play, Nintendo Direct, Ubisoft Forward, and Disney all came out to show what their respective teams and partners are working on. While each showcase had their bright spots, Xbox's Tokyo Game Show presentation stood out to us in particular as it feels like a ...
2022-09-15 16:07:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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