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Another grab bag of topics this week as Gareth & James discuss early access games. The failures, the successes, and how they’re changing the industry. From Minecraft to Project Zomboid, Scale, Tangiers and the Forest, we examine how early access has changed the economics of indie game production, for good and ill. We also take … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 25 – Dancing with Bono →

Gareth & James get together in the first Threat Detection for a while for a general chat about games. They talk about classic videogame publications like PC Gamer, C&VG and EGM, as well as the revival of classic games on sites like Good Old Games. Download: Episode 24 What is Threat Detection? Threat Detection is … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 24 – All Filler, No Killer →

What’s Threat Detection? Threat Detection is a lively, smart, frequently funny and always irreverent videogame chat show on Radiomade.ie. Each week, hosts Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal take an hour or two to tear apart a videogame topic, like character, horror, or sex. Download: Threat Detection – Episode 23 In the second part … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 23 – A.I. in Games (Part 2) →

What’s Threat Detection? Threat Detection is a lively, smart, frequently funny and always irreverent videogame chat show on Radiomade.ie. Each week, hosts Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal take an hour or two to tear apart a videogame topic, like character, horror, or sex. Download: Threat Detection – Episode 22 Why is artificial intelligence … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 22 – Gaming A.I. (Part 1) →

What’s Threat Detection? Threat Detection is a lively, smart, frequently funny and always irreverent videogame chat show on Radiomade.ie. Each week, hosts Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal take an hour or two to tear apart a videogame topic, like character, horror, or sex. This week – E3, the worlds largest videogame conference Started … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 21 – E3 Megashow →

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 20 Does character matter? A vessel for the player to travel through the story. An enigma in his/her self. Often times an empty receptacle for containing player projections. How can it be conveyed in interactive media? Characters can often be more than their general perspective of first and third person … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 20 – Character in Videogames →

On this second part of our discussion of sex in videogames, we delve into gender, sexuality, and the auld ride in mainstream and indie videogames. How have videogames historically dealt with sex? Is it possible for such a mainstream medium to deal with sex in an adult way? Do we even want sex in our … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 19 – Sex in Videogames (Part 2) →

On this episode of our weekly videogame show Gareth & James discuss the steamy topic of sex in videogames. We delve into gender, sexuality, and the auld ride in mainstream and indie videogames. How have videogames historically dealt with sex? Is it possible for such a mainstream medium to deal with sex in an adult … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 18 – Sex in Videogames (Part 1) →

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 17 Continuing from last weeks show, we chat about horror in video games. How does video game horror differ from movie horror, and how we can be horrified, now that we are so jaded.

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 16 In this weeks ‘very special episode’ of Threat Detection, we discuss horror in videogames. We touch on the history of horror games from ‘Alone in the Dark’ to ‘Amnesia A Machine for Pigs’. We talk about how the mechanics of horror are evolving, and how they’ll change now that … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 16 – Horror (Part 1) →

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 15 1) Super Bunny Hop reports VAC bans affecting Dark Souls 2 – vac bans for using graphics enhancing hook file 2) Onion AV club running a series of articles on empty spaces in games World of Warcraft Myst and Riven 3) More privilege theory applied to gaming

Download: Episode 14 We discuss… 1) Ars reveals the very short tail of steam game ownership 2) The importance of verbs – hilarious Day Z torture video demonstrates the bizarre social mechanics that can develop from relatively simply interaction mechanics. We need more of these! Day Z has bandage, steal, tie up, force feed, take … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 14 →

Download: Episode 12 We discuss… 1) Guilt of the video game millionaires 2) Interesting article by Samantha Allen about joining the fringe medium of ‘queer’ games with the mainstream gaming audience. It highlights the veritable renaissance of sexual politics video games. 3) What we’ve been playing – GTA 5, Brothers a tale of two sons

Download: Episode 11 We discuss… 1) With the first teasers and trailers released for next gen only Ubi titles like Assasins Creed Unity (5), and The Division – what can we expect from the next generation – Indie game ‘the vanishing of Ethan Carter’ from ex people can fly dev, amongst the first to use … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 11 – A Rift In Cyberspace →

Download: Episode 10 We discuss… 1) More VR rumours Sony’s VR unit ‘morpheus’ – 300 dollars / euro with camera (loss leader) – will be named PS View or imagine or some crap – may be out before Rift (early 2015) – lots of software in development in house – including VR Last of Us, … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 10 →

Download: Episode 8 We discuss… 1) Oculus DK 2 and Sony VR HMD ‘Morpheus’ announced – you can order the DK2 today – ships July – Sony unit has smaller FOV (90 vs 110 – diagonal) but otherwise very comparable – DK2 is 1080p (divided over two eyes) – Sony unit includes 3D audio – … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 9 →

Download: Episode 8 We discuss… 1) Xbox ONE’s price drop and its failure to make waves with us. Microsofts decisions to include connect in the box. Perceptions on console launches. 2) Our grim gaming memories, including James’s harrowing childhood video game trauma at Sega World.

Download: Episode 7 We talked about… 1) Retro gaming and the reasons people play classic games. 2) Irrational Games shutting down! (Just beat me to it. Was in the process of linking stories to this) (System shock, tribes3, freedom force, swat 4, bioshock) – Sean Elliot employers! – Ken Levine to start new downsized studio … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 7 →

Apologies for the sound problems in this episode. It’s our first week in the new studio and we have some gremlins to sort out. Download: Episode 6 We talk about… Valve Cheat detection controversy – Valve pulling an EA. Tracking people’s DNS addresses and entries such as ipconfig/displadns. Doing this through VAC. – also facepunch … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 6 →

Download: Episode 5 1) How in app purchases have ‘destroyed’ the games industry – Assassin’s Creed 4 metagame is crippled because of this – do casuals deserve it? – Jonathan Blows GDC talk – Nerd 3 (cubed) review of Dungeon Keeper remake for mobile (micropayments crippled) 2) Should games enter the public domain 3) The … Continue reading Threat Detection – Episode 5 →