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Episode 9: Dr. Dragonborn or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thu’um
Making open worlds fun isn't easy. It took one of us nearly four years to appreciate Skyrim's sense of wanderlust.
Episode 7: Ice-T Presents: Fallout, 4
E3 still isn’t officially underway for another day or so, but Bethesda sure wasn’t gonna wait around for other companies to break their news. The developer and publisher took to the stage last night to promote its upcoming games,
Episode 6: Gamer Knows Best
Video game fans are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Picture the acerbic, humorless affect of The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy and toss in a lot of strong opinions about player progression systems and you've got the makings of a gaming Subreddit.
Episode 5: Then and Now
In this episode we explore the concept of taste: Do we still choose the same games that we've always loved, or has the industry influenced what we play?
Episode 4: Franchise Opportunities Available
Some of yesterday's biggest franchises are coming back in 2015. Why now, and what's driving the reanimation of once-dead properties?
Episode 3: Mod Money
Here at The Ludonist, we do our best to bring you a fresh, topical episode every week. We think we've got a pretty good system down that accounts for unexpected changes to a story, but there's always the risk that a topic will become irrelevant within ...
Episode 2: Start Your Engines
It's been a couple months since the 2015 Game Developers Conference took place in San Francisco, and we're just beginning to feel the repercussions of some major changes in game-development tech that were announced at the show.
Episode 1: Hello World
In our first episode, we set out to do the impossible: define what the games industry looks like in 2015.