The Podcast of the Beast: The 7 Deadly Sins of Gaming - From Unity's Greed to Star Citizen's Pride

It’s episode 666, so naturally we spent a chunk of it assigning the Seven Deadly Sins to the gaming industry’s worst offenders. Unity took Greed for trying to charge developers retroactively per install (still unforgivable). AI took Gluttony. Microsoft took… also Gluttony, basically. Luke took Sloth personally and voluntarily. Chris Roberts, who has been making Star Citizen since 2012, has taken over a billion dollars, and still hasn’t released the game, nearly got Sloth but ended up on Pride, which honestly tracks more.

Also in this episode: Luke bought a shirt in Vietnam that might have sea cucumbers on it. Matt went to a fake Warped Tour at a brewery and thinks the Green Day tribute band put in more effort than actual Green Day. The Witcher 3 Remastered looks incredible on an ultrawide with ray tracing. Luke wants Night Trap but can’t get it in Australia. Someone is selling bootleg 4K discs of The Abyss on Amazon. The Minecraft Realm still exists and nobody has logged in.

Oh, and the website has a new topics browser now: you can see that we’ve talked about Red Dead Redemption 2 fifteen times and Rogue One eighteen times. Which is a lot.

Topics discussed

Matt went to a fake Warped Tour at a breweryLuke bought a bright sea-creature shirt in VietnamMatt's been playing Graveyard KeeperThe Witcher 3 remastered is out and looks incredibleXbox now has Mythic achievementsDevelopers at The Coalition (Gears of War E-Day) are reportedly worriedThe 7 Deadly Sins of gaming and techBootleg physical media is apparently a real problem nowColin from Accounts season 3 is out on ParamountWe're watching Ted Lasso season 4The Pokémon TCG printed so many cards in their new set that scalpers are stuck holding stock they can't flip for much profit. Extremely satisfying.Matt updated the Multiple Nerdgasm website with an AI-powered topics pageDaylight saving is about to mess with their recording schedule againPAX Australia is next week

Links

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Report: Gears Of War: E-Day Developers Fear For Their Jobs And Bonuses - Kotaku

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Mythic achievements