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Hot Button Game Awards 2019 Special Follow-Up

Your game of the year answers are finally here! Hear us run through everything revealed at the official 2019 Game Awards and see how we each scored in the process. Hot announcements, new consoles, live performances, we cover all the wins/losses and find out which one of the three of us placed the best bets!

Hot Button Game Awards 2019 Special Part 2

Our Game of the Year series continues! On part II of today’s episode in celebrating the best of 2019, we pick up right where we left off and finish the full list of The Game Award’s official nominations. We even saved the biggest categories for last like best direction, Game of the Year, and best... uhh... eSports coach?

Hot Button Game Awards 2019 Special Part 1

Making it through to the end of the year just means it’s now closer to awards season! On our special two-parter, we discuss the absolute best of gaming in 2019 by running down the recently announced nominations featured in Geoff Keighley’s annual Game Awards show. Hear us list off the greats, category by category. What deserves to be there? What shouldn’t be there? Who do we want to win? Who do we think will win? What do we feel were the most egregious snubs? Our bets are now placed for the first half the event. Be sure to come back next week to listen to the rest!

Episode 51: I Have a Mouth, and I Must Scream... But Only with Hazard Pay - Video Game Voice Actor Strike

Performance is one of the greatest advancements video games have made in the past 20 years. Voice acting went from an afterthought of development to a vital piece of delivering a top quality story. However, what happens when those hard-working actors feel highly mistreated? Their union SAG-AFTRA steps in! On this episode, we cover their fight for better working conditions, higher pay, residuals, and actual protections for the craft. We’re gonna tell you all about how that fight went, and why you probably didn’t even notice the longest dispute for rights the union had ever been a part of!

Episode 50: Hot Button Year-One Edition

It’s our one-year anniversary! Can you believe we have been doing this for 50 whole episodes now? Us either! Which is why today we are gonna take a trip down memory lane and run through our library of topics starting from our first release all the way through to the present. Hear how we update stories that need to be updated, fix mistakes that need to be fixed, and make jokes that we somehow didn’t get to before. It’s our “where are they now?” episode and even our sound guy is here to celebrate!

Episode 49: World of Warcraft's Corrupted Blood Incident

Plagues are not new subject matter to video games. Many a fictional post-apocalyptic world starts with a plague. But what happens when the world's biggest MMO accidentally introduces a plague that kills off a ton of it's lower level players, almost making the game unplayable? On this episode we are joined by MMO expert Dan Bittner, as we break down World of Warcraft's Corrupted Blood Incident. Learn how a simple bug in a new raid led to players running through the skeleton covered streets of Orgrimmar and Stormwind in a panic. And how these player’s reactions not only changed the world of Azeroth, but also the way Epidemiologists study the spread of disease IRL.

Episode 48: Tales from EVE Online

This week we discuss a group known for its lying, backstabbing, racketeering, piracy, war for profit, and corporate greed. No, not Congress, the players of the infamous mmorpg EVE Online. We talk a bit of history, some of its several thousand player battles, and a few of it's more frighteningly dedicated members.

Episode 47: Itchy Tasty - The Origins of Resident Evil

Halloween is just around the corner, so what do you say we close out the end of our spooky scary series by exploring the origins of gaming’s most spooky scary series. This week we enter the world of survival horror to discover just how the Resident Evil franchise was born and how zombies would see their biggest revival in pop culture yet. It’s a story that might go back much further than you think!