In this episode we discuss the emerging trend of adding massively multiplayer features to games that otherwise might be single player. Is this something we want to see more? Or is it just a way of extracting more 'value' from gamers?

• GTA 5 has sold-in over 85 million copies
• Frontier Games Hosts Massive Space Battles on AWS
• AWS re:Invent 2015 presentation from Frontier Games on their architecture
• Digital Trends: "Everyone is going to start playing MMOs again, whether they realize it or not"

Intro & outro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion

In this episode Jalada and Sefran sit back and chat about how gamers shape games through coming up with challenges, speedruns, or rewriting the games themselves through modding.

• Playtonic games announcing tweaks to Yooka Laylee for speedrunners.
• Super Mario 64 parallel universes.
• Nuzlocke Challenge.
• "Brendan "Playerunknown" Greene's whirlwind year" in which Brendan mentions he wants to give back to the modding community, where he came from.

In this episode we talk about early access games. Everything from their origins, where we think they're going, and some of our favourite and least favourite games we've backed or bought before release.

• "Early Access popularity growing, but only 25% have released as a full game" (2014)
• Jalada's favourites include:
  • Elite: Dangerous
  • Kerbal Space Program
  • Minecraft
• Sefran's favourites include:
  • Prison Architect
  • Shelter
  • Stardew Valley
• Some less-than-awesome examples of early access include:
  • Mighty No 9
  • Godus

In this episode we take a deeper look at eSports and how it compares to more traditional sporting events.

• Inside Fnatic's Bunkr, the World's First eSports Store
• eSports news on ESPN
• Loading Bar

Intro/outro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion

In their most click-bait episode ever, Jalada and Sefran discuss the state of mobile phone games, where they think the industry is going, and some games that perhaps aren't so bad after all.

• 81% of the UK population own a smartphone according to Deloitte.
• "Mobile games hit $34.8B in 2015, taking 85% of all app revenues"
• Super Mario Run from Nintendo.
• Extra Credits channel on YouTube.
• Monument Valley.

Intro music: JACKS – Runaway Fashion Outro music: OC/DC - Rise of the Piggies