The Girls on Games Podcast

GoGCast 174: Required Reading - Video Game History Books

Welcome well-read gamers to this week’s episode of the GoGcast! Our friend Pat Landry joins us to discuss books that tell the stories of video game development and the history of the industry.
Here are Pat and Leah’s current reading list:
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Masters of Doom
Console Wars
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
The Ultimate History of Video Games
Coleco: The Official Book
Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered The World
This week in news: Answering to Kotaku’s article, Riot’s Greg Street promises changes to Riot’s toxic culture and Ubisoft confirms there will be no Assassin’s Creed game in 2019.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.

GoGCast 173: Interview with Ally Mushka

Ally Mushka is our guest for this week’s episode. Ally is a youtuber mostly known for making Souls games videos but also worked for Evolve PR, a public relations agency who represents indie games. We chat with Ally about her favourite games, her love of Dark Souls, how was her experience working in PR, what’s next for her and more.
This week in news: Spyro Reignited Trilogy delayed until November, Valve’s apparent foray into streaming with Stream.TV, Diablo III is coming to Switch with exclusives and Dark Souls Remastered for Switch will be available Oct 19th.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.

GoGCast 172: The Comeback Kids - No Man's Sky Next, Rainbow Six Siege, Pokémon Go

This week on the GoGCast, we’re talking games that are asking us to give them a second chance. Games like Pokémon Go, Rainbow Six Siege, Destiny 2, and more recently, No Man’s Sky, all made headlines for their seeming ressurgency. While this can be a good thing, it also promotes the idea of release a game early for quick money in the developers pockets, as well a second boost when the “actual” game comes out. We discuss this and Ali (Yay! Welcome back!) reviews a new feminine gaming apparel brand called Level Up Lola.
This week in news: Inside Riot Games’ bro culture, That whole Dead Cell review debacle over at IGN and Discord is launching a game store.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.

GoGCast 171: Tackling our Video Game Backlog

Ah summer! When everything seems to slow down, even game releases. It's a good time to get through your video game backlog, while we wait for fall’s usual bombardment of new titles. We share what are our current must play games in our backlog, how we balance playing older games vs new games, the benefits of playing games long after release and more.
This week in news: How the gaming industry is tackling conflict minerals, World of Warcraft cinematic controversy (rip Teldrassil) and parents are hiring Fortnite coachs to train their kids.
This week’s topic was inspired by Polygon’s Backlog Week.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.

GoGCast 170: Interview with Shane Talbot, esport Manager at MLSE

We have another great interview for you this week: Shane Talbot, esport Manager at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE). Shane manages the Raptors Uprising GC and Philip Balke, professional FIFA player for Toronto FC. We talk with Shane about MLSE’s growing involvement in the esport scene, the Bell Fibe House and more.
This week in news: Fortnite is making $2m a day on mobile alone, No Man’s Sky Next is out and is it finally the game that was promised and loot boxes to be removed from Forza Motorsport 7.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.

GoGCast 169: Esports Management UCI Program

We have talked on the podcast in past episodes about stories concerning university and colleges taking Esports into their athletic divisions, but what about learning the business around Esports? This week, we are talking to Stephane Muller, Director of Business Programs and Henry Ngo, Programming Manager for the Esports Program at University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education to talk about their new curriculum and how it can serve to educate those who wish to pursue a career in Esports outside of being an athlete.
This week in news: Nathan Fillion is Nathan Drake in this fan-made Uncharted short, is there a Bloodborne movie in the works and you’ll have to wait over a month to get a physical copy of Octopath Traveler.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.

GoGCast 168: Live from Montreal Comiccon 2018

Expect something different this week as we recorded live from Montreal Comiccon! Thanks to a visit to the PlayStation booth, Leah and Simon share their first impressions of Spider-Man, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Beat Saber and Tetris Effect. We close the show by taking questions from the audience and chat Destiny, VR, gaming in a console-less world and more.
This week in news: We Happy Few will be released in Australia after all, Why Sony is missing out big time on Fortnite and the head of Take-Two doesn’t expect Red Dead Redemption 2 to make as much money as GTA5.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.

GoGCast 167: Video Game Movies and TV Shows

This week, we chat about video games in movies and TV shows whether they be adaptations of popular franchises like Tomb Raider or Castlevania, or chock full of video game lore and references like Ready Player One and Pixels. We chat news and speculate about upcoming movies and series like The Division, Halo, Sonic the Hedgehog and The Witcher. We share our thoughts about movies we’ve seen recently like Tomb Raider and Ready Player One and reminisce about the cult classics like the infamous Marios Brothers and Street Fighter live action movies.
This week in news: The Nintendo Switch is now $20 cheaper in Canada, Google is getting into video games with a 3 tiered approach and Overwatch ads Wrecking Ball to their hero roster.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.

GoGCast 166: Mid-Year State of Gaming Review

We’re halfway through the year so we’re looking at the state of gaming in 2018. We share our favourite games of 2018 so far, which games we are looking forward to that are coming out later this year and analyse underlying trends in gaming.
This week in news: PUBG addresses the asset flip debacle, The gaming industry is about accounts not hardware and the Steam Summer Sale is upon us.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.

GoGCast 165: E3 2018 Round-Up

E3 2018 wrapped up but a few days ago: games were announced, trailers and gameplay were premiered, Kingdom Hearts III was everywhere but Square Enix forgot to prepare more than one trailer, Nintendo went Smash crazy and we finally saw what Cyberpunk 2077 is about. We do a quick round-up of our favourite announcements and conferences and we tally up who won this year’s predictions game! Expect equal parts of hype and salt in this episode.
--
Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca.