The Girls on Games Podcast

GoGCast 148: Just The News

Due to a last minute scheduling conflict, this week’s show will be a bit shorter than usual. We still wanted to chat with you all about what’s happening in the video game world so this episode will be just what we’re currently playing and the latest news. Enjoy!

This week in news: Activision Blizzard generated more than half their revenue through microtransactions, Monster Hunter: World is Capcom’s fastest selling game and a My Little Pony Friendship is Magic inspired fighting game called Them’s Fightin’ Herds is coming out real soon.

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GoGCast 147: Far Cry 5 - Interview with Dan Hay

Join us in Hope County, Montana as we talk Far Cry 5 with Dan Hay, Executive Producer and Creative Director for Ubisoft Montreal. In Far Cry 5, you must build the resistance and take on Eden’s Gate, a cult that is forcefully taking over Hope County and its inhabitants. We chat with Dan about what we can expect from the upcoming release in the open world shooter franchise: the location, the music, the villain, the conflict, the protagonist and more.

This week in news: Mario Kart is coming to mobile, Anthem is delayed until 2019, Rockstar Game announces that Red Dead Redemption is coming out October 26th, 2018 and over 300,000 players took part in the latest Sea of Thieves closed beta.

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GoGCast 146: Heroic Portrait with Julian Stamboulieh

Julian Stamboulieh, Co-Creator and Director of LARPs the Series, joins us this week to talk about his latest brainchild: Heroic Portrait. Heroic Portrait is a cosbounding project where he and his co-host and co-creator Catherine Vincelli create a series of cosbounding photoshoots based on video game characters. Each step of the process - costume, makeup, photoshoot and photo editing - is documented and shared across various platforms such as Youtube, Instagram and Twitch. Julian talks us through the project itself, the first series of photos, what’s coming up next for Heroic Portrait and more.

Next round of Heroic Portrait starts on February 2nd, 2018 so make sure to follow Beanduck Productions on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube.

This week in news: Xbox Game Pass announcement: how Microsoft is getting ready for life after consoles, Looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077 and R.I.P. Miitomo.

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GoGCast 145: PAX South with PixelPrincess80

We travel to Texas and back as some lucky members of our stream team attended PAX South, including PixelPrincess80. We chat with her about the event itself, playing The Darwin Project at the Mixer booth, meeting other streamers and more.

This week in news: Portkey Games’ first release is a Harry Potter RPG for mobile, Nintendo reveals Labo, Facebook is now the main streaming platform for ESL, AGDQ raised 2.3 million dollars and Twitch introduces Video Producer.

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GoGCast 144: Interview with Camille aka thisiscamco

We’re back from our brief Holiday vacation! This week, we talk with Camille aka thisiscamco, host for Northern Arena and correspondent for Heads Up Daily TV. Camille shares with us how her dad played a big part in her love of games and her career in gaming, how she got into covering the esport scene, what can be done to promote diversity in esport competitions and more.

This week in news: Nintendo drops a surprise Nintendo Direct Mini announcing upcoming titles coming to the switch and Cyberpunk 2077 official accounts sends out its first tweet in 4 years.

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GoGCast 143: Game of the Year 2017

Hello 2018! For our very first GoGCast of the year, we take a look at the games that marked 2017 with our Game of the Year episode! Leah, Cat, Simon and Ali share their top 3 games as well as the ones that they didn’t get a chance to play but plan to catch up on in the new year. Of course, we share what was the Game of the Year as voted by you via our poll on girlsongames.ca.

Let us know what are your top 3 games of 2017 by tagging @thegirlsongames on Twitter and Facebook.

The GoGCast will be taking a short break to work on future episodes but fear not, we’ll be back mid-January. Happy New Year and happy gaming!

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GoGCast 142: 2017 Year in Review

2017 has been quite a year for video games: loot boxes, PUBG, the Nintendo Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Destiny 2, EA being EA… We take a look back at what was one of the biggest year in video games and share our biggest news stories, disappointments and surprises of 2017. We close out the show by talking about what we look forward to in 2018.

Share with us your biggest stories, surprises and let downs of 2017 by tagging @thegirlsongames on Twitter and Facebook.

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GoGCast 141: Floor Kids - interview with Phil Rostaing

While attending MIGS 17, we caught up with Phil Rostaing, game designer for the recently released beat game Floor Kids! Phil shares with us the development and creative process behind this b-boy inspired beat game as well as what’s coming up in the near future.

This week in news: An open world Adventure Time game is coming to all platforms in Spring 2018, Valve is about to cash in on the Battle Royale craze and The Culling is officially dead in the water with no future updates planned.

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GoGCast 140: Northern Arena

Carl-Edwin Michel, CEO of Northern Arena, is with us this week and he fills us in on what the organisation has been up to since we last spoke, what they are working on and what we can expect from the Injustice 2 Elite League and the Call of Duty World War II Showdown happening December 16 and 17 in Montreal.

This week in news: Rumours of Dark Souls 1 Remaster for consoles, Megaman 11 is coming to all platforms in 2018, 12 Days of Minecraft and Google did a doodle to teach kids the basics of coding.

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This week’s episode is sponsored by Sommita Financial. Where your money is good everywhere. For more info, visit sommitafinancial.com.

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GoGCast 139: Holiday Gaming Plans

It’s December and it’s time to plan what we’re gonna play during the Holiday break. We discuss which backlog games to play, which games we pull out every year to play with the friends and fam and our Holiday gaming traditions.

Share with us your Holiday gaming plans and traditions by tweeting us @thegirlsongames!

This week in news: My Hero Academia game coming to PS4 and Switch, Super Mario Cereal is a thing, Cyberpunk 2077 game engine is done and PUBG is heading to mobile to conquer the Chinese market.

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This week’s episode is sponsored by Sommita Financial. Where your money is good everywhere. For more info, visit sommitafinancial.com.

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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.