The Girls on Games Podcast

GoGCast 108: Flinthook - Interview with Tribute Games

In this episode of the GoGCast, we visit the studio of Montreal’s own Tribute Games for the release of Flinthook, a procedurally generated action-platformer. Game Designer Dominic Ferland walks us through some of the game’s core features, gives us a few tips and tricks on how to play the game, tells us how Tribute Games mastered the pixel art style and more. Leah also got to play a bit of Flinthook and shares her first impressions.

Flinthook is available now through Steam, PlayStation and Xbox stores.

This week in news: the Nintendo Classic is officially discontinued, Microsoft to offer refunds of digital game purchases on Xbox and Windows 10 stores, we round up the latest Nintendo Direct and Las Vegas gets an esport venue.

GoGCast 107: Interview with Patricia Summersett

This week, we talk to the talented Patricia Summersett, an American Canadian voice and performance actor who’s recent roles include Princess Zelda in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Ash in Rainbow Six Siege and the Knight Warden in For Honor. Patricia shares with us how she fell in love with voice acting during her studies and how she landed her first gig in video games. She also walks us through the process of landing the role of Princess Zelda, keeping it a secret until the game’s release and how that experience has impacted her career. Patricia is also a singer songwriter so make sure to check out her band Summersett.

This week in news: Microsoft releases the specs for Project Scorpio, Atlus has some strict rules when it comes to streaming and let’s plays of Personna 5, a man loses 50 lbs playing a VR game and Zoe Quinn is publishing a book on how to deal with online abuse.

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GoGCast 106: Final Thoughts on Mass Effect: Andromeda

We’re sinking our teeth into Mass Effect: Andromeda for this episode of the GoGCast. Ali gives you the good, the bad and the meh as she shares her final thoughts on the story, the gameplay, the characters, the graphics, the animations, etc.

This week’s news stories: Nintendo Switch games are more expensive because of the cartridges themselves, Star Wars: Battlefront 2 was announced but that was drowned out by Destiny 2’s teaser and first trailer.

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 105: Interview with Marissa Roberto

This week’s episode features special guest Marissa Roberto! She’s a video game journalist, host of Xbox Canada’s community show #XboxAllForOne, has hosted events such as Northern Arena 2016 and For Honor's #BattleForCanada and is the former anchor for EP Daily and Reviews on the Run. Marissa walks us through her career: from her journalism studies, to her first hosting gig all the way to today and her future plans. She also shares with us what she’s currently playing and her favourite video games.

 

This week in news: Montreal Comiccon 2017 line-up and events where announced and there will be esports involved as well as a huge part of the Watch Dogs 2 cast will be on site, the Zelda themed escape room is coming to Canada and a Naughty Dog artist is fighting bile with love by donating to Girls Make Games in the name of her trolls.

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GoGCast 104: Salt & Talk

We get some weight off our chests during this week’s GoGCast. Ali and Cat experienced Mass Effect Andromeda’s wonky animations first hand, Simon finds out the hard way that Dark Souls 3 has no cloud save and Leah attempted to play Ghost Recon Wildlands. Finally, we explore the impact of content creators (Youtubers, streamers, etc) controversial comments on their younger audience members and how to approach your kids about it.

This week in news: Game chat transcription available for Halo Wars 2, updates to Fire Emblem: Heroes include new game modes and permadeath and Nintendo doubling its Switch production to meet demand.

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GoGCast 103: Interview with Microsoft’s Nicole Fawcette

We caught up with Nicole Fawcette, Global Product Marketing Lead - Crackdown at Microsoft and Co-lead for Women in Gaming. She talks about how she landed the gig at Microsoft, what’s coming up for Xbox in 2017, and shares with us her experience of hosting the Women in Gaming event at GDC 2017.

This week’s news stories: Xbox rolls out new subscription service, major study finds out that violent games do not make players more aggressive and Twitch announces its new marketplace with a cut going of sales going to partnered streamers.

GoGCast 102: All Things The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

Is this the best The Legend of Zelda game yet? Grab your Nintendo Switch or your Wii U Gamepad and follow us to the Kingdom of Hyrule because this week, we talk all things The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with our guest Brock McLaughlin of brockstargaming.com.

This week’s news stories: Nintendo Switch hardware issues at launch, a new leak seems to confirm that the next Assassin’s Creed game will be set in Egypt and Outlast II is coming to PC, Xbox One and PS4 this April.

GoGCast 101: Live Special! Staying In to Play Games & Answering Your Questions

We’re kicking it old school for episode 101 by bringing back the live show! That’s right, this week’s GoGCast was broadcasted live on Twitch and on Beam. Leah gives us her first impressions of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch as well as on the latest PlayStation exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn. Has gaming turned us into home bodies? We chat about an article on Vice UK about how Millennials think going out sucks. We close out the show by answering questions from our viewers.

This week's news stories: Overwatch Character teasing, Target leaks Shadow of Mordor sequel, you can now change your Twitch username and taking a look at E3's leaked floor plan.

GoGCast 100: For Honor - Interview w/ Community Developer Emile Gauthier

This week, we talk with Emile Gauthier, Community Developer at Ubisoft Montreal for For Honor. He gives us insight on how to play For Honor gameplay, shares his favourite things about the game’s community and what lead to him doing this kind of work at Ubisoft.

Leah, Simon, Ali and Catherine react to a toxic article besmirching a Quebec college for launching their own esport program. Plus this week in gaming news: Humble Freedom Bundle raises $3M in a day benefiting groups fighting Trump’s travel ban, Microsoft moves its E3 Press Event to Sunday and Generation 2 makes it way to Pokémon Go. Enjoy!

GoGCast 99: The Music of the Dungeon with Stuart Chatwood

Stuart Chatwood is better known as the bassist and keyboardist of Canada’s own The Tea Party but he’s also the composer behind the award winning soundtrack for Red Hook Studio’s anxiety driven Darkest Dungeon. Chatwood gives us insight into his work on Darkest Dungeons as well as Prince of Persia games. We also talk with Colin Wong about Asus Canada’s involvement in esports, events such as Lan ETS and the gaming community.