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This Week In Games
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This Week in Games or TWiG is a weekly videogaming news podcast, regularly hosted every Saturday by Jason "LordKaT" Pullara and Michael "Skitch" Schiciano, with occasional guest hosts.
Recorded live on Saturday afternoons, TWiG recalls the previous week in gaming and the gaming industry and offers opinion, insight and speculation into the developments in and around the gaming world. The show is often around the one hour mark and does not follow a set structure, but is led by a handful of topics for the guests to discuss. The podcast ends with guests examining the following week's releases in games.
Indie Games of the Week - a recurring segment in which a stand-out indie game is picked to showcase the talents of smaller developers - has now been turned into its own short videocast.
Episode list
| # | Episode name | IGoTw | Details | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0. | April 1, 2007 (link) |
none | The Very 1st Video Podcast only on YouTube. Talks about Take2 Productions's Replacing their CEO, Mario and Sonic Working together?, the Wii has Huge sales! and finally, the PSP has a price drop of $30. | 1 April 2007 |
| 0.5. | April 8, 2007 (link) |
none | 2007 Game Releases, MTV and Harmonix join together to make Rock Band 1. In Europe PS3 have plummeted 82% in sales. Wii and Xbox 360 have started to compete in sales. Peter Molyneux is knighted and FBI is investigating Second Life for Virtual Gambling Laws. | 8 April 2007 |
| 1. | All About E3 (link) |
none | Nintendo is crowned the "winner" of E3, with big announcements, while Sony and Microsoft phone it in. Are you at all surprised? Enjoy the first official episode of TWIG. | 19 June 2010 |
| 2. | JewWario & E3 (link) |
Desktop Dungeons | JewWario joins in to talk about his personal experience at e3, lauding Nintendo's performance, on this episode of TWIG. | 26 June 2010 |
| 3. | The Summertime Blues (link) |
Space Disposal | Summertime is here, but major game releases aren't - it's a lack of a gaming industry. | 3 July 2010 |
| 4. | What Gaming Industry? (link) |
Faultline | The Summertime continues - the hurting videogame industry isn't doing well in the recession. | 17 July 2010 |
| 5. | Microsoft's Money (link) |
Nation Of Reincars | Microsoft's annual earnings reports are enough to bring awe - even through these harsh economic times. | 24 July 2010 |
| 6. | Money Makers (link) |
Digital: A Love Story | Microtransactions and release-day DLC leave a hole in your wallet that leads directly to game companies' coffers. | 31 July 2010 |
| 7. | Number Crunching (link) |
Dot Order Tie | Sales and earnings are up for big companies like Activision Blizzard, and an unexpected valuation for OnLive. | 7 August 2010 |
| 8. | Madden Madness (link) |
Cat Poke | LordKaT talks about wasting $60,- on Madden 11 - the most heinous money making game of the year. | 14 August 2010 |
| 9. | Playstation Piracy (link) |
Liferaft Zero | Sony may be in trouble in the latest in their long fight against piracy - the PS3 has been cracked and compromised. | 21 August 2010 |
| 10. | Buyer Bitchslap (link) |
Momodora | Used games and whether they harm publishers or show the actual value of the game. | 28 August 2010 |
| 11. | Industry Insanity (link) |
Radiangames Inferno | The video game industry continues to show that it has no idea what it is doing and is pushing technologies that are only temporary. | 4 September 2010 |
| 12. | Industry & Law (link) |
Artifact | Apple is allowing third party dev tools, Zynga is Evil and other social developers are uniting, Madden 2011 still sucks. | 11 September 2010 |
| 13. | Cascode (link) |
Cascode | type here | 18 September 2010 |
| 14. | A Giant Hoax (link) |
Give Up, Robot | LordKat and Skitch talk about GOG's Marketing scheme (Pretending to shut down) and see if it was actually effective. | 25 September 2010 |
| 15. | Cold Feet (link) |
Gigadeep | type here | 9 October 2010 |
| 16. | Rage Quit (link) |
Super Mind Dungeon | 26 million (1%) of Square Enix's stocks was sold because of Final Fantasy XIV sucking. LordKat and Skitch elaborate why this happened. | 16 October 2010 |
| 17. | Marz Attacks (link) |
Super Crate Box | MarzGurl joins the podcast to defend Final Fantasy XIV | 23 October 2010 |
| 18. | Industry Change (link) |
Brainsplode! | Executives of Gaming are resigning, Video Game companies are increasing profit and The Kinect is a Jerk! and we discuss this and more in This Week In Games! | 30 October 2010 |
| 19. | Supreme Decisions (link) |
The Machine | Coldguy returns to talk with Lordkat about The recent court case "Schwarzenegger v. EMA" and tries to analyze both sides as well as how the gaming media may be bias towards this case. | 6 November 2010 |
| 20. | Fireballs (link) |
Fireball | Coldguy joins up with Skitch and LordKaT to discuss an SMU professor's stance on violence in video games, the sales dichotomy of various gaming companies within Japan, and further speculation on the 3DS. | 13 November 2010 |
| 21. | Tight Margins (link) |
Magnight | A Foursome ( Lordkat, Skitch, Coldguy, and Rollo T ) join up to talk about the VGAs and how insignificant it is. Also, a UK Minster proposes [using absurd evidence] that Counterstrike makes people go on killing sprees, and Does Gamestop actually profit from their games? All this and more on This Week In Games! | 20 November 2010 |
| 22. | Marz Attacks II (link) |
Bitejacker by Secret Base | MarzGurl is back again! Jack Thompson (a special level of derp!) and discussion of Final Fantasy 13-2 (run for your lives) ensues in this episode of This Week In Games. | 22 January 2011 |
| 23. | Now in High Definition! (link) |
Hack Slash Crawl | So it seems MarzGurl is with the crew fo realz. The trio talk about the new portable system Sony wants to push out (the NGP) and a strange project by Nintendo named... well, you'll have to see, on this episode of This Week In Games. | 29 January 2011 |
| 24. | Hax, Business, and Law (link) |
Epic City Builder | Oh, Sony - why so funny? More news on the NGP (NAME IT SOMETHING ELSE), PS3 Rootkits, Onlive, and other shenanigans on this episode of This Week In Games. | 5 February 2011 |
| 25. | Special Guest Lord Garland (link) |
Dromad | The developer from the previous week's IGOTW, Andrew (Lord Garland) joins the podcast and talks over some of the development processes of his game and how to best utilize Flash and Flash portals. He and the guys discuss other issues as well on this special episode of This Week In Games. | 12 February 2011 |
| 26. | Bad Chicken (link) |
Ninja Senki | Another episode with a guest (on video, now much more feasible due to improved stream qualities); this episode interviews Jordan Brandt of Bad Chicken, creator of the Chicken Stick, a Wii accessory for motion-tracking golf games that is an improvement on many previous models made by other companies. Hope you're hungry - this is a tasty episode of This Week In Games. | 19 February 2011 |
| 27. | We're GDC Bound! (link) |
none | 26 February 2011 | |
| 28. | GDC/PAX Mid-week Special (link) |
Tower of Heaven | After this show, IGotW became its own show Indie Games of the Week. | 9 March 2011 |
| 29. | with Michael Hayes (link) |
none | 19 March 2011 | |
| 30. | 03/26/11 (link) |
none | 26 March 2011 | |
| 31. | SOE Sorry (link) |
none | 2 April 2011 | |
| 32. | 04/09/11 (link) |
none | 9 April 2011 | |
| 33. | Special Guest Mark Leung (link) |
none | 16 April 2011 | |
| 34. | PSN Woes (link) |
none | 23 April 2011 | |
| 35. | Called It! (link) |
none | 30 April 2011 | |
| 36. | Sony: Part 3 (link) |
none | 7 May 2011 | |
| 37. | Skype Sniping (link) |
none | 14 May 2011 | |
| 38. | Social Bubble (link) |
none | 21 May 2011 | |
| 39. | Stocks! (link) |
none | 28 May 2011 | |
| 40. | Diamonds! (link) |
none | 4 June 2011 | |
| 41. | Post-E3 Wrap Up (link) |
none | 11 June 2011 | |
| 42. | Devkits GET! (link) |
none | 18 June 2011 | |
| 43. | Free to Play (link) |
none | 25 June 2011 | |
| 44. | IPOville (link) |
none | 2 July 2011 | |
| 45. | The Mobile Future (link) |
none | 9 July 2011 | |
| 46. | PopCap Buyout (link) |
none | 16 July 2011 | |
| 47. | Nintendo Lacks Vision? (link) |
none | 23 July 2011 | |
| 48. | Nintendo's 3Disaster (link) |
none | 30 July 2011 | |
| 49. | The Mobile Debate (link) |
none | 6 August 2011 | |
| 50. | Rovio, My Rovio (link) |
none | 13 August 2011 | |
| 51. | No D&D for Atari (link) |
none | GameStop apologizes for removing the OnLive coupons from copies of DeusEx, Zynga has proposed an unprecedented stock option for their IPO, and Minecraft isn't being sold through Valve's Steam service due to ToS issues. | 20 August 2011 |
| 52. | GameStop's Offer (link) |
none | The 3DS's price drop has cause a great increase in sales with 200,000 being sold in 4 days, GameStop's profits are down but their digital sales surge by nearly 70%, and Hasbro has finally wrestled control of the D&D license away from Atari. | 3 September 2011 |
| 53. | Revenue Streams (link) |
none | Phillip Reisberger criticized both Valve and EA's approach to premium content, Facebook's revenue has been rumoured to have doubled to $1.6 billion, and Steam trading has left beta. | 10 September 2011 |
| 54. | Tokyo Games Show (link) |
none | Nintendo stock price plummeted after their conference despite announcing a large line-up of games, Sony announced a lot of PlayStation Vita details at the TGS, and US retailer GameStop is releasing their own Android Tablet | 17 September 2011 |
| 55. | Zynga, Please! (link) |
none | 24 September 2011 | |
| 56. | Jamey DeOrio (link) |
none | 1 October 2011 | |
| 57. | It Begins... (link) |
none | 8 October 2011 | |
| 58. | Zynga IPO? (link) |
none | 15 October 2011 | |
| 59. | Duckbagels (link) |
none | (:V) | 22 October 2011 |
| 60. | Financials and Gay Bashing (link) |
none | 30 October 2011 | |
| 61. | Financial Turbulence (link) |
none | 5 November 2011 | |
| 62. | Steam Hacked (link) |
none | 12 November 2011 | |
| 63. | 11/19/11 (link) |
none | 19 November 2011 | |
| 64. | Black Friday (link) |
none | 26 November 2011 | |
| 65. | Holiday Sales (link) |
none | 3 December 2011 | |
| 66. | Proton Jon (link) |
none | 10 December 2011 | |
| 67. | Rovio is Insane (link) |
none | 17 December 2011 | |
| 68. | Christmas 2011 (link) |
none | 24 December 2011 | |
| 69. | 2012 (link) |
none | 31 December 2011 | |
| 70. | Back from MAGFest X! (link) |
none | 14 January 2012 | |
| 71. | Zynga's Hard Future (link) |
none | 21 January 2012 | |
| 72. | Financial Mess (link) |
none | 4 February 2012 | |
| 73. | Double Fine (link) |
none | 11 February 2012 | |
| 74. | Vita Vitals (link) |
none | 18 February 2012 | |
| 75. | Breaking Records (link) |
none | 25 February 2012 | |
| 76. | Under Pressure (link) |
none | 3 March 2012 | |
| 77. | 03/10/12 (link) |
none | 10 March 2012 | |
| 78. | Post-GDC Wrapup (link) |
none | 17 March 2012 | |
| 79. | 03/24/12 (link) |
none | 24 March 2012 | |
| 80. | 03/31/12 (link) |
none | 31 March 2012 | |
| 81. | 04/14/12 (link) |
none | 14 April 2012 | |
| 82. | Brent Weeks (link) |
none | With special guest, Brent Weeks, author of the Night Angel trilogy and The Black Prism. Follow him on Twitter, @brentweeks! | 21 April 2012 |
| 83. | Nintendo's Record Loss (link) |
none | 29 April 2012 |
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