For as long as there have been video games, there have been remakes of video games. Today, some five decades into the history of our industry, the market for rereleases and remasters is thriving, a...
2019-11-01 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The ESA and the Politics of Gaming!
2019-11-01 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In middle school and high school, the house party -- or your local equivalent -- was a rite of passage. It's when you got away from the doldrums of secondary academia, socialized with your peers aw...
2019-10-31 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Lobbyin'.
2019-10-30 18:26:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's guest is named Darren MacNally, and Darren has been on a pretty interesting voyage these past few years. One day a little over a decade ago, he fell in love with Creative Assembly's long-ru...
2019-10-30 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Obsidian's all-new open world RPG The Outer Worlds is a blatant (and in some ways even shameless) ode to its 2010 cult hit Fallout: New Vegas... and it should come as no surprise that it's pretty d...
2019-10-29 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
With so many good inquiries coming through the Sacred Symbols inbox, it's quite literally impossible to keep up with them all on the 'regular' show. So we've been stowing them away in a spare Googl...
2019-10-25 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki brings a fantastical flair to all of his work, but out of Studio Ghibli's entire roster of films, 2001's Spirited Away might be the weirdest and more extrao...
2019-10-24 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It might be easy to poke a little fun at massage therapy, what with the easy Happy Ending jokes and all. But in reality, the art of relaxation is a serious endeavor, especially here in the 21st cen...
2019-10-23 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As we settle into the fall months, rumors abound. A new photograph seems to confirm the v-shaped PS5 dev kit design that was earlier making the rounds, much to our chagrin. But does it actually mat...
2019-10-22 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
With 1.4 billion citizens and counting, China isn't only the world's most populated country, but home to nearly one-in-five human beings anywhere on Earth. It's a political, cultural, and economic ...
2019-10-18 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
There's nothing quite like a good mob movie, and when it comes to 1990's Goodfellas, there are few better. Based on a authoritative, journalist-written book drawing from historic experiences and ev...
2019-10-17 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For many married couples, having children is a huge part of The Plan. But what happens when biology doesn't cooperate, and you're left unable to have kids like you counted on? This week's guests --...
2019-10-16 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We were spoiled last week, what with lots of new PlayStation 5 details to obsess over. But Sony has another piece of PS-themed hardware that's worthy of next-gen attention, and no, we're not talkin...
2019-10-15 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The last quarter of a console generation is always fascinating, because we get to watch console manufacturers simultaneously tackle two separate problems. On the one hand, the likes of Sony have to...
2019-10-11 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Like horror, the science fiction genre simply wasn't taken very seriously until well into film history. By the 1970s, though, specific pieces of cinematic sci-fi were beginning to distance themselv...
2019-10-10 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been calling Sony's next-gen console PlayStation 5 for quite some time now, but we weren't sure that's what it would actually be named. Now, we know PS5 is indeed PS5, and along with that new...
2019-10-09 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
John Shehan is a 24 year old man who first realized he was gay when he was six, but only came out to his friends and family very recently. Today's episode of Fireside Chats is dedicated to his stor...
2019-10-08 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Buzz Aldrin would be ashamed.
2019-10-07 23:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In years past, the fall and winter months were when most of the games you actually wanted to play would come out. That's not exactly true anymore -- solid games worthy of your attention launch year...
2019-10-04 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For many of us, high school was a bizarre experience, particularly in hindsight. It turns out that much of what we cared a great deal about in our teens doesn't actually matter whatsoever, but when...
2019-10-03 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
If you didn't know, I'm obsessed with space and space travel, and obviously, Fireside Chats couldn't possibly end without having someone from the space industry on our show. Let's call today's gues...
2019-10-02 18:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We recorded this week's podcast, flipped off the microphones, and went on Twitter, where we discovered a surprise piece of late-breaking news: Shawn Layden is leaving Sony. Layden used to be CEO of...
2019-10-01 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Colin's Last Stand's completely unintentional (yet still expertly-timed) The Last of Us Week concludes with an episode of Sacred Symbols+ all about The Last of Us: Part II. Over the past few days, ...
2019-09-27 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't lose your head.
2019-09-26 19:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post
It took a while for PlayStation 3 to really get going, but when it did, it graced players with a slew of amazing exclusive games that solidified the console's place in industry history. Interesting...
2019-09-26 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The silence surrounding The Last of Us: Part II has been somewhat deafening, what with PlayStation 5 hurtling toward us on the horizon and PS4's most important and anticipated exclusive still unrel...
2019-09-25 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
At Boise State University in Idaho, a small group of college students in a program called Games, Interactive Media, and Mobile Technology work quietly on prototypes and projects that could very wel...
2019-09-24 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
"Video Game Critic" is a cartoonish job title on the face of it, but in reality, it can be a pretty weighty gig, particularly if you work at a large outlet. Thousands -- or tens of thousands, or hu...
2019-09-20 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, it's true: There's a lot to love about the 1970s. But the reality is, it was kind of a down decade. Unemployment was high, and inflation was, too. An oil embargo crippled western economies. Th...
2019-09-19 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post