Welcome to Episode 002 of the Zenspath Podcast!
This week I am joined again by Brent (N5omniac) and Keith, along with my good friend Patrick for the first time. We spend some time talking about the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), our memories about it as we were growing up, our favorite games, accessories, and more! We even talk a little about the NES Classic that Nintendo is releasing on November 11th, 2016.
Welcome back to the rebirth of the Zenspath Podcast! With the time it has been since we last did a show, and much of the group moving on from working on the site on a regular basis, we have decided to restart the show back at Episode 001 with a new video format and discussion style. While we may from time to time cover news stories, much of that is being covered with my work at the Nerd Edification Hour with Caleb and Rachel so now the Zenspath Podcast will try and focus on particular topics each week.
(Note: The above logo is just a placeholder and will be replaced with a more final design later!)
Just to let everyone know, we have started a new show on Zenspath.com called "Game Night Sunday" that is not in the normal form you may be used to. This show will be done on Sunday night and streamed live on Twitch so you can talk and interact with us while we play an assortment of games together and talk on the air.
We have a MASSIVE list of games available to play and so far have enjoyed messing with Super Smash Bros for Wii U, Super Smash Bros for N64, Kirby's Raibow Road, Wii Party U, Fortune Street, Rayman Legends, Super Mario 3D World, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, and much more. We have most of the systems available to play and stream and would love to hear from everyone on what you would like to see us play and talk about.
You can find this stream as it is going on at Twitch.TV/Zenspath and then on Youtube.com/Zenspathcom or here on Zenspath.com afterwards to see it recorded.
We hope to see you soon and to bring in more content as we can!
Hey all, sorry this is almost a week late but I wanted to share a guest apperance I was fortunate enough to be invited on for the GamePolitics.com Super Podcast Action Committee special 100th Episode Google HangOut! I talked with Hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight, along with Gamepolitics.com Managing Editor James Fudge, fellow writter Jason D'Aprile, and Geek Culture Writer Carol Pinchefsky.
We talked about Nintendo and their current policies with YouTube, the upcoming E3 2014 show, and more! I had a blast and hope to be involved with their show again soon. Also, I admitted my Stockholm Syndrome for Nintendo...I guess the first step is admitting the issue, and the next will be to ignore it and play more Mario Kart 8.
Check the video below, as well as the original article over at Gamepolitics.com!
Variety reported yesterday about a possible purchase of the videogame streaming company Twitch for the cost of $1 Billion dollars in order to merge it with YouTube. This came to be by "sources familiar with the pact" according to the Variety article.
Twitch on its own has become an integral part of all three of the current generation of consoles with the Wii U lacking it being built in while the Xbox One and Playstation 4 now have them as live options for gamers to share what they are playing with the world. It has become one of the ways many people will either come together to enjoy a particular title or series, get an inside look at a game to help them decide if it is worth their money, or to just enjoy seeing others play and discovering titles.
But it is not happening just yet, as this kind of merger will likely come under the scrutiny of the Justice Department to find out if the grab for Twitch would make YouTube (and thus Google) a possible anticompetitive fource in the online streaming world.
So if this goes through, what do you think will happen to Twitch and the more than 45 million viewers and over 1 million video content creators? Will there be great new features now that Twitch may have access to the Google wallet, or will we see the slow tumble of the service like we have with YouTube where Google+ becomes required, real names are forced, accounts split, and copyright claims could be slapped onto a streamer in real time? I know I sound negative about this, but I can see many more things going wrong with this than right sadly. But who knows...this hasn't even been confirmed yet.
Source Link: Variety
Just a warning here - language NOT really kid friendly at ALL. Otherwise...enjoy!