While the video games industry continues to grow at a healthy pace, it’s also recently been plagued by massive layoffs and increasingly longer development times, especially for triple AAA blockbuster titles. In this podcast, we are joined once again by video game, television media legend, Victor Lucas, to discuss whether increasingly longer development times are hurting the games industry in the long term?
Victor Lucas is a much respected, video game television media pioneer and creator/executive producer/co-host of the Electric Playground Network which is home to a variety of content ranging from The Rundown, EP Daily, Reviews on the Run, The Rock and Raygun Awards, Vic’s Basement and more! Vic’s decades long experience and large footprint within this industry has solidified a permanent spot that ranks him highly among the most honest and trusted voices in the video games media space!
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Level 857 Video Game Podcast Ep-304: Are Long Development Times Killing Gaming? w/ EPN’s Victor Lucas!
00:00 – Intro
09:00 – Are Long Development Times Killing Gaming? w/ EPN’s Victor Lucas!
1:28:16 – Break: Game Giveaway Reminder
1:32:45 – Indie Game of the Week Spotlight – Conan Chop Chop
1:37:40 – LEGO Mario Kart Sets Announced for 2025 in Celebration of Mario Day 2024
https://ign.com/articles/lego-mario-kart-sets-announced-for-2025-in-celebration-of-mario-day-2024
https://www.ign.com/articles/mar10-day-2024-everything-announced-including-a-new-super-mario-bros-movie
1:47:45 – Warner Bros.’ MultiVersus Finally Has a Re-Release Date
https://ign.com/articles/warner-bros-multiversus-finally-has-a-re-release-date
1:55:23 – Street Fighter 6’s next playable character Akuma revealed in new trailer
https://www.eurogamer.net/street-fighter-6s-next-fighter-akuma-revealed-in-teaser-trailer
1:59:56 – SPIDER-MAN: THE GREAT WEB TRAILER LEAKED ONLINE
https://insider-gaming.com/the-great-web-trailer-leaked/
2:04:00 – Games Played Discussion
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