This week we're joined by David Boguslavsky, Brand & Community Manager at Quiver Games, a "one stop solution to connect with other developers, build up a portfolio, and join people together into dream game dev teams to make amazing games." He tells us about their upcoming Games Incubator (Deadline June 14!) and then joins us for the regular pod to discuss local Vancouver studio Relic Entertainment's turbulent last few years, IGN Entertainment buying everything and the rest of our usual show.

Steve is AFK playing FFVII Rebirth with his newborn son on his lap (enjoy it while it lasts). So longtime friend of the site and former colleague/fellow Joydrop Unionizer Eric Beer joins Stephan to breakdown the month's Canadian gaming news, chat about upcoming events like EGLX (which Eric's attending) and chat a bit about Hades II. Check it a listen.

Steve and Stephan break down Baldur Gate 3's unprecedented success and the knock on effects it'll have on the industry and how we make games moving forward. We also speak to Ontario-based indie game devs Twinolli about their upcoming action-puzzler Highlighters which just got a (Dad Deck-verified) Steam demo!

Today we have another interview for you all- this time with longtime Canadian Game Devs discord user, Québéc-based, award-winning indie game developer: Dragon Slumber.

Steve has attained the Sega Saturn (thank you Justin) and he's getting INTO it. Cococucumber co. celebrates a big indie milestone and we get into all the big game award wins this past month and does unionizing even work anymore?! Dethrone Overwatch, Establish Democracy!

As we age and come to grips with our shifting priorities the things we get from our games also change- for Steve, he cries at Dad-stuff and is even more irritated by ideological blabbermouths. For Stephan, a dumb video game character saying "i love you" makes you cry and you can only QA test games now. These minds also discuss the latest Canadian gaming news, events and wishlist some sick-looking neon bright light games (and Goeland- what a good name).

We reveal the winners and runner-ups for our '23 Community Awards, go over some exciting Toronto indie game dev news and cap off with a long conversation about good (?!) microtransactions and lax technical standards in recent AAA games- and why Spider-Man 2 didn't give us the immediate fatigue Ragnarok did.

This week thousands more game developers join Stephan in the "terminated by evil, stupid people" camp as layoffs hit tons of studios all over Canada and the world. We discuss Sonic as well. Sonic supports Unionizing your Workplace!

Steve adds an obscene amount of demos to his Steam Deck (Dad Deck), we talk about everything Canadian coming up in gaming in 2024 to distract from Stephan's recent termination at the hands of a true coward. Steve's also going to have a baby, so if you want to help us with the site sometime this year reach out lol onward!

First pod of 2024 after a gigantic hiatus we're really sorry 'bout- announcing our 2023 Community Awards Polls and going over some Canadian gaming news, jobs and events!