EXP Podcast #799: 2026 Journey Debrief

Grab your sunscreen!

We couldn't let March pass us by without doing our annual Journey debrief!  We're well over a decade of debriefs on this game and it's very much become a symbol in my year.  Forget about New Year's Eve; my year hasn't truly begun until I've made the trek up the mountain and talked about it with Jorge.

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 35 min 33 sec

- Music by Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #798: The Loot Box Crack Down

Just say no, children

Won't someone think of the children!? This week on the EXP Podcast we open up a loot box and discover both misguided and righteous regulatory attention. And here I was hoping for a Switch 2.

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Show notes:

- "PEGI Revises its age ratings," via Game Developer

- "Valve argues mystery boxes are 'widely used' in the tangible world," via Game Developer 

- Music Brad Sucks

EXP Podcast #797: Future and Ancient Consoles

Friends, Romans, countrymen: Lend me your preorders 

This week, we talk about Microsoft's rumblings about their next console and how Sony is rumored to be staying far away from those tremors.  But what will it all mean in thousands of years?  Perhaps some far-future technology will be able to piece together our console war in the way that we piece together Roman board games today.

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Show Notes:

- Run time: 37 min 12 sec

- "Xbox confirms its next console will run PC games and is codenamed ‘Project Helix'," by Andy Robinson via Video Games Chronicle 

- "PlayStation’s strategy of releasing its single-player games on PC is reportedly stopping," by Chris Scullion via Video Games Chronicle

- "This Ancient Roman Game Board Was a Mystery. Researchers Used A.I. to Figure Out How to Play," by Sonja Anderson via Smithsonian Magazine 

- Music by Brad Sucks