Brendon Bigley (@brendonbigley), formerly of Anchor.fm, interviews Kyle about his Zero Counts article "Big-N's Big Year", the state of Nintendo, and blogging in general. Big-N's Big Year: http://zerocounts.net/business/big-ns-big-year/ Daring Fireball — Hail Mario: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/06/01/hail-mario Stratechery — The Success of the Nintendo Switch: https://stratechery.com/2018/homepod-goes-on-sale-the-smartphone-and-the-end-of-history-the-success-of-the-nintendo-switch/ Zero Commons: http://zerocounts.net/commonplace/ Checkpoints 128 - Robert Ashley: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/checkpoints/id961200224?mt=2 A Life Well Wasted: http://alifewellwasted.com

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Bonus: Big-N's Big Year

Final Fantasy, Ori and the Blind Forest, The Division, Quantum Break, Destiny, video game difficulty, Mass Effect 2, permadeath, VR at GDC, Playstation VR, Playstation 4.5, Xbox One price-drop, cross-platform multiplayer, Firewatch

3: Play on Easy

The Division, The Witness, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, Star Fox Zero, SNES games on 3DS, Pokémon evolution, Nintendo as an innovator, Paper Mario: Color Splash, Nintendo leaks, Out of the Park Baseball 17, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

2: Nintendo Ruined Christmas

Pokémon on 3DS, Harvest Moon, Ori and the Blind Forest, 2016 vs 2006

1: I Blue It

Video game cross-talk through the generations. From 8-bit to the current gen, gamers have ported themselves from console to console. Kyle Starr and Scott Taylor discuss new games and how they relate to old games, old games as if they were new games, soundtracks, design, nostalgia, and more.

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