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BTL Radio Podcast – EP 038: Bad Games vs Bad Movies

What makes a bad movie something you can enjoy? Why doesn’t this apply to bad games? What’s different about the two, and why does it change how we can enjoy them? Kynetyk, Judge Greg, and Bill discuss this in a

Behind the Line: Nintendo’s Investors Call, Mobile, and Switch Library

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It’s that time again. The 77th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. There’s a lot of plain stuff that doesn’t concern most people, even in the industry (e.g. Will shareholders get a special treat when the universal studios park opens? C’mon,

BTL Radio Podcast: Analytics

Hello Enthusiacs! After way too long talking about it, we’ve finally got a guest on to talk about analytics. John (not the same one as an earlier episode) was kind enough to join in and talk about a number of

Behind the Line: 10 Strange Phone Designs from the 2000s

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These days phones are pretty set in the same form. Whether tablet, phablet, phone, or mini-tablet, all devices have pretty much the same design: one flat surface with a touch screen. However, we should remember all of the variation and

BTL Radio Podcast: E3 2017

Hello Enthusiacs! This week Kynetyk and Baron Fang discuss the news coming out of that wretched hive of hype and marketing: E3. There’s a lot to go over, so we discuss the 5 major food groups: Bethesda, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony,

Behind the Line: No Mercy is the best wrestling game ever

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WhatCulture had a video of Simon Miller talking about the greatest wrestling game, which is obviously WWF No Mercy on the Nintendo 64. (Yes, WWF applies since they hadn’t changed the name yet) While I agree with the conclusion, as

BTL Radio Podcast: Tekken 7 and Headline News

Hello Enthusiacs! Tekken 7 is out and being a big fan, we start off the show discussing that. However there’s also been a lot of news coming out over the past few weeks.  Looks like I picked a hell of

Behind the Line: WWE Network and Analytics

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The other day I started watching the WWE network on my phone, and I noticed something curious, it required the location service to be on to feed you any video. WWE Network is a premium video streaming service, though, so

BTL Radio Podcast: Steam Customer Support

Hello Enthusiacs! Valve has been making some tweaks to how they present their Steam Customer Support information, so we brought Blake back to discuss the new information Steam is sharing and to put it in context for everyone else. The discussion

Behind the Line: Localization of Akiba’s Beat

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“Localization is not just translation” This is what Lorenzo said last week on BTL Radio as I brought up Tom Lipschultz and the dust up surrounding him and his work on Akiba’s Beat. Since I’ve spoken about the nuance of