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Quest Cast

34 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago -

A weekly podcast on everything gaming. Whether it be industry, coming soon, coming now or even complete failures.

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Episodes

Quest Cast Episode 34 - The Blizzard is coming.

February 18, 2019 23:10 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB

Nintendo announces some highly anticipated titles. EA has games chewing up each others audience while Blizzard Activision slowly runs their business into a confusing mess for us all to watch.

Quest Cast Episode 33 - The exodus of Metro Exodus

February 04, 2019 12:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MB

The storefront wars are here. Valve vs Epic. Devs are being pulled from storefront to storefront. The only one that loses, however, is you, the customer. There is also some lackluster reveals from other game launches this month as well. You could say it's this months Anthem.

Quest Cast Episode 32 - Slow start to 2019

January 07, 2019 23:31 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB

2018 is behind us and we have a lot of games to look forward too in 2019, just most of them are not coming out in January. There is a bit of buzz around a new console manufacturer as well so we will be talking about that.

Quest Cast Episode 31 - The High Seas of 2018

December 30, 2018 23:04 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB

It's the end of 2018, so let's look back to the best the worst and the most anticipated of the year.

Quest Cast Episode 30 - Beyond Greed and Evil

December 17, 2018 22:35 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MB

The scene of 2019 is actually looking like a good place for games. It looks like a lot of studios are learning the lessons of 2018 which is. Single player games are still a very big source of entertainment and you can still make a profit on them. The UK is finally getting something in place for game devs by unionizing the industry.

Quest Cast Episode 29 - The Game Awards

December 10, 2018 12:21 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

This week we saw a lot of things burst onto the scene form new game stores (Epic store) to all the world premiere announcements at the Game Awards and so much more.

Quest Cast Episode 28 - Bethesda's Bamboozle

December 03, 2018 13:18 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MB

Bethesda is really pulling out all the stops to make sure your game experience this year isn't the best one.

Quest Cast Episode 27 - Rockstar's Crunchdemption

October 29, 2018 12:05 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MB

Red Dead Redemption is out, and boy is it good but was it worth it with the way devs are treated. CD Projekt Red have all their own things going on as well. Lots in the Witcher world coming to life.

Quest Cast Episode 26 - It's an Odyssey

October 16, 2018 12:43 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB

From Assassin's Creed to Unholy. A lot of games coming out. The Sims 4 has yet another expansion to make this number 415.

Quest Cast Episode 25 - Pathfinder: Combat grinder?

October 02, 2018 13:46 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB

A few standouts this week with some off-track talk about the new Minecraft dungeons, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Lone Echo 2 and Last Year. Most of these will come out on steam, which is exactly what the head of Larian studios is defending. Last but not least we will definitely talk more about Telltale and the debacle they are in.

Quest Cast Episode 24 - Telltale tells no more tales

September 25, 2018 14:21 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB

In a very busy week for law makers around the globe tackling loot boxes, Telltale games throwing in the towel and a whole lot of games coming out, this week has a lot to cover.

Quest Cast Episode 23 - Nintendo Direct, Belgium and Finland taking the fight to the loot box.

September 17, 2018 13:22 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MB

Nintendo announces many games ranging from 1st to 3rd party, EA takes on yet another questionable battle. Finland comes to the loot box fight, Ashen is looking great.

Quest Cast Episode 22 - Raiding tombs with Tomb Raider

September 10, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

What really qualifies Lara Croft being called Tomb Raider? Why do Nintendo and Sony want to try so hard to be bad? what is Nordic doing with their new IP.

Quest Cast Episode 21 - Anthem, is it really going to have "My Story"

September 05, 2018 13:38 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

Anthem promising big things, China ready to pass laws that will change the market dramatically and games that are being clever with their marketing. Lot's of horror, psychological and creepy games we seem to always find as well. Let's start this quest, shall we?

Quest Cast Episode 20 - The rest of Gamescom, and so much CyberPunk 2077

August 30, 2018 13:07 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MB

With Gamescom coming to a close there are many games to talk about, and games hardware with the new Nvidia cards showing off what they can do. We take a few sidesteps into the past with game list fable and Bioshock before getting to the main event which is Cyberpunk 2077.

Quest Cast Episode 19 - The many releases of Gamescom 2018, steam and twitch set to compete for streamers.

August 21, 2018 12:14 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

Many, many games were announced, revealed explained at Gamescom in the past few days. Along with some video cards from our favorite green team. We talk about some of the games that have been announced and what to likely expect from them.

Quest Cast Episode 18 - Cross-platform games are the future [Feat. Pandakaebi]

August 14, 2018 14:28 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB

With cross-platform becoming more and more readily available what are publishers going to do about the platforms that don't participate? leave them out of course. Bethesda is getting a big stock of games we wanna see. The Switch is still on top of everybodies wish list.

Quest Cast Episode 17 - Epic want to challenge how games are played on Android, Life is Strange reveals more, Niantic ups its game with Pokemon GO

August 07, 2018 13:03 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

This week there are some genuinely interesting new games coming out, try living your life as a bee in Bee Simulator, Who is the mysterious person in the Life is Strange 2 teaser? Is steam finally losing it's power over the market as yet another big publisher leaves the platform?

Quest Cast Episode 16 - PUBG won't let you have your servers, EA doesn't want you to have free games. [Feat Cinnabae]

July 31, 2018 13:17 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB

In a week of promises and adventure, we discuss the shortcoming of EA and what little goodwill it once had. Sean Murray promises more from Hello Games, will he Deliver? Endless Legend and Banner Saga delivering for their fans and is $10000 too much to spend on Fifa.

Quest Cast Episode 15 - Nintendo needs to release more content. Pathfinder Kingmaker looks great and No Man's Sky Next might not be enough.

July 22, 2018 14:10 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB

All about games coming in the future and game being updated. From No Man's Sky updating and finally having a "real" multiplayer system to Life is Strange coming out on Android we talk about it. Some coverage on Nintendo and their views on ROM sites have surfaced as well so a little bit on that.,

Quest Cast Episode 14 - The ArenaNet Crisis, Minecraft and what is even the point of pre-orders.

July 17, 2018 14:03 - 1 hour - 69.7 MB

This week was a big one. Lots more on the Jessica Price story and what the folks at Arena Net are doing. We talk about Minecraft and their update cycles and what we think of developers in general and game updates. Germany and the new laws revolving around stores offering pre-orders is very close to home topic for us.

Quest Cast Episode 13 - Games board ratings, anime games and why you shouldn't throw tantrums on the internet.

July 09, 2018 14:30 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB

This week we talk about anime games and there allure and detraction. Darksiders III and Monster for pc release dates and a little about what we expect from them. Lots and lots about Warframe and all the good things they are doing to keep the player base coming back and more and more. Why you shouldn't get into twitter fights with people on the internet when you are a developer as it could hurt your career.

Quest Cast Episode 12 - Game engines, business and why crossplay is so hard (Feat. Michael Done)

July 02, 2018 22:49 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

A theme of game updates and what game engines have been doing over the last 10 years. The controversy over cross play and why it is or isn't a bad or hard thing to accomplish for studios in our time, and why PlayStation is so against it. Many games are starting to do there post E3 updates with nothing else to announce, whether its major patches or new characters.

Quest Cast Episode 11 - The good and bad of steam, the law of games.

June 25, 2018 21:30 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB

Steam has had its share of ups and downs, for every bad decision it looks like they do something equally good. There are lots of legal battles being fought in the world of games, with lots of opinions to go with them. Seems there's a trend in sci-fi related game releases/announcements this week as well. Sports games are also a big topic with all of the talk and controversy around microtransactions.

Quest Cast Episode 10 - Nintendo conference and the rest of E3.

June 18, 2018 21:30 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB

We pick back up where we left off for E3, talking about Nintendo and all the games in the booths that weren't covered in the conference. We move straight on to some more Cyberpunk news pertaining to Australia and some of the industry things going on around steam.

Quest Cast Episode 9 - E3, all things E3, Sony, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Square Enix and more.

June 12, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.1 MB

Lots of new games revealed at E3 this year, some we already knew about and some not. EA looks to be taken them self a little bit cautiously, while Microsoft and Sony are all about the next exclusives in their lineups. Longtime wants of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Elder Scrolls 6 got announced, with no hard dates ofcourse.

Quest Cast Episode 8 - Industry, Pokemon and bad developer practices.

June 04, 2018 21:30 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MB

More industry news than new games this week just before e3. Bluehole is digging themselves a big hole and keeps digging it deeper with their company antics. Path of exile just keeps bringing us content with their free to play hit. Pokemon's overnight announcement then release of Pokemon Quest hitting 1m downloads on the Switch within a week.

Quest Cast Episode 7 - Platform Exclusives, Battlefield V, The Sims, GDPR, should devs get paid for games being streamed?

May 28, 2018 21:30 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB

Should devs be getting paid for their games being streamed on services like Twitch and Caffeine, Battlefield V straying away from the realistic games it is known for. GDPR is going to affect how you could play games.

Quest Cast Episode 6 - PDX Con, E3 press conferences, board games, Battle pass and controversial topics

May 21, 2018 21:30 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB

We spend a lot of time talking about all the things Paradox with the latest con they have had, We talk board games, Dota Battle pass and some of the controversial topics revolving around nudity in games.

Quest Cast Episode 5 - Rumors, Leaks and more leading up to E3, Fable 4, Rage 2

May 14, 2018 21:30 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MB

As e3 gets closer, the rumors rise and the industry leaks crack open. We talk about what we wanna see this year and what has actually come out this week.

Quest Cast Episode 4 - Vampyr, E3 layout, Stardew Multiplayer, Battle Royale Board Games and More PUBG Fails

May 07, 2018 21:30 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB

This week is all about games that are coming as E3 is not too far away.

Quest Cast Episode 3 - Franchise rinse and repeat

April 30, 2018 21:30 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB

This week it's all about different franchises. What's working, what isn't and what might.

Episode 2 - Steam's shenanigans, GOG Master race and the graveyard you didn't know you needed (Feat @Inf3rnoPanda)

April 23, 2018 21:30 - 1 hour - 61.5 MB

This week we talk about game companies (Bioware) who are trying to claw their way back to our good graces, the different platform giants and their battle for our attention and all the good games that caught our eyes.

Episode 1 - The beginning

April 17, 2018 01:30 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MB

This is the very beginning of Quest Cast. We talk about games, the industry and things that we find interesting in geek culture.

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