Google Stadia and GDC 2019 with Meggan Scavio - What's Good Games (Ep. 97)

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What's Good Games

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🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Thank you MeUndies, Quip & Grammarly for sponsoring this week’s episode! Get 15% off your first pair at http://meundies.com/wgg Get your first refill pack free at http://getquip.com/whatsgood For 20% off a Grammarly premium account, go to http://grammarly.com/whatsgood. Support What’s Good Games on Patreon! Gain access to behind-the-scenes content, exclusive videos, extra podcast segments and more. http://www.patreon.com/whatsgoodgames This week the crew is all together in the Bay Area for the 2019 Game Developer's Conference! They are joined by special guest Meggan Scavio, the President of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. They chat about Google's Stadia announcement, Sea of Thieves' new update, Nintendo's Nindies reveal, and more from GDC. They also discuss a variety of games they played at the show from ID@Xbox, Oculus, and more. Lastly, they discuss the AIAS Foundation, scholarship program, and more ways the Academy is helping young talent start creating in the games industry. Segment One: News :44 Welcome to the show! 12:45 Google Stadia 36:13 Sea of Thieves Anniversary 39:40 Metro Exodus does VERY well on Epic Games Store 43:15 Quantic Dream/Ubisoft and Epic Games Store 46:00 Nintendo Switch Nindies 50:45 Apex Legends Battle Pass 50:52 Anthem sales start STRONG Segment Two: Hands-on 55:55 BeatSaber 58:10 Journey of the Gods 1:04:06 Stormland 1:11:57 After Party 1:17:50 Hyper Dot 1:21:40 Silver Chains 1:27:09 Falcon Age Segment 3: Let’s chat with Meggan Scavio! 1:32:02 Welcome back! http://www.facebook.com/whatsgoodgames http://www.twitter.com/whatsgood_games http://www.youtube.com/whatsgoodgames Join the community page! https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatsgoodgames/ Brittney http://twitter.com/blondenerd http://facebook.com/blondenerd http://youtube.com/blondenerd Andrea http://twitter.com/andrearene http://www.instagram.com/andrearene_/ Steimer http://twitter.com/steimer https://www.instagram.com/ksteimer/

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0:00.0	Pots good, everybody and welcome to another episode of the What's Good Games Podcast, your
0:30.0	source for video game news commentary analysis and funny stuff every Friday.
0:49.0	I'm Andrea Vernet, joined in studio by Miss Christine Steimer.
0:52.8	Hello.
0:55.8	And Miss Brittany Bronbacher.
0:56.8	Hello.
0:57.8	We got very special guest this week.
0:58.8	Megan Scaviel is here.
1:00.6	Very special Megan Scaviel.
1:01.6	Hello.
1:02.6	Yes.
1:03.6	Thank you so much for making time to come down during the game developer's conference.
1:04.6	I know it's usually a very busy week for you.
1:07.9	It is, but I broke my toe a couple weeks ago, so I'm taking it easy and this is actually
1:10.5	really good excuse to sit down.
1:14.8	And I will take any excuse that I can get because I've been wanting to have you on the show
1:16.6	forever.
1:20.7	So for people who aren't familiar with Megan, she is the president of the Academy of Interactive
1:21.7	Arts and Sciences, which just put on dice, the dice summit and the dice awards to happen
1:25.9	just a couple of weeks ago.
1:30.3	It did.
1:31.5	And God of War was a big winner at that night.
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