Super Joystiq Podcast 061: Tales of Xillia, Skullgirls, Brothers, QuakeCon 2013, GaymerX

This week's Super Joystiq Podcast is planning a whole line of water-filled designer furniture.

Any other year and we would still be in a gaming drought in the run-up to release season, but summer 2013 is overloaded with great smaller games. Ludwig helms the show this week, joined by Jordan, and new Managing Editor Susan Arendt in her first SJP appearance.

In games, the crew hits the upcoming releases and recent reviews, including Tales of Xillia, Skullgirls PC, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Pikmin 3, Dragon's Crown, and more. In the second half, it's on to con-talk, Everquest Next, QuakeCon, big John Carmack news, and takeaways from GaymerX.

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Show Breakdown
Hosts: Ludwig (@LudwigK), Susan (@SusanArendt), Jordan (@Jordan_Mallory)

• 00:00:00 - 00:05:04 // Intro

• 00:05:05 - 00:14:24 // Tales of Xillia

• 00:14:25 - 00:24:18 // Skullgirls PC

• 00:24:19 - 00:38:43 // Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

• 00:38:44 - 00:47:54 // Review round-up

• 00:47:55 - 00:56:55 // Hello Susan

• 00:56:56 - 01:19:54 // Cons: Everquest, QuakeCon, Carmack, Wolfenstein

• 01:19:55 - 01:46:59 // GaymerX & inclusionary approaches

• 01:47:00 - 01:48:49 // Wrap-up

Credits
Theme Music: Satsuma Audio and Whitaker Blackall – "A Basstastic Undertaking"
Segment Bumpers: Go Cart, Blown Away, Rocket, Electrodoodle, MTA - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Breaking News and Features

• Tales of Xillia review: Xillia-rating

• PSA: Skullgirls pre-orders open on Steam, include color palette options

• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Review: Do Not Separate

• Pikmin 3 review: To boldly go

• Dragon's Crown review: King of brawlers

• Rise of the Triad review: Everything old is still old

• Shadowrun Returns review: Hack the planet

• Charlie Murder review: Search and destroy

• EverQuest roundup: The next steps for the landmark series

• Carmack envisions lengthy console cycle, mysterious platform configurations on the horizon

• Carmack: 3DS, Wii U, Vita 'extremely unlikely' in id Software's future

• Carmack joins Oculus VR as Chief Technology Officer [Update]

• Wolfenstein: The New Order pushed to 2014

• Clearing the 'hump of assumptions' in making LGBT inclusive games

• How The Sims got its same-sex relationships [update]

Podcast Production
Xav de Matos and Jonathan Downin (@jonathandownin)