PodTalks 2022 - SECTOR GAMING EN UN TEATRO EN VIVO Y EN DIRECTO
Episode notes
In this PodTalks live show, the Sector Gaming team introduces the project and reviews its interests around video games and technology. The conversation begins with a humorous comparison between the Beatles and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, before focusing on The Beatles: Rock Band and different associations between musicians and video games.
The participants explain the programme’s educational mission, its evolution during the pandemic, and regular subjects such as cloud gaming, dubbing, game development, and the variety of interactive experiences. They also recall their first consoles and games, discuss favourite titles, the difficulty of the Souls series, accessibility, and the importance of independent games.
The current-affairs section covers Microsoft’s offer for Activision Blizzard, major release delays, and games with moral decisions such as Papers, Please and Not Tonight. The technology segment focuses on PSVR2, Quest 2, Quest Pro, rising hardware prices, and the view that the PS5 generation has not fully taken off yet. Finally, the episode defends the educational potential of video games and virtual reality for learning programming, languages, and history, as well as recreating periods and places immersively.
Chapters
- 0:00 Programme start
- 5:29 The Beatles: Rock Band and music video games
- 14:41 Introducing Sector Gaming
- 16:42 Education, format, and cloud gaming
- 21:28 Video games as an artistic experience
- 31:41 Favourite games, difficulty, and accessibility
- 49:44 Current affairs: Activision Blizzard and delays
- 55:38 PSVR2, virtual reality, and the metaverse
- 1:01:09 Quest Pro and the future of virtual reality
- 1:07:29 Video games, education, and historical immersion