Are Long Development Times Killing Gaming? w/ EPN's Victor Lucas!

While the video games industry continues to grow at a healthy pace, it's also recently been plagued by massive layoffs and increasingly longer development times, especially for triple AAA blockbuster titles. In this podcast, we are joined once again by video game, television media legend, Victor Lucas, to discuss whether increasingly longer development times are hurting the games industry in the long term? Victor Lucas is a much respected, video game television media pioneer and creator/executive producer/co-host of the Electric Playground Network which is home to a variety of content ranging from The Rundown, EP Daily, Reviews on the Run, The Rock and Raygun Awards, Vic's Basement and more! Vic's decades long experience and large footprint within this industry has solidified a permanent spot that ranks him highly among the most honest and trusted voices in the video games media space! To keep up-to-date with the latest developments from Victor Lucas, check out his links below: https://www.youtube.com/@EPN https://twitter.com/Victor_Lucas https://twitter.com/EPDailyTV https://t.co/RwffDWPsAV https://instagram.com/Batwing https://facebook.com/ReviewsOnTheRun https://twitter.com/ReviewsOnTheRun https://facebook.com/VictorLucasFanPage Level 857 Video Game Podcast Ep-304: Are Long Development Times Killing Gaming? w/ EPN's Victor Lucas! 00:00 - Intro 09:00 - Are Long Development Times Killing Gaming? w/ EPN's Victor Lucas! 1:28:16 - Break: Game Giveaway Reminder 1:32:45 - Indie Game of the Week Spotlight - Conan Chop Chop 1:37:40 - LEGO Mario Kart Sets Announced for 2025 in Celebration of Mario Day 2024 1:47:45 - Warner Bros.’ MultiVersus Finally Has a Re-Release Date 1:55:23 - Street Fighter 6's next playable character Akuma revealed in new trailer 1:59:56 - SPIDER-MAN: THE GREAT WEB TRAILER LEAKED ONLINE 2:04:00 - Games Played Discussion If you enjoyed the podcast and would like to show support, feel free to do so in any of the following ways below: (1) Subscribe and share this podcast with close friends/family (2) Rate/Review us on your preferred podcasting platform: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/level857 (3) Anyone interested in making a donation can do so here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/level857/support (4) Hit the bell and subscribe to our live podcast and multiplayer, co-op gaming channel: https://goo.gl/Zy9RTD