Another grab bag of topics this week as Gareth & James discuss early access games. The failures, the successes, and how they’re changing the industry. From Minecraft to Project Zomboid, Scale, Tangiers and the Forest, we examine how early acces

Threat Detection – Episode 24 – All Filler, No Killer

Aug 5th, 2014

Gareth & James get together in the first Threat Detection for a while for a general chat about games. They talk about classic videogame publications like PC Gamer, C&VG and EGM, as well as the revival of classic games on sites like Good Old Gam

Threat Detection – Episode 23 – A.I. in Games (Part 2)

Jul 8th, 2014

What’s Threat Detection? Threat Detection is a lively, smart, frequently funny and always irreverent videogame chat show on Radiomade.ie. Each week, hosts Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal take an hour or two to tear apart a videogame topic, lik

Threat Detection – Episode 22 – Gaming A.I. (Part 1)

Jul 1st, 2014

Threat Detection – Episode 21 – E3 Megashow

Jun 17th, 2014

Threat Detection – Episode 20 – Character in Videogames

Jun 2nd, 2014

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 20 Does character matter? A vessel for the player to travel through the story. An enigma in his/her self. Often times an empty receptacle for containing player projections. How can it be conveyed in interact

Threat Detection – Episode 19 – Sex in Videogames (Part 2)

May 27th, 2014

On this second part of our discussion of sex in videogames, we delve into gender, sexuality, and the auld ride in mainstream and indie videogames. How have videogames historically dealt with sex? Is it possible for such a mainstream medium to d

Threat Detection – Episode 18 – Sex in Videogames (Part 1)

May 20th, 2014

On this episode of our weekly videogame show Gareth & James discuss the steamy topic of sex in videogames. We delve into gender, sexuality, and the auld ride in mainstream and indie videogames. How have videogames historically dealt with sex? I

Threat Detection – Episode 17 – Horror in Games (Part 2)

May 14th, 2014

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 17 Continuing from last weeks show, we chat about horror in video games. How does video game horror differ from movie horror, and how we can be horrified, now that we are so jaded.

Threat Detection – Episode 16 – Horror (Part 1)

May 6th, 2014

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 16 In this weeks ‘very special episode’ of Threat Detection, we discuss horror in videogames. We touch on the history of horror games from ‘Alone in the Dark’ to ‘Amnesia A Machine for Pigs’. We talk about h

Threat Detection – Episode 15 – Privilege

Apr 29th, 2014

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 15 1) Super Bunny Hop reports VAC bans affecting Dark Souls 2 – vac bans for using graphics enhancing hook file 2) Onion AV club running a series of articles on empty spaces in games World of Warcraft Myst a

Threat Detection – Episode 14

Apr 23rd, 2014

Download: Episode 14 We discuss… 1) Ars reveals the very short tail of steam game ownership 2) The importance of verbs – hilarious Day Z torture video demonstrates the bizarre social mechanics that can develop from relatively simply interaction

Threat Detection – Episode 12 – Sex & Sexuality

Apr 11th, 2014

Download: Episode 12 We discuss… 1) Guilt of the video game millionaires 2) Interesting article by Samantha Allen about joining the fringe medium of ‘queer’ games with the mainstream gaming audience. It highlights the veritable renaissance of s

Threat Detection – Episode 11 – A Rift In Cyberspace

Apr 3rd, 2014

Download: Episode 11 We discuss… 1) With the first teasers and trailers released for next gen only Ubi titles like Assasins Creed Unity (5), and The Division – what can we expect from the next generation – Indie game ‘the vanishing of Ethan Car

Threat Detection – Episode 10

Mar 26th, 2014

Download: Episode 10 We discuss… 1) More VR rumours Sony’s VR unit ‘morpheus’ – 300 dollars / euro with camera (loss leader) – will be named PS View or imagine or some crap – may be out before Rift (early 2015) – lots of software in development

Threat Detection – Episode 9

Mar 20th, 2014

Download: Episode 8 We discuss… 1) Oculus DK 2 and Sony VR HMD ‘Morpheus’ announced – you can order the DK2 today – ships July – Sony unit has smaller FOV (90 vs 110 – diagonal) but otherwise very comparable – DK2 is 1080p (divided over two eye

Threat Detection Episode 8

Mar 5th, 2014

Download: Episode 8 We discuss… 1) Xbox ONE’s price drop and its failure to make waves with us. Microsofts decisions to include connect in the box. Perceptions on console launches. 2) Our grim gaming memories, including James’s harrowing childh

Lets Play – Dark Dungeon Adventure

Mar 2nd, 2014

Gareth & James from the Threat Detection Podcast play through two extremely shoddy text based adventure games, scrawled by Gareth’s very own plush hands in the mid 1990’s.

Threat Detection – Episode 7

Feb 27th, 2014

Download: Episode 7 We talked about… 1) Retro gaming and the reasons people play classic games. 2) Irrational Games shutting down! (Just beat me to it. Was in the process of linking stories to this) (System shock, tribes3, freedom force, swat 4

Threat Detection – Episode 6

Feb 19th, 2014

Apologies for the sound problems in this episode. It’s our first week in the new studio and we have some gremlins to sort out. Download: Episode 6 We talk about… Valve Cheat detection controversy – Valve pulling an EA. Tracking people’s DNS add

Threat Detection – Episode 5

Feb 13th, 2014

Download: Episode 5 1) How in app purchases have ‘destroyed’ the games industry – Assassin’s Creed 4 metagame is crippled because of this – do casuals deserve it? – Jonathan Blows GDC talk – Nerd 3 (cubed) review of Dungeon Keeper remake for mo

Threat Detection – Episode 4 – Finally

Feb 13th, 2014

The ‘lost episode’ of Threat Detection! At last available. Apologies for the delay on this one, it got lost in the mix while moving studios. Download: Episode 4 We talk about… 1) A look back through our Gaming histories! 2) The new consoles – X

Threat Detection – Episode 3

Feb 13th, 2014

Download: Episode 3 1) Space game revival (No mans sky, elite dangerous, star citizen etc) 2) Lets Play videos on Youtube – legality, entertainment value etc – Youtube videogame personalities – James – Angry Joe, Spoony, Videogame Theorist, Jam

Threat Detection – Episode 2

Feb 13th, 2014

Download: Episode 2 We discuss… 1) Empathy Games – from Gone Home to Papers Please 2) Steam Dev Day to bring AMD,Intel, Oculus and other industry leaders to a two day event that is closed to the public and press. – Steams mysterious ‘best in th

Threat Detection – Episode 1

Feb 13th, 2014

First episode of our new weekly videogame show. Download: Threat Detection Episode 1 We discuss… 1) Indie Video game end of year discussion… – No mans sky, Fex, State of Decay, Kerbal Space Programme, Mirror Moon, Kentucky Route Zero, Hotline M