The podcast is coming in a little late this week, thanks to a weekend full of Shack Summit revelry. The wait is worth it, though, since we gathered our staff into one room at the actual real-life Shacknews offices for a face-to-face-to-face-to-face podcast. Host Steve Watts is joined by Steven Wong, Josh Hawkins, and Asif Khan to discuss the Summit, DLC trends, cinematic direction, must-play last-gen exclusives, and the shame of easy mode.

Thanks as always to those who provided our topic suggestions this week: Ozzie, David Craddock, daggot, dael, and Hemtroll. If you want see your name in lights, keep an eye on Chatty to suggest topics! And, special thanks to Chatty user dael for contributing music to the show, and to Bryan "Doctor Games" Carr for production assistance.

Off-Topic: Take a moment to talk about the Summit. Give the listeners an idea of what's coming up at Shack.
Segment 1: How will the growing trend of AAA games like Dead Space 3 and Mortal Kombat X throwing DLC in players' faces affect the industry going forward?
Segment 2: As games continue to become more and more cinematic, when should games start employing film directors to direct the cinematic portions of games?
Segment 3: What are your essential last gen exclusives we should all play before we move on?
Segment 4: Do you ever play games on easy difficulty just for the story or experience?

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