Snap Aim Podcast

Stella spoke with IO Interactive's Rasmus Poulsen, the Franchise Art Director, on their new IP with 007 and what it took to bring James Bond back to video games. 007 First Light will follow a young James Bond, who's just starting out in his British Secret Service career. Stella got to ask Poulsen what the process was like in writing a whole backstory to young Bond and how they stayed true to Bond's personality/character.

Fallout 76 just released their latest update Gone Fission and Stella got to talk to the Fallout 76 developers on the last five years of creating the game, maintaining fresh updates, and what we the players might expect in the upcoming 5 year anniversary update!

In this episode, Stella conducted a deep dive into Bungie's history with stolen artwork and writings. Last week, Bungie confirmed that Marathon, their latest extraction shooter title, had been built off stolen artwork. Prior to this transgression, Bungie had stolen work from other artists and community members three other times (that the public knows of). Here's the deep dive on Bungie's history with Plagiarism.

In this episode, Stella covers the FBC: Firebreak preview impressions rolling in and how this Control spin-off might play. Along with Firebreak, Stella discusses Katsuhiro Harada wanting to bring Waffle House as a level to Tekken and other small gaming news of the week!

In this episode, Stella talks about the Switch 2 pricing and whether or not it feels anti-consumer, read some odd headlines, get distracted by ADHD discussions, and talks about some real life news/drama.

Stella covers all the news this week from the GTA 6 delay, Xbox handheld leaks, Epic Games winning their lawsuit over Apple, and more!

Stella sat down with Ingwar Dovgoteles — Head of Cinematics / Cutscenes Director / Creative Director, Mykyta Balnov — Lead Compliance Artist, and Mykyta Horodyvskyi — Community and Social Media Manager from GSC Game World to chat about the current state of STALKER 2, the roadmap ahead, behind the scenes insight on development, and how they’ve persevered through war times while creating this long awaited game.

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) was last week and Stella got to be one of the 30,000+ attendees. While at GDC, Stella was super busy and signed up for a ton of meetings and hands-on demo time. There’s over 400 exhibitors at GDC so getting through the show floor takes the full week. However, there were some really great standouts that Stella wanted to bring some light to so these are the best demos Stella played at GDC. (There are some other previews coming that Stella got to play from GDC but those are under embargo!)

On this episode of Snap Aim, Stella and her editor Ivan Rodriguez chat about The Hidden Ones and the latest closed beta that went live. @InfantryInk is an expert fighting games player and got some hands-on time with The Hidden Ones and he discusses the mechanics, gameplay, and more compared to other fighting games. The Hidden Ones is set to release sometime this year 2025 and as a free-to-play model with NO gacha mechanics in unlocking characters.

WB Games just shut down Monolith Productions (Shadow of Mordor), Player First Games (MultiVersus), and WB San Diego (mobile/free to play games) this Tuesday February 25, 2025. The Wonder Woman game in development by Monolith is now cancelled and the question of who owns the Nemesis System is up in the air. Here's the breakdown on who owns the system and what will happen in the future with the WB Games universe.

NetEase Games, developer of Marvel Rivals, laid off their Seattle-based team this week after posting the next season update for the live service project. Not all of the names of those affected have been publicized but in this episode of Snap Aim, we dive into those named, NetEase's earnings in the last year, and why NetEase would dissolve their US team.

In this episode of Snap Aim, Stella sits down with three Respawn developers to chat about the process behind creating Apex Legends content and changes. She talks with Josh Mohan, Associate Design Director, Eric Canavese, Lead Battle Royale Designer, and John Larson, Game Designer. The topics revolve around development pitches for content in Apex, what approval times look like for these decisions, and how they plan to continue balancing Apex and communicate with their community.

Earlier today, Xbox held their Developer_Direct and showcased four different upcoming games and deep dives into their development. Here's everything you missed!

The 2025 League of The Americas (LTA) season just started a few days ago on the 18th and has brought a huge overhaul to the League of Legends esports scene. Stella got to sit down with Mark Zimmerman (MarkZ), the commissioner of the LTA, and chat about why the changes were made, why now was the right time for the update, and how the fan response has been to the overall LTA rebrand.

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Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is a great example of how some movie concepts are hard to truly replicate with balanced elements to a video game. However, The Great Circle could be a good place for Indiana Jones to continue coming back for more video games. Here's my review of The Great Circle.

In this episode of Snap Aim, Stella dives into the latest Marvel Rivals patch notes with the Winter Celebration update. While it brings in a new game mode and holiday cheer, the update also angered fans by getting rid of the ability to remove mouse acceleration. Here are the details on what happened.

So many games have been announced from The Game Awards and I listed all of them and provided as much of a description as I could to each game that was publicly written.

Ubisoft announced this week that they would be ceasing support to XDefiant, the free to play FPS FPS that released back in May 2024. Along with this news, Ubisoft also announced the closure of their SF studio and the layoffs of 143 people. Here's the news.

Let's go through Shuhei Yoshida's time at Sony in episode 30 of Snap Aim!

Snap Aim Podcast episode 29 coming at you with a spicy take on if video game DLCs and Expansions should be considered for Game of The Year Awards instead of being in its own category. This episode comes a few days after The Game Awards decided to change their rules to allow for a DLC to be considered for their Game of The Year Award which has divided the gaming community's opinions.

The Australian government just proposed a ban on social media from kids aged 16 and under. Here's the breakdown of that news and why it could be good (or bad).

In this episode, I talk about the new Alien: Isolation sequel being announced, 343 Industries turning into Halo Studios and changing Halo engines to Unreal Engine 5, and reacting to Epic's boss, Tim Sweeney, talking about their massive layoffs last year.

Welcome to Episode 25 of Snap Aim. Stella chats with Mark Medina about the PS5 Pro and whether or not they'll be buying it.

Stella goes into detail on video games and Korean culture and why Korean gamers have so many microtransactions.

A spoiler riddled review of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga film that released earlier this month.

Confused about what's going on with Escape from Tarkov? I've got you covered. Here's the latest drama going around on Escape from Tarkov's latest Premium Bundle The Unheard Edition Upgrade.

Stella breaks down the latest news on Apex Legends and the hack that happened during Apex Legends Global Series last Sunday.

Stella talks about Helldivers 2 and her obession with the new third-person shooter and how well the developer Arrowhead handles its live service aspect of its game.

Join Stella as she explains the entire timeline of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League from its announcement to its early access release.

Stella talks about her time playing Palworld and provides a short review on what she thinks about the game.

Stella goes over the latest in live-service games and in-game purchase pricing that seems far more inflated than usual especially in Star Citizen and Apex Legends

Join Stella for this special holiday episode where she talks about the new regulations China is implementing to reduce online gaming spending and obsessive and addicting gaming behaviors.

Stella reads and reacts to the comments and replies on her Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III review she wrote for IGN.

Join Stella Chung and Mitchell Saltzman as they talk about their favorite anime, college stories, and Mitchell's favorite fighting game and his journey to EVO.

Join Stella Chung, Ashsaidhi, Haylinic, Justseum, and Renee on their Twitchcon panel discussing how to break into the gaming industry through your content creation career.

Stella talks about how well the season opening for Fortnite OG went and how Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 reviewed by IGN while also catching up on life.

This Snap Aim episode is shorter and is just me, Stella, (sorry!) but I talked about the new Halo Infinite Season 5 updates, Xbox finally buying Activision Blizzard, and a fun fact about Spider-Man 2's character design.