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my next guest probably doesn't introduction for you guys but I just want to say that we're super excited to have him he's part of the Vox family he's about to launch an amazing new game site please welcome Chris Grant yes brand Chris Grant all right I don't think we rehearse that enough earlier rehearsal was a lot longer oh yeah a lot slower yes Chris thank you for joining us Thanks thank you so much for being here it's for heavily I don't know whose boobs that is but you're welcome to uh that's my because that yours yeah no it's great snuck it out here fantastic uh so hey got a new website polygon well it's not there yet you don't have it yet no it's not that so Chris's as you guys may know he is a he's the editor in chief of formerly Vox games now now polygon and got a crew of amazing there's the logo this awesome logo which I'm really I kind of in love with oh so how did you get this name this is incredible so oh my god calm yes you would think that there would be no chance of anybody ever getting that um we had to fire me so so we had the team like you said and uh we got a bunch of editors together and thought what would make a great gaming such an amazing team I mean this team is like I mean I know it's a team you may not know all these people by name but you should this is like a such a super group of gaming journalists and we're still hiring still hiring John there's job postings on the sound postings in psycho um so we're talking about names we come up with polygons pretty early i think was actually just a mac Roy on I and we starting about what other what other names if we can't get polygons so we start by suing I was actually in one of these you guess we're having like skype conversations with fantasy backgrounds and like a robot will go by and but you're having you guys were having in the office one day you're having like a skype conversation you were like brainstorming yeah we brainstorm yeah you have a you had a lot of different ideas for names yeah so and you brought some slides yeah so we thought we'd share if you guys didn't say we should sum these up packs what some of our names some of our potential names yes these are these are just so you understand it was there was a period where didn't look like you could get polygons we were we were hand and you're like let's we got to think of something else here are some this this could be the name yeah and and and we're gonna take you on a walk through them here we go it's the first one rag doll that's right doll yeah so right dolla is this this is an album cover what is this no so we did some concept art you know pick some of the names we have sun dresses like linkin park this is like it's angie limp biscuit biscuit yeah that's good the huddle of mud and we thought puddle mudd fans like what dolls yeah until you Shayne Clown Posse this is sort of insane clown posse's got some juggalo going on yeah um it's got a clown so uh rag doll clothes rag dolling the rag doll does net maybe I was super disturbing for the next thing I what was the thinking behind rag doll like what uh we it was we had a I don't know 200 names on a white be like it's it it's a thing it's a thing it'll blame people did play with it at one point yeah now just terrified right doll physics right in games you got trials you know you go floppy right right next slide creepy dia we played a lot I don't understand we played a lot of super crate box that's the only about is it what is this is an iOS game yeah thought you were talking about before I this looks really good I gotta play this yeah alright crate crate a PD accrete pedia we weren't sure like a shame for crate yeah and the whole site design we pitch it to Bank off at vox media he said wait a second you can make Wikipedia for one game and we said sorry for wasting your time sir all right what's it what's the next one gamer nista gamer nice one of my favorites it's edgy uh you know you're thinking like revolution what's revolutionary it's like you know throwing a Molotov cocktail at the game industry right yeah blow it up so like what like bird sand and Eastern gamers he's alive yeah huh so we would I don't know you have like a you have a theme you know you wear masks like that aren't you you watch out for this yeah and they want great use of a phone box up some good stuff pirates what we got was the next time sprites so I think you can see the branding opportunity great great branding opportunity it's not it's not a it's a short walk to Paradise really yeah and uh come check out the right cos dry internet website video games also drinks from the disp right own sprites calm ah it's parked these were all parts find out this was all check it out guys have used it on the air are you happy now let's see who let's see sprite calm yeah it was a it was a great opportunity to pursue is it can have the girl going to college maybe oh it's like a part where you go she's checking the internet you guys either that's how you know it's a good sites like we did Donald something better with this by the way they want 1 million dollars for this here's a crazy thing why doesn't sprite by it and make a new line sprite called sprites and write multiple sprites yes all right what's the next one just buy one object it was a personal favorite because it's like what isn't an object that they're all object it's an object yeah I I object that's the problems objects objects should Phoenix Wright fansite think about it phoenix wright you know the objection no you don't everyone else gets it right yeah it's tough and I yeah all right I got it I got it next one screenplay screen flashes my I get it you play on a screen yeah yep although it's a thing that uh then I met feel more calm and use so it is a thing that's you hit used to make a movie it's tricky yeah alright what else do we have oh this is good game routine this is it this one's confusing I'm confused that is a poster of the libertines starring Johnny Depp yeah that's living it up and and that is Ovaltine yeah we you you tweet but you've done some editing some and it's creative adjustment yeah we couldn't determine is it without his most is the site about you know it's crazy sex is it about a kids drink or is it a combination of the two good book so I think it I think you're getting to the right point yeah okay those guys that wear diapers the only way they can get it going you where you really really went there I think it's good else what else we have mesh mesh com we have a picture of a guy in a mesh shirt it could be girly woman you know this is it's it's unisex it's like edgy is that actually what mash is is it like a mesh clothes inside uh no its parking these are all park it's all available so you guys living wonders idea what you have to buy them yeah another free so guys or girls mesh com that's out there alright whatever else way I think about it this is a classic ap Eragon so we I don't understand you couldn't get a polygon what other kinds of guns are there Oh what is it ain't what it I'm not a gun here Oh God you might know like dodecahedron like that sighs I'm done that's how God but so APR gun isn't infinite uh polygon was like no ends but it's countable I don't know it's a matter did you consider infinite polygon cuz that's not bad that's not bad huh that's a lot of letters know Sierra go nice and short easy to spot I don't know not actually either who's all right well as you have entered Gaiman uh I think it's pretty good I like this what is this brandon is that if first time is that the warp from the beginning of Star Trek when it when it zooms i feels a guy for mega 64 at the mega 64 guy what is it what's the what's the day I gotta work you don't feel ya feelin enter Game it easy to spell over the phone ENT all the letters sound the same oh yeah it's got some clever wordplay enter game game game ins it sounds like entertainment get it now that you made me the necessary I'm all what else through and this is this was actually not but Vox Games this we use Fox games but our unofficial mascot and potential URL panda suplex panda suplex comments available what's incredible about about panda suplex we had our commanders off it's available oh it wasn't taking somehow uh what's incredible man the suplexes it's uh you did the art of a it's the pandas doing the move yeah if you actually google pen suplex you find a lot of animated gifts append as soup Lessing each other which is amazing I recommend you do it really yeah no I'm kidding here's the best part though that guy isn't suplexing the Panda cuz you think pants you're too but you're doing uh yeah the pandas suplexing no I think of it as a move the Panda soon with that hand asleep I think so a panda could do it or a human might learn how to do it from from a panda maybe being a raised by pandas raised by pandas hmm how did you win all those wrestling matches I learned the pan to suplex Wow yeah there's a there's this opportunity there's a touching fanfic here he's just done I think that's at it so there's some other names i think i think polygon was ultimately a better we have an idea though he really you've slides roll they're great that's wonderful i wish i could've been there for the bed process i'm glad that i have this sorry was going to close that well to what's right too much i had lyrics to rag doll up by the way I wanted to not gonna go through now okay busy opportunity alright so let's just talk a little bit about gaming news and then we're gonna do something very fun you wanted to talk about the steam box yeah we reported on this is valve as you know we've heard creating some kind of console and I talked to you when we had some info I ran it by your like this kind of make sense with what I've heard explain to me why or how valve might want to create something the fountain is a lot lately there was of course the the rumor that Tim Cook's stop by valve HQ which is a huge lie yeah apparently it's just a giant like Gabe Newell said it didn't never happen but um they say no to it they say a lot of things aren't happening it's true I don't know who knows so this is actually this is a picture from from valves website promoting big picture mode which they announced in February 2011 the idea is heading to living room or anywhere there's a big screen this team soon to be released this was 13 months ago for ya oh yeah offering simple easy to read navigation design specificity it's esteem in your living room like you know if you're playing it on your TV on your console but how does that work you have a gigantic like gaming keyboard and like a 20 button mouse so they announced this one of those like TV dinner things yeah on a track that you won't as an idol move by the way I'm in a phantom lap board yeah that's good time this convey / where so I'm they actually releasing you're gonna care not the Phantom lap board uh so this is a little say they've been talking about big picture mode for a while and it stands to reason that they've talked to hardware manufacturers about helping us because you're not going to hook up a giant water cooled gaming PC to your television you're not well good point Touche um right over here on the side is actually a giant water cooled you can see it off it just panels like as as tall the tell it's got a lot of blue LEDs am fan is so loud uh so they've been think about this a lot how to get the living room and sends the reason that they've been thinking about concept hardware I'm somewhat Intel builds an ultrabook they don't actually sell you an ultrabook somebody else does the right help designs aspects and you and we were talking about this in years like if valves going to do it it's going to be you think maybe a spec kind of and I we said this in our article like Android it'll be like here's our stuff like here's the system basically go put it on your box and you even you know we talked about alienware they made this what is the name of yacht x 51 x 51 which is looks like you know the xbox and the ps3 made love to one another and gave birth to a large child it really doesn't get this hybrid of those two things isn't it yeah it looks like a console it's very clearly designed to be a console to hdmi hookups it's got slot loading drive i mean you know here alienware is making a gaming console and one has to assume that alienware being one of the biggest gaming pc manufacturers that valve is talk to them about big picture mode right you know there's this idea that pc gaming will come to the TV well come to the living room I think you're seeing alien where's maybe a little early here I'm assuming other pc companies have some games boxes and then when seemed a picture modes official maybe it'll be an official steam authorized so you think this might happen I think valve is means already happen you can go buy this right now but something more more of like an idea like because they've also worked on gaming like controllers and weird these years one of their patents yeah you could swap out different types of sticks yep whatever so if I'll has been thinking about this a lot you know how do you get pc gaming on to the console I mean they're obviously thinking about hardware why would they patent this yeah I mean in the hardware is a big part I don't think here's the difference I don't think valve has any interest in making hard world no but they might have interest in design I they very much want to divide by the speculum ache this you