Welcome to CTRL PAD! Home to the CTRL PAD Show; LOCAL COOP; and NEWS GAME PLUS! In the CTRL PAD Show, each week, Jeff Cannata, Nikole Zivalich, Christian Spicer, and Alex Berg (plus the occasional awesome guest) cover select hot topics in the video game world, while bringing in community viewpoints, opinions, and conversations. In LOCAL COOP, Alex Berg and Christian Spicer (and sometimes some other fun, cool people) examine larger concepts in and around video games and the broader world in which we live. And NEWS GAME PLUS is a video game news show that hits on the biggest news in gaming, and takes a deeper look at one of the biggest issues, themes, and talking points in and around the world of video games.
In this week's episode, Jeff Cannata highlights the games launching with Google's Stadia, Xbox's "Surprise Me" feature, Sonic the Hedgehog's new movie...
In Today’s episode, Alex Berg and Christian Spicer talk about how bloated, lengthy games can affect playability. Do new-gen games need to have super-l...
Join Jeff Cannata, Nikole Zivalich, Christian Spicer, and Alex Berg for this week’s episode about Apple partnering with Valve on an AR headset; China’...
Fall is for GAMING! In today’s episode, we highlight all the new releases coming this November; Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, and BlizzCon news; and how Hide...
Alex Berg and Christian Spicer take inspiration from the chats for this week’s show, examining the issues and reasons in covering new games. Also, ple...
This week, Jeff Cannata, Nikole Zivalich, Christian Spicer, and Alex Berg talk about the Last of Us: Part II delay, Ubisoft game delays, Bethesda and ...
On this week’s News Game Plus, Jeff Cannata talks Fortnite bots, this week’s new, big releases, Pokemon Go’s upcoming PvP, and questions when great ga...
Join Jeff Cannata, Nikole Zivalich, Christian Spicer, and Alex Berg for this week’s episode about the data practices at Niantic, Google Stadia, Fortni...