September 04, 2020

#34 - Summer of Gaming Review

1 hour 38 minutes

Dan and Luis get together to talk about NVIDIA’s new GPU announcements, yet another Ubisoft controversy, updates on Marvel's Avengers, and their overall opinions on this year’s E3 replacements, i.e. “Summer of Gaming”. Plus: Dan’s thoughts on Mario’s 35th Anniversary Direct, which was shadow dropped after our hosts were done recording.

00:00 - Intro / Housekeeping

No regular episode next week, but we’ll be dropping something special!

03:35 - Thoughts on Games

03:50 - Death Stranding

10:55 - The Lion King

13:22 - Fortnite

→ 18:05 - Fortnite adds Black Panther statue via Kotaku

18:50 - Portal

22:50 - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

27:07 - Top News

27:07 - Mario's 35th Anniversary Direct roundup via MyNintendoNews (Dan’s post-recording monologue)

37:16 - NVIDIA reveals new GPUs via TheVerge

44:30 - More PlayStation 1st party coming to PC via Eurogamer

50:20 - Tom Clancy's Elite Squad controversy via Forbes

56:27 - (TBC) PS5 not backwards compatible with PS3, PS2, PS1 via Eurogamer

1:00:16 - Avengers post-launch characters will have a $10 battle pass via IGN

→ 1:03:22 - Avengers sets new beta download record on PlayStation via Gamasutra

1:04:25 - Extra News

Check this out: Official PlayStation chip picker via PushSquare

1:08:35 - New Releases & Updates

1:13:10 - Broke Gamer’s Guide

1:16:33 - Summer of Gaming Review (Topic of the Show)

Admit It, You Miss E3 Already via LV1 Gaming

1:37:00 - Outro / Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez

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