Jackie Fingaz and Kevin return for another week of digital dialog! Crytek might be digging up its past with a rumored Crysis 2 remaster, while Crystal Dynamics opens a new studio despite the less than healthy launch of their latest title Marvel’s Avengers. Job listings for Bungie point to a character driven multiplayer game, and Epic releases an Unreal Engine 5 playable tech demo called Valley of the Ancient. Western Digital launches new external SSD’s for PS5 and Xbox Series, though their capabilities may make them a tough sell. Fingaz played a bit more Resident Evil Village, while Kevin dabbled in a few games which unsurprisingly includes Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Let the games begin!

Stuff and things happened this week in the world of video games, and as always Jackie Fingaz and Kevin are here to talk about said stuff and things. The only problem is the technology we use has become sentient and deleted all the bookmarks, so we have no idea what’s in this show. So it looks like we’re all in for a surprise this week!

THIS! IS! PODCAST! Big shout out to the 410wned family, it's unreal that we've done 300 of these! Gabe Newell supposedly hints at Steam games coming to console, but probably not while Valve fights it's very own digital lawsuit similar to Sony's current predicament. Ubisoft delays Assassin's Creed ship combat spinoff Skull and Bones again, now with a salty new release window of 2022-2023. Bungie accidentally opened up Destiny 2 cross play months ahead of it's planned go live date, and they're leaving it open for a whole week. Jackie Fingaz dives headfirst into madness with Resident Evil Village, and Kevin flexes the mettle of his marriage in It Takes Two! Let the yelling about video games commence!

Fingaz brings the financial facts

Old Habbits

After a less than favorable response from it's player base, Sony has walked back it's decision to shut down the PS3 and PS Vita stores this June. The PSP store will close as originally planned. E3 returns this year as an all digital, free to stream event for anyone, though we have to assume there will be some private media streams. Xbox announces a list of backward compatible games now streaming on Xbox Cloud Network, both on PC and Apple mobile devices. The web browser based streaming addition seems to be Xbox's way around Apple's roadblock. Kevin played stuff, but Jackie Fingaz didn't. Shame on you, Fingaz.

PS Updates Galore

Cloud gaming and co-op shenanigans

Microsoft is buying Everything..... plus a little Final Fantasy

We have to stop numbering these