A Weekly Gaming News Show

Episode 115 August 26, 2018

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Updates/Corrections

• Steam Plays allows Windows games on Linux

Weekly Icebreaker: Jacksonville shooting

Quick Hits

• Assassin's Creed to rest in 2019
• Bloodstained dev cancels Vita port
• Amazon turns Grand Tour into game
• HTC Vive wireless adapter dated and priced

Top 5

1. Ads returning to Twitch Prime
2. Microsoft bundling consoles and XBL Gold
3. July NPD Numbers
4. 2018 International results
5. Nindie Direct

This Week in Loot Boxes

• NBA 2K microtransactions cut in Belgium and Netherlands

Long Form -  Gamescom Wrap-up

• 20 series nVidia cards revealed
• Shenmue III gets a release date
• XB1 bundles
• PUBG 1.0 hitting XB1 in September
• Team Sonic Racing
• New PUBG XB1 controller - Trigger Grips
• Quick Caps - Link

A Weekly Gaming News Show 

Episode 114 August 19, 2018

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Updates/Corrections

• How much is Google missing out by not having Fortnite in the Play store

Weekly Icebreaker: What cult IP would you like to see restored.

Quick Hits

• NBA 2K League expands by 4 teams
• 3 Million PSVRs are in the wild
• Oculus support coming to Viveport, HTC's VR Store
• Former Overwatch Pro xQc suspended again

Top 5

1. THQ Nordic acquires Timesplitters IP

2. Microsoft News

• New XB1 dashboard update out in alpha
• Microsoft hires Red Dead writer for its new studio
• Forza Horizon 2 being removed from Xbox store in September

3. Fallout 76 skipping Steam - to be directly released by Bethesda

4. News out of Valve

• Valve working on tools to play Windows games in Linux systems
• Valve is indefinitely delaying some games from releasing on Steam
• Steam readying Twitch competitor

5. Nintendo Hits

• Switch has hidden VR mode
• Nintendo showcases SMB3 running on a Switch
• Diablo III making its way to Nintendo Switch - submitted by Mori Jin

Long Form - Are we starting to see a backlash against gaming/platform marketplaces?

A Weekly Gaming News Show

Episode 113 August 12, 2018

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Updates/Corrections

• Fortnite beta now available on all Android devices...invite needed

Weekly Icebreaker: What are your feelings towards limited edition consoles?

Quick Hits

• Negan heading to Tekken 7
• IGN removes review after plagiarism allegations
• Quake Champions is free to play
• UbiSoft cancels Steep Switch port

Top 5

1. Discord launches game storefront
2. Limited Edition PS4 Pro celebrates 500 million sold
3. Bethesda pressuring Sony on cross platform play
4. Smash direct recap
5. EVO 2018 results/Recap

This Week in Loot Boxes

• Bungie will publish loot box odds

Long Form - UbiSoft, Activision and Take Two report record earnings in large part to in-game purchases. Sega's revenue was light, even though they had an increase in physical sales. Are "evergreen games," the future of gaming?

A Weekly Gaming News Show

Episode 112 August 8, 2018

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Weekly Icebreaker: Discuss your week's trials and tribulations

Quick Hits

• Madden '19 censors Colin Kaepernick
• BioWare has not closed the door on Dragon Age/Mass Effect
• Harmonix reaches publishing deal with NCSoft

Top 5

1. August PS+ Games released - Available starting Aug 7th
2. Valve pulls alleged crypto mining game from Steam
3. PSVR co-creator jumps to Google
4. Fortnite skipping Google Play store on Android
5. ZX Spectrum Vega+ give lessons on how not to crowdsource

This Week in Loot Boxes

• GT Sport jumps into the microtransaction pool

Long Form - Gaming's role in censorship and the larger social conversation

A Weekly Gaming News Show

Episode 111  July 29, 2018

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Updates/Corrections

• Fortnite Battle Royale taking in $2 million daily on iOS alone.

Weekly Icebreaker: If you were a game developer, what franchise would you bring back.

Quick Hits

• Retro Commodore 64 incoming
• NBA Live 2019 will allow female created players
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance removed from marketplaces
• US Army holding SFV tournament

Top 5

1. August Games With Gold
2. Nintendo sues two ROM sites
3. London Spitfire wins first OWL championship
4. NBA Playgrounds get new publisher
5. Quantic Dream loses legal battle with former employee

This Week in Loot Boxes

• Turn 10 removing loot boxes from Forza 7
• Dota 2 loot boxes will show contents before purchase in The Netherlands

Long Form - With loot boxes being toxic, game passes swoop in to replace them. Are they a better deal for gamers.

A Weekly Gaming News Show

Episode 110  July 23, 2018

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Weekly Icebreaker: What has been your favorite handheld/portable gaming device.

Quick Hits

• Microsoft's Ultimate Game Sale
• Uncharted fan film casts Nathan Fillion as Drake
• Microsoft sort of promises new hardware at Gamescom
• Razer making exclusive PS4 MvC:Infinite Arcade stick
• Guerrilla Games expanding

Top 5

1. August Twitch Prime games announced
2. Rainbow Six Siege auto-banning players for hate speech
3. Culling 2 so bad, developers go back to original Culling
4. Fortnite is a billion dollar franchise
5. Marvel Strikeforce influencer caught in the pockets of FoxNext

This Week in Loot Boxes

• Shadow of War removes loot boxes

Questions???

#askAWGNS: are you guys ready for the new dragon ball super broly movie

Long Form - Handhelds/Portables

A Weekly Gaming News Show

Episode 109 

July 15, 2018

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Weekly Icebreaker: If you decided to go "Pro," what game would you play?

Quick Hits

• Monster Hunter World gets dated on PC
• EA acquires Industrial Toys
• Dolby Vision coming to XB1

Top 5

1. Overwatch League games to air on ESPN, ABC and Disney networks
2. • Overwatch raised nearly $13 million for charity
   • Nintendo bans hacker who asked for anti-cheat in Splatoon
3. Nintendo patches "unpatchable exploit"
   • Epic Games restructuring Unreal marketplace payouts
4. Epic Games launching 8 week $8 million Fortnite tournament
5. Konami kills fan remake of P.T.
6. THQ Acquires HandyGames

Long Form - Atari, Sega, and others

1980's

• Atari - 2600, 5200, 7800
• ColecoVision, expansion module & Gemini (Atari 2600 ripoffs)
• Intellivision
• Emerson Arcadia
• Sega Master System, Genesis
• Turbo Graphx 16

1990's

• Sega Saturn, Dreamcast
• Neo Geo
• Turbo Graphx 16 CD
• Philips CD-i
• Commodore Amiga CD32
• Panasonic 3DO
• Atari Jaguar
• JVC X'Eye (Sega Genesis/Sega CD licensee)
• Bandai/Apple Pippin

2000 & 2010's

• Atari Flashback, Flashback 2, Flashback 3
• Yobo FC Twin, Yobo FC 3 Plus
• Retro-Bit retro Duo
• Hyperkin RetroN, RetroN 3
• Ouya
• nVidia Shield

Going Forward

• Atari VCS
• New Intellivision
• Google Project Yeti

Episode 108, A Weekly Gaming News Show

July 8, 2018

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Updates/Corrections

• We Happy Few wins appeal in AustraliaWeekly Icebreaker: Whatcha playing Vol. 9 Mobile Edition

Quick Hits

• 2018 Summer Games Done Quick raises $2.1 million
• Amazon makes changes to pre-order discounts
• Xbox One's July update is live
• Dead Island gets the mobile treatment

Top 5

1. Amazon's Free Twitch Prime games
2. Bethesda blames Sony for lack of Fallout 76 crossplay
3. Modder put fake GTA VI announcement in GTA V online
4. Fortnite troll/griefer breaks record
5. ArenaNet axes pair of Guild Wars 2 writers

This Week in Loot Boxes

• French regulators decry loot boxes - stops short of calling them illegal

Long Form - The Mighty Nintendo

Show Notes: July 1, 2018

Episode 107, A Weekly Gaming News Show

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Updates/Corrections

• Nintendo names new president
• PUBG Corp drops lawsuit against Epic Games
• Sony makes another statement regarding crossplay and FortniteWeekly Icebreaker:  What free games have you played and enjoyed?

Quick Hits

• Blizzard teases Overwatch's 28th hero
• Oculus out $250 million
• Corsair buys Elgato's CPU accessory business
• Former US President Barack Obama added to Shaq-Fu via DLC

Top 5

1. PS+ Games for July
2. July Games with Gold
3. Google working on streaming game service - new hardware
4. Epic Games sues leaker for spoiling Fortnite
5. Amy Hennig left EA - opens indie studio

Long Form - Sony and The Playstation

A Weekly Gaming News Show 

Episode 106 - June 24, 2018

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Download our show on iTunes, Google Play, Tune-In Radio or in your favorite podcasting appWeekly Icebreaker: Summer Games done quick has begun! What is your favorite game to speedrun or watch be speedrun.

Quick Hits

• After 2 years, Pokemon GO! to get trading
• Valve looking to limit fake games with new achievement rules
• The demise of PUBG is greatly exaggerated
• Cyberpunk 2077 will have no loading screens
• Criterion announces two new games
• Microsoft backs off of plans to bring VR to Xbox
• Discord launches games tab

Top 5

1. Sony brings back Greatest Hits
2. Gamestop looking to sell - themselves
3. Nintendo banning Switch Consoles with pirated games
4. Bethesda suing WB over Westworld game
   • An Educated opinion - Sony blocks crossplay to make money
5. Nintendo and Microsoft take a dig at Sony

This Week in Loot Boxes

• It's never too late- SFV adding loot boxes
• Valve pulls item trading in The Netherlands

Questions???

Mori Jin - With Smash Ultimate on the way, what I would like know is what Smash series was your favorite? Also, what character did you like to play the most and what character did you dislike the most? Finally, who would you like to see in Smash Ultimate?

Long Form - Microsoft and the Xbox