This week we got down and dirty with our predicitions for this years Game Awards! Watch along with us live on December 12th at Twitch.tv/kingkaiser

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This might be the first time ever it's better to be a Sonic fan compared to a Pokemon fan...

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Pokemon Leaks have fans ready to burn gamefreak to the ground

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-sword-shield-spoiler-leak-and-datamine-thread-2-page-401-update-datamining-has-begun.152324/

Sonic Movie gets a facelift and fans seem really happy

https://twinfinite.net/2019/11/sonic-fans-are-going-gaga-over-the-new-design-for-the-live-action-film/

The president of Famitsu (biggest gaming outlet in Japan), has a cameo in Death Stranding, and people are uncomfortable that they gave Death Stranding a perfect review score

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-11-11-death-strandings-famitsu-cameos-spark-questions-in-japan

Monster Energy's stock jumps after Death Stranding releases

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/monster-energys-stock-prices-jumped-the-day-death-stranding-came-out

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has a league account, and isn't trash?

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/aoc-is-a-better-league-of-legends-player-than-rick-fox

Google confirms Stadia is launching with very little features, and only 12 games

https://kotaku.com/google-confirms-all-the-stuff-stadia-wont-have-at-launc-1839839278

The list of games here:

https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/11/20959565/google-stadia-launch-game-lineup-tomb-raider

The Uncharted Movie has taken so long to make, Mark Wahlberg has gone from playing Drake, to playing Sully

https://kotaku.com/the-uncharted-movie-has-been-in-hell-so-long-its-turned-1839839310

Does Hideo Kojima think Americans aren't smart enough to enjoy Death Stranding?

https://kotaku.com/dueling-translations-of-hideo-kojimas-thoughts-on-criti-1839831377

#pokemon #dexit #gamefreaklied

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Topics:

Blizzard's opening statement at Blizzcon

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-10-31-j-allen-brack-apologizes-for-blizzards-tough-hearthstone-esports-moment

Death Stranding Review Roundup

https://www.resetera.com/threads/death-stranding-review-thread-see-staff-post-for-discussion-guidelines.150539/

Kojima announces plans to make movies in the future

https://kotaku.com/in-the-future-hideo-kojima-says-his-studio-will-make-f-1839603527

Blizzard says Overwatch doesn't have a black woman “for story reasons”

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-director-says-there-are-story-reasons-for-sav-1839643276

Red Dead 2 on PC is buggy af

https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/7/20952369/red-dead-redemption-2-rdr2-pc-gameplay-freeze-crash

Pictures of Super Nintendo world look cool

https://kotaku.com/universal-studios-japans-super-nintendo-world-is-coming-1838767892

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Sans from Undertale is in Smash and now he's in wrestling too

https://twinfinite.net/2019/10/get-ready-to-rumble-sans-from-undertale-becomes-a-wrestler/

Nintendo Sales number report

https://twinfinite.net/2019/10/fire-emblem-sales-nintendo/ (game sales) https://twinfinite.net/2019/10/nintendo-switch-sales-september-2019/ (switch sales)

Playstation Vue is being shut down.

https://twinfinite.net/2019/10/sony-is-shutting-down-playstation-vue/

EA is returning to steam

https://www.gameinformer.com/news/2019/10/29/ea-partners-with-valve-to-bring-ea-games-and-eaaccess-to-steam

Death Stranding is coming to PC next year

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/10/28/death-stranding-coming-to-pc-next-summer

Blizzcon is tomorrow... will new game announcements save Blizzard?

https://kotaku.com/after-a-terrible-2019-blizzard-is-going-all-in-at-bliz-1839425018

Fallout 76 players are griefing players who bought the subscription, creating video game “class war” https://www.thedailybeast.com/bethesdas-fallout-class-war-has-players-targeting-premium-subscribers

#easteam

The gang is fired up and energy runs high in this episode that critics are calling "a return to form."

Topics:

Suda 51 and Swery (of Deadly Premonition fame), got drunk and held a press conference about a game they maybe or maybe aren't making. It was some Kojima ass shit.

https://gematsu.com/2019/10/suda-51-and-swery-65-team-up-for-indie-horror-game-hotel-barcelona

Capcom has plans to bring back dormant franchises

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/capcom-has-plans-to-utilize-dormant-franchises/1100-6470660/

Fallout 76 rolls out a paid subscription... woof

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/fallout-76-just-threw-out-months-of-goodwill-in-a-single-day

Buy a Taco for up to 44 days of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/23/20929068/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-free-taco-bell-outer-worlds-gears-5

Interesting (and long) piece on how licensed music is being negotiated in games nowadays

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-10-16-how-does-the-games-industry-solve-its-problem-with-music-licensing

Shroud also leaves Twitch for Mixer

https://kotaku.com/twitch-star-shroud-moves-to-mixer-1839329327

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Blizzard's PR nightmare with China.

https://kotaku.com/blizzards-hong-kong-missteps-prove-video-games-arent-ne-1838913631

Shawn Layden departs Sony, announced by a tweet from Sony. No word from Layden.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-10-01-shawn-layden-departs-sony-interactive-entertainment

In contrast, Xbox's VP of Gaming, Mike Ybarra, announced his departure via tweet this week.

https://twinfinite.net/2019/10/mike-ybarra-leaves-microsoft/

Red Dead Redemption 2 coming to PC, launching first on Rockstar's exclusive client.

https://twinfinite.net/2019/10/red-dead-redemption-2-now-available-to-pre-purchase-first-screenshots-and-details-revealed-by-rockstar/

Google Stadia will reportedly have “negative latency,” lol

https://kotaku.com/yeah-okay-sure-1838916867

Mixer viewership down, and twitch viewership up, despite Ninja's jump

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-10-04-ninjas-move-to-mixer-fails-to-driver-viewership

It was a busy week, but we're back with hot news and even hotter takes.

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Topics:

You can get a 7 day trial of Xbox Game Pass by drinking Rockstar energy drink https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/24/get-a-free-week-of-xbox-game-pass-for-drinking-rockstarenergy

Apple Arcade is out and shaking up the mobile gaming market

https://twinfinite.net/2019/09/why-apple-arcade-is-an-exciting-change-for-the-mobile-market/

Link's Awakening is the best selling Zelda remake of all time

https://twinfinite.net/2019/09/uk-charts-links-awakening-goes-top-marking-biggest-zelda-remakelaunch-ever/

The Last of Us Part II has finally been given a release date and a new trailer (Joel is back!) https://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-last-of-us-part-2-gets-a-february-2020-release-date

French court rules that Steam users should be allowed to resell digital games https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-09-19-french-court-rules-countrys-steam-users-can-reselltheir-games

Sony announces PS5 is committing to using less power to combat climate change https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/23/20880051/ps5-low-power-suspend-mode-climate-change

Some people are saying FF 7 Remake's box-art is misleading for not saying “Part 1” https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-vii-remakes-box-art-sure-is-misleading-1838404053?%20utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=kotaku_copy&utm_campaign=top

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will only have Spec Ops mode if you're playing on PS4 (for a year)

https://www.polygon.com/call-of-duty/2019/9/25/20883425/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-playstation-exclusive-dlc-ps4-xbox-one-pc?fbclid=IwAR0Vx25FhyNngtNnKAJ9OZHW3RBAW-gKP3krsqqJQV1ZhWvDUPyLEMMml60

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Overwatch is coming to Switch! Do we get cross-progression? Will Tracer make it to Smash?

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/04/overwatch-reported-to-come-to-nintendo-switch-next-month

Pokemon Masters reaches 10 million downloads in 4 days

https://twinfinite.net/2019/09/pokemon-masters-hits-10-million-downloads-in-just-4-days/

Details on Borderlands 3's endgame

https://twinfinite.net/2019/08/borderlands-3-gets-weird-trailers-and-reveals-mayhem-mode-free-and-paid-additional-content/

FINALLY... Ninja partners with Adidas for gamer clothing

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/08/27/ninja-announces-partnership-with-adidas

Konami says it plans on releasing new games featuring “Globally known Ips” (Metal Gear?)

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/konami-says-it-has-plans-for-new-console-games-involving-globally-known-ips-

GameStop not so stealthily leaks(?) new splinter cell game accidentally

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gamestop-mentions-unannounced-splinter-cell-game-i/1100-6469602/

This week video game news was mostly depressing, so we decided to play some more jeopardy. Most things worked great, but we'll have music questions working next time!

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Topics:

Apex Legends devs get dragged into the mud over microtransactions

https://kotaku.com/players-and-makers-of-apex-legends-resort-to-name-calli-1837376448

Sony purchases Insomniac Games

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/08/19/sony-acquires-spider-man-developer-insomniac-games

Trophy from Pokemon World Championship breaks as soon as the winner touches it

https://kotaku.com/pokemon-trophy-breaks-the-moment-winner-touches-it-1837376941

A huge investor throws money into GameStop's stock

https://kotaku.com/the-guy-from-the-big-short-is-investing-big-in-gamestop-1837471914

Xbox says it has no plans to release more exclusives on other consoles

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-08-20-microsoft-has-no-plans-to-release-more-xbox-exclusives-on-ps4-or-nintendo-switch

Microsoft was recording audio from the Kinect

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-08-21-microsoft-contractors-listened-to-user-audio-from-xbox-consoles

GameStop lays off 100+ people, including nearly half of Game Informer's staff

https://kotaku.com/gamestop-lays-off-over-100-people-including-nearly-hal-1837418024