Checkpoint Daily Podcast

The League of Legends World Championship went down this week bring an end to the 2019 season and it was a stomping as FunPlus Phoenix dominated G2 Esports. Norris and Joe walk us through all the action. We also talk about what we did over the weekend before the Snowmageddon hit on monday. Joe and Robbie also have a Q and A with Nate and Norris concerning Death Stranding, it’s all weird.

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A streamer was recently banned from Fortnite for using an aimbot in his content creation and was banned as a result. Ninja has cone on record stating that content creators should be treated differently from ‘normal gamers’. Plus, the Pro FIFA scene is in a rough spot as it comes out that some major pros have been using a discord to dodge playing each other in competitive play so they can all get the best possible play out. Finally, we take a list from IGN of the 25 games most deserving of a sequel.

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China has always had a strong arm when it comes to the gaming industry and being one of the biggest countries in the world it’s a hot market for gaming profits. This week China’s newest laws on gaming restricts the amount of time those under the age of 18 can play as well as limits the amount of money they can spend on downloadable content in a month. Plus, with the holidays upon us, we thought it was about time we constructed a holiday buying guide. Finally, Call of Duty League has put out their full schedule for the inaugural 2020 season.

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Terry Bogard has finally gone live for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate and Norris can’t talk about anything else. So we talk about our favorite DLC’s of all time. Plus, we bring you another list and this time we’re looking at the top 25 games of  the 2010s courtesy of Polygon. Finally, we’re joined by Weird Beard to talk about how Chapter 2 of Fornite and the inclusion of bots has changed the game for the worse.

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Jack “CouRage” Dunlop joins the ranks of Ninja and Shroud as he signs an exclusive streaming deal outside of Twitch. CouRage, however, didn’t sign to Mixer but to YouTube. We cover this and other headlines from this past week in the gaming world. Plus, Team USA brought home the gold at Blizzcon 2019 as they defeat the power houses of South Korea and China earning their first Overwatch World Cup win. Finally, we asked our social media followers what games they have sitting on their shelves that they still intend on beating...one day.

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The Call of Duty is all set to launch in early 2020. Activision Blizzard and the teams have revealed all team names and their brandings. We go through all 12 teams and decide if the branding is hot or not. Plus, we go over what we did this weekend which ranged from Anime Conventions to lying sick and dying in our beds. Joe also brings us another iteration of Checkpoint Goes to the Polls.

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Blizzcon 2019 is officially underway and the opening ceremonies brought with it some major announcements. We talk about the unveiling of Diablo IV, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons and Overwatch 2. We also talk about the idea of whether or not the single player game is really dead. These past few months saw the release of some of the biggest titles of the year and they were all single player games. Plus, Robbie and Joe got to sit down with Dr. Amine Issa and talk with him about Riot Games and how Mobalytics helped with Legends of Runeterra.

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It’s Halloween and we’re all dressed up in studio! We talk about what our plans for the weekend are and what we love (or hate) about Halloween. We also talk about the new format being used for this years Overwatch World Cup at Blizzcon 2019. We also preview some of the teams favored to win it all. Finally, the PlayStation 4 has become the second best selling console of all time and we talk about how it made it this far.

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Since leaving Konami and starting his own studio at Sony, Hideo Kojima’s hotly anticipated game Death Stranding is coming out on November 8th. The final trailer has been released and we talk about how much we know, which is still not a lot. Plus, Joe brings us a new list from the 90s and we’re going over the 25 best games of that era. Finally, EA and Steam have come back together to put EA games back on the launcher despite having their own launcher in EA Origins. Is this the beginning of the end of the Launcher Wars?

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The eagerly anticipated Call of Duty League has finally got a start date and it’s going to be overlapping with just about every other major esports league. The League starts in January of 2020 and will take place over Friday through Sunday. We also cover other huge headlines in both the gaming and the esports world. Plus we asked our social media followers if they could do a perfect cosplay of any video game character for Halloween, who would they pick?

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