• Gazillion Entertainment fires Marvel Heroes team after announcement that game is coming to a close
• Epic Games suing Fortnite cheaters, one of whom is a minor

• EA also tweaks how progression works in Need for Speed: Payback after criticism
• Hawaii legislature mulling over law to restrict sale of Star Wars Battlefront II
• Bungie changes how XP gains displayed in Destiny 2 after inconsistencies proven

• GameStop temporarily halts PowerPass program
• Makers of Despicable Me movies in talks with Nintendo for feature length Mario film
• Marvel Heroes is shutting down
• Bungie reveals first gameplay and features of Curse of Osiris expansion, article 2
• Dumb Twitch streamer beats Sonic Forces and then requests Steam refund on air

• EA turns off (temporarily) Star Wars Battlefront II microtransactions hours before the game’s worldwide release
• The Game Awards Nominees (aka The Keighley’s)

• Fighter pack 3 announced for Injustice 2, and there’s a big surprise
• Noctis is the next guest character coming to Tekken 7

• EA acquires Respawn Entertainment for $455 million; also confirms Titanfall 3
• Angry Redditers force EA to defend, then change, unlock requirements for legendary heroes in Battlefront II

• QUESTION OF THE WEEK

This week we discuss Terrence's experience streaimng Cuphead, new character updates to both Injustice 2 (TMNT!) and Tekken 7, EA's really bad day on Reddit concerning Star Wars Battlefront II character unlocks, and then a marathon edition of What Do YOU People Want including questions around what's really important in fighting games, our favorite Super Mario Odyssey levels, a famous treasure hunter battle royale, our favorite Thanksgiving dishes, and much more!

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Headlines

• Fighter pack 3 announced for Injustice 2, and there’s a big surprise

Top Stories

• EA acquires Respawn Entertainment for $455 million; also confirms Titanfall 3

• Telltale Games lays off 25% of its workforce
• Torchlight and Hob developer Runic Games has been shut down by Perfect World
• Activision claims WWII sold twice as many copies as Infinite Warfare at launch
• PlayStation trophies will now be able to earn you rewards in the PlayStation Store
• Razer unveils their first smartphone “for gamers”; will run $699
• The ESA throws its support behind the GOP tax bill
• Super Mario Odyssey is the fastest-selling Mario game in the US

• The biggest news from BlizzCon 2017
  • StarCraft 2 going free-to-play
  • New Overwatch hero: Moira
  • New Overwatch map: Blizzard World
  • World of Warcraft Vanilla getting an official server
  • Battle for Azeroth expansion announced for WoW
• EA changes how SW Battlefront 2’s loot boxes work after negative feedback from the beta
• Microsoft plans on introducing a streaming games service that doesn’t require a console in the next 3 years
• Housemarque declares the arcade genre of games “dead”; say they are moving on from that genre because of poor sales

• QUESTION OF THE WEEK

• Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp out next month on mobile
• Nintendo projects the Switch to have outsell the Wii U after one year
• Kinect is officially dead
• Pro gamer loses eSports contract after broadcasting physical abuse of his girlfriend
• A clan of deaf gamers defeat Destiny 2’s Leviathan raid
• Mass Effect Andromeda’s loose story ends will be tied off...with a novel

• GameStop to roll out program that allows unlimited rental of preowned games
• Sony drops some big announcements at Paris Games Week
  • Guacamelee 2 announced for PS4
  • Sucker Punch’s new game is a samurai adventure game called Ghost of Tsushima
  • New Spider-Man trailer
  • New brutal trailer for The Last of Us 2
    • Violence to sell games?!?

• A Sony music label is publishing a Nintendo Switch game
• Nintendo Switch firmware 4.0 brings with it the ability to capture video and transfer save data
• Gamecube controller support added to Nintendo Switch fueling Smash rumors
• Bungie details what will change in Destiny 2’s seasons and what could change with Iron Banner
• WB Games ends development on Lego Dimensions

• NEOGaf has been offline since sexual assault allegations were levied against its founder
  • Apparently GAF is back, and its users are pissed
• EA shutters Visceral Games; overhauling new Star Wars game they were working on

• The SNES Classic was successfully hacked within about a week of release
• Mike Laidlaw, Dragon Age’s creative director, leaves Bioware
• Street Fighter V announces a new character: Zeku
• Sony announces two Star Wars Battlefront II PS4 bundles

• IGN acquires Humble, the folks who run Humble Bundle
• Former Naughty Dog designer alleges he was victim of sexual harassment while employed at the developer; blackballed after reporting abuse >>> Naughty Dog’s response

• Red Dead Redemption 2’s new trailer happens; people are excited
• Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode has already had 1 million players
• Andrew House, President of Sony Interactive Entertainment, steps down
• Nintendo restricts their streaming partners from livestreaming their games
• PlayStation releasing a new version of PlayStation VR in a few weeks

• Video game voice actors tentatively agree to new labor agreement with publishers

• QUESTION OF THE WEEK