Dropped Frames

E3 2023 is cancelled possibly forever! Should we be surprised? The rest of the week didn't have much more positive news as Dark and Darker gets delisted on Steam, The Last of Us Part 1 PC Port is a pile of poo, gamers harass Ada Wong VA off social media and Multiversus shuts down their open beta. In the back half we talk about Contraband Police, our thoughts on the Resident Evil 4 Remake, Dredge & more!

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New Dad & BFF of Vanilla Ice: DatModz joins us to really get into the weeds with the latest Diablo IV beta! How does it stack up to other modern ARPG games? Is it too easy? Will the game have longevity? Then we take a long deep-dive in the current state of Twitch with the recent announcement of Emmett Shear resigning from CEO and the news of the company laying off 400 employees.

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We're joined by SkillUp this week to chat about creating content on YouTube in 2023, the dichotomy of being a gamer and a critical reviewer and the infamous Cyberpunk review! Cohh has been playing Last Epoch and enjoying it, but can it last in a post Diablo 4 world? JP and SkillUp finished the newest Destiny 2 raid and the community is going wild. Jim Ryan just wants to see the Microsoft & Activision merger to fail. Suicide Squad gets delayed again. More info on the RPG/JRPG discourse and so much more!

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Ezekiel_III is out this week so we're joined by special guests DansGaming & first-timer Sequisha to chat about moustaches and poutine. We also check our hype levels for the upcoming Diablo 4 beta and our time with Wo Long, the new Destiny 2 expansion, Octopath Traveler 2 & more!

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Gothalion joins us this week to chat about Power Stone 2 and the upcoming Destiny 2 expansion: Lightfall! Playstation also had a pretty big State of Play this past week and with it brought new characters in Street Fighter 6, another look at Resident Evil 4 as well as a bunch of VR games. However, it also brought an in-depth look at Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League and plethora of Gear Score, Battle Passes and more GAAS staples and the internet is FURIOUS! Are consumers revolting against live service games? Sons of the Forest, Octopath Traveler 2, Atomic Heart & more are also on the docket!

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Twitch rolls out some good changes and tests some bad changes this week with some much needed changes to info visibility and stream title links and then decided to try out Twitch ad skins, yikes! We have some TwitchCon 2023 dates and wonder if we're too old for conventions? Big shake-ups at XCOM, Civilization dev Firaxis, Multiversus loses 99% of the userbase on Steam. Like a Dragon: Isshin, Return is on PC, Theatrhythm, and a long discussion on Wild Hearts vs. Monster Hunter are all on the docket as well!

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It's demo week over here on Dropped Frames as another Steam Next Fest drops another 1000 demos of upcoming games; big and small! But first there was a pretty major Nintendo Direct to comb through including building in the new Zelda? Is that enough to warrant a $70 price tag? Cohh got a chance to play the new action combat game Wanted: Dead. JP played demos for Sea of Stars and Octopath Traveller 2 and much more!

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It's a games heavy episode this week as we go through some of the games we've played over the last month including: Chained Echoes, Against the Storm, Steamworld Build, Deliver Us Mars and many more! But first we have a long discussion on AI, the growing list of game delays and GAAS games ending. Also is The Day Before a real game? All that and more! 

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We're joined by DansGaming this week to talk about Twitch dropping a massive blog post on the future of the platform and what to expect in the coming months, are they changes for the better? Then we chat about the changes to Dead Space Remake, the controversal Forspoken, some old school CDROM games, and possible GOTY contender in the surprise hit: Hi-Fi Rush!

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The industry seems to be on fire this week with massive layoffs, cancellations & horrible PR gaffes. So who better to walk us through all of this horrible news than indie game developer/pilot Rami Ismail! We also go over some light-hearted news such as the massive changes coming to Destiny 2, Rami's 2022 GOTY list & more!

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