Featuring:
Merve
The Kappa
Lutair
Lovely Bones

Editor:
The Kappa

Timestamps:
0:15 – Introduction
6:50 – What We Played Over the Holidays
32:50 – Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision
52:00 – 2022 Predictions
1:31:40 – Games We’re Looking Forward to in 2022
2:02:05 – Conclusion

Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep80

Podcast header image from Type:Rider. Linkdump and spoiler warnings after the jump.

• Official teaser trailer for Starfield. (Source: Bethesda Softworks on YouTube)
• Wikipedia article on pumpkin spice.
• Official website for Dunkin’ Donuts.
• Official website for Tim Hortons.
• Correction: Burger King actually did purchase Tim Hortons (not the other way around), but the merged company is incorporated in Canada as a subsidiary of the Canadian holding company Restaurant Brands International, in which Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital has a majority stake. (Source: Wikipedia)

MAJOR SPOILERS for Type:Rider

• Steam store page for Project Zomboid.
• boxbox‘s Twitch channel.
• Official Nintendo page for WarioWare: Get It Together!
• The “Mona pizza” song from WarioWare: Touched! (Source: Tutajkk on YouTube)
• Wikipedia article on The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II.
• Steam store page for Type:Rider.

• News report on the acquisition. (Source: The Verge)
• Geoff Keighley’s controversial “shopping list” Tweet. (Source: @geoffkeighley on Twitter)

• Report on E3 2022’s probable cancellation. (Source: ComicBook.com)
• The infamous Metaverse rave Tweet. (Source: @alexmoss on Twitter)
• Merve’s 1st prediction (normal): Steam Deck won’t work as well as advertised.
• Steam Deck is officially coming out on February 25th. (Source: Steam)
• Merve’s 2nd prediction (normal): Digimon Survive will release this year within a couple of months of Digimon Con, and a new Digimon Story game will be announced at Digimon Con for a late 2023 release date.
• Digimon Con is set for February 26th. (Source: DigimonWeb, the official Digimon website)
• Merve’s 3rd prediction (wacky): The new Mario Kart game will be a mash-up with F-Zero.
• Serkan Toto’s insider information that Mario Kart 9 “comes with a new twist.” (Source: GamesIndustry.biz)
• The Kappa’s 1st prediction (normal): Digital purchases will increasingly be interoperable between stores.
• Ubisoft Store page for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction.
• The Kappa’s 2nd prediction (wacky): Nvidia is hoarding RTX 30 series (“3000 series”) GPUs, and the card drought will end abruptly this year once the 4000 series is announced.
• Nvidia’s official webpage for the GeForce RTX 30 series.
• The Kappa’s 3rd prediction (normal): The games that will dominate the conversation this year are indie games that aren’t currently on many people’s radars.
• Steam store page for Bastion.
• The “UnderTale” (sic) Kickstarter campaign.
• Steam store page for Vampire Survivors.
• Steam store page for Elden Ring.
• Lovely Bones’s 1st prediction (normal): Obsidian will put out a lot of information on all their upcoming games.
• Wikipedia article on Obsidian Entertainment.
• Lovely Bones’s 2nd prediction (wacky): Star Fox for Switch will be announced for a 2023 release.
• Wikipedia article on Starlink: Battle for Atlas.
• Lovely Bones’s 3rd prediction (normal): We will get a full “E3-style” video demo of Insomniac’s upcoming Spider-Man game this year, but we won’t hear anything about their Wolverine game.
• Reveal trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)
• Reveal trailer for Marvel’s Wolverine. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
• Lutair’s 1st prediction (normal): When Braid: Anniversary Edition comes out this year, it’ll spark a two-week torrent of discourse and then disappear from the zeitgeist entirely.
• Announcement of Braid: Anniversary Edition. (Source: Thekla Inc. on YouTube)
• Lutair’s 2nd prediction (wacky): The upcoming Mario movie will be good.
• Wikipedia article on the untitled Mario film.
• Lutair’s 3rd prediction (wacky): Play-to-earn games will become annoyingly big this year but then crash after government intervention or legal challenges.
• Wikipedia article on blockchain games.

MAJOR SPOILERS for Dragon Age: Inquisition

• Story trailer for Elden Ring. (Source: BANDAI NAMCO Europe on YouTube)
• Official reveal trailer for MultiVersus. (Source: GameSpot on YouTube)
• Wikipedia article on Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl.
• Announce trailer for Total War: Warhammer III. (Source: Total War on YouTube)
• Gameplay trailer for Stray. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
• Wikipedia article on Maquette.
• Announcement trailer for Kirby and the Forgotten Land. (Source: Nintendo on YouTube)
• Teaser trailer for Digimon Survive. You can ignore the planned 2019 release date. (Source: Bandai Namco Entertainment America on YouTube)
• Story trailer for AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative. (Source: Spike Chunsoft on YouTube)
• Announcement trailer for Sports Story. (Source: Nintendo on YouTube)
• Cinematic trailer for Dragon Age 4. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
• The report on how BioWare’s Anthem went wrong that introduced the term “BioWare magic” to the world. (Source: Kotaku)
• Official teaser trailer for Starfield. (Source: Bethesda Softworks on YouTube)
• Development update on Metroid Prime 4. (Source: Nintendo on YouTube)
• Official gameplay reveal trailer for Marvel’s Midnight Suns. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
• Gameplay sneak peek trailer for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope. (Source: Nintendo on YouTube)
• Game Awards gameplay trailer for Saints Row. (Source: Saints Row on YouTube)
• Story trailer for Harold Halibut. (Source: Harold Halibut on YouTube)
• Official trailer for She Dreams Elsewhere. (Source: studio zevere. on YouTube)
• Announcement trailer for Afterlove EP. (Source: Nintendo on YouTube)
• Announcement trailer for Neon White. (Source: Nintendo on YouTube)
• Official announcement trailer for Baldur’s Gate 3. (Source: Larian Studios on YouTube)
• 13-minute gameplay preview for Pokémon Legends: Arceus. (Source: The Official Pokémon YouTube Channel on YouTube)
• The Avocado’s Game News Roundup, run by Lovely Bones.

• Information on the new Windows 11 Paint app. (Source: ZDNet)
• Wordle, everyone’s new favourite word game.
• Lyric video for “Just the Two of Us.” Confirmation: Merve does indeed have to apologize to Grover Washington Jr. and Bill Withers. (Source: RHINO on YouTube)