Featuring:
Merve
The Kappa

Editor:
The Kappa

Timestamps:
0:15 – Introduction
3:20 – PS Plus Revamp
34:40 – What We’ve Been Playing
1:18:15 – Square Enix Sells North American Holdings to Embracer Group
1:35:00 – The Diversity Space Tool
1:58:05 – Gotham Knights Trailer
2:10:30 – E3 and Summer Game Fest
2:36:00 – Canadian Stuff
2:42:20 – Conclusion

Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep83

Podcast header image from The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story, taken from the Square Enix blog. Linkdump after the jump.

• The contact page for the AVoCADo GamesCast.

• Games list and prices for the new PlayStation Plus. (Source: Polygon)
• Report on pressure felt by Nintendo due to slowing Switch sales. (Source: Nintendo Life)
• Doom running on a pregnancy test. (Source: @Foone on Twitter)

• Nintendo store page for The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story.
• The FMV game loosely based on the Jack the Ripper murders is simply titled Ripper. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia article on The Council.
• Wikipedia article on Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong.
• Steam store page for Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada.
• Confirmation: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity came out in 2020. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Steam store page for Battlefield 2042.
• Wikipedia article on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.
• Wikipedia article on Halo Infinite.
• Epic store page for Just Cause 4.
• Wikipedia article on Avalanche Studios’ Mad Max video game.

• Official press release about the deal from Embracer Group.
• Sales information for Tomb Raider, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Sleeping Dogs. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Official press release from Square Enix about Crystal Dynamics’s and Eidos Interactive’s financials.
• Clarification: That 12 million sales figure for the Deus Ex franchise is just for Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Article on the recent crypto market crash. (Source: Kotaku)

• The blog post about King’s diversity space tool that sparked the controversy; a lot of it has been edited out. Original version archived here. (Sources: Activision Blizzard blog and Internet Archive)
• Moira page from the Overwatch Wiki. (Source: Fandom)
• Joel Miller page from The Last of Us Wiki. (Source: Fandom)

• Gameplay demo footage for Gotham Knights. (Source: Warner Bros. Games on YouTube)
• ResetEra discussion thread on the trailer.
• PC Gamer article on the trailer.
• The Uncharted 4 E3 demo fail. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)

• Report on E3 2022’s cancellation. (Source: IGN)
• In-depth article on some of the factors that might have led to the cancellation. (Source: CNET)
• Correction: Gamasutra rebranded as Game Developer last year. (Source: Game Developer)
• Official website for Summer Game Fest.
• Official websites for PAX, Gamescom, and Tokyo Game Show.
• Specially marked copies of Crackdown came bundled with the multiplayer beta for Halo 3. (Source: Wikipedia)

• Official websites for Tim Hortons, The Keg, and Harvey’s.
• Correction: Merve omitted one of the key ingredients of Moose Milk: coffee. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Correction: Moose milk (not the cocktail, the dairy product) is also commercially farmed in Sweden. (Source: Wikipedia)

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