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Quinfall - 'The World's Biggest MMO' is The Day Before 2.0
Palworld becomes most concurrently played survival game on Steam
SECOND HALF
Nexon fined by Korean FTC for lying to customers about gacha mechanics
Twitch lay off 500 staff, Clancy confirms Twitch is still not profitable
FILLER
Xbox Developer Update - Avowed, Hellblade 2, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, Visions of Mana, Ara
Suicide Squad previews are not going favourably. Warner Bros removed the NDA with the hope more folks would speak of it in a better light. That bet didn't pay off!
RTX 40 series now has Super cards that are more competitively priced
'Boomer Shooter' official genre on Steam
Smite 2 announced - cosmetics don't carry over (50% discount on the things you want to rebuy)
Wizard's AI debacle
FIRST HALF
Holiday catch-up. What we've been up to, etc.
Bobby Kotick is now officially out of ABK.
SECOND HALF
13 year old, Blue Scuti, 'beat' OG Tetris, which broke the game. BBC news anchor told him to touch grass.
Minecraft movie
Starring JACK BLACK, Jason Momoa and directed Jared Hess (Napolian Dynamite director). WHAT.
Warhammer pre-orders, new games Workshop game
Bryan Ansel died
FILLER
PS5 Pro announcement rumoured for late q3 this year. Sales in 2025
Insomniac hack
Versus Evil shut down 3 days before Christmas
FIRST HALF:
- The Game Awards round-up
- The Day Before was absolutely a scam
SECOND HALF:
- Twitch ToS shenanigans
- The Completionist Update
FILLER:
- Last of Us Factions has been cancelled
- Death Stranding movie confirmed with A24.
- E3 official dead
- Silent Hill: Ascension memeageddon
FIRST HALF:
The Game Award Nominees
Who we think will win (not who we want to win)
Discourse regarding a couple of the categories
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PATREON
SECOND HALF:
Peachy talks Warhammer
The Completionist Charity Scandal
Live Action Zelda!
FILLER:
Epic Game Store not profitable, court documents reveal
Unity announce incoming lay offs and project closures
The EIC of The Escapist is fired, his entire team resign with him.
Steam Deck OLED
FIRST HALF:
- Mrs Kevin (Pulp talks about being a wedded woman
- Lay offs, lay offs everywhere. Bungie laid off 8% (about 100 people) after talking about being 45% under projections and egging on staff to turn it around
- Those employees also lose the shares they were promised as part of the Sony acquisition as they're not yet vested
- Should also be noted that Sony literally said the acquisition would not lead to restructuring/lay offs!
- The Final Shape also delayed by 3 months
- Marathon delayed to 2025, internal feedback hasn't been great
- TwitchCon Las Vegas happened:
Stories
Featured Clips getting more features
Guest Star renamed to Stream Together (terrible name) and being adapted to combine viewer count and has slightly more customisation within OBS (layouts, etc.)
More Twitch Alerts (used by new streamers with less familiarity with third parties like StreamElements, StreamLabs, et al)
Seasonal Events - EG a December version of Subtember
Doxxing/swatting (off platform) now officially against ToS
Channel-level chat warnings
Automod Smart Detection rolled out to everyone
Twitch Embeds; auto-play will be disabled if the player isn't a 'substantive or meaningful component of the page'
Simulcasting
SECOND HALF:
- Pulp plays Alan Wake II
- Poochy plays Cities Skylines 2
- The Day Before delayed again, people are still sceptical and is going to go into early access in December.
- BlizzCon - Phil Spencer was there. Bunch of announcements:
Diablo IV's first expansion: Vessel of Hatred, late 24. Follows the Mephisto plotline.
World of Warcraft, next three expansions announced, all focused on one story ark.
Something or other about the other franchises ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FIRST HALF:
- PR firm Bunker15 accused of paying off reviewers and 'quarantining bad reviews' on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Video game VAs may be joining the SAG-AFTRA strikes
- AI concerns
- Better pay
**SECOND HALF:**
- Starfield /w Pulp
- Starfield discourse
- Alanah Pierce flew to Pluto
- Starfield leaker prior to release gets arrested because he is not smart
**FILLER:**
- Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 back in the news; aiming for Autumn '24.
- 'Red Dead Redemption 3 is in the works' - rumour
- Switch 2 leaks; devs tried it at Gamescom
- Backwards compatible
- not OLED
- utilieses DLSS 3
- Sea of Stars reviewing well
- Rockstar uploaded cracked, pirated versions of their games to Steam because they couldn't remove their own DRM.
- Skull and Bones loses ANOTHER (their third) Creative Director
- Diablo 4 confirms annual expansions
- PS+ price increase, all tiers - 20/35/40usd increase
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Episode aired September 2nd '23.
FIRST HALF:
Gamescom - ONL
SECOND HALF:
LMG follow-up
BioWare's getting gutted out
Violition has been put in the bin
Space Marine II looks DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE
Peachy talks minis
FILLER (some of these are in First Half):
PS5 leak; new model - modular disk drive version. Smaller than first gen
PS Portal announced
Gears of War 6 rumour
Robocop delayed to November 9th
New PoE league
Cyberpunk changes look promising
Killer Bean
Wayfinder soft launches like a soft penis.
War Thunder leaks confidential documents, again.
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