Geeking with the Moms

Electronic Arts closed their studio, Visceral Games, last week. The studio had been working on the new Star Wars game. EA says they need to "pivot" the design of the game to "keep players coming back." The move has spawned discussions about the future of single-player games. In other controversial news, some gamers are saying that loot boxes or their equivalent in games are gambling. We say they're not. Plus the Switch now supports GameCube controllers. Can you say Smash, anyone?

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You may already know that Star Wars: The Last Jedi tickets are on sale, but we get into a discussion on spoilers and media blackout. The SNES Classic has already been hacked. Destiny 2 is about to have its first Iron Banner event, lots of games with female protagonists are on sale through Humble Bundle, Stardew Valley has a missing character, and there's new Halloween splat fest happening this weekend.

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The Xbox One's Groove music service is shutting down. In more Xbox One news, game gifting is on the way. Overwatch is getting ready to celebrate Halloween again with another event. Turtle Rock studios is making a turn-based VR RPG (what?), Stardew Valley has hit the Switch and Destiny's first Faction Rally has just wrapped up.

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Ubisoft announced that there will be an educational mode in Assassin's Creed Origins. This is something teachers and other educators have been clamoring for. We've got some more details on the Ataribox, and boy is it expensive! The SNES Classic is out now. Were you able to get one? Also there's a huge sale going on in the Xbox Store, and Warner Bros. tries to do good from a employee and botches it a little.

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Nintendo hit us with a ton of new announcements in their most recent Nintendo Direct. We thought the Nintendo 3DS was dying, but it's totally not. And we saw some more Super Mario Odyssey where, yes, we see what Mario looks like without a shirt. Outside of the Nintendo Direct we got some other announcement like the return of the NES Classic Edition and Nintendo swears there will be a lot more SNES Classics on the market when it's released later this year. Destiny 2 is getting a ton of content right out of the gate. ThatGameCompay has revealed its newest game, and Magic the Gathering is going digital.

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PAX West was last weekend and there were a bunch of cool games there. Nicole made the indie rounds and found some creative and fun ideas. Destiny 2 is out now, and it seems to be everything everyone wanted. There's going to be game made about George Orwell's Animal Farm, and the gaming community once again shows its ugly side.

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