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Episode 40: Resident Evil Village getting censored in its home country of Japan, and is Australia going to be next?

A patent has been filed for the Sony PlayStation VR2 (virtual reality / augment reality) controller, which shows some very awesome features.

A blast from the past with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge - a new 2D side-scroller, which looks like the TMNT we all remember from the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis days.

Adam gets all excited about a new game coming from the Alien Franchise called Aliens: Fireteam. Can he convince Chris to stop being a loser and pick this game up?

Soulja Boy, a very average rapper from America, is trying to release ANOTHER bootleg console (those cheap "1001 Games Built Inside" things), which he got in trouble for the first time around. He obviously didn't learn from his mistakes.

Germany is taking steps to ban Loot Boxes.

The Microsoft / ZeniMax Media merger is finally complete. What does this mean for future releases?

Grant Theft Auto VI might be announced during a cut scene at the end of the enhanced version of GTAV, coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X this year.

Super Nintendo World in Japan is finally opening next week. With some very strict measures in place due to the Bat Soup Bug. Plus, another one is being built in Florida, USA!

PS5 and XSX restocks coming soon at Target (for our USA friends only).

Twitch goes so woke for International Women's Day... they went and broke themselves. WomXn.

What we're playing.

In episode 39 we have a little in depth conversation about the Pokemon Direct, what we liked, disliked and hated.

Cyberpunk 2077 isn't getting anymore patches, hotfixes or updates for some time, due to the recent cyber attack. More drama for this game and CD Projekt Red.

Some awesome free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers. Including Final Fantasy VII Remake, Remnant: From the Ashes, Maquette (PS5 only) and Farpoint (PSVR only).

EA delays Need For Speed to work on the next Battlefield game.

A Starship Troopers game is coming soon, and will be canon to the original 1997 movie. Starship Troopers: Terran Command!

The publishing company Nacon has allegedly hacked, stolen and altered the Frogwares Lovecraftian game 'The Sinking City' and released it on Steam as their own. Frogwares prepares for battle.

A trailer for Elden Ring has been leaked, and has the Internet in a buzz. Including us.

Sony Studios Japan has apparently fired a whole bunch of employees. What's going on?

EA cancels a game they've been working on for the past 6 years. But it's fine, they've got 35 more currently in development.

Valve has been dragged into the Apple vs. Epic Games battle. They've been issued a subpoena, demanding they provide 6 years of sales and pricing data. 

Nintendo has ordered one million 7 inch rigid OLED screens from Samsung, which will be fulfilled by the end of June, for their up coming Switch revision, which has been dubbed the Switch Pro or the New Nintendo Switch. Some specs have also been released.

Epic Games buys Tonic Games Group, the makers of Fall Guys, which has fans of the game imploding with rage. They suspect it will turn into another Loot Box ridden game like Fortnite.

A bunch of job listings go up for Dead Island 2, with more delays coming. The PS4 and Xbox One versions have also been cancelled, and will appear on Next-Gen and PC only.

Super Mario 3D All-Stars will be coming off shelves and removed from the Nintendo eShop by the end of March. Along with Super Mario Bros. 35... get them while you can!

Comic-Con 2021 has officially been cancelled, but will be back in 2022... so they say.

Hogwarts Legacy is the latest victim of PC virtue signalling . Listen to find out what happened.

Ratchet & Clank is free on the PS Store!

Sony removes the Movies and TV library from the PS4, you'll no longer be able to rent/buy shows and movies via the PlayStation, but will get to keep anything previously purchased. More customers for Netflix and HBO.

In episode 38 we cover all of the events that dropped out of nowhere this week, including: PlayStation's State of Play event, Blizzard's BlizzCon 2021 event and the very exciting Pokemon Direct*.

Twitch stitching up Metallica by muting their live stream during the BlizzCon event. Thanks to their new DCMA crap.

We discuss one of the two Silent Hill games apparently in development.

Google Stadia and their class action lawsuit.

EA finally gets rid of Anthem.

Sad and disturbing news regarding Dying Light 2.

Updates regarding God of War: Ragnarok and Horizon: Forbidden West.

The rise of car jackings in Chicago could be from only one thing... yes, you guessed it... video games. Which is the lucky game to be blamed for violence this time? Yep, Grand Theft Auto V.
Apparently they didn't learn from when people tried to blame video games for real life violence back in the 90s with Doom, Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem, Carmageddon and the rest. Eye roll.

The PlayStation VR 2 finally gets announced. We go over some of its features and some of the things they plan on updating and upgrading. Get keen.

*Nintendo Direct is covered by Adam at the end of the episode, as it streamed after we recorded it.

In episode 37 we go over the whole Nintendo Direct that recently streamed on YouTube, plus chat about some of our favourite things that were announced. And there were a lot of games announced!

The Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense "drift issue" class-action lawsuit (say that 10 times really fast) finally gets serious. We also speculate how many controllers this problem actually affects.

Activision accidentally launches a webpage showing a brand new Zombies DLC, which wasn't ready ready to be published. They removed it quick smart.

The free PlayStation Plus games for March are floating around in rumour land at the moment, two of them being Terminator: Resistance and Far Cry 5. With several others being speculated too.

Plus we talk about Assassin's Creed Valhalla being a let down and what we're currently playing.
Nice quick episode this week!

Episode 36 is quite a big one, with a stack of news including: CD Projekt Red a victim of a recent cyber attack, with many things stolen and held for ransom. Plus the Dark Web auction that followed.

Embracer Group, formerly known as Nordic Games, buys Gearbox Entertainment for a very large sum of money.

Info on the upcoming Borderlands movie and The Last of Us HBO TV series.

Ubisoft slowly ruining Assassin's Creed Valhalla with micro-transactions.

Some sad news about Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Thomas Malher of Moon Studios (Ori Franchise), goes on a huge rant about lying developers and then quickly apologises after receiving backlash.

Activision bans a whole bunch of players from the Call of Duty Warzone servers for cheating.
Activision Blizzard show how much they're worth in a boast, then their stocks skyrocket.

We chat about how much money EA makes and why they're one of the worse gaming companies in the Universe.

Capcom have plans on making the PlayStation 5 the best place to play the upcoming Resident Evil Village game. Zero loading! Haptics! Adaptive triggers! We're pretty keen on this one.

DualSense news! A possible lawsuit in the works because of the stick drift issue the DualSense apparently having. Plus Sony may be releasing a DualSense Version 2 very soon, with upgraded features, including Wi-Fi to reduce latency. And a patent was filed showing the rear button/paddle attachment for the DualSense controller.

Silent Hill is coming...

E3 to be an online only event this year, which we believe will be the death of the event.

A very awesome Sonic the Hedgehog Lego set is coming soon.

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time gets a Next-Gen release, plus it will be coming to the Nintendo Switch.

Microsoft's upcoming purchase of ZeniMax Media may very well not be happening if the European Union has anything to do with it. We're keeping our eyes on this. 

McDonald's (North America) and Pokémon join forces for Pokémon's 25th Anniversary. But naturally this turns into a drama because of scalpers and greedy resellers.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart finally gets a release date, plus a new sexy trailer is dropped.

Plus more!

In episode 35 we talk about the slow demise of Google Stadia and why we think it's a good thing.

The sales numbers for the PlayStation 5 are in, and they're fairly impressive. But sales are slowing down, we explain why.

Chaos erupts in Tokyo, Japan because of the PS5.

People are demanding refunds from the PlayStation Store.

Nintendo finally addresses the "Switch Pro" rumour in an investment meeting. It may very well be coming. Plus the Switch hits another sales milestone.

Amazon are spending half a billion dollars a year on its gaming division and are still yet to release a hit.

MGM have purchased the book and movies rights to 'The Anti-Social Network', which will focus on the GameStop stock fiasco. Oh dear.

Some updates, news and/or drama about the following games; Returnal, Destruction AllStars, Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Part 2, Goldeneye 007 Remastered Edition, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

A Japanese man arrested for selling modded Pokemon.

The founder and CEO of Bethesda dies. RIP.

And a juicy little rumour about Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA6)

In episode 34 we go over the pathetic apology video made by one of the big wigs at CDPR, Marcin Iwinski. We also chat about why Cyberpunk 2077 is such a piece of crap, thanks to a games journalist that spoke to over 20 past and present CD Projekt Red employees, that were happy to spill the beans.

The Sony Rewards disaster, which left a lot of unhappy punters with empty wallets and no PlayStation 5. What can Sony do to fix this from happening again?

Microsoft getting a little bit greedy! Why did they double the price of Xbox Live Gold, then change their mind a day later?

Capcom drop a nice little playable demo for Resident Evil: Village, which is called 'Maiden'. Looks absolutely stunning, but fails to deliver any of the action we expect from Resident Evil.

Konami looked as though they were shutting their doors, which made people panic. Turns out it was a false alarm.

EA lose their exclusivity rights to Star Wars. And Disney hires Ubisoft to develop an open world Star Wars game. Going from meh to meh, we think.

Bethesda, or better yet, Machine Games, the team behind the two most recent Wolfenstein games are currently working on an Indiana Jones game.

An update on the SUPR5 limited edition Sony PlayStation 5 drama.

The new God of War comic series 'Fallen God' bridges the gap between God of War III and God of War (2018), and Adam makes a little prediction about God of War: Ragnarok.

A trailer for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury drops and it looks absolutely awesome. Plus a sexy new limited "Mario" red and blue Switch model drops on the same day.

The newest Silent Hill whispers suggest that the next instalment will be developed by the team responsible for the Siren (AKA Forbidden Siren) franchise and will be a PlayStation exclusive.

PS Studios, Konami and Blue Point are apparently working on a Metal Gear Solid remake. Now this could be epic!

PlateStation, AKA Customize My Plates are back and taking pre-orders.

GameStop stock goes crazy.

Dying Light 2 Collectors Edition leaks online and looks pretty awesome. Plus a potential release date?

The Medium might be a timed Xbox exclusive and may very well be coming to the PS5 in the future.

One of our listeners asked us a question about the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy game. Stick around to find out what it is!

What we're currently playing!

Welcome to the new series 'Classic Consoles'. Where we pick one of our favourite retro consoles and go over it's history, accessories, our top games, our favourite memories and it's legacy.

Tonight's Classic Console is the Sony PlayStation, also known as the PS1, PSOne & PSX.
Some of the games we mention in this episode are Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Silent Hill, Crash Bandicoot, Driver, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, Quake II, Hexen, Doom, Pandemonium, Street Skater, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Tomb Raider, Tekken 3, Syphon Filter, Colin McRae Rally, Alone in the Dark, V-Rally, MediEvil, Spyro the Dragon, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Resident Evil 2, Gran Turismo, D, The X-Files, Twisted Metal, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Alien Trilogy, Cool Boarders, Independence Day, Ace Combat, Medal of Honor and many, many more!

This episode features a special guest!

If there's a Classic Console you'd like us to tackle in a future episode, hit us up on our Facebook page, by searching 'Graveyard Shift Gaming Podcast'. Give us like to stay up to date with future episodes, news and competitions!

Enjoy!

In episode 32 we have a bunch of Nintendo news including a New Switch "Pro" to be released soon, Super Nintendo World's new awesome website + park opening date, Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo back in the day and Nintendo's massive studio purchase.

PewDiePie allegedly evading tax with offshore accounts.

 PlayStation 5 Pro rumours put to bed by DreamcastGuy.

Xbox sends out a questionnaire to its users, asking about the PS5/DualSense and its features. New Xbox controller coming soon?

Ikea create their own mock up versions of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

The Atari VCS atrocity.

Dying Light 2 apparently a mess. What's going on with this game?

And more!

In episode 31 we cover a bunch of PlayStation news, including the Brazilian judge ordering Sony to unblock PS5 consoles that were used to take advantage of the PS Plus Collection exploit. Plus future console updates, broken DualSense controllers, a limited edition PS5 and DualSense for the 30th Anniversary of PlayStation and the January PS Plus free games.

Adam goes to JB Hi-Fi and returns his copy of Cyberpunk 2077... did he succeed?

We chat about an upcoming comic series for God of War by Dark Horse Comics. Which we are very excited about.

The makers of Dying Light 2 get on Twitter and tease future updates.

Microsoft release a patent from back in 2017 showing a controller with haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. Are they finally gonna do it?

Another little chat about the upcoming KFC console, called "KFConsole". It's price might shock and terrify you. It's price on the secondary market might actually make you spew.

GameStop hit another all-time low and make their employees do things they shouldn't be doing.  Big rant.

Another Japanese developer falls victim to another cyber attack. Will this become a common occurrence?

We have a little chat about the upcoming PlayStation 5 exclusive 'Returnal'. This game looks like a masterpiece.

And what we're currently playing!