High Ping Basterds

This is the fifteenth episode of our podcast. You know what that means? It's a Freshman. Time to bully this podcast with a spanking editing style. I am trying to slowly decrease the editing treatments for each episode to see what barebones can I keep.

Lots of things happening in video game industry. In this episode, we covered

Timestamps:

• The Department of Homeland Security and FBI are in dialog with Roblox, Discord, Reddit, and others.
• Ubisoft's Watch Dogs the latest game series to get the movie treatment
• 600 Activision QA Workers Have Formed Union
• Starbreeze Studios CEO Out Less Than Six Months After Payday 3 Launch
• The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that could remove the video platform from app stores
• Star Wars: Battlefront games re-release to mostly negative Steam reviews as multiplayer fans try to cram into one of three servers
• GTA 6 could be the most important thing "to ever release in the industry, so no pressure," reliable analyst predicts
• US game spending ‘could be down 10% this year’
• Disney Dreamlight Valley Announce Dungeons and Dragons Project
• Google Has Developed An AI That Can Play Games Like A Human
• Discord is letting third-party developers create games to play on its platform
• SAG-AFTRA may strike over AI terms in video game contract

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We are already at our fourteenth episode. I'm trying out a new mastering process. Not fan of the result, but my ear was starting to melt I felt like I was starting hate every sound that entered my ear. So I decided to conclude this episode. In this episode, we covered

• Warner Bros. Discusses "Volatile" AAA Console Games, Will Lean Into Free-To-Play And Mobile
• Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its lawsuit
• Epic Games just got unbanned by Apple — again
• Square Enix Points To Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy’s PlayStation Exclusivity As A Key Reason For It’s Success Thus Far
• Exclusivity is the game industry's "Achilles' heel", says former PlayStation boss
• Seven Years Ago, Nintendo’s Risky Gamble Paid Off Handsomely
• EA’S CEO SAYS 60% OF DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES COULD BE ‘POSITIVELY IMPACTED’ BY AI
• Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Passes at 68

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We are already at our thirteenth episode. Took a while to recover but we are back on schedule. In this episode, we covered

Timestamps:

[01:24] Sony to release a ‘Pro’ version of the PlayStation 5 this year after cutting outlook, analysts say

[07:57] Red-Haired Cate Blanchett Teams Up with Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart and More in Borderlands First Look

[15:23] Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League's Sales Disappointed, Hogwarts Legacy Is a "Big Win"

[25:03] Tik Tok White Paper on Modern Mobile Gamer

[37:18] Microsoft's Phil Spencer on Xbox growth, recent job cuts and the future of games on discs

[49:00] Ubisoft explains what Assassin's Creed Infinity actually is

[54:50] Nintendo suing makers of open-source Switch emulator Yuzu

[01:00:00] Electronic Arts is laying off 5% of its workforce

[01:06:00] Pacific Drive Review

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We are already at our twelfth episode. Man, time flies when it goes from one second to another second, don't it? Let's talk about the news for the week of 2/13/2024 - 2/19/2024

In this episode, we covered

Timestamps:

[01:20] EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says

[08:46] Embracer Q3 Results Lower Than Expected, Boosted by ‘Lord of the Rings’ Licensing Revenue

[13:27] PlayStation Wants to Improve Operating Profit with a More Aggressive PC First-Party Games Release Plan

[21:27] Microsoft & XBox start moving towards multi-platform albeit slowly

[23:52] Nintendo Switch 2 to launch Q1 2025, Report & Rumor Say

[31:38] Bandai Namco reveals it recently cancelled five games, saying it plans stricter quality control

[37:47] Top Call of Duty esports players sue Activision for $680M in damages, alleging the publisher has an unlawful monopoly on the game's esports scene

[48:45] Helldivers 2 Experience & Review

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We are already at our eleventh episode. Man, time flies when it goes from one second to another second, don't it? Let's talk about the news for the week of 2/6/2024 - 2/12/2024

In this episode, we covered

Timestamps:

[01:08] IGN Staff Announce New Union Amid 'Hectic Media Landscape'

[06:58] Tencent working on mobile version of hit console game 'Elden Ring', sources say

[12:28] Disney invests $1.5 billion in Epic to create ‘persistent universe’ tied to Fortnite

[19:04] Roblox continues to grow revenues, deepen losses

[28:28] Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot has defended the $70 price tag for Skull and Bones, calling it a “quadruple-A game”

[35:22] Nexus Mods surpasses 10 Billion Downloads to date

[37:44] Take-Two argues that virtual currencies are "fictions" in bid to dismiss lawsuit

[45:54] Microsoft is working on its own DLSS-like upscaler for Windows 11

[46:55] Rollerdrome Review

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Oh how fast the time flies! Let's keep going with our 10th episode where we discuss the news from the week of 1/30/24 -2/5/24.

In this very tipsy episode, we covered

Timestamps:

• [00:27] Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League taken offline for the second time, eating through players' early access playtime
• [07:23] 95% of studios are working on or aim to release a live service game
• [12:58] Starfield Update 1.9.51 Reveals Major Changes To Lighting
• [16:53] Xbox Head Is Not Happy With Apple's New App Store Policy
• [24:12] PlayStation State of Play
• [47:06] The Last Of Us Part II Actor Says Fans Threatened Her Son
• [56:25] Immortality Game Review

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Let's keep going with our ninth episode where we discuss the news from the week of 1/23/24 -1/29/24.

In this episode, we covered

Timestamps:

[00:00] Introduction

[00:40] Riot Games Layoffs

[03:18] Microsoft + XBOX + Activision Blizzard Layoffs

[05:53] Sledgehammer Layoffs

[09:10] Matthewball VC Blogpost

[15:10] The Day Before Developers have new projects

[19:02] Walmart starts removing XBox games from shelves

[23:21] Nintendo investigates potential infringements (Palworld)

[38:35] Twitch makes changes to Partner / Affiliate Program

[43:11] Apple allows Streaming Apps after European Antitrust investigation

[46:57] The Last of Us 2: No Return Review

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Let's keep going with our eigth episode where we discuss the news from the week of 1/15/24 -1/22/24.

In this episode, we covered

Timestamps:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:00 Ubisoft wants you to get used to not owning your own game
• 09:25 Gamestop shuts down its NFT operations
• 13:32 Rockstar, T-Pain and NoPixel
• 18:15 Square Enix wants to less fewer but better games in future
• 25:15 Top Grossing Mobile Games of 2023
• 30:05 Microsoft might be planning to make competitive App Store
• 37:02 Yakuza: Infinite Wealth has new game plus behind paywall
• 40:39 Xbox Developer Direct
• 48:07 Russ Scott sues Ubisoft for closing The Crew
• 51:09 Sniper Elite V Review

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Let's keep going with our seventh episode where we discuss the news from the week of 1/8/24 -1/15/24.

In this episode, we covered

Timestamps:

• 00:19 Introduction
• 00:58 Mobile Games made $107 Billion in 2023
• 04:58 DLSS 3 games coming in 2024
• 08:45 CAPCOM has new DRM installed in older games
• 17:35 Twitch laid off 35% of its staff
• 25:49 God of War TV Show adaptation
• 29:20 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle possible video game from Bathesda
• 33:41 SAG AFTRA makes a deal with Replica Studios on AI usage of voice actors
• 39:47 Bathesda releasing Starfield improvements starting January 17th 2024
• 45:53 Evil West Review

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Let's keep going with our sixth episode where we discuss the news from the week of 1/2/24 -1/8/24.

In this episode, we covered

Timestamps:

• [00:00]-Introduction
• [01:21]-XBOX Achievement Overhaul
• [04:27]-Square Enix CEO wants to use AI more aggressively
• [08:09]-Horizon MMORPG
• [11:24]-The Finals Battlepass frustrations
• [19:23]-Firewall, VR game developers, shuts down
• [26:00]-Walmart and Unity working together
• [31:12]-MSI Handheld coming out soon
• [36:05]-Netflix wants to monetize its gaming platform
• [42:47]-Sifu & En Garde Double Review

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