Into The Video Game Z

NEWS: Gamestop Stock goes to the Moon- 00:38 Apple working on high-end "niche" vr headset- 9:02 Microsoft reverses Xbox Live price hike decision and makes F2P games not require online- 12:25 Microsoft 2020 financials show 18m Game Pass subscribers, huge gaming revenue/hardware boosts- 16:31 Vicarious Visions becomes a Blizzard subsidiary- 18:08 Hyrule Warriors ships 3.5m to become best selling Musou of all time- 23:28 Runescape developer Jagex is bought for 530m- 27:32 KOTOR rumors leak; not being worked on by EA or BioWare- 28:55 19m people picked up Battlefront 2 when it was free on the Epic Game Store- 35:03 AMD suggests hardware won't be back in stock until 2nd half of 2021- 38:03 Resident Evil Presentation shows off Village and RE:Verse- 45:12 TOPICS: Hitman III- 1:02:02 Future of Fighting Game Tournaments- 1:09:24

NEWS: Steam has more monthly users than Xbox and Playstation- 1:12 Switch took 87% of Japan's console market last year- 2:10 Outriders has some impressively low PC requirements- 3:39 Fight Game Code of Conduct debuted- 5:51 Jason Schreier Cyberpunk 2077 report and response- 21:18 Take Two patents some new AI technology- 41:32 Tomonobu Itagaki of Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive fame makes a new studio- 44:47 Legendary Nintendo designer Takaya Imamura retires- 53:16 European Commission fines Valve and other publishers over geo-tagged product keys- 53:43 BulletVille devs allege that Apex Legends' Fuse is a rip off of one of their characters- 59:23 TOPICS: Tekken 7- 1:03:11 Ace Attorney Trilogy- 1:09:43 Old School Runescape- 1:15:23 Robotics;Notes- 1:23:55

NEWS: SciresM Switch Pro datamine suggests OLED screen and an SOC capable of 4K- 1:19 PC Hardware Prices to rise as tariffs come back into place- 11:43 CSGO gets rid of bots in competitive- 16:06 Switch is the market leader in China- 18:32 Polish Government threatens CDPR with 10% revenue cut if they do not fix playability- 20:59 Lucasfilm Games debuts with projects alongside Ubisoft & Bethesda; Star Wars IP not EA exclusive?- 23:01 Gaming trends on Twitter in 2020- 29:30 CES 2021 announcements: Intel 11th gen, 4k 160hz monitors, OLED monitors, Mobile 3060/1440p laptop- 33:35 Intel to outsource CPU production to TSMC- 42:36 TOPICS: Genshin Pity System- 46:11 Monster Hunter Rise Demo- 49:02

NEWS: Koei Tecmo hit by Cyber Attacks- 1:08 100 Billion hours of gaming content was viewed in 2020- 2:21 Steam crack 25m concurrent users near New Year- 4:24 Steam 2020 best sellers- 5:34 PS5 moves 3.5m in one month and seeks to push 18m in 2021- 12:17 Bandai Namco's Harada says he's working on company's most costly project ever- 14:01 Nier Automata's last secret has been found- 20:20 Nintendo buys Next Level Games- 23:14 Cyberpunk 79% decline in players somewhat to be expected- 30:30 Xbox tried to buy Nintendo back during original Xbox development- 33:33 Sony discontinues all PS4 models apart from 500gb slim in Japan- 37:11 TOPICS: Culture of tech purchases/smartphone purchases- 38:47 New PC parts benchmarks and rumors; RTX 3080 TI, Intel 11th Gen benchmarks- 52:02 Project Wingman Review- 58:17 Snow Runner Review- 1:09:23 Holdfast: Nations at War- 1:28:42 Most memorable moments in gaming- 1:35:39

NEWS: Nintendo rolls Starlight gaming consoles into hospitals- 1:34 CDPR faces class action lawsuit for misleading investors on Cyberpunk 2077 performance- 12:42 TOPICS: Project Wingman- 20:59 ITVG Awards: Honorable Mentions/Favorite Gaming Moment of the Year- 33:38 ITVG Awards: Each Member's Game of the Year- 1:00:34 ITVG Awards: Overall Game of the Year- 1:28:56 Top 4th Gen games- 1:41:19 Old CRT Monitors got great for gaming when we weren't looking- 1:53:12

NEWS: Cyberpunk 2077 sells 13M but is deplatformed from Sony, and other terrible CDPR stories- 1:11 Space Force guardian demoted for skipping training for a PS5- 25:45 Nintendo focusing on current hardware, Switch halfway through life cycle- 28:34 343 will shut down all the Xbox 360 Halo online services at the end of 2021- 29:45 Could Halo Infinite ditch Xbox One?- 31:23 KFC debuts a console that warms your chicken- 37:11 Steam Winter Sale begins- 41:11 TOPICS: Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond review- 44:54 What's Fallout 76 like now that it's "fixed"- 53:57 Cyberpunk 2077 review- 1:09:38 Ghostrunner review- 1:28:42 Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition- 1:36:21

NEWS: The Game Awards announcements and highlights- 1:25 Nintendo's release schedule isn't as fast as you'd expect- 19:04 Cyberpunk 2077 launches; records, refunds, and apologies- 21:35 EA bids 1.2 Billion for CodeMasters, surprising Take-Two who was set to acquire it- 33:45 Skyrim, Yakuza Remasters, and Among Us come to Game Pass, EA Play integration delayed- 35:12 Switch is still the best selling console for 24 months straight despite next gen launch- 36:07 Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo collab for safer gaming- 40:21 TOPICS: Game Choice Paralysis- 44:02 The Future of The Game Awards?- 49:29 Playtesting and the bugged state of new releases- 58:48

NEWS: Jim Ryan denies claims that Sony is neglecting Japan- 1:16 Nintendo shuts down Splatoon stream after Free Melee trends- 8:06 Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah leave BioWare, leaving it without a general manager- 19:35 Persona 5 Strikers will be localized after all- 22:37 Neil Druckmann promoted to co-president of Naughty Dog- 25:04 Medal of Honor requirements are absurdly large- 28:45 Cyberpunk 2077 epilepsy story, early reviews, tech info- 38:55 Halo Infinite delayed until Fall 2021- 1:03:09 TOPICS: Demon's Souls speedrunning bug- 1:12:00 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim full review- 1:15:47 Immortals Fenyx Rising first impressions- 1:25:45 Demon's Souls review- 1:28:35 The Game Awards predictions and picks- 1:32:34 Best Games from 1993, 1994, and 1996- 2:55:23

NEWS: Crown Price of Saudi Arabia buys significant stake in SNK- 00:42 Microsoft looking into why games are running better on PS5- 8:47 Yakuza series hits 14M sales- 12:44 Xbox adds Control, Doom Eternal, Dragon Quest XI, and more to Game Pass- 18:10 Sukeban games indefinitely delays N1RV Ann-A- 20:22 RTX 3060 TI launches for scalpers- 24:12 Genshin Impact reaches 400m revenue in first two months- 37:04 Microsoft buys Smash.gg- 46:40 TOPICS: Sub-Rosa- 50:17 Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity's framerate gets better as the game progresses?- 1:02:03 Games that facilitate friendships- 1:07:50

NEWS: PS5 appears to be the largest console launch in history- 1:10 Sony's Jim Ryan says "news to come" about Game Pass competitor, but likely not for 1st parties- 6:55 Sony feels that new IP are very risky- 10:25 Nintendo shuts down Smash Bros Melee online tournament with cease and desist- 19:31 Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios is just good- 32:38 IO Interactive is making a 007 game- 39:22 GeForce Now coming to IOS through browser, which means Fortnite is playable on IOS again- 43:59 Nintendo says piracy is a worsening problem- 46:16 Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity sets Warriors genre records- 54:39 Copies of Cyberpunk 2077 are out in the wild- 55:40 Comcast plans to introduce 1.2TB data cap in many US states- 57:39 The World Ends With You sequel announced- 1:09:45 TOPICS: Demon's Souls on PS5- 1:19:25 Genshin Impact's grind gets really rough- 1:24:19 Assassin's Creed Valhalla's story is pretty unique- 1:25:41 Spider-Man Miles Morales full review- 1:32:59 Hyrule Warriors impressions- 1:50:48