On this episode of the Video Game Pals, we talk about World Health Organization classifying gaming disorder as a mental illness, Sony releasing classic PS4 games under their Greatest Hits line, the jabs Nintendo and Microsoft are taking at Sony over their cross platform play stance, and much more!

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What We’re Playing

News:

22:47 - WHO classifies gaming disorder as mental illness: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/health/video-game-disorder-who/index.html

38:28- Sony Rereleases Classic PS4 Games As Greatest Hits:

https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/19/17479118/ps4-greatest-hits-playstation-4

41:17- PlayStation Now to Allow Downloading of Games:

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/06/19/source-playstation-now-will-offer-downloads-later-this-year

45:25- Microsoft and Nintendo Throw Shade At Sony Over Crossplay Restrictions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l8nJ_liqrw&feature=youtu.be

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1009842596120690688

52:21- Meat & Potatoes: We’ve often debated how YouTube and Twitch affect developer’s bottom line, but now we have thoughts straight from the dev’s mouth. What do you think about this issue, and is their a solution aside from devs asking people not to stream their single player games (a la Persona 5)? Would that even work? How does single player continue to survive and ideally thrive in a world where watching people play through a game is a major source of entertainment?

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/06/19/developers-say-twitch-is-hurting-single-player-games

Outro Music:

"Swanky Ballroom Party For Sophisticated People" by Adhesive Wombat - @adhesivewombat

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