Mike and Ting talk about Apple vs. Epic, the games of Gamescom, Mario's 35th anniversary and NVIDIA's RTX 30 launch event.

The "book club" game is: Call of Duty: Warzone.

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Apple vs Epic

• Fortnite's V-Bucks are getting cheaper
• Hope you didn't delete Fortnite or Infinity Blade because Apple just terminated Epic's dev account
• Apple will enforce app notarization for macOS Catalina in February
• Epic judge will protect Unreal Engine — but not Fortnite
• Apple won't let Facebook tell users about 30-percent Apple tax on events
• Apple's international antitrust battles - the story so far
• Why one email app went to war with Apple—and why neither one is right
• Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer (YouTube)
• Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite - #FreeFortnite (YouTube)

Gamescom

• Dragon Age 4 - Official Behind the Scenes Teaser Trailer | gamescom 2020 (YouTube)
• Star Wars: Squadrons Campaign Includes Film Characters, New Gameplay Shown
• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - Official Perseus Briefing Cinematic | gamescom 2020 (YouTube)
• Everything we know about Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, launching November 13th
• Genshin Impact Coming to PS4, PC, and Mobile in September
• The Sims 4: Star Wars Game Pack Hitting Next Month
• Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
• JK Rowling returns award after Kerry Kennedy criticism
• Incredible Ratchet & Clank gameplay demo reveals PS5's SSD difference
• 12 Minutes - Cast Reveal Trailer (Daisy Ridley, Willem Dafoe, James McAvoy) | gamescom 2020 (YouTube)

Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary

• Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Direct (YouTube)
• The official home of the Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. system.
• Game & Watch series
• This GameBoy Case Was Advertised EVERYWHERE (YouTube)
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
• Super Mario Bros. 35
• Someone Turned Mario Into A Battle Royale, And It's The Best Thing
• Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
• DJI's New Drone Is a Tiny Tank That Can Shoot Lasers and Drive Sideways
• Hasbro Celebrates Super Mario's 35th Anniversary With Monopoly And Jenga
• Puma Looks Ready To Pounce On Super Mario's 35th Anniversary With Some Nintendo-Branded Sneakers
• Super Mario Themed Furniture Items Officially Announced For Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Nintendo Celebrates Super Mario 35th Anniversary With New Clothing Line
• Super Mario All-Stars Is Now Available On Nintendo's Switch Online SNES Service
• Super Mario 3D All-Stars brings three high-res ports to Switch

NVIDIA RTX 30 Launch Event

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series | Official Launch Event [4K] (YouTube)
• The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070: RTX 2080 Ti Performance at $499
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080: Everything We Know
• Nvidia Announces Ampere: RTX 3090 for $1499, RTX 3080 for $699, RTX 3070 for $499
• BFG (weapon)
• WHY I use the Nvidia QUADRO RTX 8000 (YouTube)
• GeForce 16 series
• NVIDIA Marbles at Night | RTX Demo (YouTube)
• NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima
• GPUDirect Storage: A Direct Path Between Storage and GPU Memory
• NVIDIA DLSS 2.0: A Big Leap In AI Rendering
• AMD Big Navi release date, price, specs and latest news

Post-Chat

• RX 6 | Mouth De-click Tutorial (YouTube)

Mike and Ting talk about Scots Wikipedia, the future of work, and a future of not working.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for #FreeFortnite, Gamescom, Mario@35 & BFGPU.

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Pre-Chat

• Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles
• Scots language
• Dunning–Kruger effect
• The Simpsons - En Francais (YouTube)
• Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Notability
• Nigel Ng
• This is what coronavirus will do to our offices and homes
• Coronavirus: Pret A Manger plans rent talks in bid to avoid closures
• Radiohead - Creep (YouTube)
• What is redundancy, who can be made redundant and what are my rights?
• How To Drink (YouTube)
• Recreated - The "Johnny Silverhand" from Cyberpunk 2077 (YouTube)

Mike and Ting talk about Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator.

Contains SPOILERS for Dream Daddy!

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What is Dream Daddy?

• Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
• Game Grumps (YouTube)
• The First Hardcore Porn Game on Steam Is Not Fucking Around
• Visual novel
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Home of the Underdogs
• Hatoful Boyfriend
• Eliza (video game)
• Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy (Original Mix - 2006 Version) (YouTube)
• World's Best Dad achievement
• Brag battle
• Block That Bird

Our Dads

• OwO What's This? (YouTube)
• Our Dream Daddy Dads: Carter Owo and Benjamin Giles
• Escape from Margarita Zone Guide
• Bad Dad achievement
• Robert
• Damien
• Joseph
• Craig
• Capybara
• Hugo

Final Thoughts

• PUP - DVP (Official Video) (YouTube)
• Our Thoughts On Overwatch's Tracer Being Gay
• Steve Cortez
• Call of Duty: Warzone

Mike bakes scones while Ting collects stickers.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator.

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Pre-Chat

• Scone
• Cream tea
• Biscuit (bread)
• Sticker album
• Card pack - Hearthstone Wiki
• Call of Duty: Warzone
• Dark triad

Mike and Ting talk about the Xbox Games Showcase, the Nintendo Gigaleak and Valve's cancelled games.

The "book club" game is: Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator.

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Xbox Games Showcase

• Xbox Games Showcase [ENGLISH] (YouTube)
• Halo Infinite open world includes a day/night cycle, upgrades, and more
• Halo Infinite Gameplay Trailer Analysis: Are The Graphics Really 'Flat'...? (YouTube)
• The Banished - Faction
• Microsoft confirms "free-to-play multiplayer" for Halo Infinite
• Fable 4 just got revealed, and it's got fairies, frogs and a new developer
• Forza Motorsport is coming to the Xbox Series X with 4K, 60fps, and ray tracing
• Rare's 'Everwild' looks gorgeous, but we still don't know how it plays
• Princess Mononoke (1997)
• Grounded hits one million players in its first 48 hours
• Hotly-Anticipated Bite-Sized Survival Game | Grounded (Northernlion Tries) (YouTube)
• The Uncle Roger controversy: Why people are outraged by a video about cooking rice
• Grounded caters to those with arachnophobia in a very unusual way
• Everything we know about Destiny 2: Beyond Light
• Avowed: Release date, gameplay, and everything we know about Obsidian's Skyrim-like RPG
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide—release date, trailer and everything we know
• White Dwarf (magazine)

Nintendo Gigaleak

• Legend of Zelda gigaleak reveals Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask cut content
• Alleged Nintendo "gigaleak" reveals eye-opening prototypes for Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Kart, Star Fox 2 and more
• Fans celebrate as Nintendo Gigaleak validates Super Mario 64 Luigi myth
• Nintendo Gigaleak reveals canceled Pokémon MMO, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl beta
• Temtem
• @OKeijiDragon - This is an actual unused character graphic asset of Luigi giving the player the middle finger that found within the source files for Super Mario World dated 1989.
• Luigi's Death Stare | Know Your Meme

Valve's Cancelled Games

• Details of Multiple Cancelled Valve Projects Revealed, Including Half-Life 3
• Half-Life: Alyx - Final Hours
• Valve: How going boss-free empowered the games-maker
• No Man's Sky
• The Binding of Isaac (video game)
• OpenAI's new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
• AI Dungeon
• Dying Light
• Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide
• Artifact (video game)
• Minecraft
• Fortnite: Save the World

Mike's graphics card explodes, Ting wants a YouTube update and they both agree to allow mouth clicks.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Valve is Open, Nintendo is Leaking, Halo is Flat.

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Pre-Chat

• Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 release date, price and specs: all the RTX 3080 rumors
• All 100 Officer Challenges in Season 4 of Modern Warfare and Warzone
• YouTube adds bedtime reminders to help you log off late at night
• A Reckoning At Bon Appétit
• Aaron and Claire (YouTube)
• Negi (Japanese Long Onion)
• Iron Pineapple (YouTube)
• Northernlion (YouTube)
• (Old) Reddit
• 'The Secrets of Preventing Mouth Clicks in Voiceover Recordings

Mike and Ting talk about Outer Wilds.

NOTE: the first section is spoiler free!

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What is Outer Wilds?

• Outer Wilds - Development
• Mobius Digital
• Masi Oka
• Outer Wilds; Available Now on Fig
• Annapurna Interactive
• Outer Wilds Nearing the Finish Line
• The Making of Outer Wilds - Documentary (YouTube)
• No Man's Sky
• Scout Launcher
• Light Mode: Baked

Spoilers

• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Quantum superposition
• Signalscope
• Outer Wilds absolutely nails this one thing about exploration
• Translation tool
• Gabbro

Story

• Nomai
• Eye of the Universe
• Ash Twin Project
• Outer Wilds Ending - destroying the fabric of spacetime (YouTube)
• Sun Station
• Ghost Matter
• Interloper
• Orbital Probe Cannon
• Quantum Moon

Summary

• Interstellar (2014)
• Miller (planet)
• I am feeling aimless...
• Dream Daddy

Post-Chat

• Repair

Mike and Ting talk about the prayer or high five emoji controversy, domain names and smart mirrors.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Outer Wilds.

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Pre-Chat

• World Emoji Day: India's 'Namaste' puts netizens in a tizzy, debate rages over Apple, Android descriptions
• 🙏 Folded Hands
• Ask HN: Best new startup TLD, other than .com?
• Ting
• Single-letter second-level domain
• 2 Letter Domain Names
• Lululemon is buying exercise hardware startup Mirror for half a billion dollars
• The Nearly Invisible Interactive Home Gym | MIRROR
• Mirror Online: The intelligent tabloid

Mike and Ting talk about the PS5, Xbox and Nintendo, Cyberpunk 2077, EA Play and Ubisoft Forward.

The "book club" game is: Outer Wilds.

Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or [email protected]

PS5

• PS5 Hardware Reveal Trailer
• The Best PS5 Memes
• The PS5 is huge, according to internet detectives
• PS5 games list: All confirmed launch, exclusive and first-party PS5 games explained
• Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online - Announcement Trailer | PS5 (YouTube)
• Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales - Announcement Trailer | PS5 (YouTube)
• Horizon Forbidden West - Announcement Trailer | PS5 (YouTube)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - Announcement Trailer | PS5 (YouTube)
• PlayStation 5 Ray Tracing First Look: Gran Turismo 7, Ratchet & Clank, Pragmata + More! (YouTube)
• Demon's Souls - Announcement Trailer | PS5 (YouTube)
• Outrageous aimbot (Twitch)
• The PS5 is getting a camera, charging dock, headphones, and media remote accessories
• Jackie Chan | Know Your Meme
• Call of Duty: Warzone plans to release on PS5 and Xbox Series X as the "one constant" for every new game in the franchise
• Introducing DualSense, the New Wireless Game Controller for PlayStation 5
• Xbox Series X controller details, including Share button and hybrid d-pad explained

Xbox and Nintendo

• Xbox Series X - World Premiere - 4K Trailer (YouTube)
• Microsoft's second next-gen Xbox reportedly set for August reveal
• XBOX Series S Priced at Zero: Changing the Rules to Defeat PlayStation 5 (YouTube)
• Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 voice actors were joking when they said they were nearly finished
• Sources: Nintendo Switch 2020 line-up dominated by Mario games old and new
• New Pokémon Snap is coming! (Nintendo Switch) (YouTube)
• Pokemon Unite - Full Gameplay Presentation (YouTube)

Cyberpunk 2077

• Cyberpunk 2077 — Official Trailer — The Gig (YouTube)
• We played Cyberpunk 2077 for four hours, here's what we think
• Which life path should you choose in Cyberpunk 2077?
• Cyberpunk 2077 - Braindance Gameplay (YouTube)
• Cyberpunk 2077 Could Revive a Long-Dead Genre
• Atari Hotels

EA Play and Ubisoft Forward

• EA Play Live June 2020 (YouTube)
• EA puts first wave of games back on Steam
• STAR WARS: Squadrons
• It Takes Two Is the Newest Co-Op Game From Josef Fares
• "F**k The Oscars" Says Developer At The Game Awards (YouTube)
• Unravel Two
• Don't Rule Out Mass Effect Trilogy Remastered Just Yet. Here's Why.
• Ubisoft Forward: World Teaser | Ubisoft [NA] (YouTube)
• Watch Dogs: Legion
• Assassin's Creed Valhalla
• Hyper Scape

Mixer Shutdown

• Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming
• Microsoft's Mixer streamers are sad, angry, and moving to Twitch
• Report: Ninja and Shroud Take Home Millions After Mixer Shutdown

Post-Chat

• Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
• Eurovision Song-Along (Official) - Iconic Contestants Join The Party (YouTube)

Mike and Ting talk about WWDC, bossware and shopping bots.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Not E3 2020.

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Pre-Chat

• WWE
• WWDC
• Apple Silicon (Arm) Macs: Coming in Late 2020
• Windows RT
• Tested: Is a $400 iPhone SE really faster than the most powerful Android phone?
• OS X Lion to Drop 'Rosetta' Support for PowerPC Applications
• Inside the Invasive, Secretive "Bossware" Tracking Workers
• Exclusive: Barclays installs Big Brother-style spyware on employees' computers
• Who Is the Mystery Shopper Leaving Behind Thousands of Online Shopping Carts?