Mike and Ting look back on 2019 and the decade.
The "book club" game is: Untitled Goose Game.
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Show Notes:
2019 Highlights
- Respawn says it's "putting a lot on the line" with Apex Legends' surprise launch
- Anthem has made over $100 million in digital revenue since launch
- How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong
- Anthem 1.6.0 Game Update Notes
- November 2019 NPD — Pokémon has best U.S. launch in series history
- Hit Taiwanese horror game Devotion banned in China after hidden message links Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh
- 2019 Hong Kong protests
- Hong Kong protesters shoot arrows at police during clashes at Chinese University (YouTube)
- Liberate Hong Kong by Unknown Protester
- Battlefield Hong Kong - The Ritual of Yellow Umbrella
- Jonathan Blow
- What Is Dota Auto Chess And Why Is Everyone Playing It?
- Auto Chess
- Dota Underlords
- Teamfight Tactics
- Battlegrounds Early Access – Now Live! - Hearthstone
- Epic Games Store extends weekly game giveaways to the end of the year
- Epic Games Store celebrates the holidays with 12 free games
- Phoenix Point
2010s Highlights
- Kamex, Undertale - His theme Remix 2
- How indies made an impact on a generation of game consoles
- Valve kills Steam Greenlight – here's why it matters
- Minecraft
- Billionaire who sold Minecraft to Microsoft is sad and lonely
- QAnon Conspiracy Endorsed By 'Minecraft' Creator Markus 'Notch' Persson
- Humble Bundle
- Global StarCraft II League
- Supreme Commander (video game)
- Ashes of the Singularity
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Development of Duke Nukem Forever
- Blur and Oasis' big Britpop chart battle – the definitive story of what really happened
- 10 Hilarious Skyrim Memes That Will Make You Want To Jump Back In The Game
- Skyrim - Thomas the Tank Engine Mod (YouTube)
- A look back at the doomed virtual reality boom of the 90s
- Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game
- Oculus Quest
- Windows 8
- Telltale Games
- The Walking Dead (video game)
- Minecraft: Story Mode
- The Wolf Among Us 2 is happening
- Maxis attempts to explain why SimCity is always-online as players discover code for 20-min offline force-shutdown timer
- Microsoft was right in 2013: This is the always-on generation
- User operation prohibition
- Gamergate controversy
- TotalBiscuit
- Damsel in Distress: Part 2 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games (YouTube)
- Undertale
- Dark Souls
Meaningless Awards - Best Multiplayer
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Ting)
- Borderlands 3 (Game that Ting maybe should have picked)
- Apex Legends (Mike)
- Satisfactory (Mike)
Meaningless Awards - Best Game
- Disco Elysium (Ting)
- Baba is You (Mike)
- Slay the Spire (Game that Mike should have picked last year)
Meaningless Awards - Missed in 2019
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Ting)
- Control (Mike)
Meaningless Awards - Honourable Mention
- Resident Evil 2 (Ting)
- Tetris 99 (Mike)
- Super Mario Maker 2 (Game that Mike likes to watch more than he likes to play)
Post-Chat
- MASHUP - Mariah Manson - "All I Want For Christmas is the Beautiful People" (YouTube)
