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Welcome to season 2 of Pretty Dece, the start of WEEKLY episodes!

On the show this week, we discuss:

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Rumor has it that next year, in a comic event, DC will be replacing Bruce Wayne as Batman with an as-yet-unnamed black character.

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Nintendo continues their foray into free-to-play mobile gaming on September 25th with Mario Kart Tour.

The game will feature strange vertical gameplay and one-handed touch controls. However, the most concerning thing about the game, as with previous Nintendo mobile games, might be the microtransaction monetization strategy in place. We dive into what that is rumored to be on today's episode of Pretty Dece.

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Marvel Studios and Sony have reportedly not been able to reach an agreeable joint deal to produce future Spider-Man movies, leaving his place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in jeopardy.

Sony holds the movie rights to Spider-Man and has been producing their own Spider-Man films, such as Into the Spider-Verse, while also sharing Spider-Man and allowing him to become a member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now however, Sony is rejecting Marvel Studio's request for a new revenue split, and it appears the two companies are at a standstill. Have we seen the last of Spidey in the MCU?

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Members of the Apex Legends development team are fighting back against gamers unhappy with the game's monetization strategy, calling them "free-loaders", "asshats" and other derogatory terms.

Players have been flooding Reddit and other game discussion forums recently with memes and other discussion revolving around Apex Legends monetization strategy, which primary revolves around free-to-play microtransactions. Players have begun to feel that the game isn't fair and is over-prioritizing money. The developers are clearly frustrated with this opinion,  because recently, in an apology thread to the community, the Respawn community manager and the Apex Legends product lead dove into the comment section, bickering and namecalling with the playerbase.

Frankly, this is embarrassing, and not a good look for all of Respawn. On today's episode of Pretty Dece, we discuss exactly how we got to this point in gaming, and whether the free-to-play microtransaction trend will be continuing.

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The world's most popular streamer Ninja recently announced he was leaving the world's most popular streaming website Twitch. Twitch has not taken it well. 

Ninja will be moving to MIcrosoft's Mixer, a much smaller competing service. Meanwhile, Twitch has been promoting other streamers on Ninja's now offline Twitch page... leading to Twitch accidentally promoting a channel streaming porn! The offending channel was quickly removed, but Ninja was justifiably  very upset about the possibility that children or anyone else visiting his page would have seen that.

This pettiness from Twitch surrounding the departure of Ninja is just one in a long line of things that Twitch has done recently to make people somewhat uneasy about Twitch as a platform holder. In some cases they're behaving more as petulant children than as a website owned by one of the world's biggest companies, Amazon.

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Control is one of the games I picked up at Gen Con 2019. It's a short, easy-to-learn, fast-paced card game for 2-4 players, made by Keymaster Games. Control is inspired by the classic game Cuttle, and in my opinion blends the simplicity of a traditional card game with the addictive head-to-head competition and evolving strategy of a collectible card game.

It's small enough to pack anywhere, and games rounds only take around 5 minutes. If you're like me and have friends that are competitive but don't have the attention span or desire to be taught a game that takes hours to learn, or hours to play, Control might be for you.

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This past week I attended the best 4 days in gaming, Gen Con! Gen Con is the largest tabletop and board game convention in the country, and it happens to take place in my backyard! This episode of Pretty Dece is a recap of my time at Gen Con 2019, running down all of the events I attended, things I saw, and all the awesome stuff going down.

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Team Fortress 2 has had loot crates for over a decade, and built into Steam support for selling the items you get out of those crates for real money. However, a glitch today has thrown that economy into complete disarray! Join me on Pretty Dece today to discuss what happened with the glitch, how exactly the glitch has affected the economy, and what Valve is doing to fix the issue.

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Marvel laid out plans for their next phase of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and tv shows at San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend. Of course, everyone is incredibly excited to find out the direction of the MCU following the events of Avengers: Endgame, and we got some details about that direction at Marvel's panel, including the names and plot details of some upcoming films and shows.  Disney Plus, the upcoming streaming service, will play a huge part in the MCU going forward, featuring many shows that will tie directly into the events of the Marvel films.