This week, we condense some of the most impactful items that have happened since we went on break.  

Stadia is being shut down and that leaves a lot of questions for not only the users - who have a sunset date in mid January 2023 - but the developers that have lost a whole revenue stream.  To make matters worse, they did not notify the developers before announcing the sunset over twitter.

Nintndona-nigans

-- CG Company Acquisition - Dynamo Pictures

--- Creating rendered content with iconic Nintendo Characters

--- Mocap services to nintendo

--- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-completes-dynamo-pictures-acquisition-relaunches-as-nintendo-pictures

-- Labor Complaint - Mackenzie Clifton

--- Contractor - Aston Carter - Contract - Nintendo QA testing

--- Unionization question was during a Q & A portion of a meeting with Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser

---- Question asked dealt with the trend of QA unionizing across the game dev industry

---- question was not addressed, contracing firm supervisor called and said was downer question and to contact Aston Carter for such inquiries

--- Month later was fired. 

--- Nintendo said that firing was due to disclosing confidential information

---- evidence presented was a tweet talking how all textures must have been removed because EVERYTHING was red when rendered. 

--- https://www.axios.com/2022/09/29/nintendo-tester-union-busting-whistleblower

other points of interest

--- Clifton wanted a signed apology by Bowser

--- Nintnedo countered with talking to HR then offered a letter of reference

--- NLRB said letter was not required as part of the settlement

--Nuzelocke Stuff

--- Pokemon Company officially stated that the company does not have a problem with Nuzelocke runs.

--- Content creators Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang in their podcast revealed that the Pokemon Co has been against it

Lewd Kerbo Card Game

-- https://kotaku.com/kirby-chef-kawasaki-mini-bikini-hal-laboratory-nintendo-1849592983

-- https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20220928-15926/

-- Card game named Chef Kawasaki's Microbikini Karuta featuring Chef Kawasaki from the Kirby Series.

-- Some believed that the standard atire - Naked save for an apron - is already rather raunchy -- lead to microbikini memes.

-- memes gave birth to card game "Chef Kawasaki's Microbikini Karuta.

-- Game is based on the Japanese card game Karuta.

-- went on sale for about 890 Yen (6 bucks USD). 290 yen for digital (2 bucks) PDF/JPG

-- After 2 days sales ceased as a warning from HAL Labratory was issued. 

-- Creating a product based on a Nintendo IP and selling it without permission is illegal to begin with (Maybe a japanese rule - I think this would fall under a transformative work)

Welcome to the UDP Broadcast - Where we discuss gaming related stuff and offer somewhat uninformed opinions.

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Chapters

0:00 Intro and Topics

1:27 Stadia shutdown

23.30 Nintendo-Nanigas

48:30 Chef Kawasaki in a Micro Bikini

52:30 Final thoughts