Talking Games Podcast

In this Halloween Episode The Major and Shinobi discuss all the gaming news from this past week including Xbox Reportedly Developing a Wu-Tang Clan Themed RPG, Ubisoft Plans to Create its Own Blockchain Games to 'Enable More Play-toEarn', Cyberpunk 2077 Delays All New Updates To 2022. Also The Major and Shinobi pitch a horror game and more.

Facebook changes name to Meta https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/facebook-changes-company-name-tometa.html 

GTA San Andreas coming to Oculus Quest 2 VR https://www.polygon.com/22751026/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-vroculus-quest-2- facebook#:~:text=A%20classic%20from%20the%20PlayStation%202%20era% 2C%20Grand,2%2C%20Facebook%20announced%20at%20Connect%202021% 20on%20Thursday.

Dr Dre making new music for GTA 6? https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/28/dr-dre-is-working-on-gta-6-soundtrackclaims-snoop-dogg-15500102/ 

Xbox Reportedly Developing a Wu-Tang Clan Themed RPG https://www.ign.com/articles/wu-tang-clan-video-game 

Halo Infinite’s Craig Meme Gave 343 ‘More Time’ To Perfect the Brutes https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-infinite-craig-meme-extra-time 

PAX South has been Cancelled for the Foreseeable Future https://www.ign.com/articles/pax-south-shut-down 

New World Reportedly Has a Vulnerability That Makes It Possible To Crash  Players Through the Text Box https://www.ign.com/articles/new-world-text-box-html-vulnerability-gamecrash 

Roblox's Servers Are Down And Fans Are Blaming Chipotle https://www.ign.com/articles/roblox-servers-down-chipotle-free-burritos 

Ubisoft Plans to Create its Own Blockchain Games to 'Enable More Play-toEarn' https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-plans-create-blockchain-gamesenable-pay-to-earn 

Cyberpunk 2077 Delays All New Updates To 2022 https://www.ign.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-updates-delayed-2022-cdprojekt 

Activision Blizzard caves https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/10/28/22750450/activision -blizzard-ends-forced-arbitration-bobby-kotick-paycut https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizzard-lawsuits-in-chaos-as-federalagency-accuses-californias-dfeh-of-ethics-violations/#comment-jump https://twitter.com/ABetterABK/status/1453755875387232262 https://twitter.com/ABetterABK/status/1453764023753887745 

Marvel Comics to Introduce a New Iron Fist in 2022 https://www.ign.com/articles/marvel-new-iron-fist-relaunch-asian-hero 

Nintendo Confirms It's Closing Its Northern California And Toronto Offices https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-northern-california-toronto-offices 

Capcom Dubs Resident Evil 3 Remake a 'Hit' After Selling 3.9 Million Copies https://www.ign.com/articles/resident-evil-3-remake-hit-selling-million Guardians of the Galaxy tips and tricks https://www.ign.com/wikis/guardians-of-the-galaxy-the-game/Collectibles

The Major and Callum discuss all the gaming news from this past week including,

Activision Blizzard lawsuit could be dropped due to ethics violation, Nathan Fillion fan film is better than the actual Uncharted movie, New  World MMO has a broken economy and more

Alec Baldwin Involved In Fatal Discharge Of Prop Firearm That Leaves One Crewmember Dead [Update] 

https://www.ign.com/articles/alec-baldwin-prop-firearm-accident 

Valkyrae claims soap can protect against Blue Light 

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/valkyrae-respondsbacklash-rflct-skincare-product-scam-1679509/ 

Ruby Rose Batwoman unsafe set

https://roguerocket.com/2021/10/20/ruby-rose-batwoman-unsafe-set/ 

New games announced - 

PlayStation state of play 

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/10/22/state-of-play-returns-nextwednesday/ 

Stardew Valley Creators new game 

https://youtu.be/kJy7LF789lo 

https://www.ign.com/articles/stardew-valley-haunted-chocolatier 

Starfield universe 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjh5DJCEpxY&t=0s 

Saints row Wingsuit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSzdeLB2qGU&t=0s 

CALLUM DEALS OF THE WEEK 

New World MMO's Economy Is Currently So Broken It's Facing A Deflation Crisis 

https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/new-world 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063730/New_World/ https://steamcharts.com/app/1063730 

https://blog.playerauctions.com/mmorpg/currency-crisis-in-new-world/ 

https://twitter.com/RKRigney/status/1450819957013585927 

Amazon Bans New World Players for Exploiting a Gold Duplication Glitch 

https://www.ign.com/articles/new-world-gold-exploit-ban-amazon 

Activision lawsuit could be dropped 

https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/10/12/why-californias-lawsuitagainst-activision-blizzard-could-get-more-complicated https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-10-13-communicationsworkers-of-america-union-also-objects-to-eeoc-activision-blizzard-settlement 

https://kotaku.com/union-pissed-about-meager-activision-blizzardsettlemen-1847850071 

https://twitter.com/CODE_CWA/status/1443009013231222785 

https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizzard-lawsuits-in-chaos-as-federalagency-accuses-californias-dfeh-of-ethics-violations/#comment-jump 

https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1446109524855713792 

Sony To Release Two Untitled Marvel Movies in 2023 

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-release-two-marvel-movies-2023- venom-spider-man 

The Patch Aiming to Fix Konami's eFootball Has Been Delayed 

https://www.ign.com/articles/efootball-konami-patch-091-delayednovember 

Music 

Tom Holland Uncharted trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3NR3U2T24 

Nathan Fillion Fan film was better 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5CZQpqF_74 

Netflix says it’s not planning a game studio acquisition spree 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/netflix-says-its-not-planninga-game-studio-acquisition-spree/ 

A patented PlayStation feature allows players to pay to kick others from games 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-patented-pla

The Major, Callum, Bam Bam and Chloe discuss all the gaming news from this past week

BamBam V3 video on Nintendo Switch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGElSOs3wmA

More evidence suggests Switch OLED’s dock can support 4K

Nintendo Direct

Switch Online’s new Expansion Pack tier will cost double at $50 / £35

Animal Crossing is getting a $25 ‘Happy Home Paradise’ expansion next month

Animal Crossing New Horizons adds Brewster and the Roost in early November

Nintendo is working on a fix for a Metroid Dread progression bug

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/dread-has-already-outsold-nearly-every-metroidgame-in-japan/

DEALS OF THE WEEK – CALLUM

EA vs FIFA

EA charged 1billion every 4 years by fifa

Ricochet Anti Cheat

Steam bans blockchain and nfts

Google has countersued Epic Games for Fortnite breach of contract

The Major and Bam Bam discuss EA's Chris Bruzzo exposed as an idiot thanks to Eurogamer interview, twitch leak details, Marvel Avenger devs going back on their word with XP boosts incoming, Konami says fix for efootball coming soon, Jim Ryan wishes PlayStation could be as big as movies, New PlayStation exclusive remake coming this christmas, Amazon news and more...

Twitch leak details 

https://www.ign.com/articles/twitch-leak-causes-discussion-on-stream-income 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58829604

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/twitch-admits-to-major-leak-exposingsource-code-creator-earnings/ https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/twitch-hack-platform-accused-of-regularlyneglecting-security-warnings 

Hackers invade Battlefield 2042 beta 

https://www.ign.com/articles/battlefield-2042-beta-cheaters 

https://www.ign.com/articles/battlefield-2042-beta-few-months-old 

Deathloop final secret discovered 

https://www.ign.com/articles/deathloop-big-secret-to-discover 

Sora joins Super Smash Bros 

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/10/05/sora-in-smash-bros-has-been-meme-ed-to-existence/ 

GTA Trilogy revealed 

https://www.ign.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-trilogy-definitive-edition-announced 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-10-gta-3-vice-city-and-san-andreas-fans-are-usingsteam-reviews-to-encourage-people-to-buy-the-originals-before-rockstar-delists-them-next-week 

MUSIC 

Eurogamer asks EA tough questions over FIFA22 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-05-the-big-interview-ea-fifa-and-loot-boxes 

https://twitter.com/ScudzTV/status/1371929490717347845 

FIFA franchise getting renamed? 

https://www.ign.com/videos/ea-is-considering-renaming-the-fifa-series-ign-news 

Paid XP boosts have been added to Avengers, despite promises it would never happen 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/paid-xp-boosts-have-been-added-to-avengersdespite-promises-it-would-never-happen/ 

Konami plans to address eFootball issues in an update on October 28 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/konami-plans-to-address-efootball-issues-in-anupdate-on-october-28/ 

Jim Ryan says he’s ‘frustrated’ PlayStation’s games can’t reach more players 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/jim-ryan-says-hes-frustrated-playstations-gamescant-reach-more-players/ 

PlayStation will announce ‘a big remake’ this Christmas, musician claims 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/playstation-will-announce-a-big-remake-thischristmas-musician-claims/ 

MUSIC 

The official Steam Deck teardown video warns users not to open it up 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-official-steam-deck-teardown-video-warns-usersnot-to-open-it-up/ 

New World MMO 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-09-amazon-faces-backlash-after-new-world-regiontransfer-u-turn 

Squid game direction lost 6 teeth due to stress 

https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-squid-game-production-director-lost-six-teeth-due-to-stress 

Hellraiser Casts Jamie Clayton as Pinhead 

https://www.ign.com/articles/hellraiser-casts-jamie-clayton-as-pinhead-hulu 

That '90s Show Is Happening, Just as We All Feared 

https://www.ign.com/articles/that-90s-show-coming-to-netflix

The Major and Shinobi get into a possible Nintendo Switch 4K model, Netflix getting into games and why they could be a concern for their competition, Konami makes worst game ever on Steam, PlayStation acquisitions and more

The Major, Callum and Bam Bam discuss all the gaming and entertainment news from this past week.

Including, Nintendo Direct for September 2021, Chris Pratt cast as Mario in new movie, Marvel potentially losing the Avengers? Activision Blizzard SEC investigation, Xbox console news, Netflix making a game based on their tv original, Kate, Apple v Epic pettiness continues, Doctor Who could be good again and the Orville returns. Plus more Deals of the Week and music from ShinecityAV, Complain

Discussion on Nintendo Direct –

In an episode dedicated to Inventor Sir Clive Sinclair The Major discusses all the gaming, tv and movie news from this past week

Including, Activision Blizzard is stalking employees that are  speaking out, Daniel Craig's final speech as James Bond, Epic appealing  the courts decision following loss, Scalpers are getting 30% less for  PS5's, Dying Light is delayed again, THQ Nordic 10th anniversary and  more

Major and Shinobi discusses all the gaming news from this past week including an interview with recently retired K1 legend, Dynamic Ish Iron Mike as we discuss his career, his love of gaming, Jake Paul and more

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LINKS

Grown men shouldn’t be wasting their lives playing video games 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/04/grown-men-shouldnt-wasting-lives-playingvideogames/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1630736154-1 

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1434175843996246024 https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1434175843996246024/retweets/with_comments 

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1434175843996246024/retweets/with_comments https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/1434527401367715848 

Fortnite Gamers mum becomes pro herself https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58487025 

Epic court battle ends with Apple ordered to relax iOS payment rules 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epic-court-battle-ends-with-apple-ordered-torelax-ios-payment-rules/ 

Epic v. Apple: Court Says Apple's 30% Sales Cut Is Unjustified 

https://www.ign.com/articles/epic-v-apple-court-apple-sales-cut-unjustified Epic v. Apple: 

Judge Rules Apple Must Allow Developers to Direct App Users to Outside Payment  Options 

https://www.ign.com/articles/epic-v-apple-judge-rules-apple-must-allow-developers-outsidepayment-options 

Star Citizen Needs To Make It Clearer That Its Concept Ships Don't Exist Yet, Advertising Watchdog 

Warns https://www.ign.com/articles/star-citizen-concept-ships-advertising-watchdog 

DEALS OF THE WEEK 

Playstation Showcase 2021: What we learned 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-58513874 

GTA V’s first PS5 trailer has divided opinion among fans 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/gta-vs-first-ps5-trailer-has-divided-opinion-amongfans/ 

People Don't Want to Hear About Grand Theft Auto 5 Anymore 

https://www.ign.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-5-playstation-5-reveal-backlash 

God of War: Ragnarok Has a New Director, Cory Barlog Working on Unannounced Projects 

https://www.ign.com/articles/god-of-war-ragnarok-new-director-cory-barlog-unannouncedprojects 

Platinum says it’s ‘proud’ of Bayonetta 3 and ‘wants to show it’ 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/platinum-says-its-proud-of-bayonetta-3-andwants-to-show-it/ 

AD BREAK 

Tobey Maguire Spiderman 4 tie in 

https://thedirect.com/article/spider-man-4-tobey-maguire-movie-tie-in-gameplay-leaks

Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2 casts the Candyman as Venom 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/insomniacs-spider-man-2-casts-the-candyman-asvenom/

The Major has left Callum to cause trouble again on the Podcast, he is not joined alone, he has the almighty Shinobi to help out!

Coming on this week’s episode, Overwatch 1 is overwatch 2, youtube steals twitch streamer, chip shortages and more! Welcome to Episode 28 of the Games Enquirer Podcast…

This is Callum and I am joined by the legendary, Shinobi! No More Major, I took over, and finally having another shot at the podcast!

YouTube signs Dr Lupo from twitch - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58396812

Overwatch Season 5 will use an early build of overwatch 2 - https://kotaku.com/overwatch-league-season-5-will-use-an-early-build-of-1847615738

New pokemon Anime trailer, there series is pretty serious - https://www.polygon.com/22653864/pokemon-anime-evolutions-25th-anniversary-streaming-youtube

AMD files teleportation patent using super computers - https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-teleportation-quantum-computing-multi-simd-patent/

AMD faces meltdown like threat, was mitigated but CPUS still vulnerable - https://www.pcgamer.com/despite-amd-cpu-patch-researchers-highlight-more-exploits-could-be-incoming/

Toshiba Claims Chip shortage - https://www.pocket-lint.com/gadgets/news/toshiba/158235-chip-shortage-to-continue-well-into-2022-claims-toshiba

Nvidia Supply about to drop by 30% https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-gpu-supply-drop-rumour/

OLED HDR about to get much brighter! - https://www.pcgamer.com/vesa-adds-a-brighter-hdr-level-for-oled-and-future-microled-displays/

Gameboy and Gameboy Colour games headed to switch online - https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-09-03-game-boy-and-game-boy-color-titles-headed-to-nintendo-switch-online

Retailers pull switch lite after retailer glitch allows customers to buy them for free - https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/retailer-pulls-switch-lite-after-an-error-allowed-customers-to-buy-it-for-free/

Microsoft tests android app support on Xbox consoles - https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-09-03-microsoft-appears-to-be-testing-android-app-support-on-xbox

Playstation Showcase 2021 next Thursday - https://blog.playstation.com/2021/09/02/youre-invited-playstation-showcase-2021-broadcast-next-thursday/

The Major and Callum discusses all the gaming news from this past week, including;

CoD Vanguard alpha trick reportedly shows Activision pulled its logo  (as we suspected a week ago), Activision Blizzard shredding evidence, Dr  Disrespect suing Twitch, Halo Infinite console preorders open,  September 2021 Xbox Games with Gold announced, Season 5 of Cobra Kai  Announced, Viewfinder wins Europlay award, Saints Row reboot divides  fans, Martin Luther King in Fortnite is controversial, everything you  need to know about Elden Ring and more

CoD Vanguard alpha trick reportedly shows Activision pulled its logo

California has accused Activision Blizzard of shredding documents and ‘interfering’ with its investigation

www.videogameschronicle.com%2Fnews%2Fcalifornia-has-accused-activision-blizzard-ofshredding-documents-and-interfering-with-investigation%2F

Dr Disrespect says he’s suing Twitch after being banned from the platform

EA exec says toxic environments are inevitable inside large publishers ‘but you have to take action’

Report alleges auction and grading ‘fraud’ is behind recent surge in retro game prices

Callum Deals of the Week

The Halo Xbox Series X is already sold out and being listed on eBay for $1,000+

https://www.gamesenquirer.com/post/awesome-limited-edition-halo-infinite-xbox-series-x-and-elite-wireless-controller-series-2

Halo Infinite’s release date has finally officially been confirmed

September 2021’s Xbox Live Games with Gold titles have been announced

Netflix Renews Cobra Kai Early for Season 5 (First series ever)

and more...