This week, Phill and Nick review Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The film, not the game.
Other news includes a delay to Breath of the Wild 2, plus we discuss this year’s Oscars controversy (not that one, a different one) and more cyberattacks.
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Show Outline and Time Stamps:
Intro 0:00:38
TV/Film news 0:06:09
- Oscars 2022 discussion - animation comments
- Oscars winners discussion
- Troy Kotsur, first deaf Oscar winner, also helped on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett on Tusken Raider signs and culture
- Kenobi will release later with 2 episodes
- Moon Knight has started
- Even more casting for Oppenheimer
- Bruce Willis has announced his retirement from acting due to aphasia - one of the greats, he will be missed
- Jim Carrey reportedly looking to retire from acting
- Viral marketing website for The Batman features deleted scene between Batman and the Joker
- Full trailer released for “Men” by Alex Garland
- Morbius has had a lesser than anticipated launch in cinemas (spoilers in this discussion point - skip to 0:34:51 to avoid)
- Fallout TV show has new lead in Ella Purnell, opposite Walton Goggins
- Phill and Nick talk about Arrested Development season 4
Gaming news 0:38:47
- Elden Ring has sold over 12 million copies
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land has had the biggest launch of a Kirby game in the UK ever
- Nintendo planning a music concert to celebrate 30th anniversary of Kirby
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe released its first DLC courses
- The sequel to Zelda Breath of the Wild has been delayed to Spring 2023
- The Suicide Squad game has been delayed to Spring 2023
- Epic and Xbox are donating all proceeds from Fortnite to Ukraine relief
- EA has launched 2 new partnerships for STEM-based learning in schools
- Xbox are launching a women’s mentorship programme
- Updates on a lot of ongoing gaming court cases
- Epic facing yet another new lawsuit over Fortnite dance emotes
- Both Microsoft and Ubisoft have been victims to cyberattacks recently
- E3 has been cancelled this year all together
- EA have also cancelled their EA Play Live event for 2022
- Cyberpunk 2022 is getting fresh updates
- CD Projekt Red also announces a new Witcher game in development on Unreal Engine 5
- The director of the new Witcher: there’ll be no crunch “on his watch”
- The original Angry Birds has made a return to mobile
- BioShock Infinite is mysteriously getting updates nine years after its release
- Microsoft reportedly set to launch Game Pass family plan
- Super Nintendo World coming to Universal Studios Hollywood in 2023
- LEGO Super Mario: Princess Peach sets coming this summer
- Weird Product of the Week 1: Official furry Sonic Xbox controllers
https://www.destructoid.com/these-official-furry-sonic-xbox-controllers-will-get-gross-real-quick/
- Weird Product of the Week 2: CD Projekt Red to release an official Witcher Cookbook
https://www.destructoid.com/official-the-witcher-cookbook-cd-projekt-red-gets-our-mouths-watering/
Discussion: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) 1:03:47
Phill and Nick dissect the launch pad for the first video game cinematic universe as they talk about Sonic the Hedgehog 2. (Spoilers from 1:22:36).
Outro 1:41:54
