The Jampack Report: Gaming News Podcast

With the reveal of Mortal Kombat 1, 2023 is now slated to have a Tekken 8, Street Fighter 6, and Mortal Kombat, all in a single year. That's an incredible lineup of massive fighting games unlike anything we've seen in years. The summer gaming news season has officially started!

04:28 - Mortal Kombat 1 DLC Characters Leaked

05:57 - PlayStation games won't release on PC and PS5 simultaneously

09:59 - PlayStation Showcase coming May 24

12:59 - Halo Infinite Season 4 details shared

18:29 - Microsoft Activision-Blizzard acquisition approved by EU, China

20:46 - Microsoft brings major first-party games to Nvidia GeForce NOW

23:27 - Stray could be coming to Xbox

25:13 - New Game Pass Games

28:11 - Ghostwire: Tokyo gets a major performance patch

29:59 - 3 Super Mario GBA games come to Nintendo Switch Online

31:31 - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sells 10 million copies ib three days

33:43 - Outro

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is officially the highest-rated game ever on OpenCritic, passing Red Dead Redemption 2, Elden Ring, and even its predecessor Breath of the Wild. Nintendo had a fantastic week, but now rumors are circulating that the new Nintendo console might be here sooner than we think.

01:07 - Tears of the Kingdom Reviews Roundup and Record

02:42 - New Nintendo console may not arrive until Spring 2024 at the earliest

12:53 - Call of Duty 2023 is Modern Warfare 3 (REPORT)

17:10 - New Mortal Kombat is going to be a reboot of the franchise

20:20 - Guerrilla Games celebrates its 20th anniversary

22:52 - Xbox May update brings improvements to the platform

24:48 - Outro

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Phil Spencer's appearance on the Kinda Funny XCast this week brought a ton of quotable moments, including the head of Xbox saying that even good games won't turn the tides of the console war against PlayStation and Nintendo.

After earning glowing reviews earlier in the week, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched with some massive issues on consoles and PC. For the majority of it's launch weekend, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was sitting at Mostly Negative user reviews on Steam. Now, EA has acknowledged the issues and is getting to work on fixing players' problems.

With the CMA's decision to block Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard acquisition, the odds have never looked worse for the deal to go through. Whether ABK joins Microsoft or not, Xbox has to unify their strategy and focus on delivering more games to more players - whatever it may look like.

Between Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster and Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, Microsoft has a growing problem of games skipping their platform entirely to release on PlayStation, Nintendo, PC, and even streaming services without ever touching a Microsoft console. While it's not a huge problem now, it's an issue that Microsoft should tackle now to prepare for the future.

With more leadership changes at 343, Cliff Bleszinski teasing the return of lawbreakers, and the reveal of a magic FPS called Immortals of Aveum, there are tons of shakeups coming for the FPS genre in 2023.

Redfall is going to run at 30 FPS on Xbox consoles at launch, leaving a bad taste in players mouths after months of 60 FPS trailers and gameplay. While a 60 FPS Performance Mode is coming after launch, this marks another big miss for Xbox for what could be one of their biggest new IP in recent memory.

Joseph Staten, head of creative on Halo Infinite and cinematic director on Halo CE, Halo 2, and Halo 3, is officially leaving Microsoft. With 343's struggles with their Slipspace Engine, a lack of campaign DLC for Halo Infinite, and big shifts internally at 343, the future of Halo is looking more uncertain than ever.

A new Western Digital Xbox Expansion Card leaked early, featuring 1TB of memory and a $179.99 price tag. We're talking about this, Forza Horizon 5 Rally Adventure impressions, the lackluster Diablo IV Xbox Series X, and more on today's show!

09:04 - Diablo IV Xbox Series X bundle revealed

12:32 - Vampire Survivors DLC 2 on the way

14:13 - Redfall is one month away

15:52 - Best Game Pass game of March poll

17:27 - Outro