This week I've been playing  New World a new MMO coming from Amazon Games Studios. I've always been checking out Marvel's Avengers and another new release called Spellbreak, which is a Mage Battle Royale. I was also very lucky to sit down with Henrik Kniberg from Mojang Studios, developers behind Minecraft and we spoke about a range of topics like prototyping and the value of audience feedback.

00:00 Introduction

3:53 New World Preview

12:00 Marvel's Avengers Campaign

22:41 Interview with Henrik Kniberg 

1:03:27 Spellbreak

1:09:34 Charts

1:10:27 Coming soon

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It's 9th September 2020, so let's get into the news.

Xbox Series X price, date and preorders confirmed

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-09-09-xbox-series-x-costs-gbp449-in-the-uk

Xbox Series S price and date confirmed by MS

https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/8/21426993/xbox-series-s-price-confirmed-microsoft-leak

EA Play to come to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/09/09/xbox-game-pass-subscribers-will-get-ea-play-for-no-extra-cost

AC Valhalla launch date brought forward

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-09-09-assassins-creed-valhalla-release-date-brought-forward

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is a Breath of the Wild Prequel

https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/09/08/hyrule-warriors-age-of-calamity-is-the-prequel-to-zelda-breath-of-the-wild

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Nintendo dropped their Mario 35th Anniversary Nintendo Direct today officially announcing loads of Mario news including Super Mario 3D Allstars containing Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy coming to Nintendo Switch. Plus new Game & Watch, Mario 35, Super Mario Allstars on SNES Switch Library and more!

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This week I've been playing  Mortal Shell, a new souls-like from developer Cold Symmetry. It's also Gamecom 2020 this weekend and I had the chance to sit down with Dagmar from developer Like Charlie to talk about their upcoming game Ghost on the Shore, I'll bring you that interview plus first impressions of the game later on.

Ghost on the Shore Steam page - wishlist and try the demo 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1211930/Ghost_on_the_Shore/

Like Charlie

https://twitter.com/LCharlieGames

https://www.likecharlie.com/ghost-on-the-shore

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It's 28th August 2020, so let's get into the news.

Fall Guys Season 2

https://www.gameinformer.com/gamescom-2020/2020/08/27/fall-guys-goes-medieval-for-season-2

Twelve Minutes

https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/27/21404533/twelve-minutes-trailer-voice-cast-pc-xbox-one-series-x

Teardown

https://www.gameinformer.com/gamescom-2020/2020/08/27/smash-through-walls-in-style-with-teardown

Spellbreak

https://www.pcgamer.com/free-to-play-battlemage-royale-spellbreak-launches-on-september-3/

World of Warcraft Shadowlands

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-27-world-of-warcrafts-shadowlands-expansion-get-an-october-release-date

Fortnite Season 4

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-27-fortnites-marvel-season-is-live-with-iron-man-and-dr-doom-playable

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It's 25th August 2020, so let's get into the news.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League debuts at DC Fandome

https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/08/22/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-debuts-in-stunning-trailer

The next Batman game is Gotham Knights and Batman's dead

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-next-batman-game-is-gotham-knights-and-batmans-dead/

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War leaks

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-25-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-leak-reveals-its-a-direct-sequel-to-black-ops-1

Yakuza Like a Dragon release date

https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/24/21398946/yakuza-like-a-dragon-november-13-release-date

EA adds achievements on Steam

https://www.pcgamer.com/electronic-arts-adds-more-than-1000-achievements-to-its-games-on-steam/

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This is a special news roundup focusing in on the Epic VS Apple issues. Project xCloud isn't going to be on iOS, then Epic adds their own payment system into Fortnite, bypassing Apple and Google's 30% cut. The big tech companies respond by pulling Fortnite from their App stores, leading to legal battles with Apple threatening to remove Epic's Dev Tools. What will happen next?

Apple blocks project xCloud on iOS

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-07-apple-blocks-project-xcloud-on-ios

Epic Adds direct payment to Fortnite & updates

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-13-fortnite-adds-cheaper-mobile-payment-option-to-circumvent-apple-google-fees

Fortnite pulled from iOS

https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/08/13/fortnite-pulled-from-ios-app-store-as-epic-games-and-apple-feud

Epic sues google too!

https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-has-been-kicked-off-the-google-play-store-too/

Fortnite still playable on mobile devices for now

https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/13/21367951/how-to-download-fortnite-ios-app-store-apple

Apple threatens to revoke mac developer tools

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-seeks-restraining-order-against-apples-devastating-response-to-lawsuit/

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This week I've been playing Fall Guys, a new party battle royale from Mediatonic and Devolver Digital. I was also very lucky to talk to Alex and Tom from Polygon Treehouse about their beautiful new adventure game called Roki, and I follow that up with a review of the game.

Roki on Steam 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067540/Rki/

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https://twitter.com/PolyTreehouse

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It's 10th August 2020, so let's get into the news.  

Suicide Squad is Rocksteady's next game  

Xbox Series S name leak  

Yoshinori Ono quits Capcom

Fall Guys success  

Dr Disrepect is back on youtube!  

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It's 5th August 2020, so let's get into the news.

Treyarch & Raven making Call of Duty 2020

https://www.pcgamer.com/activsion-confirms-that-treyarch-and-raven-are-making-the-new-call-of-duty/

Call of Duty: Warzone Season 5 details

https://www.gameinformer.com/index.php/2020/08/04/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-season-5-content-details

Spiderman coming to Marvel's Avengers as PS Exclusive

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-08-03-spider-man-is-coming-to-marvels-avengers-but-as-a-playstation-exclusive

Pikmin 3 coming to Switch

https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/5/21355498/pikmin-3-deluxe-nintendo-switch-release-date-price

Smash Brothers update includes Small Battlefield

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-drops-free-smash-bros-update-includes-small-battlefield

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