UDP Broadcast

This episode we talk about the recent ChatGPT lookalike chrome store extension that is hijacking your Facebook account to promote more consumption of said extension.

We touch on Tax Simulator 3000 and the implicaitons of a Game that does your taxes.

Finally we hit home with family - the best source of gaming experiences - with a story about Lumi's disabled brother and the shenanigans that are happening.

This episode was a bit more freeform. We sprinboarded of into AI everything with Genna Bain's tweet to remove all of her late husband's, TotalBiscuit, content from the youtube platform as a starting point. Genna is not removing the content in an update tweet.

Then we tackle Symbiogenisis by Square Enix and the NFT @#$!ery that it is and begin the conversation of NFTs-- again.

There was a small stint talking about console exclusives that did not really take place. Instead we just talked about other things.

Enjoy!

This week on the UDP Broadcast, there has been an outbreak of terminations and misconduct between EA releasing 200 QA testers for Apex Legends from their Baton Rouge, LA studios, Nordic Games breaking the Sweedish Discrimination Act with investigateive help from Gender balance to investigate 2 men, and Activision blizard - AGAIN - for firing 2 QA workers for using strong language while in a group of peers when presented with the news that they would have to return to the office. 

We had no IDEA that JRPG was taken as a compartamentalized western concept for games coming from Japan.   @SkillUp  after going to Square Enix HQ in Japan and interviewing Naoki Yoshida - Yoshi-P - as a derragatory statement near the beginning of home console video game history. For as the positive connotation is now, we explorethe effect of what we did not know about using JRPG to descripe Japaneese RPGs 

Finaly we talk about  @videogamedunkey  and his publishing company BigMode as they were interviewed by Gameindustry.biz.  WE LOVE YOU DUNKEY!

Terminations

Nordic Game Report - Sweedish Discrimination Act

Sources:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/investigation-finds-nordic-game-likely-violated-discrimination-law

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/nordic-game-report-reveals-possible-violations-of-swedish-discrimination-act

https://nordicgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Summary_of_Gender_Balance_report_on_Nordic_Game.pdf

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/nordic-game-organizers-launch-whistle-blower-system-after-harassment-investigation

EA Layos off 200 Apex Legends QA staff

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/report-ea-fires-200-apex-legends-qa-testers

https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/03/01/ea-reportedly-lays-off-more-than-200-apex-legends-qa-testers-over-zoom

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/over-200-apex-legends-qa-testers-have-been-abruptly-laid-off-by-ea

https://www.eurogamer.net/ea-reportedly-lays-off-200-apex-legends-qa-testers

https://gamerant.com/apex-legends-ea-layoffs-2023/

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ea-lays-off-over-100-qa-workers-from-baton-rouge-office

CWA ABK Fired 2 QA testers

https://www.eurogamer.net/union-sues-activision-claims-it-unlawfully-fired-two-qa-testers

https://kotaku.com/activision-accused-of-illegally-fired-qa-testers-over-r-1850171073

Labels

--Yoshi-P Final Fantasy -- Skill Up YT video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZTNoV2Iey0

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/final-fantasy-xvi-producer-doesnt-like-the-term-jrpg/1100-6511939/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-face-of-final-fantasy-doesnt-like-the-term-jrpg-once-considered-it-discriminatory

https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-producer-naoki-yoshida-sparks-debate-the-term-jrpg-as-discriminatory

https://kotaku.com/ff16-yoshi-p-jrpg-square-enix-yoshida-previews-ps5-1850169822

Frogs

Bigmode - 

sources

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/bigmodes-journey-from-youtubers-to-publishers

Segments

0:00 Intro and Titles 

1:50 Important Announcement - trevorproject.org 

5:44 Termination -EA, ABK, Nordic Games 

41:30 Labels Yoshi-P and JRPG 

55:30 Frogs BigMode and Video Game Dunkey 

1:05:00 Roundtable

This week we are accompanied by BombRedeemer, Nito the Kitty and Will the Alright in discussing the 

controversy surrounding Atomic Heart, its developers ties to Putin lead russian orginizations, similiarities 

of Ukranian figureheads in government, and their inadequite renoucement of Putins regime. 

Sources

- Call for removal

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ukraine-seeks-to-remove-atomic-heart-from-game-stores

https://kotaku.com/atomic-heart-russia-ukraine-controversy-bioshock-fallou-1850151838

https://www.pcgamer.com/ukraine-wants-valve-microsoft-and-sony-to-stop-selling-atomic-heart-in-the-country/

https://www.eurogamer.net/ukraines-government-wants-to-ban-atomic-heart-from-countrys-digital-stores

https://twitter.com/vicesam/status/1628292481342222336?s=20

https://gamerant.com/atomic-heart-ban-why-ukraine/

- Racist cartoon

https://www.pcgamer.com/atomic-heart-criticised-for-racist-caricature-in-one-of-its-soviet-era-cartoons/

https://gamerant.com/atomic-heart-racist-cartoon/

https://www.dualshockers.com/atomic-heart-devs-apologise-racist-caricature/

https://gamerant.com/atomic-heart-mundfish-apologizes-offensive-cartoon/

We move on to Valve banning 40,000 user accounts by creating a "Honeypot" in the client code that 

your average user would not access but third party cheat clients would.

Sources

https://www.polygon.com/23610095/valve-dota-2-huge-ban-trap

https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-lured-40000-dota-cheaters-into-a-trap-before-banning-them-in-one-day/

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/valve-uses-honeypot-to-catch-and-permanently-ban-40-000-cheaters-in-dota

Then we finish off with talks of Hogwarts Legacy Purchase Simulator and the implications and

risks of downloading pirated and cracked copies of the game. 

Sources

https://gamerant.com/hogwarts-legacy-download-play-free-malware-scams/

https://gamerant.com/hogwarts-legacy-purchase-simulator-satrie-game/

Chapters:

0:00 Intro and Topics

2:23 Atomic Heart et all

25:45 Valve Bans 40K accounts DotA2

44:37 Hogwarts Legacy Purchase Simulator and Piracy

51:45 Round Table

1:04:47 Nito Reviews Cocaine Bear

1:08:10 Round Table - The Continuinening

This week, we talk about the drop in player base for Multiversus and our experience wednesday playing Brawlhalla.

Source:

https://kotaku.com/multiversus-steam-pc-pickle-rick-morty-player-count-1850120234

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/multiversus-daily-peak-steam-player-count-has-dropped-more-than-99-since-launch/

We turn to Mick Gordon who donated his fee for scoring Atomic Heart's soundrack to humanitarian efforts in ukraine via the Australian Red Cross. 

Source:

https://www.pcgamer.com/mick-gordon-is-donating-his-fee-for-atomic-heart-to-humanitarian-aid-for-ukraine/

Then we tackle Cocaine bear - the movie and the web browser PacMan like game to promote the movie. Did you know Cocaine Bear 

was a REAL LIFE event in Georgia and the drugged up bear was stuffed and is held on display at the Fun Mall in Lexington Kentucky?

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Bear

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14209916/

Chapters: 0:00 Intro and Topics 

2:26 Multiversus Playerbase and Brawlhalla 

31:39 Mick Gordon Atomic Heart  Ukraine Humanitarian Aid 

45:28 Cocaine Bear stuff 

52:24 Round Table and Close

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

This week we talk about a lot of intolerance and backlash from the amazing show, The Last of Us on HBO, for Episode.  In the same vein, we hit on the new update for The Sims 4 with the inclusive update.  

We briefly touch on the SEC filing where Blizzard was fined. 

We also talk about Among Us and the violation of a Geneva Convention. Team Meat had a similar experience.  

Sources:

https://www.pcgamer.com/sims-4-trans-inclusive-update-faces-culture-war-backlash-in-record-time/

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/activision-blizzard-agrees-to-35m-settlement-with-sec-following-investigation

https://gamerant.com/last-us-episode-3-review-bomb-why/

https://kotaku.com/the-last-of-us-hbo-bill-frank-imdb-1850066300

Chapters:

0:00 Intro and Topics

3:33 Backlash - Last of Us

45:55 Failures -SEC- Activision Blizzard

49:28 Geneva Conventions - AmongUs

1:00:55 Wrap up and Round Table

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

This week we talk about the Riot Source Code leak for League of legends, Team Fight Tactics, and some legacy anticheat software from their build environment.  

Sources:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/league-of-legends-source-code-is-being-held-to-ransom-but-riot-arent-paying

https://mobile.twitter.com/riotgames/status/1616548651823935488

https://www.pcgamer.com/riot-says-it-wont-pay-ransom-after-league-of-legends-source-code-stolen-by-hackers/

https://gamerant.com/riot-refuses-ransom-stolen-league-of-legends-source-code/

We talk about some of the events from the California Genisis 9 competition from entitlement displays from Riddles when losing to Leon. There was also a story of near kidnapping from a taxi scam of Frenzy.

Sources

https://kotaku.com/super-smash-bros-ultimate-kazuya-chrom-riddles-genesis-1850020737

https://kotaku.com/super-smash-bros-melee-frenzy-genesis-9-illegal-taxi-1850040729

Proletariat has pulled out of unionizing for now due to percieved meddling by the CEO Seth Sivak by using confrontational tactics to demoralize their employees from unionizing.  ABK addresses the pullout from forming a union in an update from gameindustry.biz.

Sources:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/proletariat-unionization-vote-request-dropped

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/proletariat-claims-cwa-s-adversarial-tactics-led-to-union-withdrawal

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/proletariat-withdraws-election-for-unionization-cite-ceo-as-cause

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/proletariat-exits-unionization-process-following-demoralization-tactics-from-activision-blizzard/1100-6510821/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

https://www.polygon.com/23541125/proletariat-activision-blizzard-union-vote-withdrawn

And a story where being a gamer and being in the union can keep you from losing your job when you are accused of "playing video games" on the job.

Sources:

https://kotaku.com/twitter-union-pc-gaming-graphics-card-video-games-1850035025

Chapters:

0:00 Intro and topics

3:16 Riot Source Code

15:00 Genisis 9 Events: Entitlement and Kidnapping attempt

36:40 Proletariat Unionization

54:30 Union story from Twitter saving someone's job by being a gamer

1:00:15 Round Table and Outro

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

This week we talk about NetEase Blizzard conflicts, probably one of the most lucrative deal in gaming history to bring games to China, breaking down into destruction of property. 

The EU passing regulation on the gaming industry and a call for better and informative upfront documentation by improving PEGI, calling for more consideration for mental health due to Video Game Addiction, and more investigation into gold farmers involvment in human rights abuse and financial crimes.

We also talk about the class action lawsuit against Blizzard for some bait and switch shenanigans with the Blessing of the Worthy gem - packed into bundles worth up to $10 USD.  

 @WarbringerJalen  Joins us halfway through the stream! 

https://twitch.tv/warbringerjalen

Sources

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/european-parliament-votes-to-take-action-against-loot-boxes-gaming-addiction-gold-farming-and-more

https://gamerant.com/netease-livestreams-destruction-chinese-blizzard-offices/

https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-is-blaming-netease-for-its-games-going-offline-in-china-next-week/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/blizzard-says-chinas-netease-rejects-proposal-extend-partnership-six-months-2023-01-17/

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/lawfirm-considers-false-advertising-suit-over-diablo-immortal

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/law-firm-investigating-diablo-immortal-for-false-advertising/1100-6510668/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

https://www.polygon.com/23560629/diablo-immortal-lawsuit-class-action-blessing-of-the-worthy-gem

Chapters

0:00 Intro and Topics

2:04 EU Gaming Regulation - Loot Boxes

13:55 CritChicken Tencent Layoffs and WoW Clone

25:32 Blizzard NetEase Breakdown - Orc

26:50 Enter Warbringer Jalen - Poptart Lion

33:50 Diablo Immortal Class Action Lawsuit

46:27 Round Table and Wrap up

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

This week on Episode 19, we tackle the FTC lawsuit with NVIDIA and Google joining sony to stop acquisition of Activision Blizzard King (ABK) and the impacts of such acquision. 

Justin Roiland, co-creator of Rick and Morty and head of High on Life's studio Squanch Games, is in hot water for domestic abuse charges from an anonymous Jane Doe. We also touch on issues at Squanch Games from a previous story where a worker found themselves harassed and retaliated against by management.

We then turn to  @imeigaming  and  @thenordiccajun2494  who talk about the state of Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast (WotC) events with the OGL 1.1 and the community not having any of it.  It was a great conversation to witness!

Join us next week for Episode 20

Full Podcast: 

Podcast Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUXjvzDRTCW4ZmQRJjpthYibc3QCVDff

--Lawsuits --

Sources:

https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-and-google-come-out-against-microsofts-activision-blizzard-buyout/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-12/google-nvidia-express-concerns-to-ftc-about-microsoft-s-activision-deal

--Sentences--

Sources:

https://www.eurogamer.net/rick-and-morty-high-on-life-creator-justin-roiland-charged-with-domestic-violence

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/justin-roiland-rick-morty-allegations-domestic-violence-charges-rcna65403

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/high-on-life-and-rick-and-morty-creator-justin-roiland-charged-with-domestic-violence

https://www.pcgamer.com/high-on-life-rick-and-morty-creator-justin-roiland-charged-with-felony-domestic-violence-and-false-imprisonment/

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/rick-morty-co-creator-justin-roiland-charged-with-felony-domestic-violence

https://www.polygon.com/23553876/justin-roiland-domestic-violence-charge-arrest-rick-and-morty-high-on-life

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/justin-roiland-facing-domestic-violence-charges

Previous allegations involving studio but not Roiland Specifically:

https://kotaku.com/high-life-justin-roiland-squanch-sexual-harassment-xbox-1849986831

The UDP Broadcast is made up of 4 gamers with a focus in gaming, game industy, game theorycrafting, game news, and games politics. We hope you have as much fun listening as we do talking about it. 

Chapters 

0:00 Intro and Topics 

1:52 Lawsuits - Google Nvidia Sony FTC 20:07 Sentences - Justin Roiland Squanch Games 

31:16 CritChicken's Grand Roleplaying Adventure 

38:00 Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons and Dragons OGL 1.1  

1:16:00 Wrap-up and Round table

This week, we talk about the OGL changes for Wizards Dungeons and Dragons, A blind streamer, SightlessKombat streamer who is currently playing God of War Ragnarok with its award winning accessibility features, and the funniest hiest of Zulily right out of Office Space.

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

Sources:

Dungeons and Dragons OGL:

https://gamerant.com/dungeons-dragons-fans-not-happy-ogl-change-wizards-of-the-coast/

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1410-ogls-srds-one-d-d

SightlessKombat God of War Ragnarok accessability features

https://www.dualshockers.com/god-of-war-ragnarok-played-by-blind-person/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/zw7at8/god_of_war_ragnarok_how_a_man_who_is_legally/

Zulily Office Space Heist

https://kotaku.com/office-space-gamestop-meme-stock-crime-theft-1849953405

https://gamerant.com/gamestop-stock-investment-lost-everything-office-space/

https://www.dualshockers.com/god-of-war-ragnarok-played-by-blind-person/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/zw7at8/god_of_war_ragnarok_how_a_man_who_is_legally/

Full Podcast: 

Podcast Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUXjvzDRTCW4ZmQRJjpthYibc3QCVDff

The UDP Broadcast is made up of 4 gamers with a focus in gaming, game industy, game theorycrafting, game news, and games politics. We hope you have as much fun listening as we do talking about it. 

Watch us LIVE on https://Twitch.tv/luminariweekly Saturdays at 22:30 UTC -5 

Anchor.FM: https://anchor.fm/udpbroadcast

--ALL opinions in our casts are our own and not representative of the organizations that employ us.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro and Topics

0:47 Wizards D&D OGL

31:50 SightlessKombat God of War Ragnarok Accessability features

43:45 The Great Office Space Heist of Zulily

53:11 Round Table, Outro, raid