UDP Broadcast

This week we talk about the Activision lawsuit with implications that it promotes guns purchases. Nintendo Released Paper Mario 1000 year door with the one US change rolled back to JP regarding a trans character. Helldivers 2 live service honeymoon was great but now it is over and major orders are not being completed. Atari buys Intellivision. Tarkov is giving 50 dollar credit for Tarkov. Tesla has removed Steam from their vehicles. Bungie fighting the good fight against cheats developers. ICQ is being shut down. Our favorite Shiba Inu passes away - RIP Kabosu...

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:00 Activision Lawsuit

00:16:44 Woke-tendo

00:28:58 Helldivers 2 Numbers Problem

00:30:11 WB Takedowns and Space Ghost

00:37:09 Atari buys Intellivision

00:38:32 Fiddy Dollah Credit

00:40:09 No Steam in your Tesla

00:41:04 Bungie V Cheaters

00:41:34 ICQ is ICGone

00:43:39 Meme Kabosu Passes Away

00:46:56 Round Table

This week we talk about the change in leadership of Pokerogue project and Discord Bans. A legendary story of Dreamskiy I Am Frend. It was mentioned in the news that Danny DeVito may take on the role of Wario. There are discrepancies with Take2 and shutting down the developer studio responsible for Kerbal Space Program 2. We bring up an indie developer's decision to rename their game to better reflect what it is being reviewed as with Bulwark Falconeer Chronicles. Halo Composer, Marty O'Donnel, looks to run for congress. It was an impressive week with some real brain tinglers and aneurism triggers. Enjoy Episode 66!

00:00 Introduction

02:20 Pokerogue Project Leadership

13:31 I am Frend

24:38 Wario DeVito

30:25 Take2 Studio Shutdown KSP2

33:55 Prison Architect 2

39:09 Bulwark Falconeer Chronicles

41:47 Halo Composer for Congress

44:53 Preshow Vods

46:03 Roundtable

00:03:59 Cajun and the Met Gala

00:31:09 EA with the ADs

00:40:27 Battlefield Next Live Service

00:41:21 Helldivers 2 PSN updates

00:48:40 Steam Vietnam

00:52:29 LInkedin and Doug Bowser

00:56:19 Mark Hamill Joker Multiversus

01:00:41 Roundtable

03:07 Helldivers 2

21:58 Kerbal Space Program 2

33:57 Candy Crush Problem

40:33 Article Titles

46:26 Round Table and Wrapup

This week we get back to business and talk about tipping culture extending to game developers, Escape from Tarkov's decision to paywall a PVE experience, A coach who tried to get their principal fired with AI, the removal of noncompete agreements, Roll 20's new discord app, and Palworld CEO's excitement about Palworld Clones. 7 Days to Die is finally coming 1.0 and Star Citizen's Whale shop becomes a topic.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:05:25 7 Days to Die Release after 12 years

00:09:06 Palworld Clone CEO Response

00:16:14 non-compete non-applicable

00:18:54 Game Developer Tipping

00:26:44 Star Citizen Secrets

00:43:10 Bans involving China Invested Companies

00:52:54 Roll 20 on Discord

00:54:32 Subversive Voice AI

00:57:56 Round Table

Apex Legends appears it has some sort of security issue as 2 pro gamers had some interesting behavior client side by a bad actor who could manipulate game servers to grant packs or drop 40 bots on you. IMEI condenses the major talking points from Pirate Software's Thor, a security specialist with 3 black badges from DEFCON and has had a role in solving other major security incidents across the government for power plant vulnerabilities and Blizzard's Red Team for bot and detour detection.

Full discussion on Pirate Software's Youtube Channel regarding the vulnerabilites, the pro gamers that were affected, and process to figure out what exactly is the source of the attack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1zxjGxpnqA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHf6dkgXfVg

Dragons Dogma 2 was released and many players are not happy that, after paying for a 70 USD title, quality of life and cosmetic DLC is offered for purchase. These range from camping kits to in game currency for Beyond the Rift. Genna Bain also had some thoughts on this as well via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/GennaBain/status/1771116998073733439

We wrap up with a quick touch on a 7 year old Call of Duty mod that was struck down by Nintendo that added Pokemon to the game.

https://kotaku.com/pokemon-company-cod-pikachu-mod-youtube-dmca-strike-1851356562

00:00 Introduction

02:43 Apex Legends as condensed by IMEI

27:36 Dragons Dogma 2 DLC WTF

44:56 Call of Duty Pikachu Edition

48:32 Round Table

This week we hit on a great list of women in the gaming industry to celebrate Womens Month - From Roberta Williams to Dorris Self.

https://www.lifewire.com/women-in-history-of-video-games-729746

Further list can be found at the Strong National Museum of Play using Bloomberg Connects.

https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/online-exhibits/

The candidates for the induction of 2023 hall of fame at the Strong National Museum of play was discussed with some good talk about our experiences with the inductees.

https://kotaku.com/video-game-hall-of-fame-2024-finalists-resident-evil-1851335716

https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/world-video-game-hall-of-fame/2023-finalists/

Since Wolfire opened suit with Valve for unfair practices, several communications have come to light - one with Tim Sweeny on the platform's cut of profits of sold games and another citing that in 2018 they made more money per employee than any of the largest tech companies.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/in-2018-a-group-of-valve-staff-tried-to-figure-out-just-how-efficient-they-were-beingand-found-they-were-making-more-money-per-head-than-apple-facebook-and-nearly-every-tech-giant-out-there/

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/tim-sweeney-emailed-gabe-newell-calling-valve-you-assholes-over-steam-policies-to-which-valves-coo-simply-replied-you-mad-bro/

We Wrap up on the hinted D&D open world survival game being developed by the developers who made Dreamlight Valley.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/the-next-big-dandd-videogame-is-a-survival-life-sim-from-the-makers-of-disney-dreamlight-valley/

This week, we talk about a Woman indie developer by the name Renee and thier game that was just released on steam called Potions: A Curious Tale. You can find her devlog at https://www.tiktok.com/@rikukat Go check out their new indie game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/378690/Potions_A_Curious_Tale/

We also talk about the largest QA workers union formed for video games in the US at 600 Activision QA workers.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/600-activision-qa-workers-just-formed-the-biggest-videogame-union-in-the-us/

Users have hit 1 million science per minutes in Factorio using a mod called Clusterio to pool work across several instances of the program (over 160 copies of the game)

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/factorio-world-record-server-god-factory/

And there is a reason companies have people to stand in front of the audience to deliver messages - Helldivers devs found out the hardway that though it may be funny, it can be seen as gaslighting your playerbase giving flippant remarks.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-boss-apologizes-for-horrible-dev-comments-says-arrowhead-has-taken-action-internally-to-educate-our-developers/

The UDP Broadcast podcast is hosted LIVE! WEEKLY on Twitch at 10:30pm Central US on Saturday where we - IMEI, Reina the Critchicken, The Nordic Cajun and LuminariWeekly - get together and offer both informed and uninformed opinions on gaming related topics. We are widely available across most podcasting platforms with a home on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4PuQBgiPnqm4Ag1qp7iu6T?si=10fe6cd1ee244fe7

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00:00 Introduction

02:31 Womens Month - Rikukat

18:27 One Million Science Per Minute - Factorio

28:20 Largest Video Game Union - Activision

33:04 Helldivers 2 Devs Backfire

50:02 Round Table

This week, we talk about Botting in runescape and how their new big money owners are ok because the accounts are paid for but Players are no and the devs had banned 7million accounts in the last year.

Runescape was banned because Twitter thought the account was made by an 8 year old.

Temtem ceo walks back that it is not an MMO and you cannot continue to create content forever.

Nintendo is going after Yuzu for lost revenue from Tears of the Kingdom due to circumvention of Nintendo's antipiracy measures.

A study in Norway shows that kids are bullied for not having paid items in free to play games.

What does Link and Gannondorf smell like? WIth GameScent you can find out!

Runescape Players Revolt

https://www.pcgamer.com/old-school-runescape-players-revolt-after-new-big-money-owners-say-bots-are-fine-actually-devs-furiously-walk-it-back-and-say-they-banned-7-million-bots-last-year/

Runescape Twitter Ban

https://www.pcgamer.com/runescapes-official-twitter-account-unbanned-after-proving-that-no-the-game-wasnt-secretly-an-8-year-old-child/

Anthem was a warning

https://kotaku.com/anthem-bioware-5-years-later-1851294156

Nintendo/Yuzu

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-suing-creators-of-switch-emulator-says-tears-of-the-kingdom-was-pirated-1-million-times-pre-launch/1100-6521417/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

update

https://www.eurogamer.net/switch-emulator-yuzu-responds-to-nintendos-lawsuit?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

Bullied Kids norway study

https://kotaku.com/study-fortnite-free-to-play-games-kids-bullied-f2p-1851291618

Smell your videos with GameScent

https://kotaku.com/gamescent-ai-smellovision-console-pc-gunfire-rain-smoke-1851290120

TemTem is not a MMO

https://www.pcgamer.com/fans-of-pokemon-inspired-mmo-temtem-are-arguing-with-the-developer-about-what-mmo-means-after-crema-ceo-says-its-not-feasible-to-keep-adding-content-forever/