It is Mother's Day Weekend and we had a lot to talk about since we missed the prior week.

Between Pokemon Beatings and Zelda Peens... it was a good conversation!

This week we hit up on the Bamboozled festival shenanigans-

The Pinkertons and a youtuber, OldskoolMTG, who had a visit because they were in posession of an unreleased Magic The Gathering Card packs.

Metacritic addressing the review bombing at the user protest of Horizon Zero Dawn: Forbidden West's DLC for having 2 females kissing. We throw in some blizz-nanigans. All in all it was a tangental good time!

Welcome to the #udpbroadcast where we offer both informed and uninformed opinions.

This week we touch on Twitter inc going xcorp along with Musk deciding it is going to sue Microsoft for ceasing usage of the twitter API for XBox consoles content sharing by its users.

We also touch on Redfall 's release at 30fps and later allowing 60fps as a trend of patch culture in today's gaming.

Blizzard is denying crisis maps for rapidly dwindling resources and how to cope with loss of tallent.

Finally, IMEI talks about Postal 2.

Somewhere in there, we also talk about child labor laws towards the end.

Sit back and enjoy the show.

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Leaks leaks and more #leaks . Normally I would not suggest a topic but between Warthunder and now some national guard airman in IT leaking HIGHLY #classified US intelligence documents to their buddies on #discord, it couldnt be ignored.

The implications of this reach into regulation and there is no telling what will be implemented to keep the gamers under control.

BEHOLD the stupidity of flexing clerance and making a literal global mistake.

Vid clip from twitter linked here: https://twitter.com/NCarolinaKellie/status/1646666129597775873?s=20

In this episode of #udpbroadcast we talk about the insane stunt Monster Energy is pulling with the litigation issued to developers and other creators for including Monster in the name - Even Pokemon which predates Monster Energy.

We move on to Nintendo putting content ID claims on most of a Youtuber's videos because of a Multiplayer mod for Zelda Breath of the Wild.

We finish off with a talk about the voice actress for Ada Wong in Resident Evil 4 remake.

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This week on #udpbroadcast, we discuss the complete and utter dismissal and cancellation of E3. The utter decimation of DeSantis trying to take over Disney World's mini city by the Imagineers of Law for the Mouse. And finally we talk about Multiversus and our thoughts on the beta closing for 6months to a year.

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