Viewport Relay

E3 has come and gone, none of the games have gameplay, wake me up when there's something to play... (Sung to the rhythm of Wake Me Up When September Ends)

E3 is here! Well, the press conferences are done, and the viewport team has plenty to say. Which companies hit it out of the park? Which were party poopers? Find out in this episode.

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E3 is coming. We talk about all the different conferences and what we expect from them.

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E3 is just around the corner. That doesn't mean there's nothing to talk about! Join us for a wild ride.

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Here are the articles that we talked about during the episode:

Netflix is coming to E3 2019 to make video game announcements: https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/2019/05/13/netflix-e3-2019-video-game-announcements-nx

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOn2bWuA_0w

Final Fantasy VII Will Still Release In Episodes: https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/05/10/final-fantasy-vii-will-still-release-in-episodes

Monster Hunter World's Iceborne Expansion Coming This September: https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/05/09/monster-hunter-worlds-iceborne-expansion-coming-this-september

There will soon be more PC gamers in China than the total population of the United States: https://www.pcgamer.com/China-PC-online-game-market-report-2019/

Nintendo: "The reality is that the Chinese market is almost all mobile and PC games": https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-05-08-nintendo-the-reality-is-that-the-chinese-games-market-is-almost-all-mobile-and-pc-games

Movie Theaters Find New Life as E-Sports Arenas: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/movie-theaters-find-new-life-as-e-sports-arenas-1205579

Annnnd we're back from our Japan vacation! During the first episode of Year 2, we discuss new Nintendo hardware, crunch time and of course, the Sonic trailer that just dropped.

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Here are the articles that we talked about during the episode:

Jedi: Fallen Order: https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/13/18309211/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-release-date-ps4-pc-xbox-one-story-trailer-ea-respawn

https://press-start.com.au/news/playstation/2019/04/15/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-will-have-boss-battles-and-draws-combat-inspiration-from-metroid-zelda-wind-waker/

P5S Is Persona 5 Scramble, A Warriors-Style Action Game, Not An RPG Switch Port: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/p5s-is-persona-5-scramble-a-warriors-style-action-/1100-6466463/

PS5 Hardware briefly detailed: https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/16/18399261/ps5-specs-release-date-cpu-gpu-ps4-backward-compatible

Nintendo Has No Intention To Reveal New Hardware At E3: https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/04/25/nintendo-has-no-intention-to-reveal-new-hardware-at-e3

How Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games: https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/23/18507750/fortnite-work-crunch-epic-games

PUBG Corp 2018 Revenue: $920 million 2018 Profit: $310 million: https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1119352604419608576

Here’s Your First Look At Jim Carrey As Dr. Robotnik: https://www.gameinformer.com/gamer-culture/2019/04/29/heres-your-first-look-at-jim-carrey-as-dr-robotnik

It's been one whole year since we started viewport! A huge thank you to all our readers and listeners for the support so far. We're looking forward to continuing this for the years to come!

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Here are the articles that we talked about during the episode:

Valve Index and Knuckles Pre-orders Confirmed for May 1st, Shipping in June: https://www.roadtovr.com/valve-index-vr-headset-leaked-steam-page-release-date/

Valve Index: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/valve_index

Borderlands3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAQeqtl6PQ

Todd Howard confirms that neither Elder Scrolls 6 nor Starfield will be at Bethesda's 2019 E3 conference.:https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/b71x8o/todd_howard_confirms_that_neither_elder_scrolls_6/

SEGA Announces SEGA Genesis Mini: https://twitter.com/SEGA/status/1111968820208513024

Fallout 76, DOOM Eternal, RAGE 2, and Wolfenstein: Young Blood and Cyberpilot will be coming to Steam: https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1110225138979651584

Todd Howard: Fallout 76 "Had a Lot of Difficulties During Development": https://www.usgamer.net/articles/todd-howard-fallout-76-had-a-lot-of-difficulties-during-development

April Fools Compilation: https://gematsu.com/2019/03/april-fools-day-2019-compilation

GDC is happening! Which means lots of great dev news to talk about. Come listen to us talk about the latest reveal from Google, the Stadia.

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Here are the articles that we talked about during the episode:

Google jumps into gaming with Google Stadia streaming service, coming “in 2019”: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/03/google-jumps-into-gaming-with-google-stadia-streaming-service/

Halo: The Master Chief Collection coming to PC: https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/12/18261738/halo-master-chief-collection-pc-windows-steam

Gearbox Teasing some potential E3 Announcements (Borderlands 3? Duke Nukem?): https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/03/18/gearbox-just-teased-another-game-for-pax-east-this-time-with-duke-nukem-and-bulletstorm

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/03/13/gearbox-is-teasing-a-borderlands-3-reveal-coming-very-soon/#150dbc7f2e38

Rumor: Source Claims  Modern Warfare 4 will have no specialists or BR mode: https://www.gamesradar.com/modern-warfare-4-wont-have-specialists-or-battle-royale-claim-sources/

CALL OF DUTY: MOBILE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a42gXZQ-eII

Niantic (Pokemon GO) announces new Harry Potter Mobile Game: https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/11/18259879/harry-potter-wizards-unite-game-ios-android

'Capcom is back!' - CEO proclaims following Devil May Cry 5's incredibly positive reviews: https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2019/mar/07/capcom-back-ceo-proclaims-following-devil-may-cry-5s-incredibly-positive-reviews/

Nintendo and EA strike with a ton of news this week. Welcome to the Nintendo EA Power Hour.

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Here are the articles that we talked about during the episode:

Apex Legends hits 50M player milestone within one month: https://twitter.com/PlayApex/status/1102569284666978305

EVO 2019 Lineup Announced: http://evo.shoryuken.com/

KOTOR 2 Writer finishes work for The Fallen Order: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/writer-for-kotor-2-finishes-work-on-star-wars-jedi/1100-6465318/

Pokemon Sword and Shield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3LsQYENpGg

Nintendo of Japan shares some of its labour statistics: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-reveals-how-much-its-employees-make-in-ja/1100-6465324/

Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime Retires And Games Industry Says Goodbye: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendos-reggie-fils-aime-retires-and-games-indus/1100-6465134/

Anthem Is Causing Full System Level Crashes Leading To People Asking For Refund: https://twistedvoxel.com/anthem-full-system-level-crashes-refund/

Anthem Doesn't Have an Excuse for Repeating the Mistakes Destiny Made Five Years Ago: https://www.usgamer.net/articles/anthem-doesnt-have-an-excuse-for-repeating-the-mistakes-destiny-made-five-years-ago

Anthem Players Say The Game Is Shutting Down And Even Sometimes Bricking Their PS4s: https://kotaku.com/anthem-players-say-the-game-is-shutting-down-and-even-s-1833039161

The Vita is finally dying. Rest in peace. Other than that, it's been a pretty quiet week!

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Here are the articles that we talked about during the episode:

Nintendo Direct: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-direct-announcements-switch-news-and-game/1100-6464988/

10 million players have played Apex Legends and it has surpassed 1 million concurrent players: https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/apex-legends-10-million-players

Activision Lays Off Nearly 700: https://www.polygon.com/2019/2/16/18226581/activision-blizzard-layoffs-executive-pay-unions

Blizzard: No major game planned for 2019: https://www.polygon.com/2019/2/12/18222527/blizzard-no-new-games-2019

I would like to thank everyone that notified me that Episode 20 was cut off at the beginning. And by that, I mean no one. I was trying to fix it, but it's recoverable since I never export my audio before editing. Lesson learned. Either way, this episode was jam-packed with a ton of news, so we had to cut down a lot. Let's jump in.

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Here are the articles that we talked about during the episode:

Americans spent $43 billion on video games in 2018: http://fortune.com/2019/01/23/2018-video-game-sales-totals/

Nintendo's Honesty Around Metroid Prime 4 Sets An Important Standard: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/01/26/nintendos-honesty-around-metroid-prime-4-sets-an-important-standard

Nintendo’s next Switch model will reportedly shrink the size, cost, features: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/nintendos-next-switch-model-will-reportedly-shrink-the-size-cost-features/

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update adds Piranha Plant DLC fighter: https://www-aaaba-lp1-hac.cdn.nintendo.net/en-US/f4f9b407/index.html

Nintendo has at least one surprise Switch game coming out in 2019: https://www.techradar.com/news/nintendo-has-at-least-one-surprise-switch-game-coming-out-this-year

Sony patents a new system of backward compatibility of PS5 with PS4, PS3, PS2 and PSX: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/am1i53/sony_patents_a_new_system_of_backward/

Metro Exodus will only release on the Epic Store, but Steam preorders will be honoured: https://www.pcgamer.com/metro-exodus-will-only-release-on-the-epic-store-but-steam-preorders-will-be-honoured/

After Epic Store Deal,Steam Users Review Bomb Metro Games: https://kotaku.com/after-epic-store-deal-steam-users-review-bomb-metro-ga-1832209151

Metro dev: 'if at all all the PC players announce a boycott of the Metro, then the next metro, if it does, is definitely not on the PC.': https://steamcommunity.com/app/412020/discussions/0/1780513643852520184/

The calm before the storm. Kingdom Hearts III, Wargroove, Resident Evil 2 Remake.

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Here are the articles that we talked about during the episode:

Bungie Splits With Activision, Keeps Destiny: https://kotaku.com/bungie-splits-with-activision-1831651740

Nexon reportedly up for sale: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-01-17-nexon-reportedly-up-for-sale

EA Cancels Open-World Star Wars Game: https://kotaku.com/ea-cancels-open-world-star-wars-game-1831786371

Resident Evil 2 Remake on Track to Become the Biggest Launch in the Franchise: https://www.githyp.com/resident-evil-2-remake-on-track-to-be-the-biggest-launch-in-the-franchise-based-on-demos-player-counts-that-tripled-re7s-demo-on-steam/

Money Laundering Scheme Uncovered Using Fortnite V-Bucks: https://techraptor.net/content/money-laundering-scheme-fortnite-v-bucks