The gang is back with a heavy dose of nostalgia. this week, William goes old school RPG with Bravely Default, Kaz follows suit with Skyrim, and Kyle revisits the glory days of Castlevania with Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. In news, we talk all the pre-E3 announcements, like Pokemon Quest, Pokemon Let’s Go, Fallout 76, Team Sonic Racing, and Megaman 11. Then, we confuse William by quizzing him on recent(ish) Pokemon designs. Come pause with us!

HYPE TRAIN *toot toot*

• • Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee are a thing, as is Pokemon Quest. Not really for me, but it’s a smart business approach. Now all three of their fan segments will have games coming to the Switch within the next year or so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jRtpMKLsts&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0AEUmgGHRE

• Pokemon quest is coming to Android and IOS soon, but also is on switch right now! https://youtu.be/j0AEUmgGHRE

• Fallout 76 is a game, and continues the game industry’s war against numbering conventions. Looks like it’s supposed to be online and center around survival/building/management, according to Kotaku. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ye84Zrqndo https://kotaku.com/sources-fallout-76-is-an-online-survival-rpg-1826425333

• • Mega Man 11 got a release date and a new trailer! Comes out October 2, is getting a physical release. The Dual Gear system seems neat, and the robot masters are rad so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2PAI5JNAT8&t=2s
  • Team Sonic Racing is a thing! Thanks for the reveal Walmart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZMkv8_w1yI

• Yoku’s Island Express came out on Tuesday, and is a blend of pinball and Metroidvania. Looks really weird, but really cool. It’s getting great reviews! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKjCBoFh3vM

• Just Shapes and Beats is also out this week on the Switch and PC. Don’t overlook it!

SMASH BROS RUMOR OF THE WEEK

• Sakurai: (laughs)
• My uncle works for Nintendo, and he said that the new Smash is going to have every playable character from every video game ever

Discussion

Kaz – Star Citizen has more DLC, a $27,000 ship pack that you can only see if you have already spent $1,000 on the game.

How are people still spending money on this game? https://kotaku.com/star-citizen-now-has-a-27-000-ship-pack-1826404455

Kyle – Bluehole (the PUBG folks) are taking Epic (the Fortnite/Unreal Engine guys) to court for copyright infringement.

Wonder if they’ll get countersued out of existence like Silicon Knights did.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2018/05/134_249598.html

This week, William’s finally picked up Bravely Default, Kaz is prepping for more cons and pushing forward in both Skyrim and Dark Souls 3, and Kyle has finished Hollow Knight and critiques Ruiner. For news, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls Remastered, and Runner 3 are all coming out, there’s a somewhat more credible Smash Switch rumor, Battlefield V has been announced, and the PS4 is apparently entering the ‘final stage of its life cycle.’  We also discuss Nintendo selling Switches without docks, the end of Gamer’s Club Unlicked, TotalBiscuit’s passing, and Tencent acquiring more developers. And to finish up, we create the definitive, exhaustive, and in all other ways complete list of trains in video games. Come pause with us!

Upcoming Games, Recent Stuff, and Rumors

• Detroit: Become Human is out this week, and it’s getting decent reviews
• Dark Souls Remastered came out, and is getting pretty decent reviews too.
• Runner 3 also also came out, and also also got decent reviews.
• Kaz – Battlefield V was announced, it’s going back to WW2. Looks okay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb1MR85XFOc
• William – Sony says the PS4 is entering the final stage of its life cycle, and the next console is about 3 years away https://www.gamnesia.com/news/sony-the-next-playstation-is-3-years-away

SMASH BROS RUMOR OF THE WEEK

• Sakurai: (laughs)
• Rumor mill says that Simon Belmont and Ridley are in, along with the Ice Climbers. And supposedly no roster cuts! This is from the guy that said the TMNT would be in Injustice 2, so there’s some potential here. https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2018/may/21/rumor-new-leaks-claim-simon-belmont-ridley-and-ice-climbers-are-coming-super-smash-bros-nintendo-switch/

Discussion

William – Nintendo is now selling a dockless Switch in Japan.

Pretty interesting that they see a market for that. Think they’ll finally kill the 3DS? https://store.nintendo.co.jp/customize_dockless.html

Kyle – Best Buy cancelled Gamer’s Club Unlocked. RIP.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/best-buy-shuts-down-one-of-the-best-deals-in-gamin/1100-6459084/

Kaz – John Bain, Total Biscuit, has passed away today. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends.

Very sad day, he was a force in the gaming and critic community, keeping devs and critics honest and frame rates high  https://twitter.com/GennaBain/status/999785407087808512?s=19

Kyle – Tencent bought the Path of Exile developer, Grinding Gear Games.

Next purchase? The world.

https://www.destructoid.com/the-ever-present-tencent-acquires-majority-of-path-of-exile-developer-504102.phtml

Upcoming Games, Recent Stuff, and Rumors

• Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon got announced. It’s an NES-style prequel to Bloodstained, and it looks really, really fun. Releases next week! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDq0FQS15o
• Rage 2 got leaked, then officially announced. It looks… well, it certainly exists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7eXH25_KC0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rQMytyBFeA
• Yep, CODBLOPS4 has a battle royale mode. And nope, no single player campaign. https://www.destructoid.com/blackout-a-battle-royale-mode-is-coming-to-call-of-duty-black-ops-4-503461.phtml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooyjaVdt-jA&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=cgrLpHC_3zBJ0Cb7-6
• Battlefield 5, details coming May 23rd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5om0K-9_hM
• Pokemon rumors are flying. Nintendo registered trademarks for Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee, and rumor is that they’ll feature a return to Kanto, catching mechanics and connectivity with Pokemon Go, and a partner Pokemon a la Yellow. https://www.vg247.com/2018/05/16/switch-pokemon-games-outed-lets-go-pikachu-lets-go-eevee/
• Fox N Forests came out, and it looks great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjZt2on1C2s
• Square’s really trying to get me to play Dissidia NT, they’ve now added Locke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ECpeb9ZBI

SMASH BROS RUMOR OF THE WEEK

• Sakurai: (laughs)
• Nintendo’s announced some post E3 Smash events (Japan only so far, but typically those are announced first) https://www.gamnesia.com/news/nintendo-announces-multiple-public-smash-bros.-switch-events
• Also, if you’re at E3, you have to pre-book a ticket to play the game. It’s apparently going to be that crazy. https://e3.nintendo.com/attendee-faq/

Discussion

Kaz – Microsoft introduced their new ‘adaptive controller’, aimed at making gaming more accessible to folks with disabilities.

It’s really neat, and they’re keeping it open source and are encouraging other people to build on it, even Sony/Nintendo. Very cool initiative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fcK19CAjWM

Kyle – Sony is ending production of physical Vita cartridges in February of 2019. Final code requests have to be submitted next month. RIP Vita.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/05/16/sony-reportedly-ending-production-of-physical-vita-cartridges

Kyle – Boss Key Productions is officially closed, per Cliff Blezinski on Twitter. Lawbreakers and Radical Heights just weren’t enough, I guess.

https://kotaku.com/radical-heights-developer-boss-key-games-shuts-down-1826015127

William – Nintendo released the details for Nintendo Switch Online

Featuring family plans, cloud saves, old games, and no Virtual Console. But $20 ain’t bad.

https://www.gamnesia.com/news/nintendo-switch-online-includes-cloud-saves-and-20-classic-games

Kyle – Walmart Canada accidentally ‘leaked’ (aka posted) a bunch of games. Some of them seem real, others perhaps not.

Full list here! https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pavyg8/walmart-canada-leaked-rage-2-bethesda-splinter-cell-e3-glitch

William – Well, we don’t have to speculate about what Sony’s showing at E3

Unless you think they have some surprises.  Death Stranding, Ghost Of Tsushima, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and The Last of Us 2

https://www.gamnesia.com/news/sony-reveals-the-date-and-games-lineup-for-their-e3-2018-presentation

Podcast THING OF THE WEEK

E3 PREDICTIONS!

Kyle

• Gear of War 5. Halo 6 probably isn’t a thing this year given 343’s saying they want to take more time, and Microsoft NEEDS something new to anchor their presentation.
• The Last of Us 2: Battle Royale (I’m not sure if I’m joking or not)
• Kingdom Hearts 3 release date, and it’ll be in 2018
• Square will announce a sequel to a beloved franchise, but with no release date. Maybe the World Ends With U2?
• Nintendo will announce a new peripheral that no one asked for
• Dr. Mario Switch? I dunno, it feels right.

William

Fire Emblem Switch, we might see some MP4 footage, we’ll see

I’ll predict Halo for you, Kyle

If there isn’t any FFVII remake footage, it’s not coming out until 2030

Kaz

• Bloodborne 2 trailer/date
• Death stranding gameplay
• New elder scrolls something
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Animal crossing switch
• Diablo 4, save it for blizzcon

We’re back after two weeks! During the break, we were able to get together and play some party games, including Lethal League, Windjammers, and Crawl. William is still working on SS in Dustforce, and has also started playing Fire Emblem: Conquest and picked up his old save file in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. Kaz has reached previously unexplored plotpoints in Skyrim, and abandoned them to become evil, she’s also gotten back into Dark Souls 3, but this time, she knows what she’s doing. Kyle is enjoying his time in Darkest Dungeon, and is extremely conflicted about the new God of War. For news, we mention the announcement for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and cover some points from Nintendo’s financial report: Kimishima is retiring as President, and sales are up. We also talk about Battlerite’s new battle royale mode, Nintendo continuing to support the 3ds, and a liitle bit about a dead game from Eidos Montreal, which leads us into a discussion about games that were unexpected in style, success, or concept to finish up. Come pause with us!

Upcoming Games, Recent Stuff, and Rumors

• Shadow of the Tomb Raider officially announced! It looks pretty good, but it’s odd that Crystal Dynamics isn’t the main dev. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9_8250Kndk
• Kimishima is stepping down as president of Nintendo, and will be replaced by Shuntaro Furukawa https://www.gamnesia.com/news/nintendos-president-is-being-replaced
• We should be finally hearing the details for Nintendo’s online sometime in the next few weeks https://www.gamnesia.com/news/nintendo-will-be-announcing-more-information-about-the-switchs-online-servi
• Recent sales figures for Nintendo, BotW (all together) and Odyssey both right around 10 mil, with the Switch version of Mario Kart right behind them, Splatoon 2 at 6 mil, and the Switch is at 17.8 million as of the end of March. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/180426_4e.pdf https://www.gamnesia.com/news/nintendo-switch-has-sold-over-17.79-million-units  

SMASH BROS RUMOR OF THE WEEK

• It’s confirmed to be playable at E3 this year, even to the public! Can’t wait. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/smash-bros-for-switch-will-be-playable-at-e3/1100-6458557/
• Also, Sakurai is confirmed to be the only playable character

Discussion

Battlerite, the arena-action-MOBA game, is adding a battle royale mode. Yep.

https://twitter.com/Battlerite/status/992008108829564928

Nintendo is planning 3DS games for 2019 and beyond.

Confirmed in their annual investors’ call. Crazy.

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/989682515978829825?s=20

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/05/nintendo_says_3ds_will_keep_being_sold_unless_switch_becomes_a_one-per-person_system

Apparently Eidos Montreal was batting hard to try and make the next major Final Fantasy after doing Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Super Bunnyhop has a great video on it.

It’s really interesting, and leads into the THING OF THE WEEK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6mG3U4vaY

William gets sucked back into dustforce, but has no prayer of SS’ing the entire game. Kyle spends some time with Snake Pass and edge lord Victor Vran. Kaz’s dreams comes true as she has been immortalized in Battle for Azeroth! In our new section we talk about Dark souls on the switch, a new Platinum collaborate game, question the choice to leave out the single player campaign in Black ops 4, but don’t worry, they’ll probably add a battle Royal mode and we mourn Konami’s history of bad choices. For our podcast thing of the week our twitch chat was raided and we have fun thinking of old video game titles that would make “awesome” movies

Upcoming Games, Recent Stuff, and Rumors

• Blizzcon was announced! Nov 2-3rd tickets on sale May 9th and 12th
• God of War comes out tomorrow! Can’t wait to watch Kratos be angry and his kid get murdered.
• Yakuza 6 came out on the 17th
• Platinum announced it’s partnering with DeNA to release World of Demons, a free to play mobile game that seems to take heavy inspiration from Okami’s art style. It looks neat. https://www.destructoid.com/world-of-demons-is-platinum-s-first-stab-at-an-action-mobile-game-498834.phtml  
• Dark Souls Remastered has been delayed to ‘summer’ for the Switch. 🙁
• Octopath Traveler has a new preview video, revealing two new characters and a little about a reputation system, still coming out July 13th! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x99ObqWLkYA
• Deckard Cain is in the PTR on HotS, he seems kind neat. Those ults are great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx0sZIIJ5Bc
• Sonic Mania Plus had a mini-patch go live on accident, and it has some cool stuff coming! Reworked boss fights, new cutscenes between zones, time limits can be turned off, and you can use some cool new cheat-type stuff. https://www.destructoid.com/accidental-sonic-mania-update-reveals-details-on-sonic-mania-plus-499152.phtml
• Rumor: there’s a new Bioshock game being worked on by the studio that did Mafia 3. https://kotaku.com/how-the-makers-of-mafia-iii-lost-their-way-1825242177
• Huge Pokemon rumor. Will be gen 8, code name beluga which leads people to speculate that it’ll be based on alaska/canada/arctic like regions

SMASH BROS RUMOR OF THE WEEK

• They’re adding a Battle Royale mode!

Discussion

Polygon is reporting that Black Ops 4 isn’t going to have a single player campaign. Kotaku says it’ll have a Battle Royale mode, though!

It will instead have a small narrative focus as part of its Zombies/cooperative mode. Too bad they’re doing it with Blops, a lot of people love this series’ campaign.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/17/17248230/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-single-player-cod-blops

https://kotaku.com/sources-next-call-of-duty-wont-have-a-solo-campaign-m-1825338768

Konami is ending its relationship with UEFA, the soccer organization that the Pro Evolution Soccer series is based on.

They have a new mobile Castlevania game that looks like hot garbage though. Konami makes me sad.

http://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/about-uefa/administration/marketing/news/newsid=2551744.html

https://www.vg247.com/2018/04/18/castlevania-grimoire-of-souls-is-an-ios-action-game-for-japan/

We’re back after two weeks! Kaz has come back from a con in Atlanta, got herself a new rig, and has caught up with her old self in Skyrim. William has finished Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, but still finds time to disparage Kirby. Kyle has found an amazing game in Celeste and a dissapointing game in The Evil Within 2. In our news section, we cover the Spyro trilogy remaster, talk about God of War’s new reviews, Minit, the Megaman X Legacy Collections, and Nikki Minaj(!). We also talk a bit about the shutting down of Steam Spy, the success of GTAV, and the conclusion to the relationship between Twin Galaxies and Billy Mitchell. Finishing up, we take a look at sad games; some that we liked, and the mechanics and methods used to enhance them. Come pause with us!

Upcoming Games, Recent Stuff, and Rumors

• SPYROSPYROSPYROSPYROsPyYyRooospyroSPYROSPYROSPYROSPYRO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j9o1OptMS8  
• God of War reviews are live today, and man. People LOVE this game. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/8bo8b5/god_of_war_review_thread/
• Minit also came out this past week, and is also getting very good reviews.
• Capcom finally announced the Megaman X Legacy collections. There’s gonna be two of them, AKA good version (1-4) and bad version (5-8). $20 each, out July 24th. https://www.destructoid.com/-update-capcom-confirms-our-suspicions-the-mega-man-x-legacy-collection-will-be-two-packs-498041.phtml
• Nikki Minaj has a new single called Chun Li. It’s actually not bad, if you’re into that sort of thing.  https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/983775217460768768

Discussion

Steam Spy is shutting down thanks to privacy changes from Valve.

Profiles now have libraries hidden by default, so we all lose a valuable tool. Too bad.

https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/983879694658437120

GTAV has made an estimated $6 billion, which makes it the most successful media property of all time.

Just…. wow.  Think this changes how we think about/develop games and IP, or is it just a crazy outlier? https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-violent-videogame-has-made-more-money-than-any-movie-ever-2018-04-06

Billy Mitchell has finally had all of his high score records purged from Twin Galaxies.

Not that he’s relevant anymore. https://www.twingalaxies.com/feed_details.php/1047/billy-mitchells-donkey-kong-and-all-other-records-removed/4

It’s been another week! Kaz has finally finished Persona 4, and is playing some Skyrim and Kirby Star Allies (and talking to kids about cosplay) while looking for the next big thing, William continues moving through Fire Emblem Echoes, and wasn’t impressed by Azure Striker Gunvolt, and Kyle starts to feel the grind in Prey and elects to torture himself with Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash. In news section, we talk about Nintendo’s Nindies Showcase, Sonic animation and karting, the Smash Invitational, GDC, the public releasing of assets, and the reception of some recent releases. We also take a look at the current status of Battle Royale games, the changes happening in Star Wars Battlefront 2, and the ending of the relationship between Ubisoft and Vivendi. To finish up, we have an argument about the ‘greatest games of all time’ and consider some candidates. Come pause with us!

Discussion topics

Game Announcements, Rumors, and Upcoming/Recent Stuff

• Nintendo had a little Nindies Showcase, and there was some cool stuff! I’m pumped for Just Shapes and Beats, myself. https://www.destructoid.com/here-are-all-of-the-games-announced-and-dated-from-today-s-spring-nindies-showcase-495141.phtml
• They’re doing a Sonic animated series on Youtube with the animators from the Sonic Mania intro! It looks awesome. https://www.destructoid.com/sonic-mania-adventures-animated-series-coming-to-youtube-494747.phtml
• Sonic is also teasing a new racing game. I can’t help myself, I’m excited. https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/974760424271855617
• Detective Pikachu and A Way Out are out this week. They’re both getting solid reviews!
• Sea of Thieves also came out, and reception has been more mixed. They also had significant server problems on day 1, they had to take it down for several hours to get a fix.

Smash News!

• Nintendo is holding a tournament at E3 for Splatoon 2 and Smash! Also, the Smash tourney starts the day before the E3 event, so maybe we’ll know more about it before then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpFgh36jb88
• Phil Spencer is still up for having Banjo and Kazooie in Smash https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/976118125891485696
• Even Funimation seems to want Goku in. https://twitter.com/FUNimation/status/973274075580821510

GDC

GDC is going on right now! Kaz misses being there. Check twitter for all the crazy demos and descriptions of panels https://twitter.com/chubigans/status/976933235765665792

Epic is releasing Paragon’s assets for free use in Unreal 4.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/paragon

Battle Royale games are going crazy.

They’re both on mobile now, and it seems like they’re growing every week. Think it’s flavor of the year a la FPSes circa 2008 and MOBAs circa 2012, or is this something more lasting?

Battlefront 2 has revamped how its progression works.

I probably still won’t buy it, though. Fool me once… https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/battlefront/battlefront-2/news/progression-update

Vivendi’s attempted hostile takeover of Ubisoft has been repelled.

They’re selling their shares, and won’t buy any more for 5 years. The Guillemots win!

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/20/ubisoft-fights-off-vivendi-takeover/

We’re back after a small break after Kaz went to Sweden and Kyle to Disneyland.  Kyle plays more games that people don’t know about, Ittle Dew 2+and WonderBoy: The dragon Trap. Kaz get frustrated at Persona 4 and visual novel style games.  William talks about his past week playing Shadows of Valencia.  In the news we get excited over the Nintendo Direct announcements, especially for the new Smash game! We also discuss the odd back and forth of rumors around Diablo 3 on the Switch, Monster Hunter world’s success and bid farewell to the PS Vita.  We wrap up the show with a positive twist on the state of women in games for International Women’s Day, come pause with us!

Game Announcements, Rumors, and Upcoming/Recent Stuff

Nintendo Direct!

• Bowser’s Inside Story remake
• Detective Pikachu
• Luigi’s Mansion port
• Kirby Star Allies
• Okami HD
• Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido
• Octopath Traveler 7/13
• Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
• Dark Souls Remastered – Solaire amiibo!
• Mario Tennis Aces. It’s apparently a fighting game? And looks good? And there’s a tournament?
• Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
• Undertale
• Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy
• Little Nightmares Complete Edition
• South Park: The Fractured But Whole
• Japan Exclusive: Phantasy Star Online 2 port
• Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition
• ARMS Online Open tourney
• Splatoon 2 3.0. You can get RANK X
• Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion
• SMASHHHHHHHHHHH

Other things

• Rumors are swirling about Diablo 3 coming to the Switch, but Blizzard clarified that they’re just stupid. But then Eurogamer said that Blizzard was wrong about themselves and that it’s actually happening for realsies. So I dunno. https://www.destructoid.com/-update-teasing-blizzard-tweet-features-diablo-and-a-switch–492479.phtml http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-03-06-sources-yes-diablo-3-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch
• Black Ops 4 is official. The logo denotes it as ‘Black Ops IIII’, which is fantastic. https://kotaku.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-officially-announced-1823616196
• The Division 2 is official, they’re set to show more at E3 this year https://news.ubisoft.com/article/an-announcement-from-massive-entertainment-on-the-division-2
• There’s a Mega Man Battle Network fan game with online multiplayer that’s dropping soon, and it looks pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AzqNdLl4rc
• ESRB to add “in game purchases” to labels https://kotaku.com/after-months-of-controversy-esrb-will-add-in-game-purc-1823356171

Microsoft is copying Nintendo Directs with Inside Xbox, a monthly show about stuff they’re doing/releasing.

Neat. https://www.destructoid.com/xbox-has-a-new-show-that-s-partially-dedicated-to-revealing-news-492898.phtml

Monster Hunter World is officially Capcom’s best selling game ever.

I can’t wait to see what they can do with a bigger budget and further streamlining. I’m excited for the future of the series!

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e180305.html

Sony is getting rid of PS3 and Vita games in PS+ as of March 2019.

So goodbye Vita!

This week, William talks (again) about Xenoblade as a series in a (vain) attempt to wrap the whole thing up. Kyle manages to 100% Super Lucky’s Tale and grinds out some Heroes of the Storm matches. Kaz gets close to the end of Persona 4, guest stars on other podcasts, and manages to finally grind out a mount in WoW, all while gearing up to go to Sweden! In our news section, we talk about the Burnout Paradise Remaster, Warcraft rumblings, both Sonic racing and movies, Doom’s patch on Switch, and the Megaman Legacy Collection ports. We also take a look at copyright laws for online games and finish up with a small haiku session, where we describe different games via haiku and try to guess what they are. Come pause with us!

Discussion topics

Game Announcements, Rumors, and Upcoming/Recent Stuff

• Burnout Paradise Remastered got announced! It comes out in May. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4JqCmt9hzE
• Warcraft 3 is having a balance patch, widescreen support, and even a tournament. W3 Remastered or Warcraft 4 incoming? https://www.destructoid.com/warcraft-iii-yes-that-one-gets-widescreen-support-a-balance-patch-and-a-dang-tournament-491051.phtml
• Toymakers are hinting at a new Sonic kart racer. https://www.destructoid.com/another-sonic-racing-game-rumor-surfaces-from-another-toy-maker-490716.phtml
• There’s a Sonic movie coming to theaters in 2019 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sonic-hedgehog-movie-sets-2019-release-date-1086760
• Bethesda actually put some effort into the Doom Switch update, adding motion controls. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/big-switch-update-for-doom-adds-new-motion-control/1100-6456887/
• Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 + 2 is coming to Switch, but 2 is a download code. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI949Msniuo&feature=youtu.be

The ESA is fighting against a DMCA exemption for abandoned online games.

Should they be allowed to? What rights does the player/customer have? What about the preservation angle? https://torrentfreak.com/game-companies-oppose-dmca-exemption-for-abandoned-online-games-180217/

Norway is cracking down on Nintendo for not allowing customers to cancel digital preorders.

Hooray consumer rights! Also, why preorder a digital game? https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/news/norway-accuses-nintendo-of-breaking-european-consumer-laws-w516963

Podcast THING OF THE WEEK

Haiku poetry jam!

Kaz’s

Kyle’s

Having a bad day?
Kick, punch, it’s all in the mind
Yeah! Now I believe.

Hangin’ with my bros
Space is a pretty neat place!
INDOCTRINATION

The law says we’re bad.
But screw the law! Paint it black.
Tokyo-to is ours.

Kxaj wumo nuj rut (This game is bad)
Rik kxo Saurians ceeb douk! (But the Saurians look neat!)
A najx kxaj nuj Zelda. (I wish this was Zelda.)
ALT LINE: Kao Krazoa. (The Krazoa.)

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