Welcome back to Pause Screen! This episode, Kyle’s finished Blaster Master Zero 2, Shantae and the Seven Sirens, and Cyber Shadow. William has finally beaten Xenoblade and moved on to Future Connected, and Kaz talks about Townsmen, WoW, Adventure Capitalist, and more! Moving onto the Hype Train, we spend a while talking about GameStop and the crazy situation surrounding their stocks. We also talk Capcom’s Resident Evil plans for the year, Sonic’s voice actor replacement, the current state of Blizzard, and more! Come pause with us!
HYPE TRAIN – *toot toot*
- Gamestonk
- Resident Evil Village had a whole preview event thing. Looks neat, it’s pretty much Resident Evil: Bloodborne edition. Comes out 5/7! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udnu2LBPdRc
- Capcom has supposedly overhauled its plans for the RE4 Remake https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/resident-evil-4-remake-overhauled/
- The EU is investigating joycon drift https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-01-27-after-25k-complaints-eu-calls-for-investigation-into-nintendo-switch-joy-con-drift
SAD TRAIN *womp womp*
- Roger Craig Smith no longer Sonic, after a 10 year stint as the character https://twitter.com/rogercraigsmith/status/1354805293369024520?s=21
- Blizzard absorbed Vicarious Visions, which is supposedly working on a Diablo 2 remake per Jason Schrier https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1352766999823314949?s=21
- Tencent is buying a majority stake in Klei (Mark of the Ninja, Don’t Starve)
- Apparently the Bowser’s Fury mode is ~3 hours long all in, per a game reviewer’s tweet that was promptly deleted