About this episode
The episode discusses major industry news including the resignations at Xbox and the closure of Bluepoint Studios, alongside game releases and controversies in the gaming community.
Another week, another day of industry changing news as Heads of XBOX Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond resign from Microsoft, were they ousted, what's the future of XBOX? In the bad news competition, Sony shutters Bluepoint Studios, makers of the Demon's Souls remake and Shadow of the Colossus remake. In the games portion we get spooky with REANIMAL and Creature Kitchen, return to Helldivers 2, roll some dice in Rune Dice and wonder if Twitch is a lunch room bully? 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Cat tower 6:45 - Xbox conspiracies 11:20 - Phil Spencer retires 36:00 - Sony shuts down Bluepoint 48:00 - Mewgenics 51:10 - Slay the Spire 2 early access 54:30 - League of Legends gets voice chat 1:10:20 - New TES6 news 1:20:30 - Nioh 3 1:28:50 - 9 years of NieR Automata 1:34:50 - Stop Killing Games 1:36:00 - Discord age verification 1:45:00 - Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter 1:46:10 - REANIMAL 1:54:10 - Rune Dice 2:00:00 - Windrose 2:09:25 - Replaced demo 2:12:40 - Creature Kitchen 2:25:10 - Helldivers 2 2:32:40 - Core Keeper expansion 2:38:00 - The Eternal Life of Goldman 2:42:30 - Yakuza Kiwami 3 2:48:00 - Twitch bans streamer for being a kid 2:55:30 - Shoutouts See omnystudio.com/listener for…
People in this episode
Host: itmeJP
Topics covered
- Xbox news
- Sony studio closure
- Game releases
- Industry changes
- Twitch controversies
Keywords
- Xbox
- Sony
- Bluepoint Studios
- game releases
- Twitch
- REANIMAL
- Helldivers 2
- NieR Automata
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Microsoft, Sony, Bluepoint Studios, Twitch
Products: Demon's Souls, Shadow of the Colossus, REANIMAL, Creature Kitchen, Helldivers 2, Rune Dice, Slay the Spire 2, League of Legends, TES6, Nioh 3
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