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Episode 80 – E3 2020 Cancelled, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Call of Duty Warzone Released

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recorded on 3/13/2020

Headliners

E3 2020 has been cancelled due to the state of emergency over the virus (ESA)

  • “After careful consultation with our member companies regarding the health and safety of everyone in our industry—our fans, our employees, our exhibitors and our longtime E3 partners—we have made the difficult decision to cancel E3 2020, scheduled for June 9-11 in Los Angeles,” they are trying to ”coordinate an online experience to showcase industry announcements and news in June 2020.”
  • A lot of companies have said that they will work on a digital experience to share news

Ori and the Will of the Wisps released on Wednesday of this week and Nioh 2 releases today!

  • Nioh 2 and Ori and the Will of the Wisps first impressions!

Call of Duty: Warzone = a stand alone game released on March 10 with two modes (GameSpot)

  • This is free to play for everyone and is cross play between Xbox, Playstation, and PC
  • Xbox Live Gold is required to play on Xbox but PS Plus is not required for PlayStation
  • Has two modes that are Battle Royale and Plunder
  • The Battle Royale mode is mostly like Blackout but with a few interesting twists
    • 150 people, one world, different ways to kill with vehicles and environment 
    • Drop in as solo, in a duo, or as a trio all up to you
    • cash is found in the world and be spent at buy stations shown as a shopping cart
    • The coolest change is the addition of what I call the last stand feature
      • First time you get eliminated you are sent to a new location – the Gulag
      • here you fight another eliminated player 1v1 to get respawn in the game
  • Plunder is the mode where the mission is the get the most money doing objectives
    • You can steal or loot from other people and do different types of contracts
    • Both modes take place on the same map and there are different types of vehicles
  • Your progress from Warzone carries over to and from the rest of multiplayer

Little Bits

(DPOODLY) Pokimane had allegedly turned down some very lucrative deals and opted to stay with Twitch (digitaltrends)

  • She was offered “life-changing amounts of money” from these other platforms
  • But she wanted to stay with Twitch because due largely to the features twitch offers
    • Short delays/latency
    • A robust chat system
  • She says ‘ I cant imagine not having a chat feature…i’d rather take less money and have more fun ‘
  • She and DrDisrespect signed a “multi-year exclusivity deal” with Twitch a week ago
  • Pokimane urges other streamers to not blindly follow where the top streamers are going and just pick a platform you are comfortable with

(DPOODLY) Renegades, an esports team has lost some staff members this week due to an allegedly abusive management team (win.gg)

  • They have rosters is 7 games including CS:GO, Smash Bros, and Overwatch
  • These are other staff members, not the players. 7 out of the 8 staff left to protest the CEOs behavior. 
  • He had been accused of being verbally abusive, generally treating the employee like shit and threatening them in order to push the results he wants
  • The employees have felt like, they do not have a voice in the company
  • There have also been claims that Renegade is often late on payments to employees, talent, and players while also using their paycheck as a means to threaten them into producing the results management is looking for

GameStop appoints Reggie “Regginator” Fils-Aime to its board of directors (VentureBeat)

Nintendo and LEGO had a partnership to make interactive Mario toys.

  • You can see a video showing it posted by NintendoUK
  • Basically using legos you can recreate Mario levels and the special electronic Mario figure will interact with the world you built (i.e. keeping track of enemies you beat or coins you aquire)

Rapid Fire

The NFL and 2K Games sign a deal to make numerous titles in the future (Hollywood Reporter)

  • The games will not be simulation based like Madden however more arcade like games

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition comes to PC in the Summer (Herman Hulst via PS Blog)

Pre-orders for Final Fantasy VII Remake skyrocketed after the demo was released (Benji-Sales)

There is a Japanese made gaming bed on sale for $1200 (PCGamer)

There will be a Demon Slayer game based on the anime coming to PS4 in 2021 (resetera)

Upcoming Releases and Deals

DOOM Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons release next Friday so look out for that!

Rumor Mill

A new Witcher title will begin development this year after the release of Cyberpunk 2077 (Comicbook.com)

Another PS5 “leak” claims that the system will boast 11.6 Terraflops of GPU power (wccftech)

A Silent Hills reveal is rumored for PS5 along with a series reboot (GamesRadar+)

Rumor suggests that MIcrosoft Xbox “Lockhart” or probably Series S will be around $300

Another rumor about Elden Ring says that the game will have improved lighting and will not release in June contrary to other rumors (Omni, wccftech)

A rumor says leaked footage from the Harry Potter game, says the game will be revealed soon 

There could be a new Tony Hawk game in 2020 according to a leak via Facebook (resetera)

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