Episode 29 – Upcoming Pokemon Game & Cyberpunk 2077 news

recorded on 3/1/2019

Headliners

Nintendo Direct happened on Wednesday and was all about the new Pokemon game (Nintendo)

• Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield are the newest Pokemon RPGs
• 3 new starter Pokemon that are Fire, Water, and Grass types
  
  
  • Grookey – grass type
  • Scorbunny – fire type
  • Sobble – water type
    
    
• The Galar Region is the new region in the game and has various landscapes
  
  
  • Snow covered mountain area
  • Wide open plains area
  • Forest areas
  • Industrial city area
  • Vast countrysides
  • Underground and Cave areas
    
    
• Pokemon Sword and Shield releases everywhere in late 2019, most likely November

Cyberpunk 2077 will be shown off at E3 confirmed by the developer CD Projekt Red (CD Projekt Red)

• Also confirmed that the game will not be exclusive to any system or store

Little Bits

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be revealed by Respawn on April 13 (PCGamer)

• The game takes place after the execution of Order 66 from a Padawan survivor’s viewpoint
• This is a single player story focused game developed by Respawn and published by EA

Destiny 2 Season of the Drifter begins on March 5 for those still playing Destiny (ShackNews)

• New Vanity rewards, rank rewards, Triumphs and Lore Books
• Power Level Increase, as well as some changes to the Gambit PVP event

The Division 2 open beta starts today and ends March 4 and includes a lot of things to do (GameSpot)

• Open beta includes 3 main 5 side missions, PVP multiplayer, 1 of 3 dark zones, endgame content

Fortnite Season 8 began yesterday with a new pirate theme and ends around May 8 (NewsWeek)

Black Ops 4 Grand Heist update goes to Xbox and PC after being exclusive on PS4 for a week (GameSpot)

Detective Pikachu Trailer 2 dropped on Tuesday and looks super good

Horizon Zero Dawn celebrated 2 year anniversary yesterday with 10 million+ sold to date (Polygon)

PUBG and Horizon Zero Dawn crossover runs from March 5 – April 5 (ComicBook.com)

• Eclipse skins coming to PUBG and other earnables

Overwatch gets a new character in Baptiste who is a support soldier like player (Polygon)

Metro Exodus is getting review bombed positively on Steam…..good for 4A Games (PCGamer)

Dead Cells gets free DLC with huge update planned for this Spring (PCGamer)

Kingdom Hearts III critical mode, free, paid DLC in development and should release this year (gematsu)

Upcoming Releases and Deals

Resident Evil 0, 1 (remake), and 4 coming to the Switch on May 21 (Resident Evil Twitter)….cool

PS Plus games for March are The Witness and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (Polygon)

Xbox Games with Gold for March are listed below (Xbox)

• Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion
• Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2
• Star Wars: Republic Commando
• Meta Gear Rising: Revengance
  
  

Playstation deals are live at various online and retail stores (IGN)

• PS4 Slim 1TB – $269 with promo code EMCTVVA36 – at Newegg
• PS4 Slim 1TB with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – $299.99 – at Newegg
• PS4 Slim 1TB with Spider-Man – $321.98 – at Wal-Mart
• PS4 Slim 500GB – $269 – at Wal-Mart

Rumor Mill

Obsidian’s new RPG The Outer Worlds release date to be August 6, courtesy of Steam dB page

Watch Dogs 3 set in London, gender character choice, focus more on tech less on action, release 2019

• This rumor has been corroborated by Jason Schreier of Kotaku so its very likely to be true
• This is likely to take the launch window of when Assassin’s Creed would have released this year

Demon Souls Remaster could be in the works by BluePoint, courtesy of Jason Schreier reply on ResetEra

Future Android devices may support dualshock 4 motion controls to support Playstation apps