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This week the Charged Shot Crew talk about all the big announcements of the week. Microsoft buys ZeniMax (parent holder of Bethesda), Amazon announces they are in the game streaming business, including Tokyo Game Show announcements made.
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Budweiser Wazzup! - 2.00
Start of the show - 3:52
Altered Carbon - 5.27
Justin's topics - 8.14
Lo's topics - 13.36
Lo's twin brother Bo - 14.44
Extinction - 16.12
DragonBall Xenoverse 2 - 21.24
Doorbell Camera - 22.45
Time and Teenagers - 24.43
Destiny - 26.40
Yakuza 6 - 29.56
Tekken 7 - 42.34
Nintendo Labo 44.40
Outro - 47.25
This week Justin and Ben continue recapping the history of MCU movies, this time from Civil War up to the present with Thor: Ragnarok (we already did a full review of Black Panther, no need for that again) and give their rankings of ALL 18 movies so far to lead into Infinity War VERY SOON.
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Who knew when you cross Neopets with porn you get furries?
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0:1:59 - Fortnite Patch Notes
0:07:58 No Man's Sky Update Coming to Xbox
0:09:51 Sea of Thieves Death Tax Revoked
0:11:21 Fortnite in Schools is a Problem
0:20:00 Dragon Quest 11 coming to PS4, PC and Switch No 3DS Version
0:23:30 Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Creative Director Leaves Ubisoft
0:26:40 Outlast 2 PC Patch Adds in Scenes to Avoid Adult Only Rating
0:31:31 LEGO Incredibles
0:36:42 Level-5 Focused On Switch
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Destiny 2 Valentine's Day Event
Destiny 2 Overhauling Nightfall Strikes and Prestige Raids
Nintendo Introducing My Nintendo Coins
Twitch Can Ban For Outside Behaviour
The Good Life Kickstarter Starting Back Up
Bandai Namco Looking to Create New Properties
Bandai Namco Japan Working on Metroid Prime 4
Anyone that knows me would know that even if this game was just fine, just okay, it would have been on this list; I make no excuses for my Metroid fanboyism. We don’t get enough of them, okay!? Give me this. But, it just so happens that this is not only a great Metroid game, it’s also some of the most fun I’ve had challenging myself all year.
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The crew is back together for a limited time. What do they decide to talk about? Well, puns and Rabbids of course.
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Epic Games Fortnite Cheater Lawsuit Settled
Wii Games on Nvidia Shield in China
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Desert Map
Pokemon Go Adds New Pokemon Again
Dying Light Adds New Expansion
The moment we realized that Google and Amazon will have data on all the weird stuff you ask it.
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The outrage started when players first discovered players who played longer and similar events they would earn less XP. You would earn XP for bright engrams after hitting the level cap. For example repeating public events would yield the same number of XP but the bar itself would go up slower. They announced a change to their XP system to stop the throttling but all they did was double the amount of XP it takes to level.
In a dev blog update the Destiny team has indicated changes are coming to Destiny 2. Such changes are going to be a new tier of weapons, private pvp matches, and better rewards for Strikes, Adventures, and Lost Sectors. Some changes are coming December 5th, others are coming December 12th, and the rest is later in January.
The new tier of weapons are called Masterwork weapons. “stat trackers, random, re-rollable stat bonuses, unique item tooltips, and item details screens.” These will be elite versions of legendary weapons. You can upgrade current legendaries and find them in the wild.
Adding armour ornaments.
Xur is going to start selling three of coins again and also a Fated Engram which will give you an exotic you don’t already have. Better emote interface. Will be changing the XP system. Their previous change to 160K XP is too slow.
“Going forward, Destiny 2’s post-launch game systems, features, and updates are being designed specifically to focus on and support players who want Destiny to be their hobby – the game they return to, and a game where friendships are made,”
“We want Destiny to be a game that fits into your life, providing you with reasons to log in and play with your friends, clans, and families. We want Destiny to be a world you want to be a part of.”
Mother has written a letter to the Honorable Malcolm J Howard about how Epic Games has no grounds against pursuing a minor.
Super Mario Cereal is coming to the US with an added amiibo. You can scan the box itself for amiibo functionality.
Tencent has announced that they will be making a PUBG port for smartphones with Bluehole. This port is being released to China first and no word on releases outside of China or a release date.
Demon’s Souls Turning Off Servers
PSA: Online services are being shut off on February 28th 2018
It’s not dead but the last game didn’t sell well. They are working on other games at this time and investigating what the new direction for the Deus Ex future is.
Hideaki Itsuno has announced the existence of DMC5. These leaks come from someone on ResetEra. Devil May Cry 5 is going to continue the story where Devil May Cry 4 left off. A reveal trailer has been made for some time now and they are just waiting on a time to reveal it. The trailer is set to be released during a Playstation event/conference. Will have open spaces and action sections similar to Bayonetta. Estimated release date is April 2018 and March 2019.
This week Thomas, Lo and Justin figure out who's a pretty girl. Turns out, it's Lo.
This week the crew invite on some of their closest friends to celebrate Justin's marriage. Also, an old regular makes a surprise appearance.
This week Thomas creates a new term called lootbait, Justin is getting ready for life, Ben gushes over waifu warriors and Lo keeps playing Fortnite. Also, Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas movie.
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UK Government Investigating Lootboxes
Thanks to a law in the UK the government is in need to respond to a petition on petition.parliament.uk/ that has over 10K signatures.
Activision Files Patent for Microtransaction-Minded Matchmaking
Described as "a system and method [...] that drives microtransactions in multiplayer video games," the patent outlines a system in which players are matched together in such a way that it encourages the purchase of in-game content
For example, this encourages matching good players or players with more weapons unlocked, with bad players to encourage bad players to spend extra to unlock certain items ahead of intention.
Activision has reached out to IGN saying that they have filed this as an exploratory patent and has not been implemented in-game.
David Ballard Sexually Harassed Filed Complaint Then Fired After
David Ballard wrote out on Twitter participating in the #MeToo movement sharing his experience with sexual harassment.
“In late 2015, I was sexually harassed at Naughty Dog by a lead,” Ballard wrote. “My work environment became extremely toxic afterward. In February 2016 I had a mental breakdown at work & Sony Playstation HR became involved. When I told them about the harassment they ended the call and fired me the next day. They cited the company was moving in a different direction and my job was no longer needed. They tried to silence me by offering $20,000 if I signed a letter agreeing to the termination as well as to not discuss it with anyone. I declined to sign. I have been unemployed for 17 months since.”
Naughty Dog and Sony sent out a joint statement wrote out a statement saying that harassment have no place within their company and do not have a record of the complaint.
Latest update allows Switch users to transfer saved games and user account data from one Switch to another.
Can capture 30-seconds on Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, ARMS, Splatoon 2.
Pokemon Go Gen 3 Pokemon and Halloween Event
Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson are rumoured to be among the top choices.
It's lootbox apocalypse and everyone is invited!
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Fortnite BR mode passes 10 Million Players
Epic Games Sues Alleged Fornite Cheaters
Epic Games has made 2 individual civil complaints. They are being accused of been accused of copyright infringement, contributory copyright infringement, breach of contract, and intentional interference with contractual relations. Epic Game’s complaint reads as follow: “The software that Defendant uses to cheat infringes Epic’s copyrights in the game and breaches the terms of the agreements to which Defendant agreed in order to have access to the game.”
EA Addresses Battlefront Loot Crates
Unlocking loot crates will yield Star Cards, Outfits, Emotes and Victory Poses. Star Cards are are items you can equip for a buff. EA is saying that the most powerful items won’t be in the crates and unlocked via achievements. Most of the cards and weapons will be accesses by playing and ranking up.
ESRB Does Not Consider Loot Boxes Gambling
Dungeonland Chroma Squad Launch Kickstarter for RPG Relic Hunters Legend
NISA Apologizes for Ys 8 Translation Promises to Apply Fixes in November
Ys 8 has been getting criticized for it’s awkward translations done by NISA for the first time. The usual translation team for the Ys games, XSEED was not hired on for Ys 8 translation. The Japanese press has been picking up stories on the “strange quality” of the localization. NIS America president Takura Yamashita has written an apology and assured that changes are coming soon. There will be a new translation with a new editor and patched in late November.
In a tweet SWERY reflects on the Fig campaign and shares more details on the crowdfunded project. He says he regretted not informing people on not sharing that the game will be developed by Yukio Futatsugi’s company (creator of Panzer Dragoon) and the art director for Rez Noboru Horita is on board too. SWERY says he will launch a Kickstarter for this and hopefully start it later this year.
Shovel Knight and Battletoads Team Up
The trio has been in the Xbox version for the last two years but now they are on PC.
Ninja Theory Donates Proceeds From Hellblade to Mental Health Charity Rethink
On October 10th Ninja Theory donated all proceeds from purchases of Hellblade to Rethink on World Mental Health Day.
WWE 2K18 Features KFC’s Colonel Sanders as a Playable Character
New Mario Trailer Has Him Possessing Real People
In this new trailer, we see Mario possess real people and animals mixing CGI Mario with real-life actors/broadway dancers.
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The Sonic film will be a blend of live action and CGI animation. Tim Miller is on board as executive producer and Paramout Pictures picked up the rights according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jeff Fowler will have his directorial debut with this film.
BValve has removed 200 fake games from their catelog. Fake games in this sense is when a developer cobbles together a game by asset flipping using generic assets and renaming the games and selling them. They removed 173 games from two developers Silicon Echo Studios and Zonitron Productions. It turned out that it was the same person using different accounts to publish their games. Polygon reported an email that a representative sent to Valve saying they were given no warning and no opportunity to change their ways. The dev then reached out to Polygon that said they were doing shady practices for easier statistical tracking.
They have also said that have been driven out from being a developer because their reputation was destroyed and will quit the industry. This comes after Valve were explicit about making it hard for fake devs to succeed. They also nerfed their trading card system and update their algorithms to separate legit games/players from bots. Bots can have games running and sell these cards on the marketplace for money in Steam Wallets and buy games off the marketplace.
This headset comes with a new breakout box that allows HDR to pass through the HDMI. This means you can still use HDR on your TV with the headset hooked up. The newer breakout box/processor is not compatible with older models. This headset also includes headphones.
PUBG Hit With Negative Review Bomb
Chinese players are reporting they are receiving ads in PUBG for VPNs. Chinese players have been running into problems where they are experience lag-affected servers and are forced to join European and North American servers. The result is over 10,000 negative reviews have been written on their Steam page.
Next title from Chucklefish is still early and quite a ways off but it is internally being called Spellbound. This game will be a magic school RPG/life sim. Currently they mostly have the game world lore and characters planned out. They are taking inspiration from Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley and possibly 2D Zelda games. They will also be investigating romance options that are a little more dynamic than just straight forward gaining affection.
This week Ben gushes over Marvel vs Capcom Infinite, Thomas keeps playing Ys 8, Nero keeps playing Fortnite and Justin hangs out with his switch out.
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More Characters Coming to MvCI
Monster Hunter, Winter Soldier, Black Widow, and Venom later this year.
MvCI collector’s edition included infinity stones but they look more like infinity eggs to me
Raiden is joining Infamous 2
Solarus is a 2D Zelda game engine built on C++
Servers will still remain but after the fall update, there will be no more Battleplans and no more planned content.
Battlegrounds surpasses DOTA2’s all time concurrent record
All time peak concurrent players: 1,462,708
Project X PUBG Clone Features 400-Player PVP Matches
This game will also feature dynamic weather, roaming wildlife social hubs, and “player-driven story”. This game is coming from UK developer Automaton.
Fortnite Releases BR mode f2p first on September 26th 2017
Bluehole VP Chang Han Kim Concerned About Fortnite’s Battle Royale Mode
Epic Games has included a Battle Royale mode in their new game that shamelessly copies the mode from PUBG. In addition, they also include PUBG by name in their promotional materials and press releases.
PUBG uses the UE4 engine so they’ve had an ongoing relationship in some capacity before this.
Fortnite Bridges Gap Between PS4 and Xbox One
Xbox and PS4 players got to play together briefly. Epic Games has said there was a configuration issue and now it has been fixed. They have said they are in favour for it along with Microsoft while Sony has not been in support of cross play with other titles.
Switch Getting New Picross Game
New Picross game from Jupiter who made a load of them ever since Game Boy. The new game is called Picross S boasting 300 puzzles and be priced $8 released on September 28th. The game will include a local co-op play.
Valve is hoping that the new review graph will help show potential purchasers the reviews in correspondence to the time the reviews were posted. For instance, if a game is getting positive reviews early on then suddenly shows a bunch of negative reviews it theoretically shows when a review bomb occurs. You can read reviews that take place during the timeline you explore. Valve’s Alden Kroll said they thought about taking a more hands on approach but decided against it. Gamasutra asked Valve if they plan on working further on combating review bombing and Vavle wrote back and the gist is no.
TGS News
New game from Square Enix. The game is being made from the Armored Core director Toshifumi Nabeshima and features character designs by Metal Gear character designer Yoki Shinkawa. Also including talent from Final Fantasy and Xenoblade Chronicles X. This game is teased for 2018 released on PS4.
Monster Hunter World Release Date January 26th 2018
Zone of Enders: 2nd Runner Remastered with VR support
Neko Atsume Cat Collecting Sim Comes to PSVR
The Switch Holds a Secret Tribute to Iwata
This isn’t entirely confirmed yet but the Switch supposedly has the code to the NES game Golf built-in to each console. In order to gain access to the NES emulator and game Golf a person will need to switch the time on their console to July 11th without ever connecting to the internet and make the gesture Iawta made in the Nintendo Directs.
The way they found out that Golf was built-into the Switch was that someone claimed they played it, someone else found the word flog in the Switch code, and the modder yellows8 found the emulator and game through memory access.
This week the crew gathers around to talk about the latest Nintendo Direct and get excited about the potential of Doom Guy in Smash Brothers fighting Samus.
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Okami HD Dated For PS4, Xbox One and PC
This will have 4K visuals and you can switch between the original 4:3 aspect ratio or widescreen. The original interactive loading screen and bonuses with them will be in the game.The game will release for $19.99
Minecraft wasn’t on a platform yet so they put Minecraft on it now. This version won’t have the Better Together Update.
NES Classic Returns SNES Classic Increases Stock
The NES classic will return to stores in Summer 2018. “subsequent shipments arriving in stores regularly." Regie Fils Aime came out and to not overpay for a SNES classic on auction sites.
Grow Home Grow Up Team Announced New FPS: Atomega
In this game you play as a cube and can get bigger by collecting smaller cubes. Getting biggers gets you a bigger form. It shows you can fire lasers as a giant robot. This game involves the concept of knack. Individual parts make you bigger. It’s an online only game where players take part in 10-minute fights up to 8 players. This game is coming out on September 19th for Steam.
Journey Devs New Game Sky is Apple Exclusive
Not much is known about the game. The game is described as a romantic social game. The game will launch on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and come to other devices in 2018.
Nintendo Switch Online App Update
The Nintendo Switch Online App will now enable you to keep talking with friends even after the phone screen is turned off.
Arcade Archives Coming to Switch
Mario Bros, VS. Super Mario Bros., VS. Balloon Fight, VS. Ice Climber, VS. Pinball and VS. Clu Clu Land
Mario Bros coming September 27th.
Octopath Traveler is a new game from Square Enix. A demo is released so you can try it out. It’s artstyle is 2D sprites/3D world.
Doom and Wolfenstein 2 Announced For Switch
Doom and Wolfenstein 2 will be coming to the Switch. The Doom version coming to Switch will omit the Snapmap function for the game. The multiplayer aspect of the game will be missing from the physical cartridge but can be downloaded to the SD card. Wolfenstein 2 will be released on the Switch in 2018 after the Xbox One, PS4 and PC release. Skyrim is also coming to the Switch on November 17th 2017
