Charged Up Ep. 20: Don't Let Brett Ratner Hear This

This week Justin and Ben just take a week to casually chat about what they've been interested in lately, because sometimes the world is just too crazy to feel like talking about serious topics and it's better to escape behind a TV or good book. They also catch up on two weeks worth of news, and come to the realization that Brett Ratner is just a bad filmmaker, all around.

Show Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vq3fJ0lhTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_TJKwJwN0E&feature=youtu.be http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/09/20/akira-thor-ragnaroks-taika-waititi-in-talks-to-direct-live-action-remake?abthid=59c1b423a6b0afb34200002f https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJoUoQSVAAA5Hga.jpg:large https://kotaku.com/blade-runner-is-getting-a-short-anime-from-cowboy-bebop-1814074731?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Twitter&utm_source=Kotaku_Twitter&utm_medium=Socialflow http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/09/18/what-kingsman-director-matthew-vaughn-would-want-to-do-with-a-superman-movie http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/12/star-wars-episode-ix-to-be-directed-by-jj-abrams?read http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/09/11/hellboy-losts-daniel-dae-kim-to-take-the-place-of-ed-skrien?abthid=59b713f87f1feee50d000012 http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/08/live-action-titans-series-casts-dove-hawk http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/09/08/drew-goddard-directing-x-force-cable-and-deadpool-leading-team?abthid=59b1eb0b027af76a6700002f http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/07/star-wars-and-marvel-movies-will-move-to-disneys-streaming-service http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/07/stephen-kings-it-sequel-moves-forward-at-new-line

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Charged Shot Gamescast Episode 35: Doom vs Samus

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 3DS

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.

Project Octopath Traveler

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

Charged Shot Gamescast Episode 34: Nude Mods

This week on the gamescast Thomas and Lo talk about how difficult it is to get into a match of Motor Wars and how much of a mess GTA Online is. Justin is now a Rabbid and Ben is slowly losing his mind wondering if unfeeling beings have consciousness. Oh yeah, we also talk about nude mods.

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FTC Demands Clear Disclosure After CSGO Lotto Betting Scandal

FTC has settled their case against Trevor “Tmartn” Martin and Thomas “Syndicate” Cassell. In 2015, these two deceived their audience with their relationship with a CS:GO gambling website. The FTC now requires them to “conspicuously disclose any material connections with an endorser or between an endorser and any promoted product or service.”

“Consumers need to know when social media influencers are being paid or have any other material connection to the brands endorsed in their posts,” said FTC Acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen. “This action, the FTC’s first against individual influencers, should send a message that such connections must be clearly disclosed so consumers can make informed purchasing decisions.”

Malaysia Blocked Steam Due to 2D Brawler Fight of Gods

Malaysia is blocking the Steam Store due to a game calling Fight of Gods being released. This game lets you play as numerous deities such as Buddha, Odin, Zeus, Anubis and Jesus.

South Park Fractured But Whole Difficulty Slider

Choosing a higher difficulty in South Park forces you to play as a black character while easy makes you play as a white person.

L.A. Noire Switch

L.A Noire is coming to the Xbox One, PS4, Switch and HTC Vive

Final Fantasy Nude Modes Could Affect Future Mods

Charged Up Ep. 18: Competing for Batman's Attention

This week Justin and Ben are joined by fellow Charged Shot editor Lo to discuss the importance of competition in the market place, as well as the legacy of Batman: The Animated Series, and various bits of news.

 

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Show Notes: http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/31/robindick-grayson-cast-in-titans-live-action-dc-series http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/01/guardians-of-the-galaxys-james-gunn-to-develop-starsky-hutch-tv-reboot http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/01/leonardo-dicaprio-reportedly-being-eyed-for-joker-origins-movie http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/05/little-kid-is-rightwise-queen-born-of-all-england-after-finding-sword-in-lake http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/05/star-wars-episode-ix-colin-trevorrow-out-as-director https://t.co/tDAniVUZnZ http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/bohemian-rhapsody-first-look-rami-malek-freddie-mercury-1201873238/ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/disneys-live-action-aladdin-casts-billy-magnussen-as-new-character-1035329?utm_source=twitter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeLp9-k9-LQ http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/06/apple-amazon-vie-for-james-bond-movie-distribution-rights

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Fortnite Early Access - Fight The Storm

https://youtu.be/vlqD4lxc10c Lo is back with more Fortnite Early Access content. This time, he walks us through a Fight The Storm Mission, we get to learn a few nifty survival tips (and maybe a few bugs).

Charged Shot Gamescast Episode 33: Fighting Jello

This week the crew fights through Jello to give you the latest news

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News Topics          

THQ Nordic Black Mirror Game

New game in the Black Mirror franchise was announced at Gamescom. The series was initially released in 2003 and has no relation to the TV show. It was a horror adventure game. The most notable change is that the game will have “interaction with vision-like apparitions”. And everyone knows, apparitions means ghosts.

Nintendo Miiverse Shutting Down in November

Miiverse is coming to an end on November 7th at 10pm Pacific. Nintendo has said that users will be able to save your online posts and screenshots and download them to a PC. You will need to go to a specific link through the internet browser and click on “Post History Download Option” You will also need a linked Nintendo account as well.

Fire Emblem Warriors

Releasing on October 20th.

NES Classic Style - Atari 2600

This is an Atari handheld with 50 built-in Atari 2600 games. This device has an AV output to connect to TVs.

Street Fighter 2 Re-releasing on SNES via Cartridge

This cartridge is being produced in conjunction with iam8bit. This will be a $100 collector’s item released in November. The cart will be released in either red or a glow in the dark green. They will be limiting the orders to 5,500. Iam8bit says that this be the first release in their “Legacy Cartridge Collection. Iam8bit has placed a warning that playing the game may cause the SNES console to overheat or catch fire. This is due to the fact that SNES consoles are fairly aged and are uncertain .

Sonic Stuff

Sonic Forces get multiple costumes for pre-order. Nights, Super Monkey Ball, Puyo Puyo, Jet Set Radio, Persona 5 and a skin for your controller.Release date is November 7th Bonus edition is $40.

SEGA Removes Online Requirement for Sonic Mania.  

Sonic Mania was using Denuvo as an anti-piracy method. Denuvo was also requiring people to have their Steam Client to be online in order to play the game. SEGA has made the change after public outcry and when their reviews took a hit on the Steam Store.

Yakuza: Kiwami 2, First of the North Star and Yakuza Online

Yakuza: Kiwami 2 has been announced for Japan and is releasing on December 7th using Yakuza 6’s engine. Yakuza: Kiwami 2 is the remake of Yakuza 2. Yakuza: Online has also been announced for Japan. Yakuza: Online will be free-to-play and take place after Yakuza 6. This will be the first entry in the “New Yakuza Series”. The game will also have a new character as the protagonist. Finally, a new Fist of the North Star will be coming from the Yakuza dev team and released in Japan 2018. The game will have a new story, feature Yakuza-like play spots and have Fist of the North Star protagonist Kenshiro.

Atlas Teases Catherine 2?

Atlas held a program to recruit talent to a new development team called Studio Zero. During the program there were hints as to Catherine 2 might be in the works. This hint was that Trisha, the host from Catherine (in the same vein as the host in The Warriors), appeared on a livestream and asked about when she will be back and shared excitement about the next job.

RAID: World War 2

New game from Starbreeze Studios, RAID: World War 2, has offered a closed beta to Payday 2 owners. The beta will run until September 17th and will launch on PC September 26, October 10th for PlayStation 4, and October 13th for Xbox One. This game is a 4 player co-op shooter set in World War 2. The trailer shows four players essentially robbing a Nazi mansion and blowing it up.

Killing Floor: Incursion Update

Killing Floor: Incursion is a VR mode of Killing Floor and it seems that game is getting an update to be more like Killing Floor. The new game mode is Holdout and here you will fight a wave of enemies until you succumb to the numbers.

Windows 10 Mixed Reality Headsets

Steam content will run on the Windows 10 Mixed Reality Headsets. These headsets will also focus on Windows Store content such as Hulu, Sony and others. Microsoft is also working with 343 Industries to bring Halo to their headset. They are aiming for 90 fps for higher end PCs and 60 for non-ultra setups. Window’s Mixed Reality Headsets will come bundled with controllers for $399.

GTA Online Smuggler’s Run Now Available

Along with a slew of new aircrafts, cars, clothes, and hideouts, players can play a new game mode called Motor Wars. Motor Wars is a game where up to 4 teams can parachute into a deadly periodically shrinking kill box strew with a lethal assortment of guns, explosvies, and weaponized vehicles. Work together, find a vehicle, and fight opposing teams and the shrinking map to survive and win.

PUBG Has Toppled DOTA 2 as Most Concurrent Players Currently

PUBG has toppled DOTA 2 as the most played game concurrently with over 880,000 players and DOTA being just a little bit under that. DOTA 2’s all time peak has been above 1.2 million. PUBG has also sold over 8 million copies of the game. To give perspective CS:GO is usually btween 500k - 700k and the next highest game is GTA 5 averaging 65k - 130k.

Dead Rising 4 Coming to Playstation 4

Dead Rising 4 is coming to Playstation 4 on December 5th. The game will be called Dead Rising 4: Frank’s Big Package. In this package is going to be the Stocking Stuffer Holiday Pack, Frank Rising and Super Ultra Dead Rising 4 Mini Golf.

Charged Up Ep. 17: Binges and Biases

This week Justin and Ben get together to discuss the good and bad sides of binge-ing media, as well as how everyone should be more open-minded and get over their confirmation biases. There are also mini-discussions about the intricacies of racial diversity in media and why people shouldn't make fun of fears...specifically Justin's totally rational fear of clowns.

 

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Show Notes: http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/28/clowns-are-losing-work-because-of-stephen-kings-it http://io9.gizmodo.com/actor-ed-skrein-is-leaving-the-hellboy-reboot-amid-accu-1798510288 http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/joker-and-harley-quinn-film-replaces-gotham-city-sirens-233 https://twitter.com/ThePunisher/status/900773209284395008

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Prey 2017 (PC) - One Shot

Thomas dons on his space suit and gets caught up in the world of Prey. Where aliens have run amok and started terrorizing the space station you are on. Escape the space station and figure out what conspiracies are taking place.

Mario & Rabbids: Kingdom Battle - Quick Shot (Switch)

Justin took some time on release day to show off the ins and outs of the new crazy crossover game from Ubisoft and Nintendo. It's an excellent mix of team RTS battles and wacky comedy under the guise of the Mario and Rabbids franchises. And somehow, it works!

Charged Shot Gamescast Episode 32: Candy Cast

This week on the Gamescast the crew break into all the news that came from Gamescom over the week. In addition, they also break into their favorite candy and chocolate bars.

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Final Fantasy 15 Support 8K Resolutions

Square said that the download for the game would be 170GB and require a 1080Ti but that was a communications error and they are going to share more once they have minimum specs worked out.

Final Fantasy 15 Pocket Edition

Launching for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices. This game will retell the story of the game with multiple episode and the first episode will be free. Releasing Fall 2017. This game will also have a chance of coming to the Switch.

Assassin’s Creed and Final Fantasy 15 Cross-Over

August 30th Final Fantasy 15th players who get the Dream Egg from the Moogle Chocobo Carnival event will receive an Assassin’s Creed outfit for Noctis. August 31st FF15 will get free Assassin’s Festival DLC. Lestallum will be redesigned for the festival and will have new activities available. This festival will allow Noctis to use more Assassin’s Creed style abilities.

A Hat in Time Releases October 5th

Sakamoto Able to Grasp a Fun Design for 2D Metroid

Quote from Game Informer via Shine Sparkers Sakamoto is quoted to say “Through the development of Metroid: Samus Returns, I was able to really grasp the possibility and fun of a 2D Metroid. Like when I finished the first game, if there is another opportunity to make another Metroid, that is something that I would love to do. Of course, that really depends on how much people really want to buy a 2D Metroid.”

Metroid Car Coming to Rocket League

Children of Morta Announcement Trailer

Children of Morta is a hack/slash rogue-like with narrative thread. Kickstarted in 2015 release scheduled for 2018.

Absolver Shows Off Co-op Fighting Mechanics (trailer)

You can group up with other fighters to have a 3v3 fight. There is a mentor/student system where pros can train new comers and help guide them with their move set. Releasing August 29th 2017.

Minecraft Xbox One S Console Bundle

Xbox One S Minecraft edition looks like a grass block with redstone circuits underneath. The controller is patchy green with a tiny creeper face on the front. The buttons have the Minecraft font. There is also a pig version of the controller.

Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition

Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition will have the project scorpio logo branded on the controller and console.

Fe Release Date Trailer Coming 2018

Fe first announced at EA 2015 press conference teased for early 2018 release. Fe will be released for Switch, PC, Xbox, and Playstation.

Jurassic World Announcement Trailer

You can create and manage your own Jurassic Park. This game is being developed by Frontier Developments. They are best known for Elite Dangerous. Release date is planned for Summer 2018 for PC, Playstation 4, and Xbox One.

New Character Calling to Arms

Looks like a clown. This new character is coming at a later date. This weekend Arms is available for free.

Xbox One PC Cross-Play Sea of Thieves Confirmed

One extra tidbit of fun is that you can barf in a bucket and throw it in an enemy’s face.

Breakaway

This is the first attempt at Amazon publishing a video game. Breakaway is a 5v5 soccer style game with different classes for characters.

Biomutant Details and Trailer Release Date 2018

Biomutant is a post-apocalyptic open world RPG. This is their kung-fu inspired game they said was going to be announced. This game looks like it takes more from Witcher and Zelda: BOTW style gameplay. Developer is Experiment 101 from the same devs who made Just Cause 1 and 2. Release date is 2018 on Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC. You can level up and find different robotic attachments, mutations and weapons.

SNES Classic Rewind Feature

With a press of the button you can rewind up to a 1 minute. The amount of time that can be rewound is dependent on the game itself.

Secret of Mana Remake Coming

Square is remaking Secret of Mana for Playstation 4, Vita, and Steam. This game will include enhanced visuals, voice acting, and new music.

Fear Effect Reinvented

Original Playstation game getting a graphical overhaul and remaster called Fear Effect Reinvented coming to Switch, Xbox, Playstation and PC.

Age of Empires 4 Announced

Relic confirmed for development. Age of Empires 1 remaster is coming later this year and they will be working on 2 and 3 as well.

Horizon Zero Dawn Adding an Easier Difficulty

Shenmue 3 Teaser Trailer

Facial expressions were put in a month ago but took it out during the trailer released

Bioware Confirms No DLC for Mass Effect Andromeda

Metal Gear Survive Will Include Farming and Crafting

Players will need to plant crops and herd animals for food and obtain clean water to survive. PC Gamer has also said that this is a base defence game as well.

Half Life 2 Episode 3 Script Released

Marc Laidlaw has released what he has written for Half Life 2 Episode 3 on his blog. He has changed the names in the story to similar sounding names.

Nidhogg 2 - Quick Shot

Thomas and Justin test each other in a battle of strength, steel, and wits in Nidhogg 2.

Fortnite Early Access - Progression, Experience, RNG, & Loot Llamas

Fortnite Early Access - Progression, Experience, RNG, & Loot Llamas

https://youtu.be/YSq6zkRm70E

Lo brings us more Fortnite Early Access content. This time, he gives us an overview of the progression systems including Hero / Survivor Squads, Experience types, RNG and Loot Llama systems.

Charged Up Ep. 16: The Defenders Review

This week, Justin and Ben briefly discuss the recently passed Total Solar Eclipse and the effect it had on the world, and then jump into both spoiler-free and spoiler-FULL reviews of the newest Netflix Marvel series, The Defenders. Then they cover a few obligatory nerdy news stories and keep getting distracted by the usual side-tangents.

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http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/18/marvels-the-punisher-first-trailer-released-on-netflix-only

http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/19/super-troopers-2-release-date-announced

http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/22/stranger-things-creators-say-netflix-series-will-end-with-season-4

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/08/22/the-joker-origin-story-movie-reportedly-in-development-separate-from-the-dceu-jared-leto?abthid=599cc3762405f54d6b000035 http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/23/marvels-avengers-infinity-war-cast-adds-two-more-familiar-faces

http://deadline.com/2017/08/titans-anna-diop-cast-starfire-live-action-series-dc-digital-service-1202155063/

http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/23/joker-harley-quinn-movie-glenn-ficarra-john-requa/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter

http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/24/moviepasss-new-low-price-draws-150000-subscribers-in-under-a-week

 

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Fortnite Early Access - Building Basics

Fortnite Early Access - Building Basics

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Lo is back at it with more Fortnite Early Access content. This time we take a quick look at some of the building mechanics as well as the persistent base known as the Storm Shield.

Charged Shot Gamescast Episode 31: Give Me A Break

This week we explore clicking Justin's buttons while appearing dumb founded over Atari's recent dealings. With news being slim this week we also go on random side tangents talking about Tim Burton and what was his best last movie. Also Ben cries recounting his days with Sonic Mania.

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Blizzard Renames Blizzard App to Battle.Net

Swery Makes a New Game Called The Good Life

Set in a fictional English town called Rainy Woods. The residents of the town turn into cats at night. This game will be an RPG featuring Naomi a New York photographer with a massive debt trying to uncover the town’s secret while she also transforms into a cat at night. Swery says “It's a mystery game based on the framework of a 'daily life RPG.” The Good Life will be coming from White Owls a new studio formed by Swery. This game will be available for crowdfunding on Fig September 2nd.

Deep Silver to Publish Shenmue 3

Deep Silver will handle the process of distribution of both physical and digital copies of the game world wide.

Destiny Silver Appeared For Purchase On Steam Marketplace

Any purchases made have been refunded. Supposedly this was silver for the first Destiny game.

PUBG Drops Weekly Monthly Update For More Stable Updates

They hope to have longer QA test periods without the monthly and weekly update schedule.

We Happy Few Gets Release Date

We Happy Few will be releasing on April 13th 2017 for Xbox One, PC, and Playstation 4. Gearbox will be helping with the publishing side for this game.

Crackdown 3 is Delayed

Crackdown 3 is delayed to Spring 2018. It was supposed to launch alongside the Xbox One X to help sell the hardware. They brought in David Jones one of the creators of the original Crackdown on the Xbox 360.

Chun-Li’s Face is Fixed

Amazon Canada Drops Pre-Order Bonus to 10%

Amazon US stops offering 20% after release discount. Only available for pre-orders now,.

ReCore Definitive Edition

Will be releasing on August 29th for $19.99. The remaster edition will have a new campaign titled Eye of Obsidian, HDR visuals, and a new Corebot called T8-NK.

Atari Suing Nestle

Atari is claiming that Nestle used Breakout’s screen and replaced it with KitKat bars. Atari is seeking for 3 times the amount that Nestle made with the ad campaign. Nestle replied that they will be defending the charges.

Charged Up Ep. 15: Best Media of 2017 (So Far)

This week Justin and Ben discuss what they've enjoyed watching, listening to, and reading most so far this year, as well as the importance of reading contracts before signing them, and just a few news stories...mostly also related to contracts, weirdly enough.

Show Notes: https://twitter.com/glasscannonpod http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/15/nick-fury-wont-appear-in-avengers-3-and-4-or-black-panther-samuel-l-jackson?read http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/15/the-walking-dead-creator-and-producers-file-massive-lawsuit-against-amc http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/08/16/ben-affleck-justice-league-has-a-more-traditional-batman-than-bvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ihJIjVGLo&feature=youtu.be

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Fortnite - Early Access... Is It Worth A Shot?

Fortnite is a co-op survival action building game from the Epic Games, the developers of titles such as Unreal Tournament and Gears of War, and is probably better known for it's notoriously long development time of 6 years since being announced at the 2011 Video Game Awards (VGA).

Fortnite has finally released as early acceess, but is it worth a shot? Lo has been playing a ton of it, and he has some thoughts. He gives us a brief overview of the game, his impressions, and touches on the topic of Free To Play games with Beta Access by way of Founders Packs. More Fortnite content to come!

Charged Shot Gamescast Episode 30: It's Fine. It's OK

This episode is fine. It's OK.

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NickRobinson Apology

Microsoft to Redesign Xbox Achievement System

In an interview with Windows Central Xbox Vice President Mike Ybarra said that they want to do a lot more to reflect and let people show their gaming history. This goes more in the direction of rewarding players who may not play a lot of games but play a few games a lot. They want people to show off their gaming history.

Ghost Rider MVCI

Shadow of War Microtransactions

Players can purchase loot chests, war chests, xp boosts and bundles. Loot chests contain weapons armour, and xp boosts. War Chests provide Orc followers and training orders that help level up and customize Orcs. Unlock just XP boosts and bundles that includes all of the above items together. You can purchase loot boxes by gaining in game currency called Mirian or through Gold which can either be earned or bought. Everything acquired by chests can be earned in game.

Call of Duty WW2 Rewards You For Watching People Open Lootboxes

In September issue of Game Informer there was a story about Headquarters which is a social space for people to hangout in. From here you can group up check daily/weekly quests, test fire guns, participate and watch 1v1 matches. You can also watch people open lootboxes and get a reward for it. Activision has not stated what the rewards may be yet.

LawBreakers Patched

LawBreakers on Playstation ran into frame rate and stutter issues.Boss Key has put out a patch to help fix the issues.

LawBreakers Isn’t Breaking Records

LawBreakers has recently launched and the numbers on PC appear to be rather low. Playerbase is down 60% since launch and Concurrent Players data has dipped at one point below 1K players. The number I’ve seen has been just above 800 players. Cliff Bleszinski says he isn’t worried and is taking this game in a long tail approach. He is hoping to build up the player base while they continue working on it.

No Man’s Sky Atlus Rises Update

Massive game updates probably too much for us to cover on the show. The things I’m mostly interested in is the addition of story content, new worlds types and biomes, crashed freighters, updated UI, visual improvements (things used to look more smudgy before), portals (let you revisit old planets and bases as well as visit new worlds. You can share glyph combinations to travel to a specific place), improvements to space combat, low flight, addition of multiplayer (16 players can see and communicate with each other with voice), can summon your ship anywhere, and improved inventory management.

Horizon: Zero Dawn DLC Frozen Wilds Releases November 7th

Will be a $20 story DLC unlocking a new area to the north of the current map.

UFO 50 Trailer

Some of the shumps look great.

Creators of Spelunky Downwell

There is a prehistoric tower defense

Some familiar looking games:

Ice Climbers

Pocky and Rocky

Streets of Rage

Grand Theft Auto 1

Pong

Witcher 3 Mod

Geralt of Rivia’s Pro Witcher 3 Mod looks like Geralt is skateboarding without a skate board. I want them to include a skate board in the mod and have sick kickflips happen.

Steam Keeps Growing 

Valve has 27 million new paying members of Steam added since January 2016. Roughly 1.5 million added per month. 33 million daily active players and 57 million monthly active players. Report made in January by Forbes stating that Gabe Newell has a net worth of $4.1 billion making him richer than Oprah.

Metroid Samus Returns Themed 3DS

Metroid 2 Fan Remake Creator Milton Guasti Now Working on New Ori Game

Skull and Bones Going Shared Narrative

Skull and Bone will have a shared narrative that will take place in the multiplayer. The narrative will evolve through months and years.

Super Meat Boy Coming to Switch

Possible physical copy coming

Gamevice Suing Nintendo Over Switch Design

Asking Nintendo to stop selling the Switch and pay them in damages.

Nintendo World Championship 2017

Charged Up Ep. 14: A Healthy Amount of Anti-Heroes

This week Justin and Ben discuss the reasons anti-heroes aren't as prevalent in media as they used to be, and the struggles of staying healthy in this fast-paced, fast food filled world. They also discuss a smattering of obligatory nerdy news topics, and get a brief appearance from a surprise guest!

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Charged Shot Gamescast Episode 29: I Can Be Your Daddy

This week we learn a lot about ourselves. We learn that eating an entire bag of spicy chips can lead to stomach problems. We also learn that Ben and Thomas have a special connection.

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News Topics          

House Party Back on Steam

House party is back on steam but now with censor bars. They will have an update later that will remove them

Sounds like Eek Games and Steam had to bargain! .

Firebrand and Dormammu Confirmed 

Firebrand and Dormammu return to Marvel vs Capcom Infinite

Resident Revelations 1 and 2 Coming to Switch

Persona 5 Anime Coming 2018

No word on if it will release in USA.

Persona 5 Dancing Star Night Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night Announced

Persona dancing games coming to the Playstation 4 and Vita next spring in Japan. No mention of release outside of Japan. These will be separate games. Looks like Persona 3 has new assets and are uprezzed models. Could it mean Persona 3 remake?

Bioware Montreal Merged into EA Motive

BioWare Montreal was reduced to a support studio back in May. The studio was moved into Motive’s offices. In a statement to Techraptor from EA they said that they are merging BioWare Montreal with Motive Studios. Motive is working on the new Jade Raymond game. Jade is working on Battlefront 2 plus the untitled Star Wars game with Visceral. Jade is known for being a producer on Assassin’s Creed.

Stardew Valley Multiplayer On Track For 2018

Players can build up to three cabins on their farm.  Players can help mine, farm and fish. They won’t be able to schedule festivals or end the day by sleeping. No plan for offline coop. Says they are toying with the idea of player to player marriage. Planning PC Beta for multiplayer for the end of the year and officially releasing in 2018. It will still be first to console for the Switch.

SNES Classic Edition Pre-Order Will Be Live in August

Nintendo has said they will have pre-orders available late August. No word on the retailers that will offer pre-orders.

GameStop is Giving Away 100 NES Classic Editions

This giveaway is available for Power Up members. The giveaway is happening for the month of August.

Kickstarted Game Unsung Story Developer Passes Rights To New Company

After three years, and $660,126, Playdek has passed the rights onto Little Orbit. Little Orbit has been known for Barbie, Adventure Time, and Kung Fu Panda games on consoles and DS. Unsung Story was on target to become a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics from Yasumi Matsuno. Little Orbit has also taken over the Kickstarter page. Matsuno’s involvement is unclear other than he has made a game and story design. Little Orbit will be starting from scratch and is focusing on the original single player game. Little Orbit is honoring the Kickstarter backer rewards with no extra cost. Meaning that the cost will be coming from Little Orbit themselves.