Believing Heart Podcast

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Intro/Outro: Lollipop Cruise by Oddboy18

Mario In Review:

https://youtu.be/qFNbbUJo4p0

0:00 Hire Me For Your Podcast

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Intro/Outro: Lollipop Cruise by Oddboy18

Mario Kart 8 DLC:

https://www.polygon.com/23621879/mario-kart-8-deluxe-switch-booster-course-dlc-4-release-date

Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon Online Shut Down:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/nintendo-takes-wiiu-games-i-mario-kart-8-i-and-i-splatoon-1-i-offline

Sonic Jail Time:

https://kotaku.com/yuji-naka-square-enix-insider-trading-court-1850179277

Timecodes:

00:00 Intro

00:22 Mario Kart 8 DLC

00:56 MK8 and Splatoon Online Shut Down

01:32 Sonic Jail Time

02:17 SK Specter of Torment

10:05 The Mandalorian S3

13:39 The Last of Us

15:36 Outro

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Show Notes:

Intro/Outro: Lollipop Cruise by Oddboy18

Mario Movie:

https://www.polygon.com/23610090/nintendo-direct-march-2023-super-mario-bros-movie-trailer

https://www.polygon.com/23618714/super-mario-bros-movie-release-date-announced-2023

Elden Ring DLC:

https://www.polygon.com/23618241/elden-ring-expansion-shadow-of-the-erdtree-release-date

Sony State of Play:

https://www.polygon.com/23612341/sony-state-of-play-february-2023-everything-announced-trailers

IOI New Game:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/hitman-developer-ioi-expands-production-slate-with-online-fantasy-rpg

Square Enix Merger:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/forspoken-dev-luminous-productions-is-being-merged-into-square-enix

RIP Angry Birds:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rovio-delisting-original-angry-birds-so-players-might-try-its-live-service-games

Industry Layoffs:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ea-lays-off-over-100-qa-workers-from-baton-rouge-office

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/meta-is-reportedly-planning-to-lay-off-more-employees

Timecodes:

00:00 Intro

00:41 Mario Movie

01:21 Elden Ring DLC

03:05 Sony State of Play

06:08 IOI New Game

07:11 Square Enix Merger

07:59 RIP Angry Birds

09:06 Industry Layoffs

09:42 I'm Reading A Book

10:43 Last of Us

13:58 Outro

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Intro/Outro: Lollipop Cruise by Oddboy18

Activison Ends Work From Home

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/activision-blizzard-reportedly-planning-to-end-remote-work

Sega Salary Raises:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/sega-increasing-average-monthly-salary-of-workers-by-30-percent

Playstation State of Play:

https://www.polygon.com/23608838/playstation-state-of-play-2023-february-ps5-ps-vr2

Call of Duty on Nintendo:

https://www.polygon.com/23546288/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-deal-merger-ftc-latest-news

Timecodes:

00:00 Intro

00:29 Activision Ending Work From Home

03:52 Sega Raises

04:58 Playstation State Of Play

06:45 Call of Duty on Nintendo

08:04 Hi Fi Rush

11:35 I've Been Writing A Lot

15:32 Podcast Update

18:05 Outro

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Show Notes:

Intro/Outro: Lollipop Cruise by Oddboy18

Gamepass Eats Sales:

https://kotaku.com/xbox-game-pass-sales-decline-cma-report-activision-deal-1850109961

Minecraft Updates:

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/cherry-blossom-biome-coming-minecraft-120

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/sniffer-coming-minecraft-120

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/archeology-coming-minecraft-120

Psychonauts 2 Documentary:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/double-fine-releases-documentary-on-i-psychonauts-2-i-development

Mario Movie Add:

https://www.pcgamer.com/cult-pc-gaming-icon-super-mario-resurrects-his-80s-rap-classic-in-nostalgic-super-bowl-ad/

Timecodes:

00:00 Intro

01:11 Gamepass

03:33 Minecraft

04:05 Psychonauts 2

04:51 Mario Movie

05:50 New Computer

09:43 Hi-Fi Rush

14:40 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

17:44 The Last of Us

20:22 The Bad Batch

21:54 Outro

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Show Notes:

Intro/Outro: Lollipop Cruise by Oddboy18

Nintendo Direct Recap:

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-direct-metroid-prime-pikmin-zelda-totk-trailer-1850090239

Nintendo Direct Bomb Threat:

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-direct-police-cops-cal-state-threat-email-joke-1850088816

Nintendo Pay Raise:

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-union-pay-raise-layoffs-pokemon-scarlet-1850082365

Switch Third Best Selling Console:

https://www.polygon.com/23589062/nintendo-switch-third-best-selling-game-console

Dwarf Fortress Profits:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/bay-12-games-has-earned-over-7-2-million-since-launching-dwarf-fortress

Meta (Facebook) Loss:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/meta-lost-13-7-billion-on-reality-labs-in-2022

Knockout City Shutters:

https://kotaku.com/knockout-city-private-servers-shut-down-online-game-pc-1850068534

Back 4 Blood Shutters:

https://www.pcgamer.com/back-4-blood-wont-get-any-more-new-content-as-turtle-rock-pivots-to-an-all-new-game/

Titanfall Apex Legends Game Cancelled:

https://kotaku.com/titanfall-3-apex-legends-respawn-ea-cancelled-layoffs-1850061241

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

1:08 Nintendo Direct Recap

18:26 Nintendo Direct Thoughts

19:10 Nintendo Direct Bomb Threat

20:13 Nintendo Pay Raise

20:44 Switch Third Best Selling Console

21:53 Dwarf Fortress Profits

22:33 Meta (Facebook) Loss

23:06 Knockout City and Back 4 Blood Shutters

24:27 Titanfall Apex Legends Game Cancelled

26:28 Outro

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Show Notes:

Intro/Outro: Lollipop Cruise by Oddboy18

Proletariat Union Update:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/proletariat-claims-cwa-s-adversarial-tactics-led-to-union-withdrawal

PSVR2 Update:

https://kotaku.com/playstation-vr2-price-preorder-sony-ps5-virtual-reality-1850052811

Xbox Developer Direct:

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-and-bethesda-developer-direct-january-2023-everything-announced

Xbox Price Hike:

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-series-xs-prices-raised-in-japan

RIP E3 (again):

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-nintendo-sony-skipping-e3-2023

Jedi Survivor Delayed:

https://twitter.com/EAStarWars/status/1620527593580806145

Apex Mobile and Battlefield Mobile(Didn't see this!) are shutting down:

https://www.ea.com/news/ea-mobile-strategy-realignment

Rumbleverse is shutting down:

https://irongalaxystudios.com/our-galaxy/open-letter-to-the-rumbleverse-community

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:36 Proletariat Union Update

1:17 PSVR2 Update

3:13 Xbox Developer Direct

7:36 Xbox Price Hike

9:43 RIP E3 (again)

12:20 Jedi Survivor Delayed

13:46 Apex Mobile is shutting down

14:02 Rumbleverse is shutting down

16:49 The Last of Us Show

18:01 Vampire Survivors

19:15 Firewatch

20:55 PC Building (I'm scared)

23:08 Outro

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Show Notes:

Intro/Outro: Lollipop Cruise by Oddboy18

Get In The Car Loser DLC:

https://twitter.com/christinelove/status/1617669523976372224

PSVR2 Lineup:

https://www.polygon.com/23562760/psvr-2-games-list-playstation-vr-release-date-pre-order

Google Being Sued:

https://www.ign.com/articles/google-is-being-sued-by-the-us-government-in-antitrust-fight

Ubisoft Strike Update (I think this should still go to the right article, looks like the urls got mixed up):

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-custom-game-mode-sexual-assault-blizzard-1850025765

Proletariat No Longer Unionizing:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/proletariat-withdraws-election-for-unionization-cite-ceo-as-cause

ZeniMax QA Union still at the bargaining table:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/microsoft-will-bargain-with-unionized-qa-staff-amidst-mass-layoffs

Last of Us Co-Creator calls for Unions:

https://www.ign.com/articles/last-of-us-co-creator-says-lack-of-credit-on-hbo-show-is-an-argument-for-unionization

Last of Us Sales Skyrocket:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/console/-i-the-last-of-us-part-i-i-received-a-large-sales-spike-post-hbo-show

Persona 3/4 Not Crediting Translators:

https://kotaku.com/persona-localisation-translation-credits-sega-3-4-1850017066

Giant Bomb and Gamespot Layoffs:

https://kotaku.com/giant-bomb-gamespot-metacritic-fandom-layoffs-1850008228

Washington Post Launcher Layoffs:

https://kotaku.com/washington-post-launcher-layoffs-giant-bomb-games-media-1850025471

Microsoft Layoffs:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/microsoft-laying-off-10-000-employees-from-overall-workforce

https://www.polygon.com/23561210/microsoft-layoffs-xbox-bethesda-halo-infinite-343-industries

Riot Games Layoffs:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/riot-games-to-lay-off-nearly-50-staff-as-part-of-strategic-shifts-

Google Layoffs:

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/google-lays-off-12-000-employees-in-a-week-of-mass-layoffs

Timecodes:

00:00 Intro

00:22 GITCL DLC 

00:38 PSVR2 Lineup

04:47 Google Being Sued

06:12 Ubisoft Strike Update

06:51 Proletariat No Longer Unionizing

08:21 ZeniMax QA Union still at the bargaining table

08:59 Last of Us Co-Creator calls for Unions

09:52 Last of Us Sales Skyrocket

10:28 Persona 3/4 Not Crediting Translators

12:00 Giant Bomb and Gamespot Layoffs

12:51 Washington Post Launcher Layoffs

13:45 Microsoft Layoffs

14:31 Riot Games Layoffs

14:43 Google Layoffs 

15:29 Outro

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Show Notes:

Intro/Outro: Lollipop Cruise by Oddboy18

Suicide Squad Leak

https://www.ign.com/articles/leaked-suicide-squad-screen-appears-to-reveal-live-service-game-with-a-battle-pass

Microsoft Activision Aquisition

https://www.destructoid.com/eu-microsoft-activision-blizzard-purchase-reuters/

Ubisoft Strike

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/ubisoft-paris-called-to-strike-after-catastrophic-communication-from-yves-guillemot

Unity Layoffs

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/unity-software-to-lay-off-nearly-300-employees

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:47 Suicide Squad Leak

3:17 Microsoft Activision Acquisition

5:13 Ubisoft Strike

7:48 Unity Layoffs

9:00 I need a new computer

12:14 Vampire Survivors

15:56 Bad Batch

17:19 Outro 

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Show Notes: 

ZeniMax Union 

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/qa-staff-at-zenimax-studios-unanimously-votes-to-unionize

More PS5s

https://kotaku.com/sony-ps5-supply-stock-availability-where-to-find-1849953356

Sony's New Controller

https://www.polygon.com/23540502/ps5-accessibility-controller-project-leonardo-sony

23 Upcoming Indie Games

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/23507157/2023-upcoming-indie-video-games-pc-nintendo-switch-ps4-ps5-xbox

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:47 ZeniMax QA Union

3:09 More PS5s In The Wild

5:50 Sony's Accessibility Controller

8:09 What I've Been Doing

8:47 Lil Gator Game

10:15 Audacity Glitch, don't know what's up with that

11:18 Indie Games Coming This Year

15:52 Dragon House

19:40 Stranger Things S4

23:48 Outro

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Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

1:56 Movies I Watched In 22

13:52 TV I Watched In 22

22:43 A Look To 23

23:35 Outro

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Show Notes:

Super Mario In Review Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7uCuhZfAo1AVcOA_vh5vQi24QNn9xFTs

Animal Crossing New Horizon Videos:

https://youtu.be/rLqOP5wlzvM

https://youtu.be/1GPegr9LUnk

Get In The Car, Loser Review: https://youtu.be/ENjtsFup2Vc

Deathloop Review: https://youtu.be/VhNKM6SnQUI

Death's Door Review: https://youtu.be/ZGnTHAtnaPU

We Know The Devil/Heaven Will Be Mine/Norco Reviews: https://youtu.be/CzDxF3J79KE

Kirby and the Forgotten Land Review: https://youtu.be/pyst3GSvMw0

Solar Ash Review: https://youtu.be/h-g4pAlxPcs

Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe Review: https://youtu.be/y5fUjQiY8Qw

God of War Ragnarok Review Pod: https://youtu.be/kyVVpvyNEsA

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

2:29 ACNH

3:18 Get In The Car, Loser

4:16 NSMBWii

4:40 A Short Hike

5:15 Deathloop

6:32 Super Mario Galaxy 2

6:50 Death's Door

7:29 Super Mario 3D Land

7:38 Super Mario World

8:12 Mario Kart 8 DLC

8:57 NSMB2

9:16 We Know The Devil

9:48 Heaven Will Be Mine

11:05 Kirby and the Forgotten Land

12:07 NSMBU Deluxe

12:44 Solar Ash

13:47 Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

14:16 The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe

15:46 Norco

16:47 Bugsnax DLC

17:50 Super Mario Odyssey

19:31 Unpacking

20:33 Horizon Zero Dawn

21:25 Splatoon 2, Octo, and 3

23:29 Toem DLC

25:27 Tunic

27:02 Shovel Knight Plague of Shadows

27:37 Psychonauts

27:59 Psychonauts 2

29:38 God of War Ragnarok

30:13 Immortality

31:22 My Backlog

33:06 Outro

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Show Notes:

Jedi Survivor

https://www.ign.com/articles/jedi-survivor-confirmed-for-the-game-awards-new-key-art-revealed

New Gaming Unions

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/blizzard-albany-qa-unanimously-votes-to-unionize

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/zenimax-studios-qa-workers-to-vote-on-unionization

TGA Steam Deck Giveaway

https://www.polygon.com/23490298/the-game-awards-2022-announcements-steam-deck-free-award-prize-register

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

1:38 Star Wars Jedi

4:48 Games Union Corner

8:35 The Game Awards

9:49 Super Mario In Review

11:02 GOTY 

13:29 Mario Kart Tour

17:28 Immortality

22:13 Outro 

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Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:50 God of War Ragnarok Review

7:51  GOD:R SPOILERS START HERE

10:39 Mario Movie Trailer 2 Analisys

15:12 Outro

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I'm sad about Twitter

The Game Award Nominations have been announced, and Suprise! It's exactly what you'd expect them to be

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-game-awards-2022-nominations-elden-ring-god-of-war-ragnarok

Look at all the cool Indie games announced at the Nintendo Indie Direct

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-switch-indie-world-showcase-november-2022-everything-announced

Speaking of Nintendo, looks like they're games are selling well at least

https://www.ign.com/articles/animal-crossing-new-horizons-japans-best-selling-game-of-all-time

https://www.ign.com/articles/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land-has-reportedly-become-the-best-selling-game-in-the-franchise

Doom Eternal's Marty Stratton has, allegedly, really screwed over series composer Mick Gordon. But Gordon brought the reciepts, it doesn't look good, and this whole situation really sucks

https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

https://www.ign.com/articles/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land-has-reportedly-become-the-best-selling-game-in-the-franchise

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:54 I'm Sad About Twitter

1:58 Game Award Noms

11:53 BOY

22:52 Nintendo Indie Direct

24:08  Nintendo's Doing Well

25:07 Doom Eternal Composer Trouble

26:09 Splatfest

27:20 Mario Kart Tour

28:03 God of War: Ragnarok

29:16 Outro

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Show Notes:

Day Of The Devs happened and a bunch of cool looking games were shown off

https://www.destructoid.com/day-of-the-devs-10th-anniversary-showcase-recap-indies-news/

Final Fanatasy XVI is okay with Dragons and magic spells but brown people are too unrealistic.

https://kotaku.com/ffxvi-square-enix-naoki-yoshida-ff16-release-date-1849744847

PSVR2 is gonna cost 550 bucks, which is about what I was expecting, but without backwards compatability I just can't find a reason to pick one up.

https://www.polygon.com/23436556/playstation-vr2-price-release-date-ps5-psvr2

Nintendo is going hard in on mobile gaming... again

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-and-mobile-company-dena-establish-a-joint-venture-company-called-nintendo-systems

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:40 Day of the Devs Recap

13:22 Final Fantasy is Very White

15:02 PSVR2

16:18  Nintendo Mobile

19:18 Watch Super Mario In Review Pweese

21:05 Outro

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Show Notes:

Look, NieR:Automata is one of my favorite games, and I really liked NieR:Replicant too. And at the end of Automata Yoko Taro Did A Thing. And it seems like he's going to be Doing A Similar thing with the Gacha game he writes for SINoAlice and I think it is brilliant.

https://kotaku.com/yoko-taro-sinoalice-end-update-server-nier-mobile-1849711919

I was sold on Remedy when I played Control, but am I sold enough to try their spooky Alan Wake games? Yes. Am I sold enough to try their multiplayer games? Absolutely not, no.

https://www.ign.com/articles/remedy-provides-updates-on-alan-wake-2-its-control-spin-off-and-more

Netflix has gobbled up another studio, this time the ones behind the cute looking Animal Crossing like Cozy Grove: Spry Fox

https://www.pcgamer.com/cozy-grove-studio-spry-fox-now-belongs-to-netflix/

After being Embraced just a few months ago, the former Square Enix studio Onoma has been shut down, really making me feel good about my decision to not be in the Video Games market just yet.

https://www.ign.com/articles/embracer-group-shutting-down-onoma-the-studio-it-acquired-just-months-ago

Playstation Plus isn't doing so hot, huh.

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-loses-2-million-playstation-plus-subscribers-since-service-revamp

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:33 News

0:37 Yoko Taro Is At It Again

2:50 Remedy Update

5:39 Netflix Buys More

6:43 Embracer Kills Onoma

9:42 Playstation Plus

11:54 What I've Been Doing

12:00 Nothing Lol Just Psychonauts

13:15 Please Watch Super Mario In Review

14:07 Outro

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Please Watch Super Mario In Review 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7uCuhZfAo1AN6AAEEwUpz7mUd9WpyxmR

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:27 No News Today

1:24 What I've Been Doing

1:39 Super Mario In Review Editing

3:44 The Insider

5:42 Psychonauts

8:14 Outro

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Apex introduced their new trans character, and even though I don't play Apex I'm always happy to see more trans representation, especially when it's done well

https://www.polygon.com/23408941/apex-legends-eclipse-release-date-catalyst-new-legend

Voice actors aren't payed anything, even after they defined the role

https://kotaku.com/bayonetta-3-hellena-taylor-voice-nintendo-switch-hale-1849662631

The games industry continues to be tumultuous.

It seems like Microsoft has just layed off hundreds of staff, including from Xbox

https://www.ign.com/videos/microsoft-lays-off-hundreds-of-staff-ign-news

And much like Fanbyte, and the G4 layoffs from a couple weeks back, now G4 is just. No more

https://www.ign.com/articles/g4-is-being-shut-down-less-than-a-year-after-it-launched

The Metaverse sucks. Meta, or what was formally known as Facebook, is not doing well.

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-metaverse-has-had-a-very-bad-week

https://kotaku.com/zuckerberg-facebook-meta-legs-feet-video-vr-staged-fake-1849656315

https://kotaku.com/meta-facebook-horizon-worlds-vr-mark-zuckerberg-1849669048

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:40 New Trans Rep in Apex Legends

1:36 Bayonetta 3 VO Debacle

5:35 Bayonetta 3 VO Update

7:52 Microsoft Layoffs

9:30 G4 Is No More

12:58 META SUCKS AND IS BAD AND IS SUCK

17:43 What I've Been Doing

17:49 Psychonauts

19:19 Watching Stuff

19:44 This is where I forget Al Pacino's name

20:36 Slight spoilers for the movie Heat

22:14 Please Watch Super Mario In Review

22:25 Outro

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Splatoon 3 is selling Nicely in Japan

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/69-of-all-physical-games-sold-in-japan-last-month-were-splatoon-3/

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:25 News (kinda)

0:57 Splatoon 3 Is Selling Nicely

1:42 What I've Been Doing

1:54 Splatoon 3

6:41 Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows

10:31 Outro

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Trials of Death, the Mario Maker 1 level by ChainChompBraden, has finally been beaten after nearly 7 years

https://www.vice.com/en/article/59p3nq/mario-maker-player-has-spent-1500-hours-trying-to-beat-his-own-level

https://twitter.com/ChompBraden

But if you want something easily playable, Metroid Mike 64 has put together what they're calling a Super Mario Bros 5, a Mario Maker 2 pack of levels acting as a spiritual successor to the original Marios. And I kinda wanna check it out!

https://www.polygon.com/23372865/super-mario-bros-5-maker-2-level-id-details

Continuing with Mario, It looks like they're making a sequel to the 1993 hit classic Super Mario Bros, this time animated and starring Chris Pratt of all people and also the reveal trailer is being presented as a Nintendo direct Thursday

https://www.ign.com/articles/super-mario-movie-nintendo-announces-a-direct-for-the-first-trailer-and-reveals-a-very-detailed-poster

Speaking of remakes, Sony is continuing in it's questionable effort to get more money by remaking PS4 games that are entirely playable on PS5, Horizon Zero Dawn is being remade for PS5. For money reasons.

https://www.ign.com/articles/horizon-zero-dawn-ps5-remaster-reportedly-in-the-works-alongside-a-multiplayer-game

But while some are remade, other's are let go. Rip Stadia. I used you once.

https://www.ign.com/articles/google-is-shutting-down-stadia-its-cloud-gaming-service

In oh wow this really sucks news, the business people behind ZA/UM, the studio who made Disco Elysium, a game I really want to play and have only heard amazing things about, have pushed out the three main creatives behind the creation of Disco Elysium

https://kotaku.com/disco-elysium-2-zaum-amazon-allegations-narrative-rpg-1849608540

And in strange gaming press news, the bad wiki site Fandom has just acquired a Bunch of different sites, including the only one from the list I watch, Giant Bomb.

https://kotaku.com/giant-bomb-gamespot-metacritic-fandom-wookiepedia-1849608081

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

0:44 Mario Maker Hardest Level

2:31 Super Mario Bros 5

4:03 Second Mario Movie Trailer

6:56 Horizon Zero Dawn Remake

10:21 RIP Stadia

13:28 Disco Elysium

16:34 Fandom Acquired Some Websites

18:55 What I've Been Doing

19:56 Splatoon 2 

21:57 Splatoon 3

24:28 Toem

16:45 Please Help Me With Deathloop

27:10 Tunic

29:36 Andor 

30:42 Outro

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Hey, a couple games that seem neat released this last week! Check out

Shovel Knight Dig!

https://www.yachtclubgames.com/games/shovel-knight-dig

Also, coming to Playstation and Switch: Tunic!

https://tunicgame.com/

And the original Life is Strange + DLC is on Switch now too

https://lifeisstrange.square-enix-games.com/en-gb/games/life-is-strange-remastered-collection/

And also, y'hear that Netflix has games???

https://www.polygon.com/23365086/spiritfarer-available-netflix-games-feature

And the better Spider-Man game will be on PC soon

https://kotaku.com/spider-man-miles-morales-port-pc-steam-insomniac-1849575501

The artist currently known as Dunkey wants to throw money at games. We should let him

https://kotaku.com/videogamedunkey-youtube-review-bigmode-hades-cuphead-1849567984

Amazon owned Amazon Web Service is charging Amazon owned Twitch.TV too much money to run their services, so Amazon owned Twitch.tv needs to take more money from their streamers. But everyone's a big /Family/

https://kotaku.com/twitch-amazon-sub-youtube-streamer-revenue-split-1849567938

E3 is not dead... again

https://www.ign.com/articles/e3-2023-dates-and-details-announced

I really liked NieR:Automata, and sometimes I watch anime, and I will probably watch the NieR:Automata anime:

https://www.ign.com/articles/nier-automata-ver11a-anime-series-will-arrive-in-january-2023

I swear I won't talk about this too often, but I dunno, Ryen Renolds doing his Deadpool schtick just works for me. Also Hugh Jackman is back one last time as Wolverine. 

https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/1574865217141481477

0:00 Intro

0:42 News

0:54 Shovel Knight Dig is out

1:25 Tunic is on Sony and Switch

1:52 LiS Remake on Switch

2:31 Netflix Games

4:00 Spider-Man Miles Morales on PC

4:39 Dunkey Publishing Games

7:58 Twitch.TV wants money for Amazon

12:23 E3 is not dead yet...

15:54 NieR:Automata Anime

17:36 Deadpool III

19:08 What I've Been Doing 

19:08 Splatoon 2

24:29 Splatoon 3

26:04 Andor 

28:08 Outro

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Rest in Peace Fanbyte

https://kotaku.com/fanbyte-website-layoffs-tencent-staff-g4tv-future-1849540893

Oh my god Portal RTX looks so good

https://www.polygon.com/23363152/portal-rtx-trailer-free-dlc-mod-nvidia

Looks like I will not be purchasing a PSVR 2

https://www.polygon.com/23356951/psvr2-not-backward-compatible-psvr-games

Early GTA footage was leaked and the Gamers Are At It Again

https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-gameplay-videos-reportedly-leak-grand-theft-auto

https://www.ign.com/articles/rockstar-confirms-gta-6-leak-says-development-will-not-be-affected

0:00 Intro

1:59 News

1:55 RIP Fanbyte

5:05 Portal RTX

6:50 PSVR2

9:46 GTA6 Leak

14:18 Andor

16:46 Rogue Squadron

18:56 What I've Been Doing

19:07 Splatoon 2 and 3

19:52  Go Team Grub

21:05  RIP Phone

22:47 Outro

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Lotsa Nintendo news this week, starting with the Direct Recap

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/icymi-everything-from-the-september-2022-nintendo-direct/

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/nintendo-announces-september-direct-wont-livestream-it-in-uk/

Also,

Splatoon sure seems to be selling well, in Japan at least

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/splatoon-3-sells-3-45-million-copies-in-three-days-in-japans/

Onto Sony news, they also had a presentation to, well, middeling results

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/icymi-heres-the-ten-games-shown-at-todays-state-of-play/

Speaking of middling to poor results. Disney also. Did one of these

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/icymi-everything-from-d23s-disney-game-showcase/

Sans Undertale and Reigen Mob Psycho killed the queen:

I didn't wind up talking about this but it is funny

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/sans-undertale-is-officially-the-ultimate-tumblr-sexyman/

0:00 Intro

0:39 News

0:39 Nintendo Direct

26:36 Splatoon 3 Is Selling Well

27:45 Sony State Of Play

34:29 Disney Video Game Presentation

41:14 What I've Been Doing

41:14 Horizon Vs. Tsushima

43:15 Splatoon 3

43:30 Outro

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Show Notes:

Starting out with a good sized Nintendo minute:

Mario Kart Tour is getting slightly better

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/mobile-title-mario-kart-tour-blue-shells-its-gacha-mechanics-for-good/

Splatoon 3's tricolor Turf Wars was fun, but like, not for me

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/team-scissors-isnt-very-happy-with-splatoon-3-tricolor-turf-war-mode/

Nintendo might announce new stuff this month! Probably! Maybe!

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/what-could-a-september-nintendo-direct-announce/

And onto other stuff, the really cool Jet Set Radio spiritual successor has been delayed to next Summer

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/team-reptiles-bomb-rush-cyberfunk-delayed-to-summer-2023/

Rian Johnson might still be doing a Star War, and I sure hope he's able to finish it

https://www.ign.com/articles/rian-johnsons-star-wars-trilogy-is-still-in-development

0:00 Intro

2:43 Mario Kart Tour

4:30 Splatoon 3

7:13 Nintendo Direct Soon(?)

9:42 Bomb Rush Cyberfunk delayed

10:33 Rian Johnson is still doin a Star War

12:21 Better Call Saul

15:02 Horizon Zero Dawn

20:03 Outro 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HATSUNE MIKU

Listen to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53yvZL7HDw4

Bandcamp Fridays are back!

Two really cool looking indie games to look out for!

Crypt of the Necrodancer's spinoff, Rift of the NecroDancer looks siiiick

https://www.polygon.com/2022/8/24/23320137/rift-of-the-necrodancer-trailer-gameplay-boss-fights-mini-games-release-date

The New Shovel Knight Adventure is coming out September 23rd

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/shovel-knight-dig-release-date/

In Acquasition Corner

Sony bought an app developer. Guess we're getting Sony themed phone games now

And as far as I can tell, Savage Game Studios aint done nothing yet? So it's hard to say what type of games they'll be

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/sony-acquires-savage-game-studios-to-expand-playstation-mobile-presence/

Geoff Keighly tweeted out that Amazon was going to buy EA. This would suck. Then it later came out that Amazon is not going to buy EA /right now/ but it sounds like they're leaving enough room to go ahead and buy them eventually and lemme tell ya, That Would SUCK

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/amazon-reportedly-not-looking-to-acquire-electronic-arts-today-at-least/

Things are getting more expensive, in this case the PS5

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/the-playstation-5s-price-is-increasing-without-warning-in-most-territories/

But at least the Xbox and Nintendo aren't, but who knows how much the next ones will be

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/xbox-series-x-s-isnt-getting-a-price-increase-in-case-you-were-worried/

https://www.fanbyte.com/games/news/nintendo-confirms-switch-price-wont-increase-like-the-ps5/

I'm a The Last Jedi defender and so is Rian Johnson

https://www.ign.com/articles/rian-johnson-even-more-proud-star-wars-the-last-jedi

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Gamescom opening night live just happened and Geoff Keighly is still not the best host

https://www.fanbyte.com/news/gamescom-opening-night-live-2022/

Sakurai said his last goodbye to Smash Ultimate and also uses his Switch Doc Wrong

https://twitter.com/Sora_Sakurai/status/1559806360329392128

https://twitter.com/Sora_Sakurai/status/1561911110214860803

It is time to Embrace 

https://embracer.com/release/embracer-group-enters-into-agreement-to-acquire-ip-rights-to-the-lord-of-the-rings-and-the-hobbit-literary-works-by-j-r-r-tolkien/

Cartoons are good and also not viable anymore unless they're Japanese I guess?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8k8x/everything-sucks-in-streaming-animation-right-now

Star Wars KOTOR is not dead! Yet!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-22/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-remake-kotor-changes-studio

In Movie News

Why is there a Gravity Rush Movie? Maybe let your Japanese studios make games again Sony. Please I'm begging you

https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-is-working-on-a-gravity-rush-movie

I am personally looking forward to the Knives Out sequels

https://www.ign.com/articles/glass-onion-knives-out-mystery-release-date

0:00 Intro

0:23 Help me with Deathloop

1:29 News!

1:33 Gamescom Recap

11:26 Sakurai Corner

13:02 Embrace Everything (In This Case LotR)

14:12 Cartoons are in trouble (In America)

17:01 SW KOTOR Is Alive

18:37 Gravity Rush Movie

20:14 Glass Onion Knives Out

20:35 What I've Been Doing

20:47 Horizon Zero Dawn

22:08 Better Call Saul

22:17 The Rehearsal

22:58 Outro

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Show Notes:

That new Kirby is out now and looks really cute (as is always the case with Kirby) 

https://www.ign.com/articles/kirbys-dream-buffet-release-date

Dragon Ball is in that fortnight I guess

https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/23307775/fortnite-x-dragon-ball-super-event-trailer-gameplay-details

THQNordic is a weird company, BUT

https://www.ign.com/articles/everything-announced-at-the-thq-nordic-digital-showcase

And onto stuff I don't really wanna talk about but it's a slow news week

https://www.ign.com/articles/ezra-miller-apologizes-complex-mental-health-issues

And finally the game about racist wizards, based on the book about racist wizards, written by a deeply transphobic piece of trash, got delayed. I hope nobody buys this crap.

0:00 Intro

0:57 Kirby's Dream Buffet

1:55 Dragon Ball in Fortnite (I Guess)

3:49 New SpongeBob Game

6:40 The Flash Movie

8:46 Racist Wizard Game

10:34 What I've Been Doing

10:40 Better Call Saul is still good 

11:52 Horizon Zero Dawn

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Show notes Mario Kart 8 DLC was released! And Coconut Mall's ShyGuy Drivers Drive... now https://www.polygon.com/23292348/mario-kart-8-dlc-booster-course-pass-wave-2-fixes-coconut-mall

Bridget is a girl now! Good for her https://www.polygon.com/23293568/guilty-gear-strive-season-2-bridget-dlc-release-date

Splatoon 3 news today! Hope it's good https://www.polygon.com/23296651/splatoon-3-nintendo-direct-august-2022-date-time

Oh yeah, new Sonic movie https://www.ign.com/articles/sonic-the-hedgehog-3-december-2024-release-date

Really worried about HBOMax https://www.ign.com/articles/hbo-max-and-discovery-will-fuse-into-one-platform-beginning-in-2023 

Timecodes 00:00 Intro 1:25 News 1:29 Mario Kart 8 DLC 3:42 Bridget Guilty Gear says Trans Rights 5:18 Splatoon 3 Direct JUST HAPPENED 6:25 Sonic 3 Movie I Guess 7:18 HBO Is Being Massacred 8:34 What I've Been Doing 8:43 The Rehearsal 10:19 Better Call Saul 13:06 One Day I'll Play Horizon Zero Dawn 14:14 Please Watch Mario In Review 14:56 Outro