Episode 464: EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II plans

April 17, 2017| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 7:46 am

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Since the podcast recording last Wednesday had audio issues and the news was, frankly, boring, the crew decided to record a new 464th episode on Easter Sunday, after some more interesting stuff was announced near the end of the week. That, and Scott expresses his enthusiasm for Thimbleweed Park, the spiritual successor to Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle, using a SCUMM-like interface.

This week’s news items include:

Diving into Project Scorpio’s backwards compatibility, 4K, VR, and 1080p support
Nintendo discontinues the NES Classic Edition
It looks like Star Wars: Battlefront II will ditch the Season Pass

All that and some Listener Feedback.

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Sony Sues Geohot and fail0verflow Team
Professor Labels Sony’s Suit “Breathtakingly Stupid”
UbiSoft’s Walfisz Frets About PS3 Piracy
New PS3 Exploit Features Trophy Hacking
Modern Warfare 2 “Unplayable” on PSN
Blizzard: Heroic Cataclysm Dungeons Not Too Hard
THQ May Continue Price Experiment On More Games

This week Jonah gives out his review on Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled Blitz for XBLA and, giving away his copy of Plants vs. Zombies for the DS. This weeks question of the week, are you going to get a Nintendo 3DS?

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There was a lot of shocking news in the past week — unfortunately, Jonah was at PAX East, so last week’s episode ended up not being published. But there’s still more news this week.

The news includes:

Borderlands 3 might be an Epic Store exclusive
Videogame news subreddit closes for 24 hours to protest bigotry
John and Brenda Romero working with Paradox on new strategy IP
Sony unveils PSN refund policy

Let us know what you think.

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This week’s episode has only two official news items, but there’s a lot to discuss that didn’t quite make the list, including Sony’s controversial plan to update the fan speed on the fly by taking data from consoles already purchased, to the beautiful Ori Collector’s Edition bundle. This week’s Gaming Flashback: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.