This week’s episode covers a wide variety of topics, with no set news list save talking about Nintendo Direct’s oddly uninspiring conference. There’s no news list, so feel free to discuss what you found interesting or frustrating about Nintendo’s stream or anything else mentioned in the podcast.
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This weeks podcast covers some news, as the usual, a gaming flashback about Mach Rider on the NES and the cassette loader from the old NES days (in Japan). Aside from community comments, we’ve also got this news lineup:
- Nintendo Drops DSi and DSi XL prices
- Acclaim has died
- Sony changing their mobile target audience
- Best Buy and Target getting into the used games business
- Xbox Live subscription increasing
This weeks question of the week, are storylines important in video games (more so than graphics) and, what game do you believe will go down as the best storyline based game in your opinion.
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This week’s news includes:
- System Shock reboot that raised $1.3M on Kickstarter is now on “hiatus”
- Dragon Ball FighterZ’s premium DLC characters revealed
- Rumor: Diablo III is coming to Nintendo Switch
Let us know what you think.
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The news includes:
- Phasmophobia updates will make ghosts smarter and less predictable
- 2K under fire for adding unskippable in-game ads to the full-price NBA 2K21 a month after release
Let us know what you think.
