Episode 735: Long Discussions

October 16, 2024October 16, 2024| Jonah FalconJonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 12:07 am
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There’s a ton of discussions, such as Xbox Cloud Gaming will reportedly let players stream any game in their library from November, Russia straight-up bans Discord for enabling ‘terrorist and extremist purposes’, Killing Floor 3‘s dynamic tech makes zed heads ‘flower’ when you shoot them, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will get a Nuketown map, Brazil lifts ban on X following Elon Musk’s compliance with Supreme Court orders, the DOJ may break up Google, Terrifier 3 (the indie horror film that managed to make 10x its budget while Joker: Folie à Deux flails in the water) is getting a videogame, the current head of Xbox Game Studios, Alan Hartman, is to retire at the end of November, with Rare studio boss Craig Duncan taking over and the official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing.

The news:

  • Legendary game designer Jordan Weisman’s next project is an open world deck-building pirate romance tactical RPG
  • Red Dead Redemption coming to PC later this month
  • Former Bethesda and BioWare devs are making a Stardew-like with Redwall animals (from PC Gamer)

Let us know what you think.

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