A Weekly Gaming News Show Episode 77

Show Notes: December 3, 2017

Episode 77, A Weekly Gaming News Show
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Weekly Icebreaker - What Genre have you not played in a while? And why?

 

Updates/Corrections

Quick Hits

• Kellogg’s and Nintendo team up for a breakfast cereal
• Rumor: Assassin’s Creed Rogue getting PS4 & XB1 treatment
• Playground Games working on AAA open-world RPG

Top 5 News Stories

1. Remember the Fortnite lawsuit - It’s getting interesting
2. December’s free games for Playstation Plus revealed
3. Nintendo’s Switch dominates holiday sales
4. Bungie cancelled livestream reveal - addresses community concerns
   • Bungie continues their hostility towards the community
5. Results from the official 2017 Playstation Awards

Users’ choice Award - The top ten games as voted on by Asian and Japanese gamers - Battlefield 1, Final Fantasy XV, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Nioh, NieR: Automata, Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5, Ys VIII, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.

Indie Game and Developer’s Award - Mystery Gensokyo TOD, 3on3 Freestyle and Undertale

PSVR Award - Resident Evil 7:Biohazard, Farpoint and Summer Lesson: Allison Snow

PSN Award - Given to games with the highest network content sales - Phantasy Star Online 2, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and FIFA 17

Gold Prize - Games that sold over 500,000 copies - Battlefield 1, Call of Duty:Infinite Warfare, FIFA 17, FIFA 18, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR:Automata, Nioh, Rainbow Six:Siege, Resident Evil 7:Biohazard, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life.

Platinum Winners - Games that sold over 1 million copies - Dragon Quest XI:Echoes of an Elusive Age, Final Fantasy XV and Grand Theft Auto V

Double platinum winner - Games that sold greater than 2 million copies - Minecraft

Long Form -

This Week in Loot Boxes

• Take Two’s President Kal Slatoff “Loot boxes Aren't Gambling” Claims there statment is the same as the ESA’s Statement. “Game Makers can’t force consumers to do anything”
• EA does not want to violate the Star Wars Canon.
• • Blake Jorgensen doesn’t want a pink Vader
  • Hidden character customization options found in Battlefront 2
  • EA loses 3.1 Billion in stock value
• EA’s UFC 3 is riddled with microtransactions
• • Player progression determined by Loot boxes
  • Fighters, techniques, and stats come from loot boxes