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Hello and welcome to Saved State Heros podcast. Here you can listen in as we discus a variety of topics about gaming news, gaming and society, and some of the history that got us here today. Join us as we launch our first season! So fire up that favorite console and in the meantime, keep those controllers warm.

  1. 04/29/2022 ·  Bonus

    News Patch v4.27

    Ad Induced Twitch Amazon is considering making some changes to its Twitch tiers and their payout to streamers With some models not having changed in almost 10 years, pay cuts could be reduced by as much as 20% at the top tier Possibly the biggest change to come with these considerations is.. Ads!! Yes, who’s surprised?? Ads everywhere! It’s been noted that creators who stream for at least 40 hours a month can receive up to $100 just by running 2 mins/hr of ads. This amount obviously goes up with ad minutes. However, this new proposal would introduce a revenue sharing “arrangement” which would be more “lucrative” for streamers. A final interesting note to these changes is that Twitch would consider releasing anyone from their exclusivity deals, who may be a part of one. A Dead Hard in the right direction Behavior Interactive has officially announced that David King is their first gay character in DBD In a tweet today Behavior acknowledged the lack of LGBTQIA2+ from the character roster and have been working to change that Behavior has been working closely with the GaymerX organization, whose expertise is in integrating LGBTQIA2+ themes into video games David is was released in the Lullaby for the Dark chapter in July of 2017 and is one of DBD’s 10 most popular characters There’s room in the clouds More than 10 million people have streamed games over Xbox Cloud Gaming, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday during the company’s third-quarter earnings call It is however currently unclear as what Microsoft is defining as a streamed game (current subscribers, streamed game time, ect) As a side note you can subscribe for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for just a dollar and then cancel so as stated it’s still unclear if people who did that are counted in the numbers The cloud gaming feature is available on the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate tier for 14.99 a month

  2. 04/22/2022 ·  Bonus

    News Patch v4.20

    Let Mom Sleep! Sega has started working on reboots of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio In the company’s annual earnings report for the year ending March 2021, it named Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi as “examples of past IP” it wanted to utilize through reboots, remasters, and remakes. Other games were mentioned such as Street Of Rage, Panzer Dragon, and Rez Sega exec Shuji Utsami also hinted at building triple AAA multiplatform titles with global releases Crazy Taxi is set to be released in 2024 - 2025. No time frame for JSR Say goodbye and Don’t Tera Up Gameforge and Bluehole will be shutting down Tera (On PC) on June 30th An official announcement on the Tera Steam page states it is ending PC support to “focus internal development efforts on other projects” This however leaves the question what does this mean for console players? There currently is no answer to this Gameforge says the Tera websites and social media pages will be going away as well. But Gameforge accounts will be safe What could this mean? F2P, P2W, P2E?!? Oh, just Sony Are you a fan of F2P games? I think we all are to an extent! Well, Sony is going to dampen that by putting ads in F2P games.. That’s right. Some Sony F2P games will no longer just be an argument of grinding more versus paying to win Sony plans to bring ads into F2P games running on Playstation platforms only, so far, late 2022 They are making a system available to game devs to “help them further monetize their games.” The system will incorporate ads via in-game “billboards” and other entities. This advertising method will not be forced, but encouraged to F2P developers. The ads will be built-in at the platform level of this new system. This means easier integration for rewarding players for interacting with ads (skins, items, currency). They way ads are incorporated are up to the devs, but Sony supplies them. Allegedly, Sony is still contemplating taking a cut from advertising gains in this manner.

  3. 04/15/2022 ·  Bonus

    News Patch v4.13

    My Chemical Haptics Heat and cold (among other sensations) could be coming to VR sooner than we think Thanks to a team of scientists at the University of Chicago, feeling what your character feels may not be just another VR fantasy. Currently to fully immerse yourself in VR you would need to own devices such as VR body kits or haptic treadmills but thanks to the team (Jasmine Lu, Ziwei Liu, Jas Brooks, and Pedro Lopes ) chemical haptics might soon be a reality. Two devices lined with soft silicone will deliver chemicals via the skin to the person wearing them. One on the bridge of the nose and the other across the forearm. No we can feel how cold Sub Zero really is A Scalar and a Gentleman Ubisoft revealed a new cloud-based technology at GDC this past weekend to expand its games The game developer/publisher said that this new tech named “Scalar” would allow it’s teams to create even bigger worlds Scalar would be supported across multiple platforms, will work with various components of already existing ubisoft game engines, and would be able to update games and content without the need for specific platform patches Ubisoft says their Scalar tech isn’t actually for streaming games to players, like Stadia or Luna, but for devs I think we can all say I embrace and dread this Metaverse Royale This week, Sony and Kirkbi (The money behind The Lego Group) announced that they have both donated $1B EACH to Epic to more broadly develop metaverse content. This overshadows Lego’s previous $250M partnership with Epic to develop more child friendly content This unity has stated that they are going to “create new social entertainment exploring the connection between digital and physical worlds.” There were statements from all sides praising Epic’s expertise and game engine, the use of Sony’s technologies and focusing on trends that will “impact the future world that we and our children will live in.” The future mentioned here, of course, is the metaverse

  4. 04/04/2022 ·  Bonus

    News Patch v3.30

    Toss a coin for your imports The US has removed Tariffs on many imported goods from China Over 350 reinstated products have been added to a list of exclusions to American import tariffs that were put in place beginning in 2018 Most importantly for PC gamers, the list includes: Printed circuit assemblies for rendering images onto computer screens. Reminder it will take time for consumers to see lower prices in the market Liberty City Online Trusted leaker, Matheusvictorbr, dropped a tweet recently stating that R* will be releasing a sizeable GTAO update this coming Summer Details, as usual, were vague except that the patch will include a map expansion theorized to be that of Liberty City itself. This is due to Matheusvictorbr’s tweet including a picture of the Statue of Liberty An update this big, Liberty City or not, might seem silly with GTA6 somewhere in the near-ish future. However, it could pair very well with R*’s new GTAO subscription service, GTA+, that will allow players to get early access to new cars, monthly cash, properties and missed unlockable content. Netflix and Acquisitions Netflix has acquired Boss Fight Entertainment making this the third game developer the streaming giant has purchased It also has Night School and NEXT games under its belt both known for their unique games Netflix’s VP of game development Amir Rahimi said in a statement “this studio’s extensive experience building hit games across genres will help accelerate our ability to provide Netflix members with great games wherever they want to play them.”

  5. 04/01/2022 ·  Bonus

    News Patch v3.29.22

    Toss a coin for your imports The US has removed Tariffs on many imported goods from China Over 350 reinstated products have been added to a list of exclusions to American import tariffs that were put in place beginning in 2018 Most importantly for PC gamers, the list includes: Printed circuit assemblies for rendering images onto computer screens. Reminder it will take time for consumers to see lower prices in the market Liberty City Online Trusted leaker, Matheusvictorbr, dropped a tweet recently stating that R* will be releasing a sizeable GTAO update this coming Summer Details, as usual, were vague except that the patch will include a map expansion theorized to be that of Liberty City itself. This is due to Matheusvictorbr’s tweet including a picture of the Statue of Liberty An update this big, Liberty City or not, might seem silly with GTA6 somewhere in the near-ish future. However, it could pair very well with R*’s new GTAO subscription service, GTA+, that will allow players to get early access to new cars, monthly cash, properties and missed unlockable content. Netflix and Acquisitions Netflix has acquired Boss Fight Entertainment making this the third game developer the streaming giant has purchased It also has Night School and NEXT games under its belt both known for their unique games Netflix’s VP of game development  Amir Rahimi said in a statement “this studio’s extensive experience building hit games across genres will help accelerate our ability to provide Netflix members with great games wherever they want to play them.”

  6. 03/17/2022 ·  Bonus

    News Patch v3.16.22

    ARM Amputation Even since the final “cut” was made in the Softbank/NVidia deal last month, ARM is having to make some severances Due to the $40B acquisition’s fall-through, ARM is cutting between 12-15% of its workforce to become one ARM. Yes puns, but those are their words. With a global workforce of ~6,500, most of the cuts will be taking place in the US and UK to reduce costs and remove duplication in their work Hopefully ARM’s new focus will boost the semiconductor tech in a new, beneficial direction for us all RTX.. ASUS A quick quip on GPU prices, which seem to be a big topic here at SSH ASUS is slashing their GPU prices on RTX 30-series by up to 25% in Australia thanks to declining demand Although it doesn’t help us much here in the U.S., this seems to be following a slightly lesser global decline in prices due to production gradually ramping up, bitcoin mining falling (not going into that here), and gamers, as usual,  holding off from committing while prices are high. Prices are still up 41% over RRP, but the future is looking better than it has for some time! Intel Inside.. Everything Intel’s previously veiled Project Endgame has had some light shed on it. To keep it quick, we’ll just drop one, fat quote and move on "Project Endgame is a unified services layer that harnesses computing resources everywhere – cloud, edge, and your home, to improve your gaming, and non-gaming, PC experiences. With Project Endgame, we can untether our users from their local hardware specs. Project Endgame is paving the roads for the next decade of real-time GPU experiences for Intel, with the goal of petaflops of compute accessible at a few millisecond latency, and starting in Q2 of this year we will take our first public steps." Yes. Their GPUs were just their foot into our wallets.. And the cloud market Since Mando Loves Hideo Kajima.. Hideo Kojima was awarded the annual Japanese Minister's Award for Fine Arts, in the Media Arts category. This is one of the country's most prestigious cultural awards. The ceremony was held today in Tokyo and, of course, Hideo had some words of appreciation. He has been making video games, some of which are the most influential in the industry, for 36 years! Elden Ring-ing Your Neck With the unignorably Elden Ring coming through with over 12M sales in 3 weeks, with more than 12M sales in 3 weeks, will not be backing off any time soon FromSoftware has stated that the Elden Ring IP will be moving on to more than just games. TV Show? Movies? Russia De-EA’d More Russian (and Belarusian) punishment by EA: “Effectively immediately, players and teams in Russia and Belarus are ineligible to participate in the Apex Legends Global Series and the EA Sports FIFA 22 Global Series.”

  7. 03/11/2022 ·  Bonus

    News Patch v3.09

    Vati Baer We’ve previously talked about the father of the video game cartridge here on SSH, but yesterday marked the would-be 100th birthday of the overall ‘vater’ of video games, Ralph Baer While we won’t go into an extensive history lesson, German born Ralph came to the US as a teenager and joined the National Radio Institute. Shortly after he was drafted to fight in WW2, serving for military intelligence. After surviving the war and gaining a degree in radio engineering, Baer went on to develop the first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey. This machine is largely credited for inspiring Atari’s ‘Pong’ He donated many of his plans and prototypes to the Smithsonian in 2006 before passing away in 2014 A Call to Duty If you look at anything online other than your current main game’s wiki, you know there is quite a crisis going on in eastern Europe. Well, the video game industry isn’t free of this and has taken action along with many other industries in “unplugging” from Russia. After a public call from Ukraine to all game dev companies last week, the following have since banded together in blocking all Russian accounts or transactions: Ubisoft, Take-Two, Rockstar, Activision Blizzard, EA, CD Projeckt Red, Microsoft, Epic, Nintendo, Steam, Sony and others Actions taken by all of these companies do vary, of course. From donations to halting production entirely. Some launcher/marketplace accounts still have access to content already purchased because, let’s face it, the conflict over there isn’t the fault of everyone in Russia. A lot of limited access comes from economic sanctions and access to banks/funds Alchemy Takes Time We saw this coming! Intel’s Arch Alchemist cards have been pushed back to a May - June release Why? Well, because Intel is putting it’s “finishing touches” on their new Arch Alchemy cards According to sources at Igors Labs via Tom’s Hardware say that we will see qualification samples in the next few weeks Intel is still taking its time because of this anticipated launch. Polishing drivers, etc. This delay in release could mean that the Arch cards could be a heavy contender in the GPU market.

  8. 03/03/2022

    News Patch v.3.2.22

    Bandcamp of Epic Proportions Epic has recently acquired online music store Bandcamp The purchase is set to expanded the open the world of indie music and development We can expect a business as usual model as Bandcamp is still going to be a stand alone entity and the CEO and co-founder will still lead the team. Bandcamp was started in 2008 with it’s artist first revenue model where artists can net 82% of profits. Netflix and…Mobile Games? And speaking of acquiring companies Netflix has made an offer to Next Games. Developers of mobile RPG puzzle game Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales, Walking Dead: Our World, and Walking Dead: No Man’s land In an interview Netflix’s VP of games Mike Verdu was stated saying that he is confident that “We will be able to build a portfolio of world class games for members around the world” If you are a current Netflix subscriber games are free for download app stores for iOS and Android There was a website here…It’s gone now Silent hill dot com has vanished into the otherworld It was recently reported that the silent hill domain was purchased by a troll.When you visit the site a tweet by Masahiro Ito ( Japanese video game artist and Art director and monster designer for the first 3 games) is all that's there simply saying “I wish I hadn’t designed Fxxkin Pyramid Head But this isn’t recent! According to SVG.com an article by Christian Smith reveals that a twitter user by the name of @Omgiamonfire discovered it had been over a year since the site had been taken over. Is Konami done with the Silent Hill IP? F**k no! Be on the lookout for those pachinko machines and skateboard boards. F*****g sigh man. Links Silenthill.com

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Hello and welcome to Saved State Heros podcast. Here you can listen in as we discus a variety of topics about gaming news, gaming and society, and some of the history that got us here today. Join us as we launch our first season! So fire up that favorite console and in the meantime, keep those controllers warm.

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  • Creator
    Saved State Heros
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    59
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Saved State Heros
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