Modern Console Warfare Brian Bishop

On This Week's Episode we dive deep into today's Nintendo Direct and talk about all of the wild shit that was announced. The fact that we're talking about the obscure JRPG Live A Live in 2022 is completely bonkers to me, but here we are. Also, Mario Kart 8 DLC, The Brillaint looking new Kirby game, and SUPER MARIO STRIKERS IS BACK BABYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

This Week's News Stories:

The February Nintendo Direct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYuUcG9iGyM

This Week's Scores:

Nintendo: 66

Omega force: 5

Intelligent Systems 6

Hello Games: 2

Whoever’s Making super Mario Strikers: 17

Splatoon Devs: 8

Forever Entertainment: 3

Gameloft: 3

Aspyr: 2

Ubisoft 6

Squenix for Chrono Cross: 2

Who’s Making Kirby: 18

Sony San Diego: 5

Squenix for Kingdom Hearts: -2

Squenix for Live a Live: 3: 10

Nintendo Switch Sports: 10

Triangle Strategy: 7

Mercury Steam: 10

Earthbound: 14

Mario Kart 8 Devs: 12

Monolithsoft: 6

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On This Week's Episode the eternal consolidation of the video game industry continues, as Sony buys Bungie to stick it to Microsoft, and the New York Times purchases current flash-in-the-pan Wordle. The latest NFT bungle comes from an unlikely studio. EA decides to give it another shot at overextending a beloved studio with too many projects. And we discuss what the hell a Call of Duty movie with Dwayne the Rock Johnson even looks like. Plus, a eulogy for Hyper Scape, gone too soon.

This Week's News Stories:

Sony buys Bungie, tries to feel relevant: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buying-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion

NYT Buys Wordle for some millions of bucks: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-times-free-word-game-acquisition

Respawn is going all in on Star Wars: https://kotaku.com/star-wars-announcement-2022-jedi-fallen-order-apex-lege-1848416767

Halo TV Series: https://www.cnet.com/news/halo-tv-series-gets-explosive-first-trailer/

Rock the Dwayne Johnson is in “a video game movie,” allegedly COD: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/01/the-rocks-mysterious-video-game-movie-is-reportedly-call-of-duty

It Takes Two getting movie adaptation: https://www.destructoid.com/it-takes-two-next-in-long-line-video-game-adaptations-film-tv/

RIP Hyperscape: https://www.onmsft.com/news/hyper-scape-video-game-to-completely-shut-down-soon

NFT BS of the Week: Worms this Time: https://kotaku.com/worms-team17-nfts-metaworms-scam-blockchain-1848452059

This Week's Scores:

Sony 12

Bungie 20

Hyperscape: -7

Ubisoft --2

Aggro Crab 20

Team 17 --19

Mr. Wardle: 18

New York Times 11

Resapwn  6

EA: - Better Hope you get purchased by sony and -23

Halo TV Series -4

Paramount Plus -1

The rock  6

COD 1

Hazelight 8

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On This Week's Episode GEE WILLIKERS, WOWSERS, HOLY MOLY THE MADLADS AT MICROSOFT REALLY JUST BOUGHT ACTIVISION BLIZZARD FOR REAL, FFXIV finally goes back on sale, RIP Halo 3 Servers, PUBG Corp is Suing Free Fire for being what it is. But mostly we talk about the many, many angles of the ActiBlizz purchase.



This Week's News Stories:

Microsoft is actually buying Acitivison Blizzard, Wow: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073763644/microsoft-set-to-acquire-the-gaming-company-activision-blizzard-for-68-7-billion

FFXIV Finally going back on sale: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/14/22883544/final-fantasy-14-date-digital-sales-server-expansion

RIP Original Halo 3 Servers: https://kotaku.com/the-final-moments-of-halo-3-online-2007-2022-1848363350

PUBG Maker Actually Suing competitor over Alleged Copy, Free Fire: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/13/22882796/pubg-developer-krafton-suing-apple-google-garena-free-fire-max

Kotick is really still trying to cover this up: https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-blizzard-pushes-out-dozens-of-employees-over-workplace-misconduct-11642428001?mod=hp_lead_pos1



This Week's Scores:

Activision Blizzard: -7

Bobby Kotick: 0

Microsoft: 20

Square Enix: 12

PUBG Corp: 6

Whoever Makes Free Fire: -3



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On This Week's Episode we discuss Ken Levine's unorthodox management, Square Enix's grim NFT future, The Inevitable Ouya future of Chinese underground game development, and Sony's vendetta against Bend Studio.



This Week's News Stories:

Ghost Story  Games Being Terrible: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-03/bioshock-creator-s-next-game-and-its-narrative-legos-in-turmoil

Square Enix’s Crypto B******t Adventures: https://kotaku.com/square-enix-president-hopes-nfts-blockchain-games-beco-1848294675

Nvidia’s New Cards: https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-ti-ces-announcement-163653863.html?src=rss

China’s Video Game industry is falling apart: https://kotaku.com/14-000-chinese-game-companies-have-gone-out-of-business-1848299632

Ubi service coming to Xbox/GamePass: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22868704/ubisoft-plus-xbox-launch-rainbow-six-extraction-xbox-game-pass

Activision Strike Continues into 3rd Week: https://www.ign.com/articles/activision-blizzard-strike-fund-350000-management-finally-replies

Sony Hates Bend Studios for some reason: https://kotaku.com/after-sony-passed-on-days-gone-2-devs-pitched-open-wor-1848321452?utm_campaign=Kotaku&utm_content=1641579076&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook



This Week's Scores:

Ghost Story Games -6

2K: +5

Square EnixGhost Story Games -18

Nvidia -1

GameStop -10

CCP: -10

Pirate Ouya Games +10

Ubisoft +8

Game Pas +10

Activision Blizzard -17

ABK +10

Sony -3



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