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Podquisition 358: Moral High Ground
🕑 Added 2021-11-04 16:29:00 +0000 UTCThe time has come.
Games we played this week include:
Happy Game (14:05)
Unpacking (18:25)
What the Golf (22:20)
Lady in a Leotard with a Gun (26:00)
Netflix Games on Android (33:50)
Inscryption (38:10)
MARS (41:10)
Head Over Heels (47:50)
Moon (49:10)
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News things talked about in this episode:
Actiblizz commits to some changes that ABK were pushing for (54:00) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/technology/activision-blizzard-diversity-workplace.html
Bobby Kotick takes a PR pay cut (56:25) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-28-activision-blizzard-boss-bobby-kotick-asks-for-huge-pay-cut-until-company-woes-sorted
Valve isn’t allowing NFTs on Steam (59:15) https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/steam-is-removing-nft-games-from-the-platform-3071694
Ubisoft commits to contribute to global ruin with blockchain games (1:00:20) https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/11/01/ubisoft-reveals-plans-to-develop-blockchain-games-and-nfts
Facebook rolling back account login requirement for their headsets (1:01:20) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-28-facebook-ditching-oculus-branding-as-part-of-company-name-change-to-meta
Paid Twitch Boosts are now in the wild (1:04:00) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-29-twitch-tests-paid-boost-feature-despite-negative-feedback-from-streamers
Seth Rogan allegedly to star in Donkey Kong spin-off film (1:07:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-03-seth-rogen-donkey-kong-solo-movie-reportedly-in-development
Jen Oneal stepping down from co-lead position at Blizzard after only three months (1:10:30) https://kotaku.com/blizzard-is-already-losing-its-first-female-studio-co-h-1847985147
Blizzard games are bleeding players (1:11:45) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-03-as-blizzards-internal-troubles-continue-the-companys-games-continue-to-shed-players
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Comments
Dr. Judge, Private Eye
Oh-we-oh-we-OH!
Minna Ihalainen
Cpt. Price was shot by the nazis aboard the tirpitz in the first CoD. Any appearance of cpt. Price in the later games must be some sort of sussy amogus monster.
Pete Spicer
Morris Day and the Time!
John Seaward
Release the Holmes cut! (by that I mean the unaired shitty Boston’s Favourite Son 50th Anniversary episode).
