This week Amuro and steev discuss Activision-Blizzard and Square Enix’s failures, steev gives his impressions on Project Stream and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Amuro reviews Tetris Effect and Liz and the Blue Bird, and they give their Retro Rewatch pics.
News
- Activision Blizzard stock dropped due to failed expectations
- Blizzard announces Diablo Immortal
- Gets booed and mocked.
- Stock dropped 6.5%.
- Destiny 2 failed to reach commercial expectations in Q3 of 2018.
- They want to speed up content release and monetize more of the game
- Black Ops 4 sold 8 Million copies, wanted to sale 10 million
- Overall player based dropped for all Activision Blizzard games.
- Blizzard announces Diablo Immortal
- Square Enix Live Stream failure… (Verge)
- Hajime Tabata resigns from Luminous Productions to start his own
- Canceled 3 of the future character DLC planned
- Ardyn DLC still coming out
- Luminous Productions has a 33 million dollar loss for the last 6 months
- Studio will focus on a “new AAA” title
- Wants to make more subscription based games
- Rockstar has shipped 17 million copies of Red Dead Redemption 2 (Polygon)
- Earned 725 million in 3 days, biggest entainment opening of all time
- Sold more than RDR 1 in 8 years
- *** This was sold to retailers not actual sales
- Sony uses an open source emulator in their PlayStation Classic. (TechCrunch)
- Netflix announces anime based on Pacific Rim movies and Altered Carbon series
- Crunchyroll gets several dub series
- Crunchyroll releases most popular series by region (IGN)
- Disney+ officially announced and will launch late 2019
- The Mandalorian Series
- Cassian Andor Series
- Loki Series
- Bucky and Falcon Series
Discussion
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
- Project Stream Impressions
- Tetris Effect
- Liz and the Blue Bird
- Picks for Retro Watch
- Amuro: Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
- Jrow: Penguindrum
- steev: Paranoia Agent, Serial Experiments Lain