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This week the Anivision hosts gather to panic about the effect of the Coronavirus in Anime and Video Games, they talk about the Xbox Series X Console, they reveal what games they are currently playing, and they do a round of Anime discussion.

News

• Effect of COVID-19 on Anime and Gaming
  • Delays of anime episodes like Railgun T (ANN) and Infinite Dendrogram (ANN)
  • Misfit of Demon King Academy anime delayed to Summer 2020 season (ANN)
  • AnimeJapan 2020 convention has been cancelled (ANN)
  • GDC postponed to Summer 2020 (Verge)
  • Overwatch League matches in South Korea and China postponed
• Details on Microsoft’s Xbox Series X console (Kotaku)
  • 12 teraflops
  • Variable Rate Shading
  • DirectX Ray Tracing
  • Quick resume for multiple games
  • Smart delivery
    • For example, buying Xbox One version of Cyberpunk 2077 allows free upgrade to Series X version (Polygon)
  • Backwards compatibility
• Half-Life Alyx to be released March 23rd
  • Fan remake of Half Life 1 (named Black Mesa) will be released on March 5th (Polygon)
• FFVII Remake Demo may drop this week
• Eli Roth to direct Borderlands movie (GamesIndustry)
• Crunchyroll Originals (Crunchyroll)
• Quintessential Quintuplets season 2 will debut in Fall 2020 with new director/studio (ANN)
• Kazuhisa Hashimoto, inventor of the famous Konami code has passed away (@Konami)

Discussion

• What Game(s) You Playing? 
• Anime Revolver