Author: Jack Slater
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Nintendo Direct for E3 2019 Notes
Nintendo doesn’t do a stage show for E3 anymore, instead they release a pre-recorded Nintendo Direct video: They’re putting Dragon Quest & Banjo-Kazooie characters characters into Smash. “Hero” from DQ this Summer, Banjo-Kazooie this Fall. Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age: Definitive Edition is one heck of a game title. Apparently this is…
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Microsoft Shitcans Xbox Backwards Compatibility for Xbox One in Favor of Project Scarlett
One of the problems with putting backwards compatibility in the hands of publishers and developers to pick and choose which games get brought forward is that they go out of business and can’t make a decision, make bad choices based on financial decisions, or in this case Microsoft has decided that they’ve done enough and…
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Bethesda Softworks E3 Event 2019 Notes
Bethesda held their E3 event last night, here’s everything they announced. Pete Hines’ Soapbox Pete Hines opened the event after a short video about the people making their games. Todd Howard Todd Howard followed Hines by talking about the “well-deserved criticism” Bethesda received for the not-so-great Fallout 76. He went on to praise the players…
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Xbox E3 Event 2019 Notes
Microsoft’s annual E3-adjacent event for their Xbox sub-brand was today. Here’s what they announced: Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds was annonced for October 25th, 2019, it’ll be an exclusive to Microsoft platforms since Obsidian was bought out by Microsoft. This is a sci-fi, Borderlands-aesthetic, faux anti-corporate, first-person, single-player, RPG. It’s about a new person shaking up…