#34 - Summer of Gaming Review
Episode description
Dan and Luis get together to talk about NVIDIA’s new GPU announcements, yet another Ubisoft controversy, updates on Marvel's Avengers, and their overall opinions on this year’s E3 replacements, i.e. “Summer of Gaming”. Plus: Dan’s thoughts on Mario’s 35th Anniversary Direct, which was shadow dropped after our hosts were done recording.
00:00 - Intro / Housekeeping
- No regular episode next week, but we’ll be dropping something special!
03:35 - Thoughts on Games
- 03:50 - Death Stranding
- 10:55 - The Lion King
- 13:22 - Fortnite
- → 18:05 - Fortnite adds Black Panther statue via Kotaku
- 18:50 - Portal
- 22:50 - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
27:07 - Top News
- 27:07 - Mario's 35th Anniversary Direct roundup via MyNintendoNews (Dan’s post-recording monologue)
- 37:16 - NVIDIA reveals new GPUs via TheVerge
- 44:30 - More PlayStation 1st party coming to PC via Eurogamer
- 50:20 - Tom Clancy's Elite Squad controversy via Forbes
- 56:27 - (TBC) PS5 not backwards compatible with PS3, PS2, PS1 via Eurogamer
- 1:00:16 - Avengers post-launch characters will have a $10 battle pass via IGN
- → 1:03:22 - Avengers sets new beta download record on PlayStation via Gamasutra
1:04:25 - Extra News
- Check this out: Official PlayStation chip picker via PushSquare
1:08:35 - New Releases & Updates
1:13:10 - Broke Gamer’s Guide
1:16:33 - Summer of Gaming Review (Topic of the Show)
- Admit It, You Miss E3 Already via LV1 Gaming
1:37:00 - Outro / Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez
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