#5 – Valentine’s Day Gaming

On this Valentine’s Day, our hosts talk about BioWare’s plans to  overhaul Anthem, new financial results from some major publishers, Luis’  love for fighting games, and games you should play with your  significant other.

• 00:00 – Intro
• 00:55 – Housekeeping – Shout-out to Joel Perez (WAZ)
  Check out The.How.To.Be by Waz on Spotify
  
• 03:00 – Super Smash Bros. 4 WiiU
• 07:18  – Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• 14:30 – Top News
  14:35 – BioWare to overhaul Anthem
  
  20:15 – Industry financial results
  Call of Duty rises as rest of Activision Blizzard stumbles
  Ubisoft quarterly revenues down 26%
  Profits flat at Bandai Namco as video game sales dip slightly
  Recurrent consumer spending made up 37% of Take-Two’s $930 million Q3 revenue
  27:03 – Dragon Ball FighterZ season 3 has Kefla, another Goku, and big gameplay changes
  30:20 – Nintendo Switch lounges coming to US airports
  33:50 – Media personality Geoff Keighley will not produce the E3 Coliseum this year
  
  38:37 – Extra News
  Valve  has announced that Half-Life: Alyx, the new VR Half-Life title set  between the first and second games, will be available on March 23, 2020.
  EA will return the Need for Speed franchise to UK games studio Criterion.
  Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager has received a strategic investment from gaming monolith Tencent.
  THQ Nordic opens Slovakian studio Nine Rocks Games to work on a survival-shooter.
  Nike’s  former chief digital officer and head of global strategy Adam Sussman  has been named president of Fortnite developer Epic Games.
  A  deal has been signed between Sony Pictures and South Korean games firm  Smilegate to make a movie based on the multiplayer shooter Crossfire.
  Former  chief financial officer of Starbreeze studios Sebastian Ahlskoghas been  convicted of “gross insider crimes” after an investigation by Swedish  authorities.
  
• 40:00 – New Releases
• 44:00 – Broke Gamer’s Guide (Deals)
• 47:35 – Coronavirus Rumors/Speculation
• 49:40 – Valentine’s Day Gaming
• 55:55 – Sharing the Love (Luis)
• 1:04:20 – Outro
• 1:05:12 – Ready Press Play Theme by Joel Perez

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