This Week: We replaced our missing British person with another British person by the name of Bran. The Division, Dying Light, and The Witness are all discussed as we try to figure out how to get out of the dark zone.
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News of the Week:
- EA doing their own event (EA Play) instead of E3 – still doing a press conference on Sunday afternoon before E3 (the same timing as Bethesda’s conference last year), just no booth on E3 show floor, instead they’re holding EA Play nearby and will be open to the public
- GOG.com launches their take on early access – 14 day refunds, 5 games & more to come
- Scott Cawthon pulls FNaF World from Steam after mixed feedback. Enabled refunds regardless of hours played – will later release for free
- Scalebound delayed to 2017 because “it would be really tough for Scalebound to shine this holiday up against Microsoft’s other games, not to mention multiplatform titles from other publishers.” according to Microsoft marketing manager Aaron Greenberg. Brought up extra dev time as a bonus really. So for business reasons and not because the game needs it. 😐
- 2106 GDC State of the Industry survey has VR/AR dev numbers – 19% of respondents working on Rift games, 7% Gear VR, with VIVE, Playstation VR and Google Cardboard all at about 6%. Interest in developing for: Rift 40%, Playstation and Vive at 26%, and Hololens at 25%. 75% of respondents answered that the VR/AR market is a long-term, sustainable business
- Harold Ryan steps down as CEO of Bungie – He started at Bungie in 2000 as Test Manager for Halo: Combat Evolved. Worked his way up to President, then CEO. Being replaced with Pete Parsons, who came from Microsoft to Bungie in 2002 as an executive producer. Most of the official Bungie statement about this leadership change is trying to reassure Destiny players ha ha
- Def Leppard has a music video premiere/debut on Guitar Hero Live TV, the real news is that Def Leppard makes new music still lol Also you can now play that crappy Fall Out Boy song with the Munsters theme in it
- Gamestop Gets into Publishing via Partnership with Insomniac Games
Intro: “Son of a Rocket” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Outro: “Cuban Sandwich” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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