Tuesday is here and we are official in 2018! Here’s the first news of the year.

  • EarthBound Inspired Cook Book
  • Chaos with Steam’s VAC protection
  • Sumo Digital Acquires CCP Newcastle

EarthBound CookBook
With the new year upon us, I was struggling to find newsworthy content. One thing I managed to dig up is Mother’s Cookbook. This is a book of recipes is inspired by the Nintendo RPG, EarthBound. Made by game-loving chef Bryan Connor, the book’s name is based on the game’s Japanese name, Mother 2. The book contains recipes for items like Down-Home Burgers and Mach Pizza. The Kickstarter for the book has already tripled its goal, with 8 days remaining. You can see Connor’s gaming food blog, lvl 1 chef, here.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/motherscookbook/mothers-cookbook-an-earthbound-inspired-cookbook

VAC Confusion
Recently there was a number of reports that any Linux based Team Fortress 2 players with “catbot” in the name would be automatically banned. The forums in which this was reported had a number of other users confirming this to be true. This caused a mild uproar at the lazy efforts of VAC to inhibit the popularized cheat software, catbot. Later on, an official Valve employee would confirm that this was incorrect. He stated that they are NOT automatically banning the name and that he suspects that this was an effort from the cheating community to build discord and distrust for the anti-cheat system. This is why it’s important to get the facts straight before jumping on the news wagon.

Sumo Digital Acquires CCP Newcastle
The developers of a large number of major titles (Hitman, dead island 2, LittleBigPlanet 3) has acquired studio CCP Newcastle. When financial support was lost towards their last project, the VR space fighting game Eve: Valkyrie, CCP announced that they would be closing and consolidating. Now known as Sumo Digital Newcastle, the focus of the studio remains undeclared. Though I can assume that Eve: Valkyrie will lose support.

Thank you, everyone, for having patience in this holiday time. I look forward to regaining some regularity. One 2018 goal is to have 1 longform article posted to the site here once a month (with 3 longforms for my client site, gamerzunite.com the rest of the month) So stay tuned for that. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the latest and greatest in gaming news. Otherwise, have a great night!