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Talk about a lazy weekend. Here’s the news.

Summer Games Done Quick Begins
Bethesda Sues Westworld Devs
Forza Horizon 4’s Car Roster Leaked

SGDQ 2018

Summer Games Done Quick, for those who don’t know, is an annual event where video game speed runners gather together to broadcast tons of various speed runs over the span of a few days. It’s a giant charity event, so expect to see frequent donations, all of which go toward Doctors Without Borders. It’s honestly a good time. A bunch of gaming nerds getting together to do something good for the world. I normally have the live stream going while I work. More information can be found at the GamesDoneQuick website.

Bethesda Dropping the Hammer

Some of you may have noticed that Westworld now has a mobile game. You may also have noticed that said game bears a striking resemblance to Fallout Shelter. This is because the studio hired to make Fallout Shelter is the same hired for the Westworld game. Bethesda is taking legal action against these developers, claiming it copied the code from Fallout Shelter.

While you can’t own a genre of video games, you CAN own the specific code needed to make a game. When this studio developed Fallout Shelter, they signed a contract stating that Bethesda owns all code made for the game. Bethesda now believes the developer re-used this code for development on Westworld. They’re so certain because they were able to replicate a camera glitch in Westworld that acts the exact same way as one from Fallout Shelter. If that isn’t the most Bethesda thing ever.

Forza Roster Leaked

Those who pre-ordered Forza Horizon 4 noticed that the game had downloaded some game files early. Puzzled by this, they dug into these files to see what they could find. The results were impressive. There appears to be a roster of over 450 vehicles listed for the game. This has sparked some discussion as to the limited presence of certain vehicles and brands (There’s like.. 3 Toyotas). The Forza Twitter has stated that the download is an error, and you are safe to delete them before the game properly downloads. You can find the full list of vehicles at this Reddit post by willbsn13. And can I say? My god these screenshots look nice.

Time to put the nose back to the grindstone, eh? Thank’s for tuning in. I hope all the new folk coming in from that Facebook ad are enjoying it. Feel free to provide feedback if something isn’t to you’re liking. Come back tomorrow for another news post. I’ll try to get another guest review up soon. Otherwise, have a great day!

Monday 1-8-18: DragonBall Specs, Fortnite Lag, MH Beta, Belgium, and GDQ.

By Branden

On January 9, 2018

In Uncategorized

So much weekend news! Jeeeez. Here’s everything from both today and the 2 days prior.

Dragonball FighterZ PC Specs Revealed
Epic Addresses Recent Fortnite Issues
Monster Hunter World Gets One Final Beta
Belgium Clarifies its Previous Lootbox Statement
Controversy with the GDQ Twitch Chat

Dragonball FighterZ Specs
Bandai Namco have announced the minimum and required specs for Dragonball FighterZ. They are as follows:
Minimum Requirements

Windows 7/8/10 (64bit OS)
AMD FX-4350, 4.2 GHz/Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20 GHz
4 GB RAM
Radeon HD 6870, 1GB/GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 1 GB
DirectX11
DirectX Compatible Soundcard/chipset

Recommended Requirements

Windows 7/8/10 (64bit OS)
AMD Ryzen 5 1400, 3.2GHz/Intel Core i7-3770, 3.40 GHz
8 GB RAM
Radeon HD 7870, 2GB/GeForce GTX 660, 2GB
DirectX11
DirectX Compatible Soundcard/chipset

This is for PC, if you hadn’t guessed.

Epic Explains Fortnite Issues
Recently there has been a technical vulnerability called Meltdown. This bug allowed you to access CPU processes one would otherwise not be allowed to access. When Epic updated their cloud software to protect themselves from the bug, it caused a huge spike in CPU usage. This has resulted in gameplay issues and login issues. Epic apologizes for the problems, and is working towards fixing it as soon as they can.

Yet Another Monster Hunter Beta
That’s right, another one. This one will be from January 18 at 6:00 PM PST until January 21 at 6:00 PM PST. Only PlayStation members will be able to participate. This is only a few days before the game’s console release of January 26. There will be new monsters in this beta session, including the game’s flagship monster, the Nergigante. I’m sold on this game at this point, though some early game time is certainly fine by me.

Capcom has also announced that one of the returning beasts to Monster Hunter World will be the Deviljho, the powerful monster known for eating its own severed tail.

Belgium Clarifies They’re Plans
Last year we heard that Belgium’s gaming commission is looking to ban loot boxes in video games because they are gambling. Recently they have clarified that they have not made an official conclusion, but that they are beginning investigation towards that concept. They are also looking into eSports betting. There will be more to report on this once the gaming commission reaches a conclusion.

GDQ Chat Causes Controversy
At This year’s GDQ, the organizers decided to set the official Twitch stream into Sub Only mode in order to reduce spam and make it easier to moderate. They stated that all sub earnings would be donated to charity. Regardless, people were unhappy they had to pay to chat, so people flooded over to account channels made purely with the intent of hosting GDQ and allowing users to chat as they want. Funny enough, one major host account, GDQ_Poverty, was flooded with hateful comments and remarks, resulting in the channel being banned. Its a big mess, you can read more about it in the news post I wrote here.

So… Much.. News…
Today was a rough day. My day job ran 2 hours longer than normal, and as you can see, lots of weekends news. Forgive me if my writing isn’t its strongest. I finished a new longform article about mobile apps that are video game styled life organizers, you can read about it here. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the latest news. Otherwise I’m writing to a brick wall. Otherwise, have a great night!

Tuesday 9-5-17: Sonic DRM, Sales Milestones, Manuals, GDQ, and Lootboxes

By Branden

On September 5, 2017

In daily update, News

Tuesday 9-5-17

There is a fair bit of news today. I had a hard time whittling it down to only a few. So enjoy a bit more news this time. The details of each can be found farther down, as usual.

Sonic Mania’s Denuvo DRM for PC has already been cracked
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S Battlegrounds hit 10 million sales
Skullgirls hit 1 million sales
the Game Done Quick Charity event is over
Nintendo has posted the manual for StarFox 2
EVE: Valkeries will be getting loot boxes

Sonic Mania’s Denuvo DRM is cracked
Its been 8 days since the highly anticipated Sonic Mania was released on PC. When it was discovered that the DRM software “Denuvo” was implemented in the game without word or warning from SEGA, many fans were upset. Denuvo has a generally negative light to the gaming community for causing complications with the games it was implemented on. Now its been cracked, and DRM free copies of Sonic Mania are found online. Whether or not SEGA will decide to remove Denuvo now that its been broken, like other developers have done in the past, is unknown for now.

StarFox 2 gets an online manual by Nintendo
Originally meant to release in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the already completed game was cancelled in favor for their upcoming hardware, The Nintendo 64. Up until now, the game was lost to legend. Earlier this year when Nintendo release the SNES classic, a miniature SNES emulator device with a large number of games, StarFox 2 was added to that list. This made its “official’ release date September 29, 2017. To add to the revitalized respect for the game. Nintendo has posted an online game manual for Starfox 2. Listing Story, Characters, and such. You can see the manual for yourself HERE.

PLAYERUNKNOWN’S Battlegrounds hits 10 million copies sold
The information is in the title really. Having released in March of this year, PUBG has become the best selling game of 2017. The 10mil mark was announced via their twitter this morning

https://twitter.com/PLAYERUNKNOWN/status/905083558833860609

SkullGirls hits 1 million mark on Steam
It seems unfair to post this literally right next to PUBG’s milestone. Its still an impressive accomplishment for the developers. A 2D fighting game boasting their high quality hand drawn animations, unique mechanics, and moving music. Skullgirls has hit 1 million copies sold on Steam as of Sunday. As posted by Mike Zaimont, Development head.

One million on Steam, WEEEE DID IT!

Well I mean, /you/ did it. I didn't do it, because I had a copy from development. :^P

YAY! pic.twitter.com/3yr8t4I0lL

— Mike Zaimont (@MikeZSez) September 4, 2017

GameDoneQuick Raises 227 thousand dollars for Harvey Relief
After Hurricane Harvey, the GDQ guys quickly (heh) organized a fundraiser event to help aid in the relief for the victims. Having concluded Sunday evening, $227,876.53 was raised overall. All proceeds are going to the Huston Food Bank. While the even has ended, they are still accepting donations for this effort until this Friday. A wonderfully kind and last minute act. You can check them out at www.gamesdonequick.com.

EVE: Valkyries to implement Loot Boxes
The popular VR based Sci fi dog fighting game EVE: Valkyries will be joining the recent trend of loot boxes. Based on how frequently the player wins a match they will receive a reward capsule, containing 2 to 4 items ranging from customization options for your ship or your pilot to XP boosts to currency. All with varying degrees of rarity. How this will tie in with the current customization system is unclear. Personally, I am uneasy for this transition due to my own dissatisfaction with the concept of random chance rewards. Time will tell.

That concludes today’s news. This made up for yesterday’s smaller day. If you think you have an in to some upcoming information, please contact me via my Contact page, and it may get added to the next day’s Daily Update. Until Tomorrow!