by Filippo DinolfoThis week on the show: Filippo and Patrick talk about Windows 10, Evo 2015’s lineup, and Hatred’s AO implications. That and much more.
1/25/2015 Show Notes
- What are we playing?
- Patrick
- Suikoden
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona (aka Revelations: Persona)
- Random arcade racers (background video)…I blame Super Systems.
- Filippo
- Defense Grid 2
- DriveClub
- Patrick
- DriveClub goes to Japan for free, does this mean Japanese cars are finally coming?
- Tekken X Street Fighter could get a surprise launch.
- Atlus prepares 30-hour Persona streaming concert/media event.
- First real look at Persona 5?
- Good Guy Best Buy cancels bulk orders of Zelda Edition 3DS.
- Legit single orders caught up as well because BB overestimated allocations.
- Compensating w/$50 vouchers good toward the standard edition, which isn’t bad.
- Fans plan North American release of Phantasy Star Online 2.
- This is pathetic. Sega has no excuse for their handling of PSO2 in this market.
- Meanwhile, Sega insists the game is on track, delayed indefinitely.
- Windows 10 Gaming Features
- Xbox App brings Xbox Live to Windows.
- Phil Spencer really went out of his way to show that it conforms to Steam and not the other way around.
- Game DVR available on any game.
- Cross device play.
- DirectX 12 brings performance gains, info is vague.
- Stream Xbox One games to Windows 10.
- Phil Spencer’s Battletoads shirt…teasing an announcement or just a fan?
- Xbox App brings Xbox Live to Windows.
- Evo 2015 lineup finalized.
- The mainstays: Ultra Street Fighter IV and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
- The first-timers: Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd, and Mortal Kombat X
- So, Tekken 7 by July then. Got it.
- Welcome back: Persona and Killer Instinct
- …and now wasting two spots instead of just one: Smash Melee and Wii U
- We’re sure the DOA and BlazBlue communities don’t mind…
- So much salt was dispensed last year that the American Dialect Society took notice.
- Hatred gets the AO death sentence from ESRB.
- Destructive Creations implies no intention of censoring down to an M.
- Does Gabe Newell stand by Destructive or the Steam standards policies?
- Just announced a couple months ago, it’s far enough along to get to the ESRB?
- Hatred vs the AO barrier: early favorite for Industry Story of the Year?
- Meanwhile, Steam’s fighting the same battle on another front.
- You’d think the last 5-10 years would’ve matured the industry enough that adult sections in physical and digital retailers would be a matter of course.