by Filippo DinolfoOn this week’s show, Fil, Patrick, Brandon, and Theresa discuss technology’s past. The Oculus Rift is expensive. Half-Life’s writer leaves Valve. Plus we talk a bit about our future plans for the show and SmashPad as a whole.
1/10/2016 Show Notes
- Intro
- What Are We Playing?
- F: Rare Replay, RB4
- P: Nothing new, gotta get SC knocked out before I move on.
- B: Xenoblade, Bloodborne, Fallen London/Sunless Sea
- T: Fantasy Life
- Scalebound’s 2016 release date survived only three days into 2016
- Tusk and Kim Wu confirmed outright for KI Season 3, as launch characters in March
- Rumors of a 2016 NX launch take a hit as Kimishima declares no rush
- Oculus Rift Launches in March for $600
- OG Kickstarter Backers who got DK1 get final hardware for free.
- Pirates having a hard time with Just Cause 3
- Tabata: “We’ll show the real [Final Fantasy] XV” at March release date reveal
- Valve’s Marc Laidlaw, ‘sole writer’ of Half Life series, departs company.
- Activision acquires MLG for a king’s ransom
- Kotick: I want to build the ESPN of video games.
- History lesson required to frame this correctly, but Kotick not necessarily toxic.
- Let’s get it out of the way: Kotick vs IW was identical to Konami vs Kojima.
- He’s done well to avoid news since, a very capable steward of Activision.
- Activision problems are Activision problems, not Kotick problems.
- This can work very well if not just used as a platform for Activision games.
- Activision one of very few publishers with the resources to pull this off.
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