by Filippo DinolfoOn this week’s episode of the Day 0 Update: Nintendo announces a Greatest Hits album with the Mini NES Classic. SNK shows that they’re here for their fans. Plus, have video game crossovers lost their luster?
7/17/2016 Show Notes
- Intro
- What Are We Playing?
- F: Defense Grid 2
- P: This week was all M:TG, will be nice to get back to video games.
- C: Assault Android Cactus, Hitman, Rocket League
- B: Song of the Deep, Fallout
- Out Tuesday: I Am Setsuna, KOF XIV 7-character demo
- PSN Flash Sale
- Florida Man shoots at fleeing Pokemon Go players thinking they were thieves
- Nintendo announces NES Classic Edition
- P: This is a licensing marvel if you look at the game list. Even Konami played ball.
- NES controller fitted for the Wii remote socket is good news for all VC fans.
- F: This.
- B: Imagine if they make a SNES version…
- P: Then hopefully Konami stays agreeable, they’ll be needed.
- Youtuber purchased 64DD on Craigslist, actually an incredibly rare US retail prototype
- Sega Saturn’s copy protection finally cracked, USB mod incoming
- F: There’s a LOT here. Watch the video.
- Square Enix’s Yosuke Matsuda calls out SIEJ staff, specifically Morita, on Overwatch
- Evo 2016: SNK delegation wear their hearts on their sleeves
- P: I love how they’re bringing old-school development mentality to modern times.
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves next on tap for PS4, Vita
- Bethesda accused of ripping off New Vegas mod for quest in Fallout 4’s Far Harbor DLC
- Kotaku finds similarities, not enough to prove more than inspiration at most.
- Star Citizen Backer gets $2560 back in refund with the help of CA Attorney General
- Valve orders Steam API-based lottery sites shut down, links to CSGO lottery scandal
- Team Ninja’s Lee: No end in sight for crossovers
- Facebook Discussion of the Week: Have frequent crossovers undermined the concept?
- Games like X-Men vs Street Fighter and Capcom vs SNK owe as much to the sheer impossibility of their existence as to the quality of the final product.
- Today, crossovers aren’t just possible, they’re inevitable (for better or worse). YMMV on whether the bar has actually been lowered, but it’s not rare anymore.
- Would it take the granddaddy of all impossibilities (Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat) to make crossovers special again?
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