Big Week in Gaming - Australian PS5, Xbox and Nintendo Switch Podcast
Leisure:Video Games
001: Controllers are Gender-Neutral (Far Cry 6 announcement, the next big Xbox event and our retrospective on Bonk's Adventure)
Swinny and integot go deep on the Ubisoft Forward event (00:04:00) and share their retrospective on TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine classic, Bonk's Adventure (1989) (02:35:20).
Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:00 - Ubisoft Forward event, Far Cry 6
00:14:40 - Ubisoft Forward event, Assassin's Creed Valhalla
00:27:25 - Ubisoft Forward event, Watch Dogs: Legion, Free Watch Dogs 2 For PC
00:37:45 - Ubisoft Forward event, Hyper Scape
00:42:00 - Ubisoft Forward event, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
00:44:55 - Ubisoft Forward event, Brawlhalla comes to mobile... Yay?
00:48:25 - Ubisoft Forward event, wrap-up
00:49:30 - Skull & Bones rebooted and delayed
00:52:11 - Ubisoft executive fall-out
01:05:00 - Xbox 20/20 event announced for July 23rd
01:11:15 - Phil Spencer announcing Project xCloud & Game Pass integration
01:23:25 - Half life 3 cancelled
01:30:00 - Sony buys $250m (360m AUD) stake in Epic Games
01:33:00 - Microsoft expresses interest in buying WB Games
01:35:00 - Tencent looking to buy Leyou (Digital Extremes, Splash Damage)
01:36:30 - Devolver Direct/ Devolverland Expo
01:40:00 - NES lego set, 350AUD, 230USD, 210GBP on 1 August
01:46:30 - Copy of Super Mario Bros. sells for $114k USD (163k AUD)
01:50:00 - PS5 and Xbox Series X box art revealed
01:56:20 - DS5 hands-on with Geoff Keighley
01:58:30 - Stadia Connect, yes, because of Super Bomberman R Online
02:01:50 - Sony ramps up production of PS5
02:03:00 - Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition discontinued in Australia (and Worldwide)
02:07:30 - Dragon's Dogma Netflix series
02:09:30 - Monster Hunter movie delayed
02:11:30 - Uncharted movie starts filming
02:13:30 - Slippi update (Smash Bros Melee roll-back netcode)
02:17:45 - Minecraft - support being ended for a number of platforms
02:19:30 - Halo 3 on PC
02:21:10 - DOOM SNES source code released
02:22:15 - Physical Official Smash Bros invite letter stationery kit
02:23:00 - Amiibo are dead. Look, new Amiibo
02:23:45 - Ghost of Tsushima & Paper Mario launch to positive reviews
02:24:00 - Paper Mario launch with positive reception from critics but mixed emotions from fans
02:25:40 - Donkey Kong Country headlines new games on Nintendo Switch Online
02:26:30 - 5 years ago, retrospective
02:28:25 - Switch sales
02:29:30 - Playstation Plus games
02:30:00 - Epic Games Store
02:31:40 - Xbox Gamepass, Xbox Games with Gold (July)
02:35:20 - Bonk's Adventure (1989) retrospective
02:58:15 - Outro
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