Video Game Logic Podcast Episode 241: Just Under the Wire

This week Shrink & Rage add something at the last moment as we talk about Assassin's Creed and Tencent.

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Show Highlights & Timestamps

• Games We Played 10:41
• Ubisoft To Create Assassin's Creed Live Service 50:30
• Tencent Does weird, probably bad, things.1:00:15
• Community Corner 1:11:55
  • Final Fantasy XIV Is So Popular Even The Digital Version Sold Out
  • VIdeo Games Sale for Crazy Prices at Auction
  • Cube: Do we have any over/under for Death of a Game: WoW?
• Discovery Queue 1:37:24

 

Games We Played

Rage:

The Coin Game

Snow Runner

 

Shrink:

Snow Runner

 

News

• Assassin's Creed Live Service

TechRaptor: Ubisoft Looking To Create Assassin's Creed Live Service Platform

 

• Tencent News

Sixth Tone: Tencent Deploys Facial Recognition to Detect Minors Gaming at Night

Segment Next: Tencent Patents A “Digital Will” To Pass On Gaming Accounts/Items After Death

 

Community Corner

• Final Fantasy XIV Sold Out

Kotaku: Final Fantasy XIV Is So Popular Even The Digital Version Sold Out

 

• Video Game Auctions

TechRaptor: Super Mario 64 Becomes First Million Dollar Game At Auction

TechRaptor: The Legend of Zelda Game Auction Nets a Record 870K

PC Games N: A sealed copy of Skyrim just sold for $600 at an auction

AV Club: Someone spent $1.56M on a copy of Super Mario 64 instead of just, like, downloading it

 

• World... of Warcraft

PC Gamer: World of Warcraft's latest cinematic is a narrative disaster and players hate it

 

Discovery Queue

Rage:

Black Skylands

Boomerang X

My Child Lebensborn

Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III

Orcs Must Die! 3

Wildshape - Map Editor + VTT

 

Shrink:

Hell Architect: Prologue

Galactic Mining Corp

Boppio