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This episode aired on 28th December 2024 featuring special guest YebbaDebba! Agenda: **FIRST HALF**

- Introducing YebbaDebba

- What got them into content creation

- What content do they do

- Yebba's played a lot of indies this year!

- Standouts

**SECOND HALF**

- Capcom are looking at 're-activating more dormant IPs' off the back of the TGA announcements (Okami, Onimusha)

- DINO CRISIS????

- Pulp's played Legacy of Kain: Soulreaver Remaster

- Bryan's still playing POE2

- Yebba's played Horizon Zero Dawn

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Oblivion (Elder Scrolls) remake possibly announced next month

- Previously leaked during the massive Xbox leak a while ago but there was no confirmation of how far along it had been

- if it's bad there's the "Skyblivion" mod (Oblivion in the Skyrim engine)

- Stalker 2 drops 117gb PATCH

- Addresses a lot of bugs

- Gamestop closed 300 stores last year and is looking at closing more soon

- Sony now a to acquire a larger stake in Kadakowa and no longer buying them out

- This makes them the largest shareholder (10%)

- Part of the deal involves collaborating on more trans media things with Sony

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This episode aired on 14th December 2024 Agenda: **FIRST HALF**

- The Game Awards Summary

- Astro Bot wins Game of the Year

- Our favourite announcements

**PEACHY'S UNNAMED INDIE GAMING SHOWCASE THING**

- Flint Treasure of Oblivion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQQ8ZNe5G5Q

- Wild Woods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9B68fl4vvo

- Xenopurge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHDbiUXtaA

- Clone Drone in the Danger Zone: (this is my friend's game) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIw5flTvlkA

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy's played Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

- Bryan has played Path of Exile 2 Early Access

- Pulp played Path of Exile 2 too! Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 30th November 2024 Agenda: The Game Awards Nominations

- The Shadow of the Erdtree is up for GOTY and it's controversial

- We pick our nominations

- Peachy's played Vampire the Masqurade - Bloodlines

- Bryan preps for Path of Exile 2 and watched Pantheon, Blue Eye Samurai, Silo and started Dune: Prophecy

- Pulp played Mass Effect Legendary Edition

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Sony is talks to buy Kadokawa

- Kadokawa is the majority owner of FromSoftware, with around 70% of the company. Sony already owns around 14% of the developer, with Tencent owning around 16%

- Sony is only interested in the assets of Kadokawa that involves games, anime, films and TV shows, but Kadokawa are only interested in selling everything or nothing

- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and STALKER 2 both launch with a LOT of bugs

- Microsoft working on a new handheld and Sony likewise doing the same (although not just a remote streaming device this time) Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

**FIRST HALF**

- Palworld vs Nintendo update: Palworld released a statement confirming the 3 patents

- Suing for damages: roughly $33,000 to each company (Nintendo and Pokemon Company)

- An injunction to stop Palworld continuing to sell/make their game

- Patents include riding creatures you've caught and catching creatures within an object

- Netease found 9 employees were money laundering/accepting bribes, so fired them and passed on the details onto the police who have since arrested them for corruption

- Two of the employees were Senior Executives

- Netease have blacklisted 27 companies that were involved

- Reportedly the second internal anti-corruption investigation launched by NetEase since September 2023

**PEACHY'S INDIE SHOWCASE**

- Tricky Madness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwYoeS-Pno

- Rue Valley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRFT2ffGF94

- Pizza Slice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAdN446w10

- Into the Grid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uyftbKqvp8

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy's played I am Future and Star Trucker

- Bryan watched Arcane season 2 (first 3 episodes) and is watching Dandadan (anime)

- Bryan is nearly done with God of War Ragnarok

- Pulp played the Last of Us and is playing The Last of Us Part II

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Ubisoft's NFT game has been decimated by one single player that has found an exploit that auto-wins matches. He's won 56,000 matches so far rendering the game unplayable in 'ranked'.

- Two Gamers seek Class Action Suit against Ubisoft for delisting and taking down servers for The Crew

- It largely relies on the packaging of the physical copies the two bought, they allege the packaging implies the offline version of the game would always be available.

This episode aired on 2nd November 2024 Agenda: **FIRST HALF**

- Indie Showcase:

Into the MAW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7hQs8zU70

Ascending Inferno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcuFi0E8kqw

Coldridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYTgZaV4av4

Vampire Therapist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJK_ZU9mWho

Virballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyuMCnCCC3U

**SECOND HALF**

- Peachy's played many horror games

- Bryan watched Interview with a Vampire series and is watching The Penguin

- Pulp played more horror games

- Pulp played Monster Hunter Wilds beta

**SMALLER TOPICS**

- Firewalk Studios is shutting down (Concord)

- Fntastic abandons Kickstarter and Escape Factory with it. Now they're developing a new game, ITEMS (basically Prop Night 2.0) and once again openly relying on free labour; they're doing a 'level design competition' where the prize is a copy of the game.

- They're also going to fund the project by developing... *checks notes* other games, mobile games specifically

- Nintendo now have a (paid) dedicated music app that plays Nintento owned music

- as a result of this Nintendo have been going after content that allows you to listen to OSTs

- Creators that have Let's Plays should probably be careful!

- In 2024, the year of our lord, Beyonce, Ubisoft released an NFT game, some of the NFT characters are $63k LOL Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 19th October 2024 Agenda:

In this episode Bryan takes a backseat for the vast majority of the cast whilst Pulp and Katlink spend the next 2 hours talking about everything they loved, disliked, were surprised by and everything else in between in the Silent Hill 2 Remake by Bloober Team.

It should go without saying, but a SPOILERCAST involves talking about spoilers! So if that is a problem I strongly suggest giving this episode a miss until you've finished the game!

A huge thank you to @Katlink for coming on the show. We look forward to having her on again another time. If you haven't already go an follow her socials here:https://x.com/KatLink

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This episode aired on 5th October 2024 Agenda: **FIRST HALF**- Fntastic (The Day Before) devs have asked for 'a second chance' and want your momey- Krafton (PUBG dev that recently acquired Tango Gameworks) are working with Palword devs (Pocketpair) to make a mobile version of the game**SECOND HALF**- Peachy's played Zero Protocol and Lollipop Chainsaw- Bryan played Final Fantasy 16 (PC)- Pulp played Black Myth: Wukong and a variety of indie horror games**FILLER**- MORG BORG Heresy Supreme- Saber Interactive are making an Avatar game (As in The Last Airbender) - Supposed to be set a few hundred years before the events of The Last Airbender - Death Stranding 2's photo mode - I will not elaborate further - Jason Schreier's new book Play Nice documents Blizzard's history over the last decade or so - Includes insider details on projects such as Project Titan and why it was cancelled - It also 'leaks' that Blizzard are once again working on a StarCraft shooter game (third time's the charm?) Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 21st September 2024 Agenda: FIRST HALFNintendo sues Pocketpair (Palword)Patent infringement, not copyright infringementPocketpair don't know what patents (at time of writing)Many speculate it's the ball catching mechanic which was patented in both Japan and the US after Palword was announcedConcord allegedly cost $400 million and was intended to be a major franchise for Sony; like Star Wars is to DisneySECOND HALFPeachy's played Space Marine II and Satisfactory 1.0Bryan hasn't played anything because he was in bed trying not to become deceasedPulp played Kingdom HeartsFILLERNetflix announcementsSplinter Cell animeTomb Raider animeDevil May Cry animeThe entire staff of Annapurna Interactive has resigned Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 7th September 2024!

There's some random interference that happens a couple of times in the second half, no idea what caused it, but apologies!

Agenda:

Meet Sky, the 'content creator guy' from Once Human!

- We hear about the various jobs he's done in the industry, working with creators and in video games marketing

- Some horror stories

- Tips for wannabe creators

- His experience with the new World of Warcraft expansion

- Bryan plays Black Myth: Wukong

- Pulp plays The Casting of Frank Stone

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This episode aired on 10th August 2024

Agenda:

I (Bryan) accidentally deleted the agenda before saving it in the description for this vid, so we will say IT'S MYSTERY AND WATCH THE EPISODE TO FIND OUT LOL. Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 27th July 2024 Agenda: **FIRST HALF** - EA decides to rip off it's player base, after promising not to. We. Are. SHOCKED. - Apex Legends has split it's Battle Pass into two, charging the same amount for the lower tier and more for the second - They have completely removed the means to earn them for free, which was a large draw to the game. - They've tried to imply the latter was necessary as part of removing the in game currency cost from the Battle Pass (they're now using real world currency) - These two things do not connect - As of writing it is 8% positive on Steam - SAG-AFTRA on strike, specifically regarding AI - Video game voice actors didn't really get included in the deal from the previous strike - SDCC potentially leaks Soul Reaver 1 + 2 Remaster **SECOND HALF** - Path of Exile new league - Settlers of Kalguur - Expansion league: a game within a game - Melee rework - loads of rebalancing a class changes **FILLER**- Warhammer 40k updates - Workers at Bethesda join a wall-to-wall Union - Workers at Warcraft have likewise done the same - Halo TV adaption cancelled after season 2 - Fallout: London is out (on GOG because it's too big for nexusmods) - Horizon adaptation has been canned - PlayStation are going to be at the Tokyo Game Show for the first time in years - Many suspect it's for the PS5 Pro announcement - Diablo 4 Spiritborn was reveal - Level cap increase - Stalker 2 delayed to November 20th Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 20th July 2024 Agenda: **FIRST HALF**

- Xbox Gamepass changes

- 'Gamepass for console' is being removed from sale

- current holders keep it until it fully expires

- 'Gamepass for PC' remains unchanged

- Gamepass Standard introduced. It's the cheapest tier, but no day-one titles

- Gamepass Ultimate remains unchanged

- Prices have increased across the board

- They've capped how many months you can buy at 13 months

- You could previously stack years of giftcards/codes and make it VERY cheap

**SECOND HALF**

- Pulp has been playing Once Human

- Drama surrounding the game's EULA that has been grossly misunderstood by gamers

- Peachy has been playing Still Wakes the Deep and Shift87

- Bryan has been playing Last Epoch 1.1 (new Cycle) Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on [date] Agenda: **FIRST HALF**

- DrDisrespect

- Timeline

- Why did Twitch not say anything

- Why did no journalists say anything

**SECOND HALF**

- Elden Ring

- Critical Reviews

- Mixed reviews on Steam (this recently changed to Mostly Positive)

- the "nerf" (not actually a nerf)

- Pulp is playing the DLC

**FILLER**

- Warhammer news that may make Peachy cry

- Steam facing lawsuit in UK

- Steam Summer Sale is live

- Steam game recording now in the Steam overlay

- Last Epoch's next cycle hits July 9th with new systems

- Diablo 4 PTR/Season 5 announcements

- TwitchCon EU currently happening

- New 'Bleed Purple' statues for hitting hours watched milestones (similar to YouTube play buttons, I guess)

- Seasonal Message effects

- Power Ups udates: Sound Effects, TTS, Creators being able to make their own

- Guest Star is getting a 'call feature'

- ToS update that has a focus on "Broadcaster-Offered benefits" which may indicate more customisation for subs/power-ups in the future. Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 15th June 2024 Agenda:The agenda on this episode is pretty simple - we covered Summer Games Fest, particularly the Xbox Showcase and various demos we played for Steam Next Fest.Notable mentions: Gears of War: E-Day, Doom: The Dark Ages, Perfect Dark, Dungeon Clawler, Fallen Aces, Flintlock, Enotria and more! Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 1st June 2024 Agenda: **FIRST HALF** - PlayStation State of Play: - Astro Bot - Concord - God of War: Ragnarok [PC] - Monster Hunter: Wilds - Dynasty Warriors Origins - Infinity Nikki - Ballad of Antara - Behemoth [VR] - Alien: Rogue Incursion [VR] - Where Winds Meet - Until Dawn [Remaster] - Path of Exile 2 conole parity and couch co-op - Silent Hill 2 Remake **SECOND HALF** - Probably overlap from the first half - Pick from the filler, lol (may update this as the day goes one) **FILLER** - Guilded forces Roblox account requirement - Call of Duty Black Ops 6 hits Game Pass day one - Riot updates harassment policy and processes - now includes hardware bans - Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica remasters are seemingly coming - Peachy doesn't like Homeworld 3 - IGN buys just about everything Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrenderedtv https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 18th May 2024 Agenda: **FIRST HALF** - Xbox closes down several studios, including Tango Gameworks, makers of Hi-Fi Rush - Internal memo states they want to redirect resources to Bethesda games as they 'more likely to be successful' - Matt Booty said they need more 'small games that win awards', ya'know, like Hi-Fi Rush - Sarah Bond was asked about the closure of Tango and gave a spectacularly wordy non-answer - Hi-Fi Rush was stated, by Xbox, to have exceeded "all key metrics" - Game Pass growth has dramatically slowed, but is still massively profitable - CoD is coming to Game Pass day one **SECOND HALF** - Peachy went to Warhammer World and stuff - Warhammer announcement - Bryan has been watching all the movies - Monkey Man - Godzilla Minus One - Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Pulp has continued with Stellar Blade **FILLER** - EA looking at putting (more) ads "thoughtfully" in games, after being asked by stakeholders about it. - Straus Zelnik claims Roll7 and Intercept games were 'not shuttered' despite literally no one working at the studios any more - Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed: Shadows - Lots of controversy about the two protagonists, the fact it's up for pre-order already (with multiple tiers) despite there being no gameplay available for it yet and there's a season pass (it's a single player game) - Square Enix changing it's approach; aiming to have games spread across more platforms (including Xbox) Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 4th May 2024 Agenda: FIRST HALF Battlestate Games enrage their entire community with anti-consumer BS They've delisted their Edge of Darkness edition that offered 'all future DLC' as a perk They listed a new Edition called "The Unheard Edition" This is a monumentally stupid name It's $250 (100 more than EoD) and contains a lot of Pay to Win stuff (not just inventory space, but full blown P2W mechanics) as well as locks a PvE mode behind a paywall Nikita (CEO) had one of his unhinged rants about the intitial response, before eventually walking it back It's been a PR nightmare in general SECOND HALF Helldivers II devs/Sony force PC players to link PSN accounts in order to play It's not clear if this is Sony pushing this or Arrowhead due to conflicting comms from Community Managers, although Arrowhead CEO seems to be pointing his finger at Sony An Arrowhead CM (Spitz) states the dev team isn't happy with the change (via Discord) The requirement was listed on Steam since prior to launch but was 'temporarily skippable' due to technical issues Sony changed their own website the same day as the announcement stating all their games require PSN linking FILLER Nintendo issues 8500 DMCA takedowns on Github to purge Yuzu clones. Shadow of the Erdtree is 'the first and last' DLC for Elden Ring, but there could be more Elden Ring in other forms (sequel?) in the future Take-Two Interactive shutting down Roll7 (Rollerdrome and OlliOlli World) as well as Intercept Games (Kerbal Space Program 2) as part of lay-offs Zelnick's (CEO) compensation rose from 16 million to 42 million last year. Walmart (not for the first time) have put an 'advergame' in Roblox which includes being able to visit the Walmart website from a digital laptop and being able to buy products Google Play Twitter posts embarrassingly inaccurate thread about Sonic (it's presumed to have been done by AI) Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 20th April 2024 Agenda: **FIRST HALF** - "Triple-i" / iii initiative announcements: - Vampire Survivors x Contra DLC: Operation Guns - V Rising x Castlevania: Legacy of Castlevania - Slay the Spire 2 announced (officially, instead of as a jab at Unity this time) - Rebuilt the game in Godot since the Unity drama - Palword is getting a mode similar to, you guessed it, Pokemon Arena! - Mouse (Steamboat Willy meets boomer shooter) - Mike Ybarra tipping developers tweet - Cities Skylines 2 follow-up from Peachy **SECOND HALF** - Custodes have women, big angry women (Warhammer 40k) - Pearl clutchers are mad at the perceived retconning, whilst simultaneously having no issue with all other retconning - Fallout TV show has been received incredibly well - Bethedsa announced free update for Fall out 4, adding graphics/performance modes for current-gen consoles, ultrawide support for PC and a couple of other things - Update breaks all your mods, including Fallout London, huge fan project that was about to be announced, but now is delayed. - Shadows of Doubt **FILLER** - WoW Classic: Cataclysm announced; is this where Classic falls off? - Blizzard and Netease have kissed and made up - Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 announced - Gigantic is back but seems to have some teething issues with bugs/servers - Lawbreakers is back in the form of a fan project - Hades II technical test available - Ubisoft ubsofted and they ubisofted hard with their pre-order pricing/offerings for Star Wars Outlaws - Ghost of Tsushima comes to PC and includes PSN friendslist and Trophies Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on 6th April 2024 Agenda: FIRST HALF

Peachy went to Insomnia72

SECOND HALF

Patreon submitted question: What is your favorite memorable funny, inspiring, or weird quote from a game you've played? One of mine is Instructor Razuvious from World of Warcraft's Naxxramus raid: "Sweep the leg! Do you have a problem with that?" which is a Karate Kid reference. He also says, "You disappoint me students!"

stopkillinggames.com

FILLER

Saber Interactive CEO confirms KOTOR Remake is "Alive and well"

Cities: Skylines 2

Tekken 8 Waffle House tweet

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This episode aired on16/03/24 Agenda: FIRST HALF

Peachy plays a live service game (The Finals)!

Battlefront Classic Collection launch is going like a disaster

Overwhelmingly negative

Three 64 player servers only; 10k people tried to play. Devs cited network issues.

File size is over 60gb (original games were 12gb)

SECOND HALF

Warner Bros de-lists a bunch of Adult Swim published games

Devs pleaded to have the game's Steam listing ownership to be transferred (which only takes THREE clicks), Warner Bros cited that they couldn't due to 'resource constraints'

FILLER

QA workers at Activision form union and Microsoft 'gives it's blessing'

Akira Toriyama died

Rooster Teeth closes down (150 job losses)

Ghost of Tsushima PC port

New studios popping up (like we predicted)

Giant Skull (ex Star Wars Jedi director)Emptyvessel (ex naughty dog, activision, id software 'veterans') Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/FullyRendered Socials: Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fullyrendered https://twitter.com/bryanthepirate https://twitter.com/peachpixel8 https://twitter.com/plopfictionally

This episode aired on March 2nd 2024Agenda:

FIRST HALF

Pulp has been playing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (no spoilers)

Peachy played Powerwash Simulator's Warhammer DLC, Bandle Tale and Pacific Drive

Warhammer Codex's dropped today: Orks and Custodes

Bryan played (and was sponsored) Last Epoch

SECOND HALF

Studio breaks away from Embracer group:

Saber Interactive ($500 million deal)

Toys for Bob (Crash Bandicoot and Spyro remakes)

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree reveal

Bloodborne remake is more likely than a remaster, says Miyazaki, but probably for a future gen. console.

Outrage at Microsoft regarding exclusives going to other platforms

FILLER

New Terminator Survivors, Terminator survival game

Yoko Taro has been teasing a new Nier game out Nier Orchestra events

Helldivers 2 has been received really well

Sony (8%, about 900 people) and EA (5%, about 670 people) layoffs.

Suicide Squad struggles to maintain more players than the much older Arkham games.

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This episode aired on February 2nd 2024 Agenda: FIRST HALF

- Playstation State of Play

- Patreon Q&A submission

RyanColby1984 asks:

What's an underrated game that you think changed a genre of games for the better? Perhaps a title that introduced revolutionary mechanics. Alternate question: what game or games would you consider to be "Formative" in your life - ones that made you fall in love with a genre of gaming or taught you how to do certain things or skills best.

SECOND HALF

- Riot layoffs, 530 people affected, namely within Riotforge.

- they're offering a substantial severance package

- Microsoft lays off 1900 staff, many from Activision Blizzard

- Mike Ybarra has left

- His replacement is an Activision exec, which Blizzard have tried to avoid so staff are salty about it

- Blizzard has cancelled the survival game they were making- Embracer has laid off more staff, this time Eidos Montreal and cancels an Deus Ex project

FILLER

- Palworld 2nd most played game on Steam

- 19 million if you also include Game Pass

- Microsoft said they will "support" Palword, especially after stating it's the most successful 3rd party game on Game Pass

- Nintendo says they're "aware of a game"

- Nintendo DMCA a Pokémon mod for Palworld

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FIRST HALF

Quinfall - 'The World's Biggest MMO' is The Day Before 2.0

Palworld becomes most concurrently played survival game on Steam

SECOND HALF

Nexon fined by Korean FTC for lying to customers about gacha mechanics

Twitch lay off 500 staff, Clancy confirms Twitch is still not profitable

FILLER

Xbox Developer Update - Avowed, Hellblade 2, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, Visions of Mana, Ara

Suicide Squad previews are not going favourably. Warner Bros removed the NDA with the hope more folks would speak of it in a better light. That bet didn't pay off!

RTX 40 series now has Super cards that are more competitively priced

'Boomer Shooter' official genre on Steam

Smite 2 announced - cosmetics don't carry over (50% discount on the things you want to rebuy)

Wizard's AI debacle

FIRST HALF

Holiday catch-up. What we've been up to, etc.

Bobby Kotick is now officially out of ABK.

SECOND HALF

13 year old, Blue Scuti, 'beat' OG Tetris, which broke the game. BBC news anchor told him to touch grass.

Minecraft movie

Starring JACK BLACK, Jason Momoa and directed Jared Hess (Napolian Dynamite director). WHAT.

Warhammer pre-orders, new games Workshop game

Bryan Ansel died

FILLER

PS5 Pro announcement rumoured for late q3 this year. Sales in 2025

Insomniac hack

Versus Evil shut down 3 days before Christmas

FIRST HALF:

- The Game Awards round-up

- The Day Before was absolutely a scam

SECOND HALF:

- Twitch ToS shenanigans

- The Completionist Update

FILLER:

- Last of Us Factions has been cancelled

- Death Stranding movie confirmed with A24.

- E3 official dead

- Silent Hill: Ascension memeageddon

FIRST HALF: Bethesda replying to Starfield Steam reviews in a very cringe way. Alan Wake II despite being a critical success didn't make it into the top 150 for October (sales) SECOND HALF: Path of Exile announcements: PoE 2 showcase and new Affliction league Destiny 2 upsets it's player base again with a "newb trap" bundle on their store for $15 FILLER: GTA6 Trailer 1 is December 5th, 9am ET. Rollerdrome, Remnant and Remnant II coming to Game Pass Amazon's Fall Out TV series images (and trailer released just as I was writing this) - looks, okay? It's going to be canon. Cult of the Lamb to 'add sec to the game' if they got 300k follows on Twitter. Which happened 2 hours later. Ubisoft "bug" put ads for their other games in menus of premium titles. EG opening the map in AC Odyssey opened an ad to AC Mirage first. Jirard "The Completionist"/Open Hand update.

FIRST HALF:

The Game Award Nominees

Who we think will win (not who we want to win)

Discourse regarding a couple of the categories

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PATREON

SECOND HALF:

Peachy talks Warhammer

The Completionist Charity Scandal

Live Action Zelda!

FILLER:

Epic Game Store not profitable, court documents reveal

Unity announce incoming lay offs and project closures

The EIC of The Escapist is fired, his entire team resign with him.

Steam Deck OLED

FIRST HALF:

- Mrs Kevin (Pulp talks about being a wedded woman

- Lay offs, lay offs everywhere. Bungie laid off 8% (about 100 people) after talking about being 45% under projections and egging on staff to turn it around

- Those employees also lose the shares they were promised as part of the Sony acquisition as they're not yet vested

- Should also be noted that Sony literally said the acquisition would not lead to restructuring/lay offs!

- The Final Shape also delayed by 3 months

- Marathon delayed to 2025, internal feedback hasn't been great

- TwitchCon Las Vegas happened:

Stories

Featured Clips getting more features

Guest Star renamed to Stream Together (terrible name) and being adapted to combine viewer count and has slightly more customisation within OBS (layouts, etc.)

More Twitch Alerts (used by new streamers with less familiarity with third parties like StreamElements, StreamLabs, et al)

Seasonal Events - EG a December version of Subtember

Doxxing/swatting (off platform) now officially against ToS

Channel-level chat warnings

Automod Smart Detection rolled out to everyone

Twitch Embeds; auto-play will be disabled if the player isn't a 'substantive or meaningful component of the page'

Simulcasting

SECOND HALF:

- Pulp plays Alan Wake II

- Poochy plays Cities Skylines 2

- The Day Before delayed again, people are still sceptical and is going to go into early access in December.

- BlizzCon - Phil Spencer was there. Bunch of announcements:

Diablo IV's first expansion: Vessel of Hatred, late 24. Follows the Mephisto plotline.

World of Warcraft, next three expansions announced, all focused on one story ark.

Something or other about the other franchises ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

FIRST HALF: Square Enix confirmed the pronunciation of Cait Sith and it's angered the Gaelic community Ex-BioWare employees suing for better severence SECOND HALF: Embedding Twitch streams is finally under scrutiny by Twitch/Dan Clancy Nintendo shutting down Online Services for 3DS and Wii U in April '24 Diablo 4 is coming to Steam on the release on Season 2. Many suspect it'll get reviewed into the ground like Overwatch ("2") FILLER: Tony Hawk 1+2 Remake arrives on Steam! Darktide has had a bit of a revamp Forza Motorsport has reviewed well (8s and 9s) Gearbox might be bringing back Gigantic??? Embracer is floundering; trying to sell off Gear Box (which they bought about 2 years ago), amongst all the other studios they've shut down Team17 losing their CEO and also dropping a load of staff, namely QA NaughtyDog also cut contracts for 25 contractors, namely QA too - most suspect it's due to the "pausing" of the Last of Us multiplayer (which the Bungie team that evaluated it said was a bit shit). Cyberpunk 2077 erm, 2, is being moved from RED Engine to Unreal Engine 5. KOTOR Remake is getting cancelled (speculation) as the reveal trailer has been delisted - the studio working on it is owned by drum roll Embracer! Cities Skylines II CONSOLE are delayed to next year Recommended specs for PC are also quite... Something (rtx3080 for 1080p!) Twitter headlines have been removed and Elon plans to hide analytics (likes, comments, retweets, etc) unless you click on the actual tweet, all in the name of ✨aesthetics✨

FIRST HALF: The Unity-pocalypse new statement last night offering a very acceptable deal that they should have just done in the first place Xbox Leaks from court, again. Discless console leaked (mid-gen) and a bunch of new controllers/accessories. Next gen potentially in '28; "hydrid" with cloud gaming Oblivion & Fallout 3 remasters Dishonored 3!!!! Ghostwire Tokyo sequel loads of others too. Some potentially cancelled. Leaks of previous discussions of Microsoft acquiring/wanting to acquire other companies, including Nintendo. SECOND HALF: Lies of P /w Pulp (and maybe Bryan) Lies of P /w more Pulp Dragon's Dogma 2 showcase Another Bungie game coming: in UE5 and call "Project Gummybears" Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth FILLER: Witchfire in early access Cyberpunk 77 2.0 is reviewing very well Jim Ryan resigns Epic layoff 16% of workforce Alan Wake II previews well received Devil May Cry anime

Episode aired September 8th '23. **FIRST HALF:**

- PR firm Bunker15 accused of paying off reviewers and 'quarantining bad reviews' on Rotten Tomatoes.

- Video game VAs may be joining the SAG-AFTRA strikes

- AI concerns

- Better pay

**SECOND HALF:**

- Starfield /w Pulp

- Starfield discourse

- Alanah Pierce flew to Pluto

- Starfield leaker prior to release gets arrested because he is not smart

**FILLER:**

- Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 back in the news; aiming for Autumn '24.

- 'Red Dead Redemption 3 is in the works' - rumour

- Switch 2 leaks; devs tried it at Gamescom

- Backwards compatible

- not OLED

- utilieses DLSS 3

- Sea of Stars reviewing well

- Rockstar uploaded cracked, pirated versions of their games to Steam because they couldn't remove their own DRM.

- Skull and Bones loses ANOTHER (their third) Creative Director

- Diablo 4 confirms annual expansions

- PS+ price increase, all tiers - 20/35/40usd increase

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Episode aired September 2nd '23.

FIRST HALF:

Gamescom - ONL

SECOND HALF:

LMG follow-up

BioWare's getting gutted out

Violition has been put in the bin

Space Marine II looks DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE

Peachy talks minis

FILLER (some of these are in First Half):

PS5 leak; new model - modular disk drive version. Smaller than first gen

PS Portal announced

Gears of War 6 rumour

Robocop delayed to November 9th

New PoE league

Cyberpunk changes look promising

Killer Bean

Wayfinder soft launches like a soft penis.

War Thunder leaks confidential documents, again.

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FIRST HALF:

- Baldur's Gate 3, obviously

- What we like/don't like

- Overtaking ToTK on Metacritic: GOTY?

- Discussion on expectations of gamers moving forward

SECOND HALF:

- Dark and Darker releases into early access, but NOT on Steam

-Premium currency and 'box' price

- GTA 6 probably going to be released in '24; shareholder conference alludes to this

- Nintendo submitted patents for basic gaming mechanics, again

- Kai Cenat meet-up turns into a riot

- Twitch tools: Featured clips now out; 'TikTok like' discoverability tool coming soonTM.

Episode aired August 12th '23

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FIRST HALF:

- Res. Evil 9 rumours - discussion question: what do you want RE9 to be?

- Armored Core Gameplay trailer

- Dolphin in Steam went down as we suspected

- Nintendo stepped in. They could only stop a Steam release and not cancel the project altogether though.

- Someone cracked open a Project Q (the PS streaming controller) - it's basically an android tablet with handles - $300 rumoured

- MK1 - cameo characters confirmed; Omniman (Invincible) Homelander (The Boys) and Peacemaker (DC)

- ALL HAIL GLORBO

SECOND HALF:

- MSxABK vs regulators update; Sony have chilled the fuck out. CMA in talks with MS - ABK happy to wait it out without asking for the 3bn fee for the delay.

- Bobby says "he'll stick around for as long as MS needs him

- Diablo 4 Drama/Exilecon (currently ongoing)

Episode aired July 29th '23.

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Episode 11 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. In this episode that Includes: - First half: We talk to McFluffin about his opinions on Diablo 4 and it's future. - Second half: We all talk about the games we've tried over Steam Next Fest. Episode aired June 24th '23. Our Channels: https://twitch.tv/bryanthepirate

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Episode 9 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. In this episode that Includes: - The Fuzzy Poochy plays Fortnite. All of it. ALL fort night's worth. - SGF/Day of the Devs/Devolver announcements. - Xbox Showcase\PC Gaming show Predictions - Pulp, demos and Diablo - Peachy, System Shock and Voidtrain - Apple showcase Episode aired June 10th '23. Our Channels: https://twitch.tv/bryanthepirate

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Episode 9 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. In this episode that Includes: FIRST HALF: - We cover the majority of the games were are interested in from the PS Showcase SECOND HALF: - Gollum reviews are... Something - Peachy plays Boltgun. Both he and reviewers are very happy. - Mortal Kombat 1 officially revealed. Fatalities galore! - Dolphin gets DMCA'd off Steam by Nintendo - Pulp plays more Tears of the Kingdom - Peachy plays Rimworld - Bryan gushes of the Succession TV show Episode aired May 27th '23. Our Channels: https://twitch.tv/bryanthepiratehttps://twitch.tv/pulpfictionallyhttps://twitch.tv/peachypixel8 Twitter: https://twitter.com/fullyrenderedtv

Episode 8 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. In this episode that Includes:

FIRST HALF: - Tears of the Kingdom reviews are out and who guessed? It's a banger - No Switch 2 until at least April 2024, but rumoured to be next year - ROG Ally also reviewing well. Competitively priced with Steam Deck - Meanwhile Asus bows out of taking responsibility of exploding CPUs in their boards - Diablo 4 server slam happening during podcast - Developer update showed off their plan for seasonal content (pretty much mirroring PoE) and Season Pass/Cash shop stuff - Nintendo DMCAs Github regarding Switch emulators - Side note; they also DMCA'd Alanah Pearce live on stream for showing PRESS FOOTAGE LOL (It was later reversed). - Discord is changing how they do names to be more like Twitter for some reason. SECOND HALF: - The Last Case of Benedict Fox - Redfall numbers are bad (on Steam) - Phil Spencer interview is pretty candid and enrages Console Wars peasants - Plans for Fully Rendered coverage of SGF/Xbox Showcase/Whatever, just MOAR GAMES - Darkest Dungeon II released - looks dope - Age of Wonders 4 released- looks dope - Humanity (the Lemmings like game releases on May 16th) Episode aired May 13th '23. Our Channels: https://twitch.tv/bryanthepirate

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Episode 7 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. Episode aired April 29th '23. Our Channels: https://twitch.tv/bryanthepirate

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Episode 6 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. Episode aired April 15th '23. Our Channels: https://twitch.tv/bryanthepirate

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Episode 5 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. Episode aired April 1st '23 (no really). Our Channels: https://twitch.tv/bryanthepirate

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Episode 4 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. Episode aired March 18th '23.

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Episode 3 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture.
Episode aired March 11th '23.
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Episode 2 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. Episode aired Feb 18th '23.
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Episode 1 of Fully Rendered. We discuss multiple subjects across nerd culture. Episode aired Feb 4th 22.  Our Channels: https://twitch.tv/bryanthepirate https://twitch.tv/pulpfictionally https://twitch.tv/peachypixel8 Twitter: https://twitter.com/fullyrenderedtv