The Retro Rents - EP077 - Jimmy The Pause

Hosts: Al, Nick

What's up everyone! On this episode we reveal our latest obsessions! (seriously, go play Trails of Cold Steel if you consider yourself even a minor JRPG fan, it's amazing). Nick is swept up with the Tribes of Midgard, WATCH OUT JOTUN! We also deep dive into the Activision/Blizzard Lawsuit, and how this kind of behavior is pervasive not just in gaming, but the corporate world itself. Til next time folks, wear your masks, get your shots, have fun, play games and DON'T BE D***S!

1. Release Highlights
   1. Tribes of Midgard

1. News
   1. Frathouse sued by state of California for Activision Blizzard-like culture of discrimination and harassment.
   2. Mass exodus from World of Warcraft to FF14 so much that FF14 ran out of digital licenses (restocked) but large population transferring.
   3. Steam Deck debut of Steam’s handheld game system.
      1. I….may have reserved the top end model
   4. Nintendo getting a OLED model bigger 7” (up from 6.2) screen 64 GB storage (up from 32)
   5. What is EA showing next week 22nd? Well they are NOT showing anything with Bioware Mass Effect or Dragon Age. Not showing any Star Wars games. So…. Battlefield and all the SPURTSBAWL?
   6. Casey Hudson former GM of Bioware announces new studio - Humanoid Studios. No games but something to keep an eye on.
   7. Nature is healing and CPU hardware is slowly becoming more available and prices returning to MSRP - Normalcy by the fall or end of year?
      1. ...Unless you’re playing the New World beta...which is frying the brand new vid cards
   8. Skull and Bones - Article from Kotaku quotes former and current employees, game is a mismanaged disaster, frequent reboots/restarts, no identity, sounds like a mess

E3 PART 2

1. PC Game Show:
   1. Naraka - Ninja/Samurai BR August 12
   2. dodgeball academia - Soon cartoon dodgeball
   3. Chivalry 2 - Road Map: Various Medieval periods; New maps; More weapons;
   4. Rawmen - Battle chef very wacky
   5. Dying Light 2- Dec 7th 2021
   6. Humankind - Civ lookalike
   7. They Always Run - MetroidVania looking side scroller
   8. Lemnis Gate - Sci-fi shooter 25 sec time loop FPS/Turn based Strategy Game (launch aug 3rd) Open Beta July
   9. Next Space Rebels - Space Kerbel but with home grown parts (model rocketry) but wacky
   10. WarTales - Open World RPG (Turnbase) adventure game Fantasy Medeival setting
   11. Ixion - Maintain spacestation and defend internal/external threats (no game play)
   12. Far changing tides - Sequel to Far Sails
   13. MW5: Merc showing off the new DLC out now
   14. Jurassic World Evolution 2: Park Simulator
   15. StreamFest - Various releases from stream (No HL3)
   16. Soulstic - Hack and slash
   17. Warhammer: Chaos Gate - Trailer in Aug//relese 2022
   18. Pioner - Stalker like modern world bending chernobyl mess fabric of reality.
   19. Chernobylite - another stalker like game
   20. Icarus - Space Survival. Get to launch zone in time - Aug 11 Looking forward to this.
   21. The Wandering Village - Town on a dino
   22. Death Trash - Fallout 1 looking crazy looking game
   23. Songs of conquest - Heos of M&M sucessor
2. Future Games Show:
   1. Instinction - Dino vs Surivors???
   2. Red Solstice 2 - xcom but 8 players Jun 17th
   3. Severed Steel - Crazy time bending FPS with vibes of SuperHot
   4. StarMancer - Space base building? Aug 5th
   5. Harold Halibut - Soon - claymation narrative adventure
   6. Project Ferocious - Soldiers and Dinos?? 2023 release target

1. Voicemails, and Plug Voicemail Line - 610-810-1654
2. QotBW - Favorite video game soundtrack and go
3. Conclusions/Final thoughts/Shout outs
   1. Fans
   2. Bad Fodder Figures
   3. Married to the Games
   4. Tap the Craft
4. Where you can reach us
   1. Facebook (tiny.cc\savepoint)
   2. Email (theretrorents@gmail.com)
   3. Twitter (@theretrorents, @RetroRentsAl, @BlackEagleOps) - fuck twitter :)
   4. Twitch (@RetroRentsAl, @Kibbis, @BlackEagleOps, SodaXBread)