Episode #80: MS Paint, Game of the Year
Featuring: Merve The Kappa Lutair Lovely Bones Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:15 – Introduction 6:50 – What We Played Over the Holidays 32:50 – Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision 52:00 – 2022 Predictions 1:31:40 – Games We’re Looking Forward to in 2022 2:02:05 – Conclusion Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep80 Podcast header image from Type:Rider . Linkdump and spoiler warnings after the jump. Introduction (0:15) Official teaser trailer for Starfield . (Source: Bethesda Softworks on YouTube) Wikipedia article on pumpkin spice . Official website for Dunkin’ Donuts . Official website for Tim Hortons . Correction: Burger King actually did purchase Tim Hortons (not the other way around), but the merged company is incorporated in Canada as a subsidiary of the Canadian holding company Restaurant Brands International, in which Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital has a majority stake. (Source: Wikipedia) What We Played Over the Holidays (6:50) MAJOR SPOILERS for Type:Rider Steam store page for Project Zomboid . boxbox ‘s Twitch channel. Official Nintendo page for WarioWare: Get It Together! The “Mona pizza” song from WarioWare: Touched! (Source: Tutajkk on YouTube) Wikipedia article on The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II . Steam store page for Type:Rider . Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision (32:50) News report on the acquisition . (Source: The Verge) Geoff Keighley’s controversial “shopping list” Tweet . (Source: @geoffkeighley on Twitter) 2022 Predictions (52:00) Report on E3 2022’s probable cancellation. (Source: ComicBook.com) The infamous Metaverse rave Tweet . (Source: @alexmoss on Twitter) Merve’s 1 st prediction (normal): Steam Deck won’t work as well as advertised. Steam Deck is officially coming out on February 25 th . (Source: Steam) Merve’s 2 nd prediction (normal): Digimon Survive will release this year within a couple of months of Digimon Con, and a new Digimon Story game will be announced at Digimon Con for a late 2023 release date. Digimon Con is set for February 26 th . (Source: DigimonWeb, the official Digimon website) Merve’s 3 rd prediction (wacky): The new Mario Kart game will be a mash-up with F-Zero . Serkan Toto’s insider information that Mario Kart 9 “comes with a new twist.” (Source: GamesIndustry.biz) The Kappa’s 1 st prediction (normal): Digital purchases will increasingly be interoperable between stores. Ubisoft Store page for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction . The Kappa’s 2 nd prediction (wacky): Nvidia is hoarding RTX 30 series (“3000 series”) GPUs, and the card drought will end abruptly this year once the 4000 series is announced. Nvidia’s official webpage for the GeForce RTX 30 series . The Kappa’s 3 rd prediction (normal): The games that will dominate the conversation this year are indie games that aren’t currently on many people’s radars. Steam store page for Bastion . The “UnderTale” (sic) Kickstarter campaign. Steam store page for Vampire Survivors . Steam store page for Elden Ring . Lovely Bones’s 1 st prediction (normal): Obsidian will put out a lot of information on all their upcoming games. Wikipedia article on Obsidian Entertainment . Lovely Bones’s 2 nd prediction (wacky): Star Fox for Switch will be announced for a 2023 release. Wikipedia article on Starlink: Battle for Atlas . Lovely Bones’s 3 rd prediction (normal): We will get a full “E3-style” video demo of Insomniac’s upcoming Spider-Man game this year, but we won’t hear anything about their Wolverine game. Reveal trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 . (Source: PlayStation on YouTube) Reveal trailer for Marvel’s Wolverine . (Source: IGN on YouTube) Lutair’s 1 st prediction (normal): When Braid: Anniversary Edition comes out this year, it’ll spark a two-week torrent of discourse and then disappear from the zeitgeist entirely. Announcement of Braid: Anniversary Edition . (Source: Thekla Inc. on YouTube) Lutair’s 2 nd prediction (wacky): The upcoming Mario movie will be good. Wikipedia ar