Episode #83: Moose Milk
Featuring: Merve The Kappa Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:15 – Introduction 3:20 – PS Plus Revamp 34:40 – What We’ve Been Playing 1:18:15 – Square Enix Sells North American Holdings to Embracer Group 1:35:00 – The Diversity Space Tool 1:58:05 – Gotham Knights Trailer 2:10:30 – E3 and Summer Game Fest 2:36:00 – Canadian Stuff 2:42:20 – Conclusion Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep83 Podcast header image from The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story , taken from the Square Enix blog . Linkdump after the jump. Introduction (0:15) The contact page for the AVoCADo GamesCast. PS Plus Revamp (3:20) Games list and prices for the new PlayStation Plus. (Source: Polygon) Report on pressure felt by Nintendo due to slowing Switch sales. (Source: Nintendo Life) Doom running on a pregnancy test . (Source: @Foone on Twitter) What We’ve Been Playing (34:40) Nintendo store page for The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story . The FMV game loosely based on the Jack the Ripper murders is simply titled Ripper . (Source: Wikipedia) Wikipedia article on The Council . Wikipedia article on Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong . Steam store page for Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada . Confirmation: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity came out in 2020 . (Source: Wikipedia) Steam store page for Battlefield 2042 . Wikipedia article on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege . Wikipedia article on Halo Infinite . Epic store page for Just Cause 4 . Wikipedia article on Avalanche Studios’ Mad Max video game . Square Enix Sells North American Holdings to Embracer Group (1:18:15) Official press release about the deal from Embracer Group. Sales information for Tomb Raider , Deus Ex: Human Revolution , and Sleeping Dogs . (Source: Wikipedia) Official press release from Square Enix about Crystal Dynamics’s and Eidos Interactive’s financials. Clarification: That 12 million sales figure for the Deus Ex franchise is just for Human Revolution and Mankind Divided . (Source: Wikipedia) Article on the recent crypto market crash . (Source: Kotaku) The Diversity Space Tool (1:35:00) The blog post about King’s diversity space tool that sparked the controversy; a lot of it has been edited out. Original version archived here . (Sources: Activision Blizzard blog and Internet Archive) Moira page from the Overwatch Wiki. (Source: Fandom) Joel Miller page from The Last of Us Wiki. (Source: Fandom) Gotham Knights Trailer (1:58:05) Gameplay demo footage for Gotham Knights . (Source: Warner Bros. Games on YouTube) ResetEra discussion thread on the trailer. PC Gamer article on the trailer. The Uncharted 4 E3 demo fail . (Source: PlayStation on YouTube) E3 and Summer Game Fest (2:10:30) Report on E3 2022’s cancellation. (Source: IGN) In-depth article on some of the factors that might have led to the cancellation. (Source: CNET) Correction: Gamasutra rebranded as Game Developer last year. (Source: Game Developer) Official website for Summer Game Fest . Official websites for PAX , Gamescom , and Tokyo Game Show . Specially marked copies of Crackdown came bundled with the multiplayer beta for Halo 3 . (Source: Wikipedia) Canadian Stuff (2:36:00) Official websites for Tim Hortons , The Keg , and Harvey’s . Correction: Merve omitted one of the key ingredients of Moose Milk : coffee. (Source: Wikipedia) Correction: Moose milk (not the cocktail, the dairy product) is also commercially farmed in Sweden . (Source: Wikipedia) Conclusion (2:42:20) No links here.