This week this Zed Games Crew chat about the gaming news and how COVID-19 has been affecting the gaming world. Will reviews Devil Daggers and Milly recites her experience in grim detail with the indie body horror game Discover My Body.
Category: Podcasts
Chats with Sey
This week Rani & Evie chat about the week in gaming news as well as chatting to their special guest Sey who is a Game Producer at Snapchat about the current climate for women in the games industry.
Doom and Halo CE Boom
Will reviews Doom from 2016, the week in gaming news and lots of banter around the surprise re-release of Halo Combat Evolved.
Speaking and Talking Games
This week Evie, Caitlin, Milly and Rani discuss the week in gaming news, Caitlin and Evie discuss their experience with Speaking Simulator as well as a detailed review of Coffee Talk.
Scomo Games and Life is Strange
Another week of exciting news and Evie, Will and Caitlin chat to Brisbane Developers Jack & Mac about their protest game, then Caitlin reviews her experience playing Life is Strange 2.
Diablo and Overwatch Netflix Series, Halo Combat Evolved and is PS5 The End
Diablo and Overwatch may be getting an animated TV series.
A post on LinkedIn from Activision’s co-president Nik van Dyk has revealed that Blizzard plans to adapt both Diablo and Overwatch however nothing official has been released yet. Nik van Dyk’s profile also shows his work history where it is listed that his worked on both Diablo and Overwatch animation projects, it states him as being the Executive Producer of the ‘anime style’ TV adaptations and that it will be distributed worldwide through Netflix. Both these series make sense to line up with Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 set to be released hopefully later in the year however no dates have been released yet.
Speaking of animated TV series Castlevania 3 on Netflix is set to release on the 3rd of March and not long after confirming the release date Netflix has released the first trailer. If you haven’t seen the first two seasons there are spoilers so have been warned. If you’d like to check out the trailer click right here.
Halo: Combat Evolved the very first Halo game has started its closed beta testing on PC.
If you have signed up to the Halo Insider program you may have an email with instructions on how to start playing now. If not, it’ll be too late to play however, there is most likely going to be more play tests for Halo: Combat Evolved and other Halo games. A sneak peak into what this closed beta features four campaign missions, multiplayer matchmaking, custom game modes and a sample of the customization options that will be in the final version of the game. Combat Evolved is the next in line for the Halo Master Chief Collection and is likely to come out on the anniversary of its original release date.
The Sony PlayStation 5 could be the last gaming console, ever.
Both Sony and Microsoft are set to release their latest consoles this year, however the cost is going to be much higher than previous generations. For Sony it’s been reported that it costs $450US to manufacture as per Bloomberg’s estimates. With that said it’s looking somewhere between $500 and $600US on release. There is speculation that this could end the PlayStation era. Whereas Microsoft and it’s Xbox is already looking forward to a future without consoles with its Project xCloud which is currently in the preview phase allowing players to stream more than 50 Xbox games on Android phones and tablets with Wi-Fi or mobile data. Xbox very much intends on releasing more games to this platform. There are currently 3.5 billion smartphone users worldwide, with Microsoft, Amazon and Google taking a punch at the cloud gaming space this could very well be the end of the console gaming generation.
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Light Fall and Mobile War
This week on Zed Games Evie, Will and Rani discuss the week in gaming news as well as a weather update. Evie reviews Light Fall and Will reviews Command and Conquer Rivals on the Mobile.
GGJ and The Outer Worlds
This week Milly completes her training to become a fully fledged radio announcer and she also dives into The Outer Worlds also Will chats about his experience at Global Game Jam in Brisbane.
Sexualization of Women in Video Games
In this episode Will and Evie discuss the week in gaming news as well as having a serious conversation about how women are overtly sexualized in video games, why this needs to change and how change is already being done.
Games for Brains and Viking Plains
Evie, Will, Caitlin and Rani discuss interesting Netflix news, Evie reviews Jotun: Valhalla Edition as well as an in depth discussion about a recent scientific study revolving around exercise and games that are helping our brains stay healthy as we age.