Since the podcast recording last Wednesday had audio issues and the news was, frankly, boring, the crew decided to record a new 464th episode on Easter Sunday, after some more interesting stuff was announced near the end of the week. That, and Scott expresses his enthusiasm for Thimbleweed Park, the spiritual successor to Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle, using a SCUMM-like interface. This week's news items include:
* Diving into Project Scorpio’s backwards compatibility, 4K, VR, and 1080p support
* Nintendo discontinues the NES Classic Edition
* It looks like Star Wars: Battlefront II will ditch the Season Pass
The Pokemon Company had retail sales worth of 10.8 billion US Dollars in the year 2023, based on the latest report.
that merch tho.
ridiculous the numbers they pull in, which makes it even worse when i think about the low budget broken games they make. or have made recently
Of course not. That's why I have tem tem because even if it's not the greatest I at least know the indie dev was trying
Great plug for Tem Tem right there. It's not the greatest but at least they tried.... 🤣
Bitmap Bureau has announced its plans to release Xeno Crisis to the Game Boy Advance in both physical and digital form.
We've wrapped up our live interview with Boosteroid. Lots of new information released about the cloud service:
- New datacenters (Brazil, California, Omaha)!
- New AMD hardware coming. Specialized for Boosteroid.
- Cloud Gaming User Counts
- Boosteroid Coming to Vehicles!
- New Smat TV Apps
