Welcome back to the Spectator Mode Podcast. On this episode, Keith and Scott address several gaming industry topics, including Keith's Mecha Break impressions, whether we should talk about Deadlock despite Valve asking us not to, Game Science denying content creators access to Black Myth Wukong, Space Marine 2 gameplay impressions, Alan Wake II still hasn't turned a profit for Remedy and more. #gamingnews #videogames #gamingpodcast

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Games we’ve played this week
10:41 - Mecha Break impressions
19:06 - Remedy has yet to break even with Alan Wake 2
24:25 - Game Science and Black Myth Wukong
30:35 - The Astrobot DualSense Selling Out
36:19 - Space Marine 2 Gameplay Footage
39:39 - D23 2024 - where were the games
45:55 - Deadlock madness - who was in the wrong
1:00:36 - Warner Bros. Wants To License Game Properties or be sold
1:10:40 - Valve reveals it will bring SteamOS to the ROG Ally
1:14:27 - Suprise topic - Are you going to see Alien: Romulus
1:16:25 - PAX West 2024 is almost here
1:22:04 - Outro

Welcome back to another episode of the Spectator Mode Podcast. On this episode, we're joined by Baron Jones of the LV1 Gaming cast and Jeff Young of Analog Stick Gaming. And with a star-studded cast, we have a lot of topics that we all have opinions on. Including the closure of Game Informer, Bungie in major trouble, Phantom Blade Zero fake news, a new Darksider game announced, and more. #gaming #videogames #eldenring #phantombladezero #avowed

Topics include:

1:38 - Games we’ve played this week
23:34 - Surface 7 Laptop Impressions
26:35 - Limited edition Astro Bot PS5 DualSense controller
30:09 - Elden Ring Co-op sucks and we just wanted to reinforce that
34:20 - Gunfire Games announces new Darksider game
39:07 - Kai Cenat beats Bloodborne but still nothing from PlayStation
45:48 - Phantom Blade Zero developer S-Game smacks down fake news
1:01:22 - Avowed delayed to 2025
1:10:39 - Bungie hit with more layoffs
1:21:43 - Game Informer shut down, magazine and website are no more
1:36:22 - More WB Suicide Squad nonsense
1:40:05 - Baron misses the Nemesis system
1:44:52 - Outro

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On Spectator Mode Podcast episode 161, Scott rejoins the show after a brief absence. The crew discusses the restructuring of Humble Games, Ubisoft's recent messaging for Assassin's Creed Shadows, Xbox's lack of marketing and advertisement blamed on Microsoft, that Crowdstrike big oops that crippled the IT world, metrics, and Live Service games, and more. #gaming #podcast #xbox #humblegames #assassinscreedshadows

Hosts:

Keith D Mitchell - @Shadowhaxor
Scott Adams - @Sithscott

Topics:

- Games we’ve played this week
Keith: Elden Ring, Flintlock Siege of Dawn, Marvel’s Rivals
Scott: Trails through Daybreak, Fate Seeker II, Grit and Valor, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

- A new Helldiver update was announced, The Escalation of Freedom. Drops on August 6, 2024, for PS5 and PC.

- The Asus ROG Ally X is out. Should you get it

- Ziff Davis, the parent company of IGN, has gutted the entirety of Humble Games.

- Xbox has no marketing capital. How does that make sense

- Ubisoft's awkward Assassin's Creed Shadows messaging

- Crowdstrike took down most of the IT world and businesses. What happened and does how the world recover from this?

- The Importance of Metrics - Live Service player count vs sales