This week on Zed Games Zahra, Caroline, and Hazel talk news before Rani materialises and Zahra reviews the unhinged Happy’s Humble Burger Farm, and Hazel explores the restorative Terra Nil.
Tag: gaming podcast
Can’t Believe It’s Not E3
On Zed Games this week we hear the news from Elliott before jumping into the deep end of game news and previews with Maylee, Zahra, and Rani talking all that is new coming from the deluge of info that is Not E3 2022!
Games With My Friend
On Zed Games this week Paul, Elliott and Caroline talk news, Paul reviews the walkie-talkie simulator We Were Here Forever and the team discusses the strange of Stanley’s Parable and Frog Factions…
Sharks & Nuts
This week on Zed Games Maylee brings you the latest in gaming news, Paul brings you a review about gambling (CARD SHARK), and Hazel, Elliott, and Zahra remember their very first games (and also nightmares).
Easter Eggs? In My Games?
This week on the Zed Games Podcast Zahra, Hazel, and Maylee talk news, Zahra reviews the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, and the team discusses their Favourite Easter Eggs!
It’s Ready To Eat Time.
This week on Zed Games Maylee and Elliott confuse and bewilder with this weeks gaming news, Tobi and Zahra combine forces to review Schrodinger’s Miniature Garden, and Paul casts the runes for a review of Divination.
O Captain My Captain
And to mark the occasion he’s in studio with Hazel and Paul to talk news, review Ghostwire: Tokyo with Paul, and be interviewed in their final studio appearance.
A Blue Trek
On Zed Games this week Hazel and Rani are joined by Stocky, with the week in gaming news by Zahra, a Trek to Yomi review by Paul, and A Memoir Blue review by Rani!
Hidden Forbidden West
On Zed Games this week Zahra and Jango talk news, Ezie takes us on a hike through Horizon Forbidden West and Zahra saves humanity in Seedship.
Money and More Money and Bombs
Twitch wants more money
Twitch, Amazon’s video game streaming platform, is currently considering making big changes to the monetization systems. These changes are starting to concern streamers as Twitch wants to implement multiple changes to its partner program that will hopefully boost profits. Some of these changes are new revenue split from subscriptions, a new tier system, and bolstering advertisements. “YAY!” – said no one. The proposed cut would see partnered streamer’s revenue from subscriptions drop from 70% to 50%. A Twitch streamer PleasantlyTwstd commented to Kotaku saying, “Smaller streamers I think are going to have little to no incentive at this stage to really push for growth. It’s going to start feeling like if you want to make a payout you have to hit more subs and the struggle at current is discoverability at all.” Twitch intends of releasing these new changes to the website in the coming few months.
Activision Blizzard losing some more
Activision Blizzard has released its latest financial report, and the numbers are bad. Revenue, player numbers as well as poor sales on new releases such as Call of Duty means that Microsoft are going to have to work hard to pull them out of this one. For the recent quarter Blizzard was reported turning over $1.77 Billion compared to $2.28 Billion the previous year, but the big hit is the number of users logging in and playing. There are currently 372 million players for this last quarter as opposed to the 435 million from last year. 60 million less players per month is a huge nose dive. All this plummeting revenue and player count seems to be linked to the buy out from Microsoft not to mention the large number of players boycotting Activision Blizzard from its on-going internal harassment and abuse allegations. Especially since the latest news is that Bobby Kotick former CEO of Activision Blizzard has been reported threatening to kill someone. Only time will tell what happens next.
PlayStation bomb scare in Boston
Passengers at Boston’s Logan International Airport were recently evacuated over the Easter Holidays as the local bomb squad were called in to check out a “suspicious item”. Turns out it was really a PlayStation in a “degraded condition”. A spokesperson from the Massachusetts State Police stated “The condition of the console caused abnormalities in the image produced when it was x-rayed, prompting the screeners’ concern. During the investigation of the object and secondary sweeps of the area, passengers in Terminal A were evacuated.” After a thorough investigation an hour later the bomb squad gave the “all-clear.”
This week in gaming releases:
April 28th
• Bugsnax [XSX, XBO, Switch]
• Bugsnax: Isle of Bigsnax update [All Platforms]
• The House of the Dead: Remake
• Kaiju Wars [PC]
• Kapital: Sparks of Revolution [PC]
• Rogue Lords
• Trigon: Space Story [PC]
April 29th
• Dandy & Randy DX [PC, PS5, XSX, PS4, XBO, Switch]
• Nintendo Switch Sports [Switch]
• Ravenous Devils [All Platforms]
• Sea of Craft [PC]
May 4th
• Wildcat Gun Machine [All Platforms]