Podquisition 397: Landlords Are Petty Dictators by Jimquisition published on 2022-08-04T14:04:21Z It's not enough to just have power over someone's life. Games we played this week include: Stray (15:45) Multiversus (22:35) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (38:50) Vampire Survivors (46:55) Frogun (51:30) LIVE A LIVE (54:00) --- News things talked about in this episode: First hints of what Disco Elysium devs are doing found in job listings (54:50) https://www.eurogamer.net/disco-elysium-dev-seeks-artists-with-a-love-of-sci-fi-and-video-games Former Xbox exec Peter Moore says Microsoft encouraged console wars (55:50) https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-encouraged-console-wars-peter-moore Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is latest first-party Nintendo release to leak in advance of release (58:00) https://www.eurogamer.net/xenoblade-chronicles-3-leaks-playable-on-steam-deck-before-switch-release Resident Evil Village getting accessibility update, but third-person mode pushed to paid DLC (59:10) https://www.eurogamer.net/resident-evil-village-will-receive-free-accessibility-update-alongside-dlc Ubisoft’s failure to address their issues is making them worse (1:01:05) https://www.eurogamer.net/a-year-later-a-better-ubisoft-says-none-of-its-demands-have-been-met Rockstar has finally made some changes to work culture (1:07:45) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/gta-6-release-date-rockstar-cleans-up-image-after-employee-backlash Last of Us Part 1 remake includes audio descriptions of cutscenes for visually impaired players (1:06:05) https://kotaku.com/the-last-of-us-part-1-remake-naughty-dog-sony-playstati-1849320167 Sony expresses concern over Microsoft acquisition of Activision, specifically Call of Duty (1:08:45) https://www.eurogamer.net/sony-doesnt-sound-thrilled-microsoft-is-buying-call-of-duty-maker-activision Diablo Immortal player spends so much the game becomes unplayable for them (1:12:00) https://www.eurogamer.net/diablo-immortal-player-spends-100k-on-game-now-cant-find-anyone-suitable-to-matchmake-with --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise from the Jimporium at thejimporium.com Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on LauraKBuzz.com, and you can catch Access-Ability on YouTube every Friday. Follow Conrad at ConradZimmerman on Twitter and check out his Patreon (patreon.com/fistshark). You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at pinfultruth.com. Genre Entertainment Comment by April Harder 👄Yoou shoould reaally stoop 2022-11-02T00:22:44Z Comment by Esther Johnson 💟cool supeer)💘 2022-10-31T01:09:50Z Comment by Nathan Stapleton It’s similar to loot boxes and IAP. People use to get upset when it happened and now most people don’t care. Most that don’t care also have no addiction or poor money management skills so they don’t HAVE to care when it doesn’t effect them. 2022-08-24T07:53:16Z Comment by Linda Sofia Hartlén Holy shit that joke was .. *chefskiss* brilliant. :) 2022-08-10T20:34:05Z Comment by Becky Gates 💕I LIKe IT!🔞 2022-08-08T09:01:02Z Comment by Dragon_Nexus They'll make some bots for him to fight. 2022-08-08T03:58:00Z Comment by Dragon_Nexus I looked forward to seeing a lot of these heroes, but there's no time to breathe. I'm so burned out on the MCU at the moment, when I had loved it previously. It's too much too close together. 2022-08-08T03:21:27Z Comment by Dragon_Nexus "Dystopian novels are not meant to be instruction books" 2022-08-08T03:19:12Z Comment by Gary Watts argh wish you could have given a bit longer as a spoiler warning 😔 2022-08-08T00:25:05Z Comment by Ryan Coulburn Do you need to play the second Xenoblade to enjoy 3 ? 2022-08-07T12:30:55Z Comment by U61856-209 I recall a story only 2-3 years ago about a lady who couldn't get a loan (I think a refinance) on her house. She had her white in-laws/neighbors pose as her (forget which) and they got approved IMMEDIATELY. It was purely because she was black. And yes she sued 2022-08-07T00:26:45Z Comment by natchye btw I had to pay 2x deposit to rent in the US. I had proof of income, was being transferred from Brazil to the US to work on the same company I've been in now for 8 years, but yeah. 2x deposit. And since the USD is worth about 5 times more than the BRL, they literally drained all my life savings. 2022-08-06T20:25:22Z Comment by natchye Btw you're not only giving them free money, you're maintaining it for them. 2022-08-06T20:16:29Z Comment by Account I was forced to make Where's Jonathan when we need him the most? 2022-08-06T18:00:12Z Comment by t3hdow I feel like the Podquisition missed one big reason why MultiVersus is popular: it's a Smash Bros clone that actually has decent online. Even 4 years into Smash Bros Ultimate, the online is lousy, and Nintendo has no interest in fixing the online. 2022-08-06T17:08:16Z Comment by Ninian After all, remember how indifferent they were to killing off Optimus Prime? 2022-08-06T13:27:25Z Comment by Michael Rosen what the hell is this comment section get it together you freaks xoxo 2022-08-06T08:49:14Z Comment by Samantha BOOOOOOOO!!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 2022-08-05T21:02:17Z Comment by SabeSapien Blizzard must have thought 'Wait, someone actually spent that much on this piece of shit?' XD 2022-08-05T18:03:19Z Comment by SabeSapien "This is great and hurts no-one". Seriously, why did that stop being a legitimate reason to add more features to games? You try using that line and people just refuse to read it... 2022-08-05T17:51:32Z Comment by SabeSapien Yep, but they wouldn't have a problem with it if it was advertised as 'audio commentary from developers'... ;) 2022-08-05T17:49:03Z Comment by SabeSapien So what they're saying is that Yves doesn't have much power. ;) 2022-08-05T17:38:16Z Comment by SabeSapien What are you doing? If you keep bringing this up you might make journos feel guilty for constantly hyping Spark Of Hope as something we should all be excited for! You can't do that! ;) 2022-08-05T17:35:53Z