James Tuttle's Blog – June 2020 Archive (9)

Microsoft's Live Streaming Platform (Experiment) Is Finally Over *Edited*

When Mixer offered an exclusive contract to popular Twitch streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins. That kicked off what has now come to be known as "The Live Steaming Wars". 

After that, Twitch, Facebook Gaming, and Youtube started to quickly gather contracts with the most popular streamers to stream on their platform exclusively. 

Ninja was the…

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Added by James Tuttle on June 22, 2020 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Now It Is Humble Bundle's Turn

As reported here a week ago. Itch.io had a huge bundle up for up for 5 bucks. "The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality" had 1,741 games from 1,391 different developers. Total price for the bundle would have been over $9,000. Itch.io had to change their…

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Added by James Tuttle on June 18, 2020 at 11:16am — No Comments

Get Witcher 3 For Free

CD Projekt Red's RPG masterpiece Witcher 3: Wild Hunt just recently turned 5 years old. To celebrate, CD Projekt Red's GoG department is giving away a copy of Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for free. 

With one catch. 

You must already own a copy of it on another platform - that isn't Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately, Nintendo…

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Added by James Tuttle on June 16, 2020 at 10:55am — No Comments

Stray - PS5

We got our first look at the PS5 a few days ago. You can read about everything that was announced at the PS5 Reveal here and…

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Added by James Tuttle on June 15, 2020 at 3:30pm — No Comments

PS5 Reveal Event Round Up

Wow.... Sony announced a lot for the PS5 and also finally showed off the console itself. 

With this much to get through, I am going to talk about big reveals and notable ones. Also note that a lot of these games don't have release dates yet. Will try to provide as much info as I possibly can. 

I want to start things off…

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Added by James Tuttle on June 11, 2020 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Bundle For Racial Justice

With everything currently going on in the world, it's nice to see video game companies step up. Ubisoft has committed to donating $100,00 to Black Live Matters organizations. Square Enix will be donating $250,00, and Niantic has shattered all of that with their pledge of a minimum $5 million. A lot of the other bigger ones, not so much. A lot of…

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Added by James Tuttle on June 11, 2020 at 2:38pm — No Comments

Atlus On Steam *EDITED*

With the covid-19 pandemic still in full force across the world. E3 has been now reduced to an online only event. If things were different, E3 would have started today. But alas,  this is the world we know live in. 

There is some good news to look forward too. 

Developer Atlus - you know the guys who make the Persona series - has…

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Added by James Tuttle on June 9, 2020 at 3:30pm — No Comments

The Next Big Indie Game

We haven't had a really good "metroidvania" style game released in a long time. Yeah, the newest Shantae game - Shantae and the Seven Sirens -  just came out, and it's amazing if you haven't played it yet. But there hasn't been a "wow... I need to play this game" type of indie game that has come out in a long time. 

It's been two years since Koji Igarashi's Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was released. Which shattered Kickstarter records and despite its flaws at…

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Added by James Tuttle on June 8, 2020 at 3:29pm — No Comments

Sega's Reveal

Last Friday, lead writer Mike Lind posted about Sega's upcoming reveal that is going to "rile up industry". You can read his original article here.

Well, today is the day that Sega revealed it's idea. Mind…

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Added by James Tuttle on June 3, 2020 at 2:31pm — No Comments

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