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Saved State Heros Podcast
English - March 18, 2021 05:32 - 16 minutes - 31.1 MBGames Leisure Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
WoW: TBC Close Beta
Internal email leaked on Reddit sent to Blizzard employees about the upcoming closed beta for The Burning Crusade Classic coming later this month
Blizzard telling employees to have Friends & Family invites submitted by March 15th
Valheim Port to Nintendo Switch??
5M copies sold in 1 month
Port House has expressed interest during an interview
Have ported DOOM: Eternal, Wolfenstein and more to Switch already
Also looking to port Bloodborne
Microsoft Acquires Betheseda
The European Commission had to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda first
The largest merger in video game industry history
$7.5 billion USD
Germany Rating Loot Boxes
Still needs to be ratified
Let’s not forget Germany passed an act in 2008 to restrict games with excessive gore and violence, nicknamed "killerspiele", from sale to players under the age of 18, which resulted in publishers amending games for German release—swapping red blood for black, and sometimes replacing human enemies with robots, as in Carmageddon.
(On a related note, Germany's infamous ban on the use of symbols relating to unconstitutional groups in videogames, which prevented swastikas and other Nazi symbols being used, was lifted in 2018.)
Links
https://www.pcgamer.com/german-parliament-wants-games-with-loot-boxes-rated-18/
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