Epic Games Doing an Epic Service | Happy Hour #64

Strange Happy Hour!

Important Sh!t:

Mark “Dispatcher” Plover:
- FCC to require call verification everywhere next year: https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-31-fcc-stir-shaken-june-30-2021.html

“Handsome John” Pettit:
- GameStop set to close 300 stores by year's end: https://www.ign.com/articles/gamestop-set-to-close-300-more-stores-this-year

Brent “Jesterhead” Metcalfe:
- Epic Games to publish the next titles from Inside, Control, and The Last Guardian developers: https://www.ign.com/articles/epic-games-to-publish-next-games-from-control-inside-and-the-last-guardian-devs
- Insight: https://twitter.com/tha_rami/status/1243229835700383745?s=20 

Last Call!:

Cheers!: Let’s introduce our special guest. This week we are once again in quarantine and therefore drinking with our own special guests.

Shout outs:
- Our Discord: https://discord.gg/bPZNJ7

Weekly Reading: 
- Bungie's Rapid Response to the US COVID-19 Crisis: https://www.ign.com/articles/inside-bungies-rapid-response-to-the-us-covid-19-crisis 

Weekly Deals: 
- Covid-19 Survival bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/conquer-covid19-bundle 

Cool A$$ Sh!t: 
- The origin of Triscuits name: https://twitter.com/sageboggs/status/1242968530250870786?s=20
- Even Final Fantasy XIV is freezing house evictions: https://kotaku.com/even-final-fantasy-xiv-is-freezing-house-evictions-1842526691 
- Amazing mod transforms Breath of the Wild into Nier: Automata: https://www.ign.com/articles/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-nier-automata-mod 

Locked Up: 
- All Samurai Jack episodes are now on Adult Swim: https://www.ign.com/articles/every-episode-of-samurai-jack-is-free-on-adult-swims-website 

Question of the Week:
- If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be? 

House Selection:
- Amazon fires employee who organized strike amid Covid-19  conditions: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-fires-worker-who-organized-strike-over-condition-1842584976 
- Ubisoft starts free game campaign on PC in an effort to keep people inside: https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-announces-month-of-free-games-game-trials-to-include-assassins-creed-rayman-and-more
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered shadow launched on PS4; Xbox and PC in a month: https://www.ign.com/articles/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-campaign-remastered-is-official-and-out-now
- April's Games with Gold have been announced: https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-games-with-gold-free-games-for-april-2020-announced 
- AMC Theaters furloughs employees and CEO amid COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.ign.com/articles/amc-theaters-furloughs-employees-and-ceo-amid-coronavirus-pandemic
- Surprise Nintendo Direct Mini: https://kotaku.com/surprise-nintendo-direct-goes-live-1842508089
- Gearbox Software co-founder Landon Montgomery has passed away: https://kotaku.com/game-developer-landon-montgomery-has-passed-away-gearb-1842507065
- Xbox Series X graphics source code reportedly stolen: https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-series-x-graphics-source-code-reportedly-being-held-to-100-million-ransom-by-hacker
- Niantic allowing users who bought tickets to various Pokemon Go events to enjoy them from the safety of their home: https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/03/25/pokemon-gos-st-louis-event-was-supposed-to-be-this-weekend-and-it-still-kind-of-is

And, as always, feel free to reach out to any one of the wonderful hosts in any capacity. You reach the Dispatcher on Twitter @DuhFr33k (https://twitter.com/DuhFr33k), Handsome John @HandsomeJohnP (https://twitter.com/HandsomeJohnP), and the Jesterhead himself @Jesterhead0302 (https://twitter.com/Jesterhead0302). Also, don’t be afraid to talk to us down in the comments. We always enjoy a good conversation, in case you didn’t notice ;)