Play Games to Buy Games! - Happy Hour #56

Strange Happy Hour!

Important Sh!t:
Mark “Dispatcher” Plover:
- An Artist Used 99 Phones to Take a Google Maps Traffic Jam: https://www.wired.com/story/99-phones-fake-google-maps-traffic-jam/

“Handsome John” Pettit:
- XBox gampass quest https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/quests?ocid=XGP_soc_omc_xbo_tw_Video_lrn_2.4.1

Brent “Jesterhead” Metcalfe:
- Microsoft Bug Bounty Program pays players for finding issues in Xbox Live: https://kotaku.com/microsofts-bug-bounty-program-will-pay-players-to-find-1841386828 

Last Call!:

Cheers!: Let’s introduce our special guest. This week, "The Dispatcher" is bringin us some Sweet Water beers to try out.

Shout outs:
- Strange Garage: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh0DXWjTN8KGQEjHfCMXTWQ/featured
- Deal of the Week: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/train-simulator 
- Weekly Reading: https://gizmodo.com/horror-stories-from-inside-amazons-mechanical-turk-1840878041 , https://kotaku.com/how-twitch-encourages-fans-to-obsess-over-viewership-nu-1841431673
- Our Discord: https://discord.gg/bPZNJ7 

Question of the Week:
- What is a piece of media you love and recommend that those around you, but they can't get into?

House Selection:
- Overwatch will now have weekly character pools to keep things interesting: https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/01/30/weekly-hero-pools-bring-big-changes-and-controversy-to-overwatch
- Pakisani girls denied US Visas and created a game about it: https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/4/21122459/pakistani-gdc-visa-denied-game 
- Youtube earned over $15 billion in 2019: https://www.ign.com/articles/youtube-earned-15-billion-in-2019
- Western release of Snackworld removes real world toy connection: https://www.siliconera.com/snack-worlds-western-version-replaces-nfc-toys-with-in-game-daily-fortune/ 
- Untitled Goose Game devs to donate 1% of all future revenues to Australian Indigenous people: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-01-29-untitled-goose-game-dev-promises-at-least-1-percent-of-all-future-revenues-to-australian-indigenous-groups 
- Sony Australia starts streaming campaign to donate to Australian fire victims: https://blog.us.playstation.com/2020/02/01/starting-today-sony-foundation-australia-streams-to-support-relief-efforts/ 
- Dauntless dev bought by Singaporean game company Garena: https://gamasutra.com/view/news/357296/Dauntless_dev_Phoenix_Labs_acquired_by_Singaporean_game_company_Garena.php 
- Netflix announces live action One Piece series: https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-officially-announces-one-piece-live-action-series
- Lethal Weapon 5 is moving forward with original cast: https://www.ign.com/articles/lethal-weapon-5-moving-forward-with-mel-gibson-danny-glover-and-richard-donner
- Nintendo Switch surpasses 50 million in sales; Pokemon Sword and Shield pass 16 million: https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-switch-sales-cross-50-million-pokemon-sword-and-shield-sales-pass-16-million
- Blizzard cancels all Overwatch League matches in China due to Coronavirus: https://kotaku.com/blizzard-cancels-overwatch-league-matches-over-chinese-1841339621
- Blizzard owns all custom games made in Warcraft 3 Reforged: https://kotaku.com/blizzard-owns-your-custom-warcraft-3-reforged-games-1841333050 
- Warcraft 3 remaster so bad Blizzard is offering instant refunds: https://kotaku.com/warcraft-3s-remake-is-so-bad-blizzard-is-offering-insta-1841434474

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 ;)