Ep. 79: Brotherly Love

The Blacklisted Gaming Podcast

Well, we are back after a long absence due to the fact both myself and Doc Nelson caught the rona.... however, I'm joined by my little brother Austin! Don't worry, me and doc are perfectly fine! But you know who isn't fine? Ubisoft and their NFTs..... yeah.... we are back on this crap.... A petition is gaining traction for mass refunds of Battlefield 2042. At the time of recording, it has reached over 150k signatures (As of today, over 200k signatures!). It's in the air on if this petition will be successful, but there are claims that a law firm has taken interest in the matter. Halo TV series was teased, and the community is split on the appearance of Cortana. One could argue that her appearance has consistently changed throughout the series, but this human-like rendition is a bit odd. Google announced their plans for rebranding Stadia and partnering with other tech companies to take hold of its technology. In a long line of dead Google projects, could Stadia finally be digging its plot in the Google Graveyard? Ubisoft is back on its bull with the NFT push. With companies like EA and others making the decision to stay out of them, Ubisoft has chosen to hit them at full steam. And employees are not having it. As more information comes out about Ubisoft Quartz, employees are having a hard time seeing how NFTs improve games. As Ubisoft's CEO says, gamers "just dont get it". Nice.... Sony purchased Bungie for $3.5 billion making this another bombshell acquisition in the gaming industry. With many speculating that Sony is reacting to Microsoft buying Activision. Our thoughts on this, it has nothing to do with that as these deals take more than just 2 weeks to work out. These and more this week folks, as I take a questionable bit out of the World's Largest Gummy Worm!