The Gamers Lounge Podcast Episode 153: "Red Dead Smash Bros."

What are you playing?

Nathanael - Dead Cells (PC), Minecraft (PC), No Man’s Sky (PC)

John - Valkyria Chronicles 4 Demo (NS), Freedom Planet (NS)

Matt - Overwatch (PC), TheHunter: Call of the Wild (PC); Terraria (PC)

Robert - Octopath Traveler (NS)

News:

Fallout 76 Will Not Be On Steam At Launch

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/06/fallout-76-wont-be-available-on-steam

Fallout 76 Will Have Private Servers

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/11/fallout-76-will-have-private-servers-and-mod-support

Red Dead 2 Gameplay Trailer

http://www.ign.com/videos/2018/08/09/red-dead-redemption-2-official-gameplay-trailer

Discord to Launch Game Store

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/09/discord-launches-store-beta-to-50000-canadian-users

Smash Bros Info (Insanity!)

https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/8/17657686/nintendo-direct-smash-bros-live-stream-date-start-time

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/08/super-smash-bros-ultimate-will-include-103-stages

IGN Plagiarizes Dead Cells Review

https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/2018/08/07/did-ign-plagiarize-someone-elses-dead-cells-review/

https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/2018/08/07/ign-fires-writer-plagiarism-dead-cells-review/

Anything Else

Roms and Emulation

Nintendo has come down hard on Rom hosting sites as of late. Emuparadise took all its roms down this week ahead of coming trouble after 18 years.

Are Roms a bad thing? Do they hurt companies? Do companies like Nintendo bring it upon themselves by making classic games hard to find?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/emuparadise-shuts-down-rom-downloads-amid-lawsuit-fears/

Closing

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