Podquisition 441: Rik Merlin

Jimquisition

Leisure:video Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

A film out of time. Games we played this week include: Amnesia: The Bunker (19:00) Infernax (28:50) Street Fighter 6 (33:10) Outriders (40:50) Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (44:05) --- News things talked about in this episode: Bobby Kotick allowed to make wild claims about abuse allegations and unions in Variety interview (49:34) https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizzard-ceo-audaciously-claims-that-sexism-and-harassment-problems-were-made-up-by-an-aggressive-labor-movement-trying-to-destabilize-the-company/ Microsoft seems willing to pull out of UK over CMA refusal to allow merger with Activision (1:00:15) https://www.vg247.com/microsoft-withdraw-activision-uk Yuji Naka likely to do time for financial crime (1:01:35) https://kotaku.com/yuji-naka-prison-square-enix-sonic-final-fantasy-1850501221 Nintendo set to launch game reported to have performed very poorly in focus testing (1:03:15) https://www.polygon.com/23746686/1-2-switch-sequel-release-date-nintendo-party-game Report from Bloomberg sheds light on issues at Arkane which resulted in Redfall (1:07:30) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/arcane-s-redfall-misfire-for-xbox-panned-after-7-5-billion-microsoft-deal Niantic swears low shiny rate for remote raids in Pokémon Go event was totally an accident (1:11:35) https://www.eurogamer.net/pokemon-go-developer-sorry-for-technical-issue-which-saw-recently-nerfed-remote-raids-offer-worse-shiny-odds --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise from the Jimporium at thejimporium.com Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on LauraKBuzz.com, and you can catch Access-Ability on YouTube every Friday. Follow Conrad at ConradZimmerman on Twitter and check out his Patreon. You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at mercenarycreative.com.

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey, time to put your middle to the test now.
0:06.6	Hey, hey, hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now?
0:11.1	I don't, I don't.
0:17.1	So, I want to talk about film.
0:22.9	Oh?
0:23.4	You want to talk about a film?
0:24.4	On this video game podcast.
0:26.9	Yes, welcome listeners to the spin-off Doctor's Guidon.
0:30.9	There already is one of those.
0:33.0	There actually is.
0:34.1	Yeah.
0:34.2	Yeah, there's a, what's it called?
0:35.2	The Spinoff Doctor's Spinoff.
0:42.8	Yeah, I've been on the Spinoff Doctor's Spinoff. I talked about an 80s animated Japanese Mario film. That is bad when you have fans that are so desperate for you to make the content
0:50.3	that you can't seem to deliver that they start to make their own version of it. Yeah. I need to get back to them because they did invite me on it. And I'd be up for that. Oh, yeah. No, they've invited me too. I don't know when we're doing it yet, but I'll be on that at some point. I'd be totally up for appearing on a fancast of the podcast we're not on.
1:14.4	But yeah, you want to tell us about a film?
1:15.7	Yes, yes.
1:19.2	Which I'm assuming isn't a video game film because you're talking about it here. A video game's mentioned on it.
1:21.5	A video game is, yeah.
1:24.1	So my TV, when I turn it on over morning, recommends me crap.
1:30.7	Utter crap.
1:32.0	There's one about like Michael Jackson being like revived as a zombie or something shit.
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