It's time for another roundup of the biggest news and features in video games for this Big Week in Gaming for 4 Jul 2021! This week the bigwig crew chat about Sony spending big on studio acquisitions, plans for Control sequels and spinoffs, Ghost of Tsushima getting a snazzy Director's Cut, xCloud launching on PC & iOS, id Software's mystery leaked game - and the latest Smash & amiibo news, with hands-on thoughts of the new fighter Kazuya.
For special features - we have impressions of the new metroidvania soulslike ENDER LILIES - as well as a MASSIVE nominee selection special for Game of Some Other Year 1995. It's a bloody battle of PC vs SNES classics for this GOSOY. Poor Mike... I promise we'll play Beavis & Butthead one day.
Your mum's certainly going to love these highlights:
▸ Sony's Studio Shopping Spree - and what these acquisitions tell us about their future plans
▸ First impressions of the gothic metroidvania - ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
▸ And we choose the nominees for Game of Some Other Year 1995!
TIMECODES ▼
00:00:00 Intro
00:14:41 Sony's Studio Shopping Spree - Housemarque, Bluepoint, Nixxes Join The PlayStation Family
00:22:25 Control Sequel News - Remedy Announces Project Condor Multiplayer Spinoff
00:26:58 Ghost Of Tsushima Director's Cut Announced For PS5 & PS4
00:33:53 Xbox Cloud Gaming Launches On PC & iOS (xCloud Game Streaming)
00:39:14 id Software's Latest Game Leaks On The Australian Classification Board
00:43:15 Smash Bros Kazuya Gameplay Hands-On & Sakurai Presentation
00:50:59 Smash Bros Deconfirms Dante & Lloyd - No Fighter Pass 3, Min Min amiibo
00:56:42 The Minute Mike
00:59:34 Bargain Bin w/c Sun 4 Jul 2021
01:03:06 ENDER LILIES: Quietus Of The Knights - First Impressions
01:13:19 The Best Games Of 1995! We Pick Game of Some Other Year Nominees (GOSOY)
02:28:16 Outro
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