Ep. 86: Previous Engagements

The Blacklisted Gaming Podcast

This week on the BLGP, Brock discusses his plans to propose to Alicia! Don't worry, she won't see this...... until after. Bobby Kotick has unfortunately been renewed another year as Activision CEO. The board members voted in favor of keeping their favorite turd in their toilet despite everyone else on Earth saying they'd rather poo in their hands and clap than deal with Kotick any longer. Oh Activision, you scoundrels. Diablo Immortal is in hot water again as the pay to win mechanics and amount of money needed to max characters is even worse than previously thought. New loot box mechanics show that there are hidden levels of loot boxes, as it seems you need to rely even more on luck to find the legendary gems. There are also different tiers of gems. But at what cost? New calculations say average of $500k! Nice job Activision/Blizzard.... Rockstar halts its Red Dead Redemption and GTA4 remasters amid the GTA definitive edition's failure. Leaving everyone realizing, Rockstar had no intention of doing a true remaster, but a transfer of assets. Maybe y'all should focus on GTA6 eh? Gamestop has laid of a good chunk of its staff. Can you guess why? If you thought a dying company being the reason, you'd be mistaken. Crypto and NFTs are the motivation behind a shift in business decisions. Which is shifting right as crypto is seeing a steep drop as well as NFT worth being at an all time low. Gamestop really saw the meme stock surge and jumped on the wagon too late. As per usual. Hideo Kojima has been in the topics this week for European news media mistaking him as the assassin of Japan's former prime minister. How? A 4chan troll post was retweeted by a comedian, and Greek news took that as true and ran with it. Now Kojima is threatening to sue several European news outlets. These and more you filthy animals! See you next week!