You are probably not shocked to hear that the President of Blizzard suddenly decided to "spend more time with his family" today. But did you know that Activision hired a torture apologist?

• The President of Blizzard Just Quit...Weird
• Activisions Torture Apologist Is Really a Team Player
• Jeff Strain Ex-Blizzard Employee and Founder of ArenaNet and Undead Labs Says It’s Time for Unions
• Blizzard Was Once Billed a Misogyny Tax
• The Outer Wilds DLC is Confirmed
• Half Life 2 is Getting Remastered, But Not by Valve
• You Probably Don’t Want to Buy a Used GPU
• So That’s Why Game Cheats are “Illegal”

Questions

DA VINSTER (Vinny): If you saw or paid attention to any of the Halo infinite multiplayer flight this weekend what do you think?  From what I saw, the game seems to be receiving overwhelming positive reviews over the weekend. Do you think it will come out this fall and be THE big heavy hitter next to Forza that people have been looking for from Xbox and what are your personal opinions. I know you all aren't the biggest of Halo or FPS fans but what are your thoughts coming out of this flight and are you personally interested or excited to try Halo Infinite this fall?

JoeColeslaw: So, you already have answered your favorite kind of cheese, (shout out to munster, smoked guda, and PepperJack) so let's get Video Games involved... over the years and decades throughout your gaming history, what video games have you played that you would call, Cheezy? Either the voice acting is REALLY hamming it up, or the animations are over the top, or the story goes JUST the way that the tropes foretold. Unlike at my new job at a factory... THE GLOVES ARE COMING OFF! Any console, any year.

Mazelnut: I never really ask questions but what do you think about the corrupt side of stardew valley. like how pierre is really the bad guy and not joja mart. or how mayor lewis is using the tax money from the town for personal use?

Primefan: What are your favorite game characters and why?

Rdeacon: I was poking at some old games recently and wondered why some are still so damn hard... looking at you Donkey Kong.  Why do you feel the games were hard?  Were they designed to be that way, for replayability, or when you have less you focus on the game play rather than graphics as they do in today's current games?

Princess_Megan: What are your top three favorite elements of video games?

Cheap/Free Games

Epic Games

• A Plague Tale: Innocence
• Speed Brawl

Game Pass

• August 13 Hades Console TBD
• August 19 Recompile  Xbox Series X|S
• August 19 Twelve Minutes Console, TBD
• August 25 Psychonauts 2 Console, TBD
• Aragami 2 (PC, Cloud, and Console) – September 17
• Sable (PC, Cloud, and Console) – September 23

Twitch Prime

• Lost Horizon 2
• Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
• Planet Alpha
• A Normal Lost Phone
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Metamorphosis
• Secret Files: Tunguska

The Shorter Games With Worse Graphics Bundle Round 2
https://itch.io/b/988/the-shorter-games-with-worse-graphics-bundle-round-2

Patreon

• John Tippins
• Sean Palmer
• Austin Palmer
• Alan Schulte
• Joe Cole Jr.

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