Round 26 - Farewell to a Legend

Date aired: 

04 Sep 2015

Show Length: 

02:32:30

Around the World:  00:07:24

  • PewDiePie reportedly got about $7M in income from YouTube videos
  • Australia builds a VR gaming center
  • Fig, new crowdfunding site to leverage equity rather than donations
  • Xbox One gets new 'very high quality' streaming setting
  • Windows 10 will not run games with SecuROM DRM
  • YouTube Gaming, streaming service to compete with Twitch, went live on 26 Aug
  • Amazon Underground - new app store; all apps are free, Amazon pays devs $0.002 per minute of usage
  • World of Warcraft gets flying mounts
  • Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain released
  • Super Mario Maker to be released soon
  • Diablo 3, Season 4
  • Gearbox recovers rights to Duke Nukem from 3D Realms
  • Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, dies at age 55

Bonus Level 1:  01:03:36

Personal Gaming:  01:16:52

Bonus Level 2:  01:51:46

Ad-hoc Design: 02:00:58

  • Lawn-mowing simulator (not VR, shockingly)
  • RPG based on (metaphorical) drunk college wanderings
  • First-person shooter, but with grappling hooks only

Full date: 

Fri, 04 Sep 2015 19:00:00 CDT