Round 57 - Triplicate

Date aired: 

15 Jun 2018

Show Length: 

02:04:52

Multimedia version - YouTube

Around the World:  00:08:50

  • Epic Games to put up $100M in cash and prizes for Fortnite's first year of e-sports
  • Return of Double Dragon, formerly a Japan-only release (1992, Super Famicom), to get a physical cartridge re-release, in red ($50)
  • SNES games made playable on unmodified NES hardware...using heavily modified NES cart with an inbuilt Raspberry Pi 3 and tons of software manipulation
  • ~70 presumed lost games recovered from multi-gigabyte ROM dump on a private forum
  • Valve gives up on curating anything on Steam, draws a bullshit line at "[anything] illegal, or straight up trolling"
  • Sony's continued refusal to allow cross-platform play with other consoles / PC ties player's Epic Games accounts to Fortnite on PS4 only
  • Tetris Effect, a new largely kinesthetic / psychedelic variant on classic block-stacking to release on PS4 / PSVR, fall of 2018
  • DLC for Fallout 76 to be "free", funded by (wait for it) in-game microtransactions for cosmetic items
  • Planet X3 (a DOS sequel to the Planet X series, originally on Commodore 64) kickstarter opens, quickly garners 3x the original goal
  • E3

Bonus Level 1:  00:46:59

Personal Gaming:  01:03:34

Bonus Level 2:  01:20:42

Ad-hoc Design: 01:31:54

  • Light-focused omnidirectional side-scrolling flyer
  • Experiential action/puzzler
  • Expansion on rhythm+turn-based tactical RPG

Full date: 

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 19:00:00 CDT