This week, Amazon revealed how the MMO New World will continue after its release. Additionally, many streamers staged a strike on September 1st. Here are the week’s news in the podcast.
These are the topics: In an interview with New World Game Director Scott Lane, we learned this week how the MMO will proceed after its release on September 28th. Another new MMORPG received terrible reviews on Steam but is still being played because players can earn money in it.
There was trouble on Twitch this week. Streamers protested on September 1st to draw attention to hate raids that have been terrorizing them for weeks. There was also more trouble at Blizzard. After a sexism lawsuit from a state agency in California, the developers decided to give the character Jesse McCree a different name.
Here are all our topics overviewed again:
- How New World will continue after the release – (0:02:30)
- Streamers are striking Twitch today in protest – Here’s what’s behind #DayOffTwitch – (0:28:30)
- Gaming monitors offer you a controversial feature – players consider it cheating – (0:40:20)
- After the sexism scandal: McCree from Overwatch is being renamed – (0:52:10)
- New MMORPG on Steam has many players, terrible reviews: ‘I’m only playing for money’ – (1:07:48)
Apart from the news, we also share our expert opinions on the respective topics in the podcast. Share your own perspectives in the comments and discuss with us.
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- Leya Jankowski (Editor-in-Chief)
- Gerd Schuhmann (Editorial Manager)
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Besides the special, we recorded a news show last week again. The topics this time were the beta of Diablo 2: Resurrected, the new head of Blizzard, Among Us, and more.
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