May 4, 2021
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MMO lessons, Returnal Impressions, Localization Testing as a game feature, Apple Vs Epic: Day 1 Victory Royale. You can watch us record the podcast live on twitch.tv/castlesuperbeast
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- Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki revealed today that they plan to heavily *increase* their investment in PlayStation's first-party efforts ($183m) over the coming year
- Sony invests in Discord, to integrate it with PlayStation in 2022
- Sony cross-play revenue share agreement: some partners had to pay a royalty to Sony to "offset the reduction in revenue" from enabling cross-play
- Big PC gaming news. Microsoft is shaking up the world of PC gaming by cutting the 30% fee it usually takes on PC games to just 12%. It's a bid to compete with Steam and entice game developers to the Windows store.
- Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. trial will commence at 8:30 AM PT in the courtroom of judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland.There will be a live audio feed of all the proceedings.
- The Ninth District Court can't figure out how to mute attendees to a public call-in for #EpicvApple and there are kids talking on Discord simultaneously and trolling the call. Plenty of racial slurs and flaming. Now some Travis Scott music.
- Apple’s showing numbers (similar to expert testimony we’ve covered) estimating that iOS is a small fraction of the Fortnite user base. “Makes you kind of wonder what we’re doing here.”
- One CDPR employee told me that following Bloomberg's reporting and many internal reviews and complaints, the company did a salary reevaluation and bumped up wages for some of the company's lowest-paid staff including QA.
- Toys for Bob is now supporting development for Call of Duty: Warzone
- Lost Soul Aside - 17 Minutes of Gameplay