Nintendo's Game Builder Garage + Detective Pikachu Sequel in Doubt? - Today's News Tonight (5/5/21)
585Episode 83 of Today's News Tonight has arrived with some breaking news right out of Nintendo! We're joined by Modern Vintage Gamer to discuss Nintendo's Game Builder Garage, a fan-made LEGO concept of Samus' Gunship officially making to LEGO's review phase, scrapped Fortnite collaborations, bad news for Blizzard, new uncertainty on the Detective Pikachu movie sequel front, and more!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
4:13 - Discussing the original Shantae's recent Nintendo Switch port with its creator, special guest Modern Vintage Gamer (MVG)!
14:23 - Getting caught up on the latest Apple vs. Epic litigation developments with the GVG crew and MVG!
21:22 - Nintendo announces Game Builder Garage for the Switch with a debut trailer, releasing on June 11th
30:22 - A super cool fan-made LEGO concept of Samus' Gunship has made it into LEGO's official "In Review" phase (but still, don't get your hopes up for it to become a real product)
37:15 - As part of their ongoing litigation with Apple, Epic has revealed a list of scrapped Fortnite collaborations and it's wild, to say the least
44:47 - Riot is going to start recording Valorant voice chat in an effort to combat toxicity in the game's online play and root out problematic players
52:31 - Blizzard's latest data show that their active monthly users have dropped by almost a third (29%) over the last three years
58:58 - Blizzard is moving to block Fox's new "Diablo" trademark, intended for use on dinnerware, glassware, and pet food related to the network's new animated series "HouseBroken"
1:01:33 - Mobile game Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom has gotten its first update in six years, adding Vector the Crocodile as a new playable character... even though the Sonic Boom show ended three years ago
1:03:41 - Detective Pikachu lead actor Justice Smith suggests in an interview with Inverse that "we just have to kind of bury our hopes" for a sequel to the film, though its official status either way remains fully unconfirmed
1:08:20 - An email between Phil Spencer and Tim Sweeney reveals the former hasn't given up on trying to bring xCloud to other consoles
1:20:27 - Monolith Soft's employee count has expanded to 272 members, with over a quarter of the staff being female
1:28:38 - Outro and where to find MVG
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yM3ppz0Zt8
https://t.co/k89XN5WNzW
https://twitter.com/Gamrok/status/1389251638473465858?s=20
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1389319837361524738
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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-05-04-blizzard-moves-to-block-foxs-diablo-trademark
https://twitter.com/segahardlight/status/1389544216544546821?s=21
https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgeblog/status/1389549913504112641?s=21
https://mynintendonews.com/2021/05/05/one-of-the-detective-pikachu-films-lead-stars-thinks-that-we-have-to-just-kind-of-bury-our-hopes-of-a-sequel/
https://t.co/ZVnrrXHzKu
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nintendoenthusiast.com/monolith-soft-staff-now-has-272-members-and-over-a-quarter-are-female-developers/amp/
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