Video Game Logic Episode 153: An Epic Fail of a Sale
0Welcome to the Video Game Logic podcast, with your hosts Gaming Psychologist and Caffeine Rage, where we talk about the video game news and general gaming topics. This week we talk about the Epic Game Store's big sale and the many fails in the middle of it, Valve doing something good and something bad, and loot boxes are back again!
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Show Notes & Timestamps
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Games We Played 5:37
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Rage:
Guild of Dungeoneering
https://store.steampowered.com/app/317820/Guild_of_Dungeoneering/
Tabletop Simulator: Pandemic
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic
Shrink:
Tabletop Simulator: Pandemic
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1375223251&searchtext=pandemic
Anthem
https://www.ea.com/games/anthem
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News Links
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The Epic (Fail) Sale 1:03:33
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https://techraptor.net/content/epic-chaos-continues-as-borderlands-3-gets-removed-from-epic-mega-sale
https://techraptor.net/content/epic-mega-sale-caught-in-chaos-as-games-pulled-prices-change
https://www.pcgamesn.com/epic-games-sale-error
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Division 2 PC vs Console Raiding 1:28:13
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-division-2/raid-console
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/05/17/the-division-2s-raid-has-not-been-beaten-by-a-single-team-on-ps4-or-xbox-one/#12459d38631c
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Valve’s Latest Steam Blog Addresses Positive Review Bombing 1:45:36
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https://techraptor.net/content/valves-latest-steam-blog-addresses-positive-review-bombing
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1621770561051427036
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Valve lets players avoid toxic people in DOTA 2, charges for the privilege 1:58:33
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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-05-21-valve-lets-players-avoid-toxic-people-in-dota-2-charges-for-the-privileges
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Loot Box Laws Are Shutting Down Two Nintendo Mobile Titles in Belgium 2:06:28
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https://techraptor.net/content/loot-box-laws-are-shutting-down-two-nintendo-mobile-titles-in-belgium
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-05-21-nintendo-to-halt-service-of-two-mobile-games-in-belgium-amid-loot-box-debaccle
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Community Corner 2:15:32
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Discovery Queue 2:17:50
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Rage:
A Plague Tale: Innocence
https://store.steampowered.com/app/752590/A_Plague_Tale_Innocence/
Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest
https://store.steampowered.com/app/954650/Druidstone_The_Secret_of_the_Menhir_Forest/
Iron Marines
https://store.steampowered.com/app/931280/Iron_Marines/
Castlevania Anniversary Collection
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1018010/Castlevania_Anniversary_Collection/
Death end re;Quest
https://store.steampowered.com/app/990050/Death_end_reQuest/
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
https://store.steampowered.com/app/866190/Irony_Curtain_From_Matryoshka_with_Love/
Shrink:
Swag and Sorcery
https://store.steampowered.com/app/929010/Swag_and_Sorcery/
Snakeybus
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1012560/Snakeybus/
Pax Nova
https://store.steampowered.com/app/804850/Pax_Nova/
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Music Credits
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Intro and Outro music:
"On the Ground" & "Doobly doo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)