About this episode
On this episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, editors Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti discuss what little they understand of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The crew also talks about the new Kirby demo, Elden Ring's major sales, and Guardians of the Galaxy joining Xbox Game Pass. Oh, and they answer your questions. Join them, won't you? z NEWS Publishers are stopping sales of games in Russia and Belarus Kirby demo Elden Ring sold 2.5-times what Horizon 2 did in the U.K. – biggest non FIFA or Call of Duty game since Red Dead Redemption 2 new Xbox Gamepsss titles like Guardians of the Galaxy and Flight Sim for Cloud (playable on Xbox one) Housemarque works on a new IP (in a very early stage) Switch 2 in Nvidia DLSS leak Epic Games acquires Bandcamp Nobody wants to work with David Cage and Star Wars Eclipse will probably not release before 2027/28 Resident Evil 2,3 and 7 get a Xbox Series and PS 5 Enhancment later this year. Free for people who own the games already. Same for Pc players. Steam Deck had stick drift – but Valve fixed it that same day with software update Bandai Namco raises monthly pay for japanese staff. The staff gets about $435 more a month. Valve has no Plans for its own Gamepass but would love to make Gamepass happen on Steam Forza Horizon 5 gets sign language support on March 1st Microsoft sold over 2.3m Xbox's in japan in the last 20 years Twisted Metal TV series lands on Peacock PS4 and Steam versions of Persona 4 Arena will be getting rollback netcode in summer and local Fighting games nerds are ecstatic POKEMON Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet aka Gen9 coming at the End of 2022. Pokemon Legends Arceus getting a new Update with new Content Pokemon BPSD getting Oaks Letter for Shaymin as Mystery Gift Activision said it's the Acquisitions' fault that they couldn't hire a third woman for the board. (They had 3 years time) Numbers Sifu sale