Round 72 - The Plague Retreateth

Date aired: 

11 Oct 2019

Show Length: 

01:56:29

Multimedia version - YouTube

Around the World:  00:08:43

  • Valve to tackle "local multiplayer, but online" with Remote Play Together - tost streams to remote players and accepts remote input as if they were local; alleged to work with any game marked "local co-op", "local multiplayer", or "split-screen"; in beta 15 Oct
  • Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony (by Final Form Games) receives a long overdue patch to fix grayscale bullets, enemy invincibility; Jamestown+ to be released on PC (formerly a PS4 exclusive) later this year
  • Blizzard bans professional Hearthstone player Blitzchung (a Hong Kong native) - and revokes his recent tournament victory and winnings - after expressing solidarity with Hong Kong protestors; two on-stream interviewers also fired; significant backlash, including widespread boycotts and cancelled subscriptions to World of Warcraft
  • Untitiled Goose Game released on Switch 20 Sep; critically and commercially well-received
  • Switch "Lite" variant falls short of initial sales expectations
  • Intel announces specs for 10th generation X-series processors, cuts 9th generation pricing

Bonus Level 1:  00:41:15

Personal Gaming:  00:47:35

  • Fight'N Rage (PC; Quest for Semi-Glory, in progress)
  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch)
  • Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)
  • Assault Android Cactus+ (PC; Campaign+ speedruns)
  • Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past randomizers + keysanity (SNES; S3-2019 practice)
  • DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu (PC: S3-2019 practice)
  • Pathfinder (tabletop)
  • Tetris: The Grandmaster (Arcade)
  • Dance Dance Revolution (Arcade)
  • Pump It Up XX (Arcade)
  • World of Warcraft: Classic (PC)
  • Legacy of the Ancients (PC)
  • Legend of Blacksilver (C64)
  • Uridium (C64)

Bonus Level 2:  01:05:40

Super Stigma Slam 2019 postmortem: 01:19:55

Full date: 

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 19:00:00 CDT