Each week, Fast Travel helps you get caught up on everything going on in the gaming industry. We start by highlighting a few of the week’s biggest news pieces. Then it’s on to a little dollop of indie news. Followed by a helping of “The Best Thing on the Internet, This Week.” And finally, we gather up all the week’s headlines and smash them into a TL;DR pie for you to enjoy. 

Overwatch Wins Awards and Starts Preseason

It was a big week for Blizzard as Overwatch dominated the headlines. The preseason of the inaugural Overwatch League got underway on Wednesday. The good news is that the teams seem pretty evenly matched overall and most of the matches so far have been exciting and somewhat unpredictable.

Then at The Game Awards on Thursday night, Overwatch took home two coveted awards, Best Esport and Best Ongoing Game. They were up against some stiff competition in Dota, LoL, GTA Online and others, but  managed to sneak away with the two pieces of hardware a year after they won the coveted title of Game of the Year. 

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Legend of Zelda Wins Big at The Game Awards

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took home three big awards on Thursday night, Game of the Year, Best Game Direction and Best Action/Adventure Game. Nintendo also announced that the next DLC for the game, “The Champions’ Ballad,” would be debuting shortly after the show ended. Oh, and beating the new DLC unlocks a dirtbike for Link to ride around Hyrule in. 

Needless to say, fans were pretty stoked to hear the news and Breath of the Wild was clearly the night’s big winner

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Steam Ends Support for Bitcoin

In a recent blog post, The Steam Team announced that, “As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method on our platform due to high fees and volatility in the value of Bitcoin.”

When Steam first adopted the cryptocurrency, fees were as low as 20 cents. They’ve been as high as $20 recently. Those numbers are even more startling when you consider the fact that other cryptocurrencies offer transaction fees that are just a fraction of that. 

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Death Stranding and All the Other Announcements and Trailers at The Game Awards

The nearly eight minute long Death Stranding trailer was one of the definitive highlights of this year’s Game Awards. It left us confused and more than a little eager, but it wasn’t the only big trailer of the night. The phrase “Shadows Die Twice” and a seconds long clip were all the information we got on a new FromSoftware title. Bayonetta 3 and Soulcalibur 6 were each announced with tantalizing trailers. A new game from the creators of Firewatch was revealed, as was Witchfire, a new title from the creators of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

We got our first footage of the new PUBG desert map too. And we couldn’t have PUBG news without Fortnite news, so Epic revealed their new 50 vs 50 mode.

Instead of one standout piece of mind-blowing news, the night was filled with a slow wave of world premiers and revelations.

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