Fast Travel, a Weekly Gaming Recap – April 13th Edition
Fast Travel, a Weekly Gaming Recap – April 13th Edition
The Fast Travel weekly gaming recap is your resource for staying 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 bit of esports 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.
This Weeks Headlines
Loot boxes may have become a staple of nearly all gaming, but that doesn’t mean that they’ve gained universal acceptance. Earlier this month, Middle Earth ditched the contentious system entirely, as it was always looked at with varying levels of disdain for being included in a single-player game.
That being said, no developer or publisher has ever been acted upon by a government for using loot boxes, until now. Based off what Korea has called ‘misleading practices’, Nexon will be fined $888,000 USD.
Popular Twitch streamer Jaryd “Summit1g” Lazar, stirred up quite a controversy when he invited YouTube’s Jake Paul to a stream of Fortnite. The steam itself didn’t contain anything controversial, but fans of Summit1g were not happy to see Jake Paul. Many of his fans criticized or chose to unfollow Summit1g for having the Youtuber on his stream.
Summit1g not only defended Jake Paul, but he responded to his fans’ complaints by lashing out at them. Or as the eloquent Jake Paul would say, he “Dabbed on ’em haters!”
Of course, this only escalated things even further and even more fans turned on Summit1g, not because they were upset at Jake Paul’s presence, but because they were turned off by Summit1g’s arrogant behavior.
The King has lost his crown. Billy Mitchell, the infamous and former record-holder ofDonkey Kong, has had his gaming records striken from the books by Twin Galaxies.
When it comes to records in games, Twin Galaxies is the end-all be-all. Their decision is the one that truly matters and according to them, Billy Mitchell cheated.
It all started with a dispute from Jeremy Young. Young claimed that “not only can original Donkey Kong arcade hardware not produce the board transition images shown in the recordings [of Mitchell’s record-breaking games], but that these transitions were actually generated through the use of MAME,” a software emulation program that doesn’t qualify as an original game according to Twin Galaxies’ bylaws.
SteamSpy has always been a valuable resource for discovering how well a title is performing across the Steam landscape. It can show things like what games are trending (showing upticks in purchases or gameplay time), what the top played game is by time, or even stats across all of Steam regarding total playtime or purchases. However, following a recent Steam privacy update, SteamSpy will most likely have to shut down.
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Esports Spotlight
A player for the OWL’s Boston Uprising, DreamKazper, has recently been fired from his team. He was first suspended indefinitely by the OWL following allegations made against him of misconduct. However, once a number of screencaps of conversations with a 14 year old fan came to light, it became obvious that DreamKazper was soliciting illegal actions.
The Best Thing on the Internet, This Week
First, Clutch Gaming and Echo Fox squared off for third place, then 100 Thieves duked it out with Team Liquid to see who would stand as the best team in North America. While both matchups were hard fought, both still ended in 3-0 sweeps. Oddly enough, both teams also played heavily around their jungler, and it was these players which were the deciding factors in the matches.
Above all else, Doublelift shined. After suffering an unimaginable tragedy just days before, the Team Liquid ADC played like a champion. It was an emotional win for him and his teammates and even if you aren’t a fan, it felt good to see TL pull it off in the face of everything.
TL;DR for the Week
- It’s Unlikely We’ll See A PlayStation 5 Anytime Soon, According to Ex-Sony Boss
- GTA V Is the Most Profitable Entertainment of All Time
- Miramar Map Coming To PUBG on Xbox In May
- Steam Privacy Update Kills SteamSpy
- Morrowind Added to List of Xbox Backwards Compatibility Games
- Pokemon Go Launches Kanto Celebration Event
- Final Fantasy XV Gets Four More Spinoffs as Episodes
- SteamSpy Shuts Down After Latest Steam Privacy Update
- Fortnite’s 50v50 Mode Is Back For a Limited Time
- New VR Studio Created By Former PlayStation and Activision Directors
- God of War Reviews Lavish Game in Praise
- Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong High Scores Removed by Twin Galaxies
- Team Liquid Wins the NA LCS Spring Split
- Siegfried Announced for Soulcalibur VI
- New Map Update to PUBG is Savage
- Fortnite Servers Temporarily Go Down For Emergency Maintenance
- Rocket League Patch: Tournaments, Chat Bans, and Some Jams
- THQ Nordic To Skip E3 This Year
- A Way Out Sells 1 Million Copies in First 2 Weeks
- WoW Unveils Battle for Azeroth Release Date and Trailer
- The Banner Saga 3 Release Date Set For July 24
- New Star Wars BF2 Mode Lets You Play As Ewoks
Also…
Don’t forget to check out some of our other weekly pieces, The LoL Weekly Preview, Recap and Highlight, as well as Something I’m Forgetting and Week in Review.
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