Fast Travel, a Weekly Gaming Recap – February 23th Edition

by Jordan Love | Feb 23, 2018 | Videogames

Fast Travel, a Weekly Gaming Recap – February 23th Edition

by Jordan Love | Feb 23, 2018 | Videogames

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 a dollop 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

Twitch Delays Community Guidelines Update

We covered the new Twitch Community Guidelines update last week, which primarily takes aim at fixing the streaming service’s problems with harassment and overly-sexualized content.

Twitch has officially delayed its community update until March 5. In the meantime, you can read the full update here.

PUBG and Fortnite Each Get New Season Loot Updates

H1Z1’s Playerbase Is Being Killed by PUBG and Fortnite

The PUBG loot updates come courtesy of the new Fever and Militia crates. Each is scheduled to be released on February 22 to celebrate the beginning of the new season.

The Fever crate features retro items inspired by “the fashion of the 70s and 80s,” while the Militia crate contains the Erangel resistance force outfit, Miramar frontiersman outfit and much more.”

Fortnite is also celebrating the start of their new season with some new loot (shocking, I know). The main new outfit showcased in their Season 3 Battle Pass announcement was a slim astronaut suit. Other cosmetic details were sparse, but Epic did reveal exactly what you’d be getting with the new seasons’s battle pass. Specifically, it comes with six out fits, 21 emoticons, four emotes, five skydiving FX trails, three gliders and a host of other cosmetic flares.

H1Z1’s Playerbase Is Being Killed by PUBG and Fortnite

According to GitHyp, H1Z1 has been bleeding users ever since last August. In July of last year, the game’s concurrent player numbers on Steam peaked at roughly 150,000. Six months later, that number had dropped an incredible 78 percent, to just 33,000.

Things have only gotten worse in 2018. H1Z1’s concurrent player count is down 91 percent since its peak and is now hovering in the 10,000-14,000 range. That’s an unbelievable fall from glory for a game that was once at the top of the emerging battle royale genre.

Sonic Movie Confirmed for 2019, to Be Made by Paramount

A Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been confirmed with an official release date of November 15, 2019.

Sonic has been around since 1991, but its taken over two and a half decades for a movie based on Sega’s mascot to come to fruition. Sony initially held the film rights for the blue hedgehog, but Paramount Pictures obtained those rights in a deal late last year.

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Riot Announces Vietnam Will Be Its Own Competitive Region

Vietnam has officially been made its own competitive region. Previously a part of the GPL (Garena Premier League), Vietnam was coupled with many other regions for a chance to play competitively. They battled against the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand in order to get a spot. But after putting out consistently dominating performances, Vietnam has finally been given its own region tournaments and slots for international play under the VCS moniker.

The Best Thing on the Internet, This Week

An Entire NES Built Into an NES Cartridge

This awesome retro-modern piece of tech was being shown off on Reddit earlier this week, but don’t go thinking that owning something like this is a pipe-dream. There are precise instructions online detailing how you can make one of these bad boys for yourself.

User dany32412 breaks it all down on a cool site called Instructables. Though it seems like a fairly complex process, the final product sure makes it look worth it in the end.