Where to Find the PS5 or X Series 2020

PS5 and Xbox Series X restock coming to Walmart and other retailers

Walmart said it's restocking and will release more inventory throughout the holidays. "It's not unusual to see bot activity, especially on hot items like the PS5. Our teams work hard to prevent this and ensure our customers have access to these items," a spokeswoman said in an email. 

In a statement, Microsoft game executive Liz Hamren acknowledged that some consumers were disappointed. 

"We know that not everyone was able to get an Xbox Series X|S immediately and are working tirelessly with our partners around the world to bring as many new consoles to as many of you as possible over time and encourage you to check in with your local retailers directly for more details on availability in your market," Hamren said. 

Pandemic gaming 

Gaming has only grown in popularity since the coronavirus pandemic crippled the economy in March. With consumers stuck at home, many have turned to gaming to while away the hours. 

The article wrapped up by advising to wait a year to make a purchase bc both systems have limited content now. 

 

Sony reveals more PS5 backwards compatibility information

 Sony's senior vice president of platform planning and management Hideaki Nishino stressed the importance of backwards compatibility, and reiterated Sony’s promise that “approximately 99 percent of the thousands of PS4 titles, both catalog and newly published, will be playable on PS5”.

While Nishino continued to repeat Sony’s mantra of pushing the importance of PS5 first and foremost, he also revealed some new information about backwards compatibility that we didn’t know.

 "When you sign in to PS5 with your account, you will automatically see your library of played PS4 content through the menu,” said Nishino. “...we’re excited about supporting our PlayStation community as they transition from PS4 to PS5 when they’re ready."

While Xbox Series X backwards compatibility impressions are already in, and sound extremely promising, Sony has continued to keep its cards close to its chest with more generalized statements of how the PS5 will handle PS4 games. 

We know that PS4 games will be playable using the DualShock 4 controller on PS5, and that 99% of games will work, but we’ve already seen issues pop regarding save files transferring to PS4 in games like Yakuza: Like A Dragon and Dirt 5.

Microsoft Acquires Bethesda

For $7.5 billion dollars, Microsoft has unveiled its acquisition of ZeniMax Media, the holding company of Bethesda Softworks, id Software, Arkane Studios, Machine Games, Tango Gameworks, and all of its properties. This gives Microsoft ownership of legendary, industry-leading IP including DOOM, Quake, The Evil Within, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Dishonored, Prey, and dozens more, including future games like The Elder Scrolls VI, and Starfield.

Borderlands 3 coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X with free next-gen upgrade

Gearbox Software confirmed that PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions of Borderlands 3 are in development. They’ll will be a free upgrade for existing owners of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game.

Stardew Valley 1.5 Update and Creator Comments on Possible Sequel?

It’s is confirmed that a mega update is coming to The indie hit game Stardew Valley with the 1.5 patch but an even bigger tease is that a sequel to Stardew Valley is in development.

“I’m not willing to commit to Stardew Valley 1.6,” said Barone while speaking to Game Informer. “I will say that I definitely love Stardew Valley. I love it as a world and a universe. I don’t think [1.5] will be the end of Stardew Valley. I would not be surprised if there’s another Stardew Valley update, or multiple updates, or a Stardew Valley 2. Who knows? There isn’t currently a Stardew Valley 2; after 1.5, I’ll decide what the next step for Stardew Valley is. But I would say there will probably be another step for Stardew Valley. In the meantime, I’m also working on a couple of new projects – solo projects – so I have plenty to do.”

 

Men Lie, Women Lie, Numbers Don’t..Never be Afraid of Competition

 

Thank God football is back! I feel like some sense of normalcy comes with competitive sports returning.  I don’t why but I really like sports. 

It’s something special about seeing athletes at the peak of fitness under pressure performing and getting results to get a win. You can say what you want, but when we are on the field one one It’s going to be a different story.

Talented Workers Leaving Top Level Companies for Foreign Markets Due to Pay Discrepancy

Looks like the video game and entertainment world is going through another big battle this time over money and the competitive job market for top level talent. 

Once again Blizzard is leading the pack with bad news as reports have come  in that it pays its employees 1/4 of the national average salaries for each position in its company while it pays the management millions of dollars with the CEO making $40 million which makes him among the top 5 highest paid CEOs in the world. 

Now most of you are thinking if you were in these employees shoes then why not just go to another company since your so talented. You are correct most the top level talent is leaving Blizzard and EA for companies like riot games bc the pay is better. That’s why we got crappy games like Mass Effect 3 and Anthem.

Then the really talented developers are going the indie game route and starting their own companies instead of letting some greedy management leech their production and own the rights to all their creations for a below fair paying wage. When you think about it they pay these developers $16 an hour or less for products that earn the company billions.

It’s a power play from leaders with control issues and superiority complexes. One developer said he demanded fair pay and was told he was welcome to take his talent somewhere else and blacklisted in the entertainment industry. That not right to use people then when you can’t exploit them you give them the boot and deny them opportunities else where with slander or threats.  

As a consumer I want great games again like Zelda, Final Fantasy, Madden in its prime. I hate to see top talent get treated like crap then have to accept poor quality products bc some CEO wants to a new private jet off the hard work of its underpaid workers.  All I can say is karma catches up and the consumers will stop buying bad games as a result of not paying talented developers fairly for their hard work and creativity. 

'Fable' Will Be Open-World RPG, Not MMO, Confirms Insider

There's been some confusion surrounding the new Fable since its announcement last week. The incredibly brief teaser at the Xbox Series X game event confirmed two things: That the game is called Fable - not Fable 4 - and that it's being developed by UK-based Forza studio Playground Games.

There may be online elements like co-op functionality or limited, optional shared spaces," the publication notes. "But nothing to the extent that would justify classifying the game as an MMO."

This should come as a relief to those of us who were a little hesitant about the idea of missing out on a single-player Fable adventure. This also tracks with some of the earliest job listings for Fable, which were first shared by Playground Games way back in 2018. 

Red Dead Redemption Clown Protest

For months the Red Dead Redemption online community have been dressing up as clowns in protest Rockstar not providing any new content or communication to the community for nearly a year despite consumers paying for the service.

It’s been over a year since Rockstar has meaningfully update the open world MMO which has people feeling exasperated by content drought. Rather than complain about the situation the Cowboys of Red Dead Redemption stayed a protest. Dressing up like clowns was a creative way to protest. You don’t see any other gaming community that are very angry about the lack of content or the lack of communication and issues with the over all experience like Fallout and Anthem.  It’s better than others who hack Rockstar employees social media accounts or send them horrific and disturbing messages.

What does the clown protest mean?
It means players are calling themselves clowns for continuing to support this live service.

Months Later the Protest Are Paying Off
Rockstar went to their news wire to announce their next update. They acknowledge protest by players and said updates are coming for both GTA and Red Dead Redemption. For Red Dead Redemption specifically a large update is coming July 28, 2020 featuring the frontier pursuit that will introduce players to secrets about naturalism as part of an all new role plus a new outlaw pass plus tons of more features and bug fixes.

To be honest this cycle of protest and content drought will Not be over.  I hope for a compromise with a mix of single player dlc to expand on the story of other players in the gang and occasionally updates to the online side of things.  This will never happen bc its all about the money. Online multiplayer is cheaper to produce and a lot more profitable. Many gaming companies have given up on single player dlc or games with that feature as the focus like gears or war, halo or call of duty that give a few hours of single player content but push for the online multiplayer as the focus of the game.

All well think consumers got to stop living the past of good single player games and continue to let companies to dig in our pockets whenever they feel like it to
Get the most money from us for the least amount of
Effort or return.

Ubisoft Joins the List of Tech Companies Fostering Discrimination Culture

Well the tea has been spilled about Ubisoft discrimination practices against women and minorities for years with a total of over 150+ claims and equal employment opportunity violation cases to HR not being addressed and ignored despite the company taking money from investors and the government that enforces EEO. Not only have Ubisoft come under investigation for EEO violation with the threat of losing funding but the company has also been exposed for sexism/racist culture that has put a limit on development of games featuring women and minorities as leads bc the upper management and marketing do not believe either sales games.

Public reports revealed Ubisoft knew about bad behavior in the company for years and took little action until recently when the investigations went public bc that’s how these big corporations operate.  Big corporations do not care about the oppression or discrimination cases until the public finds out and then it’s panic mode to save their funding.

A whistleblower revealed Ubisoft mistreated women at the company and Ubisoft creative executives believed women don’t sell games due to market research. These guys didn’t make female focus games bc of who they are what they think.

Reports said Serge Hascott is leading the way to push content that did with less linear narratives and cutscenes. This push was systematic discrimination that impacted the development of three Assassin Creed games. 

1. Assassin Creed Syndicate 

Jacob and Evie Frye were suppose to have equal time in the story, but executives made Jacob the focus of the story and its marketing.

Assassins Creed Origins

The original plan was to kill Bayek off early in the game then his wife Aya would take over the story. In the end, that plan didn’t happen. After marketing and upper management direction, Aya‘s role was significantly reduced. This was very disappointing and bc Aya was a cool character with a compelling  character and potential. Aya was sidestepped so Bayek story came shine. 

Assassins Creed Odyssey 

This game is what really caused the community and whistleblowers and ethics committees to go into action. Kassandra was suppose to be the only lead of this game but the upper management and marketing team used their influence again. The idea to have Kassandra as the lead was rejected and the option of sibling choice made its way into the final game. The reasoning behind this choice is a troupe that male leads make more sales.  It’s easier to believe this when it’s more games out there that  have male leads. Even if you buy into all that conjecture, it doesn’t take into account games like Tomb Raider, Horizon Zero Dawn or Metroid Prime that have female leads and earned a lot of money for their companies.  

This only showed Ubisoft distant itself from the progressive elements they claim to have they didn’t have much faith in their creative teams. The last assassin creed games could have broke the trend of no female leads games, but they were literally not allowed to by upper management marketing which is awful.  This Only shows Ubisoft is another fake progressive company that lies about its diversity and progressive elements. How did they get away with this?

During a recent conference call Ubisoft executives with their investors, the CEO of Ubisoft was asked about how he is addressing the over 150+ Open discrimination cases. The CEO dodged the questions which lead me to believe 2 reactions to his dodge. 

1. Ubisoft CEO is an incompetent Leader 

2. Ubisoft CEO does not pay attention or care about his business. 

There are 100s of HR claims that are ignored with testimony so horrible the public needed to know.  

7 Days to Die Announcement: Fun Pimps, Pimped Console Gamers

After a long legal battle and financial ruin of TellTale Games, the Fun Pimps have all the Console and PC rights again for 7 Days to Die.  As a console gamer I was eager to learn what the Fun Pimps were going to do with the game since it hasn’t been updated in a while. Well nothing good came from the podcast last night.

Fun Pimps said during the legal battle they stopped working on the PlayStation and Xbox console version of the game and went all it with the PC version. The Pimps really Pimped console gamers. They got our money and said screw the console version bc Alpha 19 or the Gold Version they’re working on is too advanced to run on the current console systems.

The Fun Pimps went on to say that they may do something with console 3 years from now, but not really focused on the 7 Days to Die project primarily. The Pimps said they have another game in development with the same unreal engine that is going to get more priorities moving forward.  The Pimps said they may double back to 7 days to die with the next gen consoles, PS5 and Xbox, then have it where you can play on the promised cross system capability where Xbox, PC and PlayStation Platforms.

So basically if you have the game now on Xbox One or PS4, the Current version Is the last version they’re doing for console until the next systems are out. What a big disappointment this news is to be honest. I paid a lot for a game that never got updates and was setup to fail soon as it got brought by a company that didn’t know what to do with it.