Description

A recap of year-end gaming news, and Duane & Todd's picks for Game of the Year for 2015.

WRUP

• Todd
  • Mass Effect 3
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Duane
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic
  • Star Wars: Battlefront
  • Destiny: The Taken King
    • Sparrow Racing League
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X

LINKS

• The Game Awards 2015
• Rocket League hits $50M in revenue
• Rocket League on Xbox One lacks cross-platform play with PC, PS4
• Dust 514
• EVE Online
• Half of Americans play video games, but only 10% self-identify as “gamers”
• Steam finally explains why private data of 34,000 users was exposed on Christmas
• PlayStation Experience 2015
• Ace Combat 7
• 100 Foot Robot Golf
• PlayStation VR processor box about the size of a Nintendo Wii
• EVE: Valkyrie to come with every Oculus Rift pre-order
• Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 Available
• Star Citizen passes $100M in funding, 1M backers
• Star Citizen Alpha 2.1 released to Public Test Universe
• Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be episodic
• Destiny’s future in microtransaction-financed events instead of big paid expansions
• 9% of Kickstarter campaigns fail to deliver, an acceptable rate to the company
• Campaign Coins Starter Sets & Epic Treasure - Kickstarter
• Campaign Coins
• Kojima officially leaves Konami, forms new Kojima Productions studio, partners with Sony for new IP release
• Uncharted 4 delayed again to April 2016
• Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak coming in January
• Endless Legend on Steam