This week, we condense some of the most impactful items that have happened since we went on break.
Stadia is being shut down and that leaves a lot of questions for not only the users - who have a sunset date in mid January 2023 - but the developers that have lost a whole revenue stream. To make matters worse, they did not notify the developers before announcing the sunset over twitter.
Nintndona-nigans
-- CG Company Acquisition - Dynamo Pictures
--- Creating rendered content with iconic Nintendo Characters
--- Mocap services to nintendo
--- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-completes-dynamo-pictures-acquisition-relaunches-as-nintendo-pictures
-- Labor Complaint - Mackenzie Clifton
--- Contractor - Aston Carter - Contract - Nintendo QA testing
--- Unionization question was during a Q & A portion of a meeting with Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser
---- Question asked dealt with the trend of QA unionizing across the game dev industry
---- question was not addressed, contracing firm supervisor called and said was downer question and to contact Aston Carter for such inquiries
--- Month later was fired.
--- Nintendo said that firing was due to disclosing confidential information
---- evidence presented was a tweet talking how all textures must have been removed because EVERYTHING was red when rendered.
--- https://www.axios.com/2022/09/29/nintendo-tester-union-busting-whistleblower
other points of interest
--- Clifton wanted a signed apology by Bowser
--- Nintnedo countered with talking to HR then offered a letter of reference
--- NLRB said letter was not required as part of the settlement
--Nuzelocke Stuff
--- Pokemon Company officially stated that the company does not have a problem with Nuzelocke runs.
--- Content creators Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang in their podcast revealed that the Pokemon Co has been against it
Lewd Kerbo Card Game
-- https://kotaku.com/kirby-chef-kawasaki-mini-bikini-hal-laboratory-nintendo-1849592983
-- https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20220928-15926/
-- Card game named Chef Kawasaki's Microbikini Karuta featuring Chef Kawasaki from the Kirby Series.
-- Some believed that the standard atire - Naked save for an apron - is already rather raunchy -- lead to microbikini memes.
-- memes gave birth to card game "Chef Kawasaki's Microbikini Karuta.
-- Game is based on the Japanese card game Karuta.
-- went on sale for about 890 Yen (6 bucks USD). 290 yen for digital (2 bucks) PDF/JPG
-- After 2 days sales ceased as a warning from HAL Labratory was issued.
-- Creating a product based on a Nintendo IP and selling it without permission is illegal to begin with (Maybe a japanese rule - I think this would fall under a transformative work)
Welcome to the UDP Broadcast - Where we discuss gaming related stuff and offer somewhat uninformed opinions.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro and Topics
1:27 Stadia shutdown
23.30 Nintendo-Nanigas
48:30 Chef Kawasaki in a Micro Bikini
52:30 Final thoughts
