Description

Mike and Ting look back on 2019 and the decade.

The "book club" game is: Untitled Goose Game.

Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club

Show Notes:

2019 Highlights

• Respawn says it's "putting a lot on the line" with Apex Legends' surprise launch
• Anthem has made over $100 million in digital revenue since launch
• How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong
• Anthem 1.6.0 Game Update Notes
• November 2019 NPD — Pokémon has best U.S. launch in series history
• Hit Taiwanese horror game Devotion banned in China after hidden message links Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh
• 2019 Hong Kong protests
• Hong Kong protesters shoot arrows at police during clashes at Chinese University (YouTube)
• Liberate Hong Kong by Unknown Protester
• Battlefield Hong Kong - The Ritual of Yellow Umbrella
• Jonathan Blow
• What Is Dota Auto Chess And Why Is Everyone Playing It?
• Auto Chess
• Dota Underlords
• Teamfight Tactics
• Battlegrounds Early Access – Now Live! - Hearthstone
• Epic Games Store extends weekly game giveaways to the end of the year
• Epic Games Store celebrates the holidays with 12 free games
• Phoenix Point

2010s Highlights

• Kamex, Undertale - His theme Remix 2
• How indies made an impact on a generation of game consoles
• Valve kills Steam Greenlight – here's why it matters
• Minecraft
• Billionaire who sold Minecraft to Microsoft is sad and lonely
• QAnon Conspiracy Endorsed By 'Minecraft' Creator Markus 'Notch' Persson
• Humble Bundle
• Global StarCraft II League
• Supreme Commander (video game)
• Ashes of the Singularity
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Development of Duke Nukem Forever
• Blur and Oasis' big Britpop chart battle – the definitive story of what really happened
• 10 Hilarious Skyrim Memes That Will Make You Want To Jump Back In The Game
• Skyrim - Thomas the Tank Engine Mod (YouTube)
• A look back at the doomed virtual reality boom of the 90s
• Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game
• Oculus Quest
• Windows 8
• Telltale Games
• The Walking Dead (video game)
• Minecraft: Story Mode
• The Wolf Among Us 2 is happening
• Maxis attempts to explain why SimCity is always-online as players discover code for 20-min offline force-shutdown timer
• Microsoft was right in 2013: This is the always-on generation
• User operation prohibition
• Gamergate controversy
• TotalBiscuit
• Damsel in Distress: Part 2 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games (YouTube)
• Undertale
• Dark Souls

Meaningless Awards - Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Ting)
• Borderlands 3 (Game that Ting maybe should have picked)
• Apex Legends (Mike)
• Satisfactory (Mike)

Meaningless Awards - Best Game

• Disco Elysium (Ting)
• Baba is You (Mike)
• Slay the Spire (Game that Mike should have picked last year)

Meaningless Awards - Missed in 2019

• Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Ting)
• Control (Mike)

Meaningless Awards - Honourable Mention

• Resident Evil 2 (Ting)
• Tetris 99 (Mike)
• Super Mario Maker 2 (Game that Mike likes to watch more than he likes to play)

Post-Chat

• MASHUP - Mariah Manson - "All I Want For Christmas is the Beautiful People" (YouTube)