This is a more relaxed look at the news headlines that happened over the weekend.

While you've all been busy playing your games, my name's Gareth Evans.

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That's all we want.

So we're gonna jump in today on dhe.

First story is one that's likely this chain show.

I'm throwing this top of the bill Call of duty War zone.

This is the battle Royal Standalone Game is rumored to becoming very, very soon.

Now a youtuber chaos has broken an embargo on posted a 10 minutes of game player of this s since been taking down from YouTube.

However, there will be apparently a ton more game plea when an embargo is lifted, said day out like five PM GMT or noon Central time told.

That's the rumor so far, so by the time this video goes out, that might be a turn.

Turn Amore footage on the game on the game is expected to release tomorrow March the 10th.

Now they're being very tight lipped with information, and he shut down a load of leaks recently.

But we do know certain things for certain, based on the video from chaos.

We know a few things confirmed so far.

Yeah, if these things were ever flagged by the company and they're taking down a woman, I'm inclined to believe that they're real on those things include that it's a free to play standalone Battle Royale Release on that it will be cross platform supposed to have up to 150 players.

But the YouTube chaos also speculates that will rate raise all the way up to 200.

You'll be able to play in solos, duos or trios.

There will be three levels of armor and you'll spawn with just a pistol, and you have to find other stuff throughout map.

Everything you do owns you cash, which can then be spent at by stations, which is perhaps the most creative name I've ever heard by Stations can be used to purchase kill streaks, load outs and respond dead enemies on a dead teammates or other.

Why would you want to respond dead and I just want to kill him all over.

Dead players can also be respond.

If you win a one on one fight in the Gulag, which is supposed to be its own little area, we go in and kill someone and bring the body back.

Yeah, that's an interesting concept for a bar around, like to sit down on.

There is another moment game modes dubbed plunder.

And again, we don't really know much about that.

Beyond that, it's supposed to be a bit more respond.

Based on is all about collecting cash on the same map.

It's like Activision releasing a game where you can be an activation employees.

It's all about collecting that cash.

There you go.

But like I said, this story is a fast moving one.

If the rumors are true, all this information will have been confirmed.

Maybe by the time this video goes, that's going to check out on the game.

Might be really, since Mara, I'll certainly be checking out if it is free to play.

Absolutely.

So next up we've got Pete Hines.

He's been talking to Greg Miller on the We have cool friends.

Podcast over are kind of funny games.

Hands, obviously, is the head of global marketing and PR.

However, you know he's a bigwig up a Thursday, that's for sure.

And he's talking about specifically full up 76.

In this section, he says, quote, We try something that was pretty a pretty big change in direction for that studio on.

Just because hit it didn't go well doesn't mean you shouldn't do that.

It just means that you need to learn the lessons from what didn't work well, so that next time you try something really different, hopefully you avoid some of those problems and issues.

S O is taken on the chin that the game didn't do well.

He's not trying to hide that of asleep because it just be here.

You got that?

You cannot hide the fact that fallout some six didn't do well.

But what lessons exactly what lessons have they taken away is my question.

Just don't do shitty games.

A service, right?

Really easy to not do that.

Don't do Don't try and cash grab on your plate bases that the next quote, talking specifically about playing it safe when taking risks in game development, You don't get a horizon zero dawn.

If that team sticks to what they were known for on had always made, they pivoted and tried something that I think is substantially different than what they had made before one of his favorite games from that year, he said.

Gorilla games previously made Kill Zone, which is a kind of a linear first person, shoot a game, and they completely pivoted, as he said, to make Horizon zeroed on, which is an open world third person game with a female protagonist.

Very different game, my question is, is butchering their beloved fallout franchise for the sake of recurrent consumer spending and milk in players of micro transaction money.

Is that really a risk?

At the same level is what the as well, Carrillo Game said.

I don't see that on the folks.

That gorilla didn't do all of that to Kill zone.

They didn't make Killzone Air Open World Action adventure title with robot dinosaurs and a girl as the playable character.

They made a brand new I P out of it.

Perhaps if Bethesda made there a new I P in with the fallout 76 kind of mechanics and ideas.

Maybe people would have responded so much.

It's about comparison that he's saying, We've got experimental, we'll get our own horizons.

Their adult not doing that changed the name.

Just call it 76 anyway.

He did speak about a bunch of other stuff in the lengthy, over an hour long discussion.

It's not really a few more.

So we spoke about the reviews and wipe a festive started, quietly giving out review codes again, Yeah, which they stops a little.

A little while ago, they introduced the entire policy where they weren't gonna do that anymore.

Basically, because the beginning of all the reviews that came out were talking about how late they got the code.

They didn't have time to fully play the game and give, you know, full impression of it prior to the actual games released day, which obviously isn't fair on consumers if you want to be informed about what you're trying to buy.

Hey also implied that reviewers who like Bethesda games should be the ones to review Bethesda Games, which is pretty bullshit.

I mean, we only want people review our games if they already like our games, they've got that inbuilt natural bias, which they make no even be aware off.

That'll just leads to a circle jerk of Paul.

Every enforcement wish to be fair as a PR guy.

Of course, that's what he wants because it's free publicity, even them.

But altogether, that rescues the aggregate review schools on sites like Mess, a critical together, leaning much more positively in the publisher and developers favor and doesn't actually show a balanced representation of what the game is really like.

So it's bollocks.

Yeah, Obviously that's not consume.

Offend the thing you want people with a critical mind to assess the games you don't.

People who already love the front tries to assess the games because who's representing the people have never played a fall again before.

Like, how?

How did they get an objective view on the game?

That's another Pete Hines special there, but there you go.

That interview is very fascinating.

We could go into our length about picking apart.

Why, why?

We don't like what he said here and there, but we're not gonna do that today.

Go wash the video yourself.

I highly recommend if you wantto see what's what happens inside of mine from a PR guy.

For a a main company like Bethesda Industry, go check out was pretty interesting.

Next up, Destiny to was getting rid off paid loot boxes.

Now, Season of the worthy is the next update to Destiny to a whole bunch of new content arriving tomorrow March the 10th.

It will bring weapon shooting ability to change elemental affinity on your armor pieces.

That thing we've all been waiting for.

Exotic armor tuning you, I updates bug fixes on more.

But it's also and more importantly, removing paid Lou boxes from the game.

Now Blue Boxes or Bright Anger Rooms as the known in Destiny, too, will stay be staying in the game.

But it won't be personable anymore with real money on destiny to gain, director Luke Smith wrote in February 2020 We want players to know what something costs before they buy it.

Brian Grams don't live up to that principle, so we will no longer be sound them on the ever first store, though that will still appear on the free track off the seas and past Whatever that means so going on the principle that they want people not to have to pay out indefinitely to try and get something as a gamble, they want them to be able to purchase stuff outright in replacement for purchase ball.

Brian Grooms They're gonna they're gonna use a new module on the Ever Versed, or which will feature one item from a small selection of ships, sparrows, ghosts and finishes that were offered in previous seasons to be purchased directly for silver, which is the premium currency.

So no more gambling, but you can get there bright and grams using engage stuff.

You just can purchase them anymore.

So that's a plus, I guess.

At least it seems that Pei Liu boxes are getting rare honor and going the way of the dodo as more and more games seem to be removing them, or at least the paid version rather than the free versions, none of them good, but at least the paid ones that seemed to be zoning out.

This is at all as a result of a bunch of regulation in the bunch of different territories, on consumer pressure, from channels like ours on YouTube and just people you game is you.

You are responsible for this.

So take pride in your accomplishment and destroying the pale blue box.

And it's great for players that this is happening and the big publishers will have to start to adapt.

I guarantee Bond.

She wouldn't have been able to get away with this if Activision still held the reins.

And now, actually, bungee have gone off in the right direction.

They're going solo and they've managed to do it.

And it's great.

It's good for players.

And now the game is free to play so monetizing.

It was just ordinary micro transactions in form, form of cosmetics and stuff that seems much, much fairer, much more palatable.

Exactly.

Next up, former PlayStation BOSS DOESn't MESS THE console wars now deny If you like the consul, war is a thing on.

This comes from Adam Boys, who's a former PlayStation executive, and he was speaking to us gamer recently on This was the guy, if you remember back in 2013 where there was that skit where PlayStation were significant wax box on a there was that video.

This is how you show your games and Pierce for Step one thanks.

This is how you share your games on PS four.

Thanks.

So he was the guy in that video taking the piss, Our backs box.

Who said thanks if you remember him.

So that's what we're talking about today.

Obviously, that was a video specifically stoking the fires off the council.

War at the time.

Probably won the console generation just in that, like, 90 seconds worth of video, to be honest, but I'm Adam Boys has been opened up on his thoughts about the consuls.

Now he's left Sony, and he says he doesn't have any fear of missing out on what's going on.

That's an animal, because quote there was so much stress on.

I think the whole console battle concept it takes you over.

It's like that's all you think about.

There's some pretty strong words there.

If the staff are feeling it that much like the only thing you thought about and he's so stressed that he doesn't miss the company anymore.

That says a lot.

Absolutely.

So next up side punk, 2077 is a default female protagonist gets an updated look on the reversible box out.

She now has pink hair, which looks awesome, says it wasn't only black eye makeup anymore, so she's got it down a bit on Dhe.

She's got more chiselled facial features, and she looks.

She looks awesome.

That's my question is to you, Henry.

How do you think you can compare to the old one?

We're thinking how I feel about that.

Andi will like, What character will you be playing in cyberpunk?

And will a sexy lady avatar convince used to play as a female?

No, I really don't care.

I like the I like reversible covers.

I think that's great.

Bring back those.

They don't really happen that much anymore.

But my goal in any RPG where the character career, its struggle for ages to make him look as much like me as possible, then realize I don't look cool in whatever this fictional world is and give up or make someone who looks way better.

Let's move on quickly to expect the results will have a dedicated audio chip Ninja theory engineers reveal.

Now this is significant because it will free up main system.

Resource is for use on other things.

Danielle Gallant from Linda Theory, who are Microsoft own studio now, remember he said.

We're going to have a dedicated chip to work with audio, which means we finally won't have to fight with programmers.

An artist's for memory and seep You Power Ninja theory A great cause They did help laid a few years ago, which was really important for using three dimensional audio to give you the feeling off hell ladies main character Seneca.

She hears voices in her head.

You could hear them on different sides, and it was meant to drive you crazy, and it was really powerful and really creative.