The Ed Board sits down and discusses the Paris Games Week, GLAAD list and Life is Strange. Hosts: Jake Doolin, Chase Streetman, Courtney Tuchman Edited By: Matt Turner Music By: Lex Bravery Logo By: Meghan Duffy
Japanese technology corporation Hitachi Group announced that it has developed a speech signal processing technology that will allow for more accurate multilingual translation in noisy environments. The technology will be able to accurately recognize speech in environments with noise levels up to 70 decibels, or about as loud as the average vacuum cleaner.
This week the gang talks about Fallout, the Warcraft trailer, and the Slave Leia controversy.
The Game Awards, referred to as “video gaming’s biggest night,” is starting to be scrutinized over the lack of female representation on their jury that consists of representatives from 32 international media outlets.
As reported on Attack of the Fanboy, Chart Track announced that 85 percent of gamers in the UK purchased Rise of the Tomb Raider for the Xbox One and 15 percent bought the Xbox 360 version. Rise of the Tomb Raider faced serious competition this week, with Fallout 4 claiming the number one spot, while Call of Duty Black Ops 3 and FIFA 16 took second and third place, respectively.
EA has recently updated the Star Wars Battlefront website to show what will be on the Season Pass and when to expect the first expansion to come out.
Have you wanted to show off your new Spartan from Halo 5 to your friends and family?
Sony recently responded to claims that its PS4 is popular among terrorist groups because it is harder for security agencies to monitor communications.
Funcom, the developers behind games such as Anarchy Online and Age of Conan, have announced that The Park, the company’s single-player psychological thriller for PC, is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
New Amiibo characters got leaked, Rocket League may possibly be coming to Xbox, and Jason Vorhees is getting a new game. Hosts: Conner Nolan & Dalton Martin Teleprompter: Aidan Kearney Camera: Kelsey Hayes Editing: Michael Robb Music: Lex Bravary Graphics: Meghan Duffy, Sam Noble, & Lauren Lucas Producer: Kelsey Hayes
Wrapping up on a very fitting Friday the 13th, and reaching $823,794 out of a goal of $700,000, Gun Media and Illfonic released a video of pre-alpha gameplay for their Friday the 13th game. In the description for the video, it explains that the current assets in the game are only for testing purposes and things will improve as the project moves along. “First Pre-Alpha Gameplay reveal for Friday the 13th: The Game.
Submitted by Byte fans Kelsey Hayes @IAmYourBossLady Being the Fallout superfan that I am, my favorite Fallout memory is probably bringing to life the homicidal toaster in the Big MT.
Pornhub’s insight page reported that there was a 10% drop in the site's traffic once Fallout 4 was released in the United States. Using Google Analytics, Pornhub was able to track the types of gamers who left the site for the game’s release.
StarCraft II’s new standalone expansion pack , Legacy of the Void, has sold one million copies in the first 24 hours it was released. This is the second expansion for the game, following Heart of the Swarm. The DLC was released on November 10. It seems this is just the start for Legacy of the Void. Blizzard announced at Blizzcon last weekend that the expansion will come along with single-player story mission packs called Nova Covert Ops. There is also a possibility that StarCraft III will come out.
The Kickstarter campaign for a next-generation game centering on the Friday the 13th franchise has ended, bringing in $823,704 from over 12,000 supporters.
Contra fans who own a Wii U now have a reason to celebrate, as Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX has been added to the Wii U Virtual Console.
The popular online first-person-shooter Mech Warrior Online is heading to Steam.
Fallout 4's map includes Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. It only makes sense that there is a character to match this theme: Richie Branson was the modder to do that. Fallout 4's set in Boston, so naturally, someone made a Red Sox mod (via @richiebranson): https://t.co/ngjm9GlVNe pic.twitter.com/ZUPnTeH1XK — SB Nation (@SBNation) November 13, 2015 This action gained major media attention.
It’s no surprise that Fallout 4 is breaking records. In fact Bethesda Softworks confirmed that the popular post-apocalyptic game now holds the title of the most viewed game launch of the year on Twitch. Bethesda never revealed the exact numbers of views, but at least more than 240,000 views checked in on Twitch apps the day the game came out. Twitch wasn’t the only records that Fallout broke.
The Rocket League team from Psyonix hasn’t made any major moves to platforms outside of PlayStation 4 and Steam, but a recent interview on the Red Bull website has some people speculating that the game will be announced for release before the end of the year. Psyonix CEO and studio director Dave Hagewood responded to a question in the Red Bull interview about a possible release of Rocket League for Xbox One.
